Workshops
Workshop Schedule
10:00 AM
- ORGANIC GARDENING & RAISED BEDS with John Lyons & Michael Scott.
11:00 AM
- WATER STRATEGIES FOR DRY CLIMATE with Orchid Black.
- URBAN WORMS.
- KIDS: REDISCOVER WORKSHOP/CRAFTS WITH RECYCLABLE MATERIALS with Mary Beth Trautwein.
12:00 PM
- THE NATURAL KITCHEN, Your Guide to the Sustainable Food Revolution with Deborah Tull.
- KIDS THEATRE, Madame Chocolate.
1:00 PM
- THE GARDEN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA with David King and Joan Stevens.
- CONSERVING JAMS, MARMALADE with Josie’s English Kitchen.
- KIDS: HOW TO MAKE & USE SEEDBALLS with Leigh Adams & Kyra Saegusa.
2:00 PM
- HOMEGROWN EVOLUTION – SELF-IRRIGATING POTS with Erik Knutzen.
- KIDS: FUN MAKING MOSAIC ART with Leigh Adams, Davey, Chuck.
3:00 PM
- RAISING URBAN CHICKENS & BEEKEEPING with Lora Hall & Maurice Vickers.
- KIDS THEATRE, Madame Chocolate.
4:00 PM
- LEARNING GARDEN with David King.
Meet: Deborah Eden Tull
Deborah Eden Tull is a sustainability consultant and meditation teacher who has been traveling to, living in, or teaching about sustainable communities internationally for the last 17 years, including seven years as a monk at the Zen Monastery Peace Center. She teaches workshops throughout Los Angeles County, and is certified in Permaculture Design, Bio-Intensive Organic Gardening, and Compost Education.
Deborah’s approach to sustainable living is a unique combination of peace and environmentalism that emphasizes the interconnection between personal and planetary well-being. She was recently featured on KCRW’s Good Food and has also been featured in Yogi Times Magazine, Larchmont Chronicle, Westside Today, Bicycle Fixation, Your Daily Thread, Coffee Break TV Show and other publications. Her book, The Natural Kitchen: Your Guide for the Sustainable Food Revolution (Process Media), will be available in September 2010. Deborah has been teaching Zen meditation and facilitating spiritual workshops for the past 10 years. She has been a meditator for 17 years and a student of Zen for 13 years.
Deborah Eden Tull will be teaching THE NATURAL KITCHEN, Your Guide to the Sustainable Food Revolution at 12:00 PM at the HomeGrown event.
Meet: Josie
Born to a Scottish father and English mother, Josie grew up in a chutney and jam-making household in Surrey, England, an hour south of London. Learning at her mother’s elbow, she inherited a passion for transforming seasonal fruits and vegetables into year-round delights.
A true Renaissance woman, Josie has an M.A. in Theatre from the University of Glasgow and a Master of Divinity degree from Yale. She founded a non-profit arts foundation in Scotland, studied acting at Stella Adler in New York City, and is now married to an American writer and living in sunny Southern California. A full-time mom, cook and actress, Josie is the proud mother of one lad, one lass, and Josie’s English Kitchen™.
Josie will be teaching CONSERVING JAMS, MARMALADE at 1:00 PM at the HomeGrown event.
Meet: Kyra Saegusa
Kyra Saegusa is in the MA Cultural Studies with a Concentration in Museum Studies Program at Claremont Graduate University. Currently she is serving as the Associate Producer for Let Them EAT LACMA at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her passions include gardening, hiking, sustainable living, cooking and arts education and programming.
Kyra Saegusa will be teaching HOW TO MAKE & USE SEEDBALLS with Leigh Adams at 1:00 PM at the HomeGrown event.
Meet: Leigh Adams
Life long teacher at Sequoyah School for 17 years, Westland, Pasadena Alternative, 5 Acres and others for the last 8 years, I am currently Artist in Residence at the LA County Arboretum. I have done programs with children around the world and look forward to working with kids for as long as there are kids who want to learn. I work primarily in glass and garden design but also enjoy a vast variety of folk arts with children of all ages.
Leigh Adams will be teaching HOW TO MAKE & USE SEEDBALLS with Kyra Saegusa at 1:00 PM & FUN MAKING MOSAIC ART with Davey, Chuck at 2:00 PM at the HomeGrown event.
Meet: John Lyons
Born and raised on a farm in western Ireland I trained in Hotel Management in Ireland, England, Switzerland, finishing up at Cornell University for one year. Moved to the U.S. permanently in 1990 and founded Daedalus, an Irish contemporary theater company, in New York. It has since morphed into The Origin Theatre Co. that is doing really well. I keep my hand in this world by serving on its Advisory Board.
