MBCA's Annual Meeting will begin with a short review of past year accomplishments and a preview of goals in 2018 that include preparing to celebrate our 50th Anniversary in 2019!  

The program on permaculture will be conducted by Jill Giegerich, an artist, a certified permaculture design consultant, a founding member of Transition Joshua Tree and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Riverside.

Jill has been involved in permaculture for the last 6 years receiving her Permaculture Design Certificate from Occidental Arts and Ecology Center in June 2011. She has been designing and building permaculture systems for her own desert property while consulting, conducting workshops, teaching and giving lectures on arid lands permaculture. She believes that the ethics and principles of permaculture can lead us from an extractive paradigm to a regenerative one.