Local food self reliance workshop

Want to break your dependence on the supermarket forever? Its possible here and now to be 100% food self-reliant at a bio-regional & local level! Come and learn how...
Who For? anybody and everybody - especially community activists, environmental educators, permaculture practitioners, farmers and gardeners.
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
This dynamic workshop is an in-depth sharing of Robina's participatory tools for creating sustainable community food systems, applied to Capetown and surrounds. Robina will also share a range of successful international models of local food production and distribution.
The intended outcome of the workshop is that participants leave with a sound integrated strategy for community scale food self reliance, with immediate action steps towards achieving this individually and collectively, starting at their own back doors, within their own neighborhood and building on existing networks.
The key factors in Robina's comprehensive approach are:
* developing interconnected resilient food growing COMMUNITIES - with
fun ways of motivating and organizing whole families to get involved!
* a multi-tiered PERMACULTURE design strategy - applied at backyard,
neighbourhood, local, regional scales;
* extensive and efficient use of LOCAL RESOURCES, including the
replenishing wild harvest areas;
* an interactive local SEASONAL CALENDAR for land management, food
production, harvest and distribution, linked with social-cultural
events;
* practical EDUCATION and personal EMPOWERMENT happening hand-in-hand with growing food;
* enriched regional food economies - increasing local and household
WEALTH through growing surplus and value adding.
TUTORS BACKGROUND
Robina is co founder/resident/trustee of Tui Land Trust & Community in Aotearoa/NZ, founder/trustee of the Institute for Earthcare Education Aotearoa. She is also the pioneer-developer of the international programme, S.E.E.D. Schools Environmental Education & Development, and of 'PLANET Organic’ in New Zealand – a vocational training in bioregional & community-scale sustainable landuse design, management & facilitation. Currently she works under the Nelson District Health Board (NZ), as a community garden co-ordinator for Victory Community Health Centre.
Robina has a Dipoma in Education, Permaculture, and Seed Technology. For the past 25 years she has been engaged in community development, permaculture design & tutoring, organic growing, the development of environmental education resources and the creation of participatory processes for decision-making & collective action. She has taught & applied these powerful community-building methods with households, neighborhoods, schools, farms, ecovillages & bioregions, in Aotearoa/NZ, Australia, Southern Africa, Britain, Canada, USA and Brazil. In 2008, this vast experience culminated in the publication of her community facilitation manual, 'Grounding Vision, Empowering Culture'. Human capacity building is Robina’s special skills – inspiring, guiding and offering specific tools and techniques for people to access their gifts, develop their potential, build their resourcefulness, and live their dreams!