Sol Food Festival

9/17 POP UP FESTIVAL ALERT!!!!! If you support our local farmers, add this to your must do list. Complimentary bites from our best local farm-to-table chefs, busking musicians, sign making, and lots of local food system LOVE.... This is IT ya'll - come out and make beautiful "Butter Lettuce Romaine" signs and show city council just how important our local food system is! Sama Sama Kitchen Bettina Barbareño Cubaneo Industrial Eats Satellite Santa Barbara Bibi Ji Water with Life Gipsy Hill Bakery Valley Piggery Veggie Rescue Piedrasassi Wine & Bread Marguerita Smith Green Project Consultants The Brambles AND MORE.

Hey SOL Foodies! This is an excellent opportunity to increase your Earth living and permaculture skills at the beautiful Live Oak Campground. The legendary @Penny Livingston is coming to teach at the Lucid University Courseweek this year in the days leading up to Lucidity Festival! Her class, EcoLiteracy and Earth Arts, is sure to be an excellent offering. Come for just the class, or the whole weekend! Tickets and move info available here: https://lucidityfestival.com/.../ecologyworks-innovationworks/ Check out the video on what Courseweek is all about here: https://business.facebook.com/watch/?v=2076584842438535

ECOHERO Award - Santa Barbara Permaculture Network honors . John Dennis Liu, international journalist and award-winning documentary filmmaker, and ambassador fo...r the emerging ecosystem restoration camp worldwide movement. Sunday March 17 6:30 PM Lobero Theatre Santa Barbara TICKETS $10, $20, $100 Friends of John D. Liu reserved seating or at the door https://www.lobero.org//sb-permaculture-honoring-john-d-l/ Reception with John D. Liu follows in the Lobero Courtyard Vast areas of the Earth have been degraded and turned to desert by human activity over the millennia, causing drought, poverty, and releasing carbon into the atmosphere. The U.N. estimates the Earth has almost 5 billion acres of deforested and degraded ecosystems, an area larger than the South American continent. John D. Liu considers Global Ecosystem Restoration the great work of our time. As an American who lived in China for 30 years, his early career started as a cameraman and journalist covering geopolitical events. In 1995 he got an assignment to film the Loess Plateau, one of the driest and poorest regions in China, where the Chinese government and the local people of the region transformed a massive degraded area the size of Belgium into a verdant and productive green oasis. Stunned by what he saw and with the realization this ecosystem restoration model could be replicated all over the world, Liu was inspired to become a soil scientist, and spent the next 20 years documenting similar large scale restoration projects, eventually creating the award winning What if We Change documentary film series. The series covers successful ecosystem restoration projects in Portugal, Jordan, China, Ethiopia, Sweden, Rwanda, Spain, Mongolia, Uganda, Australia and more. Bringing the vision into the 21st century, Liu with others launched the Ecosystem Restoration Camps movement, where he currently serves as Ecosystem Restoration Camp Ambassador. The Ecosystem Restoration camps are for youth and all ages to come together and learn practical hands on strategies for restoring soil and water cycles, reversing desertification, and ultimately mitigating climate change. Camp Altiplano, the first ecosystem restoration camp, located in Spain, celebrated its first anniversary last summer. Other camps are in the works, including a camp to be located somewhere in California. Also recognized at the evening event will be individuals doing regenerative and ecosystem restoration work in the Santa Barbara and Southern California area. A reception will follow with a chance to meet John D. Liu in person, and learn more about the Ecosystem Restoration Camps. John D. Liu is an International journalist, documentary filmmaker, and soil scientist, who first gained acclaim for his film about the remarkable restoration of the Loess Plateau in China, later making many other films documenting large scale ecosystem restoration projects taking place around the globe. Currently, he serves as the official ambassador for the emerging Ecosystem Restoration Camps movement, with the first camp in Spain, with others forming, including one proposed for California. Cosponsors: SB Independent, Blue Sky Biochar, Quailsprings Permaculture, Community Environmental Council, Abundant Life Foundation More info: The United Nations General Assembly declared 2021 2030 the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. New UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration offers unparalleled opportunity for job creation food security and addressing climate change https://www.unenvironment.org//new-un-decade-ecosystem-res Ecosystem Restoration Camps https://www.ecosystemrestorationcamps.org Reception to follow Michael Wittman Margie Bushman Hannah Apricot Eckberg Timothy Sexauer Alison Hensley Janice Setser Sigrid Wright Kathi Brennan King

Hello SOL Foodies, "If we can restore large scale ecosystems, why don't we?" - John D Liu This is event is sure to be an inspirational one, calling us into action! ... How do our food choices facilitate regeneration or destruction? What does it look like to have large scale landscape restoration? Restore function to ecosystems and the bio sphere? Come out and join us for an incredible evening with John Dennis Liu, hosted by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network. Thanks to Margie Bushman and Wesley Roe for bringing this event together. Help us spread the word! Extra Credit: Watch the "Green Gold" Documentary and come with your solution geared thinking cap on.

This open letter by Clark Staub of Full of Life Flatbread hits the nail on the head as to why the city council and the mayor should take time to consider the negative impacts of relocating the Saturday Santa Barbara Farmers Market. Thank you Clark! You too can take action - join us at the City Council meeting tomorrow at 2pm at 735 Anacapa Street to voice your concerns about the proposed relocation of our Saturday market. See you there!