Urban Landscape Design
with Edible and Medicinal Plants
This course provides an overview of a contemporary emerging attitude and application of designing with food and medicinal plants within the urban fabric, also known as “foodscapes”. Foodscapes are a critical component of the overall matrix because they are socially and ecologically driven first; hence an insight to the needs of a specific community.
Foodscaping, an extension of the community garden, which further, is an extension of our agricultural past, is rapidly gaining momentum across the nation. To solely view this phenomenon as a “current trend” is inaccurate. There are a multitude of implications that shed light on foodscaping as an expression of social and ecological advocacy towards inadequate political, economic, and healthcare factors.
These topics will be discussed and presented through the lens of professional practice. In addition, by promoting the design and creation of Productive Food Landscapes, we gain new knowledge about soil building, medicinal properties of plants, companion planting, and wildlife habitats; all which further forge our connection to the earth and make us better stewards of our cultural landscapes.
Course Objectives:
- To introduce and discuss Foodscape Case Studies in regards to design strategies, challenges and final outcomes.
- To discuss the historical, political, social, economic and environmental components of Foodscapes and why embracing strategies for creating them provides professional opportunities.
- To promote awareness on how foodscapes can be achieved in our everyday landscapes.
- To become acquainted with medicinal properties of native plants and trees and their application to urban landscapes.
Alabama Green Industry Training Center, Inc.
Cost: $45.00 (includes lunch from Taziki's with choice of chicken, beef, or vegetarian)
Please pre-register by clicking on the registration button above. This will help plan for lunch!
Continuing Education Hours: This event has been approved by the Alabama Board of Examiners of Landscape Architects for 4 credits. Credits which qualify for health, safety & welfare are pending approval.
Tuesday, Sep 13, 2016, 09:30 AM
Alabama Green Industry Training Center, Inc., Cahaba Valley Road, Birmingham, AL, United States
Instruction by Antonia Viteri
Antonia Viteri, born in Mobile, Al of Ecuadorian descent, is cross-trained as a Designer and a Health & Wellness Consultant. She holds degrees in Architectural and Landscape Design in addition to multiple certifications in Herbal Studies and Nutrition from the California School of Herbal Studies and the Appalachian Center for Natural Health directed by Alabama Herbalist Phyllis D. Light.
Antonia is an Herbalist in Western and Southern-Folk traditions and a member of the American Herbalist Guild (AHG). She is a Master Gardener within Jefferson County, a Graphic Designer, a LEED Accredited Landscape Designer and Project Manager. She is passionate about two things: advocating for environmental stewardship and good design. A well-intended design process has the ability to enhance human health and take responsibility in minimizing environmental degradation.
She believes that work on the individual scale can have a domino effect into the collective scale. Antonia aspires to combine her skills as a designer and herbalist to teach, empower, and influence others to cherish our natural world.
For more information, contact:
Bethany O'Rear at 205-612-9524
or
John Nabors at 205-981-2326
Email: bethany@aces.edu
Website: www.agitc.org