Re-located to Los Angeles in 1998 and within one year I opened The Austin Agency with a view to representing well trained theater actors for stage and screen. I made a living at that for 8 years. At all points and places along this journey I have gardened, be it a window box on the Bahnhof Strasse in Zurich, a rooftop garden in Brooklyn or a ¼ acre in Chatsworth, CA. In 2006 I made the leap to edible landscaping with The Woven Garden and this year I added a second facet to my gardening world by opening a gardening school for urbanites in Silverlake, Earthmatters.biz.
John Lyons will be teaching ORGANIC GARDENING & RAISED BEDS with Michael Scott at 10:00 AM at the HomeGrown event.
Meet: Michael Scott
I live in Eagle Rock with my wife and 9-year-old daughter where we experiment with urban homesteading. We’ve got an open-air coop set up for our 7 chickens, a free-roaming rabbit, bee hive and vegetable gardens tucked into just about every corner of available sunny space. Eagle Rock Backyard Farms is my company and outlet for sharing my passion for gardening and backyard farming with others.
I started Eagle Rock Backyard Farms because I love vegetable gardening and wanted to share my knowledge and experience with others interested in cultivating their own little slices of land. Growing local is the future and it’s something that everyone can do in their own backyards once they’ve been armed with the right setup and a little know-how.
Michael Scott will be teaching ORGANIC GARDENING & RAISED BEDS with John Lyons at 10:00 AM at the HomeGrown event.
I design and install raised bed edible gardens. Every job starts with an in-person consultation; I come to your yard and help you pick the ideal space for your garden and design a custom-bed that fits your exact needs and aesthetic. My services include building and installing the garden bed, adding rich organic soil—and most importantly, helping you pick the crops that are right for the season and teaching you how to make them flourish.
Drip irrigation is critical for our climate. I highly recommend automated drip irrigation systems for vegetable and landscape gardening; it’s water-wise and takes the chore out of keeping your plants beautiful and healthy. I’ll install an easy-to-use system that works with your existing plumbing and will teach you how to use it too.
For those interested in fresh backyard eggs, I also consult on chicken care and specialize in building and installing custom-designed, open-air chicken coops for happy hens.
I’m experienced in composting and vermicomposting (that’s worm fertilizer—ahem, poop—for you city folk) and can teach you how to easily integrate these practices into your everyday life.
Meet: Madame Chocolate
Catherine Allison (Madame Chocolat) studied classical acting at Dartington College of Arts in England and then went on to take advanced classes in physical theatre and clowning with Jacques Lecoq, in Paris…clowning was the thing that she found the most challenging…and funnily enough it has been the thing that has ‘stuck’, that she fully devoted herself to and which comes quite naturally to her now!
Before becoming a mother Catherine toured Internationally in ensemble physical theatre productions and clown shows. Since then she has turned her attention to working with children—initially with the creation of her own quirky clown character ‘Madame Chocolat‘ who began as (and continues to be) a fabulous children’s party entertainer and has now developed into new areas such as the environmental show that you will witness today ‘Madame Chocolat Goes Green’. Madame Chocolat was recently awarded the Nickelodeon Parent Picks Best Children’s Entertainer for 2009.
Another string to Catherine’s bow is ‘Dramabee Acting Workshops for Kids’—here she uses the playful techniques that she learned in Paris to teach children the joy of acting. She harnesses their innate creativity and encourages them to trust their instincts, thus producing exciting, original productions which bring out the best in them. Each show is built from a series of stories that the children have told and choreographies that they have made—the kids cast themselves, and are not afraid to make ‘mistakes’…which makes for confident, riveting, spontaneous performances.
Catherine Allison will be at KIDS THEATRE at 12:00 PM and 3:00 PM at the HomeGrown event.
Meet: Nysha Dahlgren/Ardenwoods Edibles
Growing up in Northern California, I had a garden with my dad each and every year from the time I was 8. We would plot and plan and go get seed at the GroRite Nursery and spend hours and hours together working the soil in our back lot. We were lucky enough to have a large plot of land behind my parents formal Japanese Style gardens to work with and everything from Tomatoes to Pumpkins graced our funny little edible plot.
Educated in Sociology and Landscape Architecture has made me appreciate both the Science and Psychology behind why people love to be close to the land. My journey to Ardenwoods Edibles has taken me from owning my own design office, working in Themed Entertainment to designing high end residential plots all over our fair City. Spurred by a love of food, and knowing where it comes from Ardenwoods Edibles was born. A small wholesale culinary nursery in Pasadena, California. We are open to Landscape Professionals and Chefs. Our monthly events are open to Garden Enthusiasts where I live with my gorgeous and supportive husband, my adorable daughter, a noble German Shepherd Dog, and a feisty Shorty Irish Jack Terrier!
Nysha Dahlgren from Ardenwoods Edibles will be giving kid’s workshops from the Ardenwoods Edibles booth at the HomeGrown event.
