Ann Arbor's Matthaei Botanical Gardens has announced upcoming workshops to be led by author Toby Hemenway on May 22 and 23. The two day-long workshops will be on "Designing and Installing a Food Forest" and "Permaculture Solutions for City and Suburb." Hemenway will also be giving a lecture titled "How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and the Earth, but not Civilization" at the Ann Arbor District Library on May 21.

Toby Hemenway is an adjunct professor in the School of Graduate Education at Portland State University, Scholar-in-Residence at Pacific University, and a biologist consultant for the Biomimicry Guild. He is the author of Gaia's Garden: A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture.

For more information on these events, visit the SE Michigan Permaculture Guild website.