Advanced Permaculture Course
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Join us for two weekends of Advanced Permaculture design and IMPLEMENTATION in Earthworks for food and water and Forest Gardening for food, fuel and fodder.
*Flexible dates: Take one or both with an option for a practicum @ the Ecovillage Training Center in between
*Low Cost: Only 200 dollars per weekend (including food and lodging) @ the low end of our sliding scale! We want to empower YOU!
*expert instructors: See our list of amazing instructors!
*HANDS ON! We will be implementing large scale earthworks on a piece of clear cut property, working on an old orchard (during harvest season) and planting a new forest garden!
*Visit and stay on The Farm @ The Ecovillage Training Center and help build our community!
This Course is one of the only of its kind. Focusing on remediating clear cuts is important for planetary regeneration, and something that can be, and needs to be implimented in every climate and bioregion of the world.
SPECIAL RATE!
Join us for both weekend courses, plus a 4-day practicum in between
at The Ecovillage Training Center and Solar Springs Or take on or the other individualy for $200-400
for a combined Advanced Permaculture Experience September 12-21, 2008.
Only $600 to $900 sliding scale
Instructors:
Rick Valley is a Permaculture designer and teacher who has been designing and building ponds and water harvesting earthworks since 1987. He is a permaculture instructor and the land steward at Lost Valley Educational Center in Dexter Oregon and holds a diploma of Permaculture design in teaching and site implementation from the Pc Institute in Australia. Rick has been practicing Forest Gardening and sustainable forestry in the foothills of the Cascades for more than 15 years and carries the expertise of a master nurseryman form one of his previous incarnations as the owner of a nursery business.
Matthew English Is actively working to regenerate a clear cut piece of property that he and his partner bought as the site for their off the grid homestead and educational center, Solar Springs. Matthew earns his living as a bamboo artisan and farmer. He has spent the last 12 years studying bamboo cultivation and utilization (from crafts to construction), natural building, Permaculture and other ecological land-use systems. He is establishing a small-scale bamboo plantation and agroforestry system and offers consulting and workshops in the multitude of appropriate technologies represented at Solar Springs. He has been teaching professionally for seven years. Matthew is the founder of Solar Springs Research Farm and the inspiration behind many of the Center for a Holistic Ecology's programs.
Cliff Davis’s reverence for mama gaia has led him to work as an arborist,edible/native landscaper, natural builder, and permaculturalist. His deepening passion for sacred ecology fuels his current projectsincluding an orchard restoration project, a permaculture program for The Farm school and co-founding Flowering Earth Permaculture Gardens/Nursery. He currently works as sustainable land steward of the Ecovillage Training Center and is a Permaculture teacher,designer and consultant.
Greg Landua has a post graduate diploma in Organizing Learning for Ecosocial Regeneration from Gaia University and is active in teaching permaculture and ecovillage design with the Ecovillage Training Center. He is an up and coming Permaculutre teacher, founding partner of the Nemawashi Partnership and core member of the Living Mandala Design Collective. Along with teaching and practicing Permaculture and Natural Building he is an active bioregional organizer and NextGEN fellow coordinating regenerative educational opportunities for the Ecovillage Training Center.
Description:
Living Mandala in partnership with the Ecovillage
Training Center and Nemawashi Design is offering an advanced permaculture practicum with a dual focus to provide a regenerative approach to creating food and water security and combat global warming. Our first weekend will be focused on broadscale permaculture design of earthworks for water catchment, erosion control and clear cut remediation. Our second weekend will focus on restoration of old orchards as well as forest gardening design and implementation. This course is designed for advanced permaculture students looking for hands on application of permaculture principles. We will be implementing earthworks on a local clear cut for water catchment and erosion control as well as planting a forest garden, harvesting orchard crops, and restoring an old orchard.
The course can be broken into two sections or can be taken as a single course with a small break in between to focus on resource and literature exchange, and hands on application of permaculture on local sites.
This course is being run through the Living Mandala Design Collective as a partnership between the Ecovillage Training Center, Cascadia Permaculture Institute, and the Nemawashi Partnership.
For more information email ecovillage@thefarm.org or call (931) 964 4474
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