Speakers

10:30 am
Elizabeth Jones		 Elizabeth Anne Jones presents "Health in the Garden: Ways to use the garden setting and specific botanicals for physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well being"
Elizabeth Jones is a leading educator, healer, formulator, and advocate of using therapeutic essential oils for integrative medicine. Elizabeth's knowledge of plants, their properties, their chemistry, and how they interact with human physiology as well as her spiritual intuition enables her to create blends for optimum, holistic healing. She is Vice President of Elizabeth Van Buren Essential Oil Therapy and the author of Awaken to Healing Fragrance: The Power of Essential Oil Therapy.
An avid gardener, Elizabeth believes strongly in the healing powers of plants -- herbs and essential oils -- and has seen their incredible effect of bringing people back to a balance of health, both physically and emotionally. This underlying conviction inspires her work to bring a rigorous 421-hour, high quality Essential Oil Therapy experience to the College of the Botanical Healing Arts. It is also why she and her husband insist on GC/MS analysis of essential oils in their company to produce pure, unadulterated oils. She knows that Essential Oil practitioners will be an important part of the twenty-first century medical community.

12 noon
Penny Livingston-Stark		 Penny Livingston-Stark presents "Visionary Solutions for an Abundant Future"
Internationally recognized as a prominent permaculture teacher, designer, and speaker, Penny has been teaching internationally and working professionally in the land management, regenerative design and permaculture development field for 25 years and has extensive experience in all phases of ecologically sound design and construction, as well as the use of natural non-toxic building materials.
Penny is a founding member of the Natural Building Colloquium, a national consortium of professional natural builders, creating innovations in straw bale, cob, timberframe, light clay, natural non-toxic interior finishes and other methods using natural and bio-regionally appropriate materials for construction. She is a core teacher at The Regenerative Design Institute (RDI), a non-profit educational organization with the vision that all people can live in a mutually enhancing relationship with the earth.

2 pm
Cecilia Garcia		 Cecilia Garcia and James Adams, Jr., Ph.D., present "California Medicinal Plants and Practical Uses for Today"
Chumash Medicine Woman Cecilia Garcia teaches traditional healing with medicinal plants. She was trained in healing by her maternal and paternal grandparents, who were Chumash healers.
James Adams, Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology, is an expert on medicinal plants and an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, School of Pharmacy. They collaborated on the book Healing with Medicinal Plants of the West - Cultural and Scientific Basis for their Use.

Special post-Faire event on Sunday, June 26: Cecilia and Jim will lead a plant walk from Skypark, an outdoor, hands-on, informal workshop on local plants and wildlife. Come along and be introduced to native medicinal plants and how each is used traditionally as part of the Chumash culture, as well as learn the pharmaceutical and scientific data supporting their effects. Fee: $25. Sign up on Saturday at The Faire or show up on Sunday morning.

Free Ecology Modules All Day

Compost - Otis Johnson and Monterey Bay Master Composter members

Rainwater - American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association members and the Resource Conservation District

Graywater - Central Coast Graywater Alliance members

Bio-diversity - California Rare Fruit Growers members and the Resource Conservation District

Natives - California Native Plant Society and California Native Garden Foundation

Transition Town Speakers

Ongoing Demos at the Transition Town Booth:

Food and Nutrition Speakers

Come early and spend the day so you don't miss a thing!