Workshop: Edward Lowe Foundation on Economic Gardening

From Chris Gibbons - Economic Gardening who led the workshop at the Lowe Foundation on August 16, 17 and 18th.  Ed Morrison attended the workshop

About 30 of us spent the weekend at the Edward Lowe Foundation in
southern Michigan going through training in Economic Gardening.  It was
a good group with lots of expertise in a number of areas.  Even though
we worked intensely (from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Sunday), we still could
not cover all the aspects of EG.  We did accomplish the primary
objective of getting folks exposed to all elements including the history
and philosophy of the approach, the major tools, the major concepts as
well as some opportunities to apply them to case studies.

The ELF staff is superior...everyone from the grounds keepers to the
food service folks to Dino and Shannon who helped with exercises and
kept a close watch on the state of the group.  We had people from major
urban areas (Orlando, Baltimore, Atlanta), people from rural areas and
representatives of university and regional organizations in including
state operations.

The weather was gorgeous the entire weekend and even our hikes in the
woods and contemplation times at the ponds were with minimal bugs and
humidity (important to my Colorado soul  :-)  )   I returned home to
snow on the mountains ....summer is brief in the high country.  This
year we had snow the day before our conference in Steamboat (second week
of June) and now again in mid-August.

To read more about Economic Gardending go here