Seminar Dates: November 13, 2025 11:30 AM
Seminar Cost: $45.00 Register Now
Seminar Description:
This topic delves into the principles of creating resilient, low-maintenance landscapes through permaculture practices, emphasizing a no-till ethos.
This image shows Lippia ground cover mowed and not mowed.
Attendees will learn how to design and cultivate environments that prioritize ecological health and sustainability, regardless of whether native plants are used.
The speaker will explore the benefits of no-till gardening, such as soil preservation, enhanced biodiversity, and improved water retention, while also discussing how to integrate permaculture techniques to mimic natural ecosystems. By blending innovative gardening practices with a holistic approach to land stewardship, this talk highlights ways to foster sustainability and long-term ecological balance in any landscape, whether native or not. Nonnative plant selection tends to have showier flowers.
Learning Objectives:
1.Current practices vs Permaculture Landscape Design and why Permaculture benefits the earth while addressing the fires we have in California.
2. What Permaculture design options we have and plant selection that includes sustainable ground cover shrubs and trees.
3. How Permaculture Landscapes improve plant and human health.
Dane Shota
Dane S. Shota has over 20 years’ experience at Orange County Nursery Inc. dealing with bare root, container and box trees involved interacting with orchards, landscape architect and contractors and the nursery industry. Being an in-house Certified Arborist, his job was to diagnose why viable trees die after being planted. Since most of the problems is in the soil and cultural practices, most of his emphasis has been ways of dealing with soil with cutting edge technology and troubleshooting in the landscape in order to show clients results. Cal Poly Pomona, Horticulture Graduate, minor in business.
Dane was the speaker for the Model Water Efficiency Ordinance who covered the topic of plants and soils.
He is the instructor for the Huntington Beach Senior Center teaching “Gardening for Seniors.” Since Permaculture involves a “no till” approach with less labor, this is a great concept for Seniors and for improving their gut health.
Credentials: Certified Arborist, Certified Water Auditor and Real Estate Broker.
Astromaster’s Toastmaster President and Magic Club Ring 313 member.
