At 1:00 pm on Saturday, February 1, gardening programming returns to the North Bend Seed Library with a talk on permaculture as it is applied at the community level. This will be presented by Grant Wartnik, president of the Coquille Valley Seed Community. “Permaculture” started as a blend of two words, permanent and agriculture, and covers issues related to the sustainability and resilience found in natural ecosystems. The program will take place in the North Bend Public Library meeting room. Grant is the owner and manager of South Coast Garden Starters LLC. He went through the Coos County Master Gardeners Training and a Permaculture Design Course taught By Geoff Lawton from the Permaculture Research Institute in Australia. Grant is a learner as well as a presenter. For more information about this and other library programs, please contact the North Bend Public Library at 541-756-0400 or see our website at http://northbendoregon.us/library.