232463 Permaculture and Public Health at the GrowHaus

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 : 1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Adam Brock , Director of education, GrowHaus, Denver, CO
  
Permaculture is an ecology-based design science that seeks to create sustainable, resilient systems from a deep understanding of nature's patterns. The GrowHaus, a new urban agriculture center in north Denver's Elyria-Swansea neighborhood, is using permaculture thinking in a variety of ways to empower, educate, and provide food for local residents. The presentation will address the establishment, and growth of the GrowHaus center as well as the involvement of the com,munity.

Learning Areas:
Environmental health sciences

Learning Objectives:
Describe permaculture. List one of the goals of GrowHaus

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a certified permaculture designer and teacher that is the Director of Operations at the GrowHaus.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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