Courses to be offered in 2008:

NEW:
Hands on Permaculture:
Practical Steps to Creating a Permaculture Paradise on your property

Introduction to Permaculture

Forest Garden Design/Multifunctional Hedgerow

Water in Permaculture Systems and Designing Keyline Systems

Listening to the Land: Spiritual Connection in Design


Instructors: Andy Fischer and Tom Ward

	"The Permaculture Design course I took with Andy and Tom in January 2005 was a life changing experience for me. I knew I was going to learn a lot, but I didn't realize I was going to learn a whole new way of looking at life, including its challenges and opportunitues. I also found some of the best friends I could hope to ever have. It is a real treasure for the Rogue Valley to have these 2 permaculture teachers in its midst. I highly recommend this class to anyone who is considering it!!" -Abigail Lewis Permaculture Design Certificate Course Student January 2005

 

Hands on Permaculture: Practical steps to creating a permaculture paradise on your property

This course is being designed and developed as a hands-on learning permaculture course that will be focused on permaculture design in practice. Course topics include:

• Organic vegetable garden systems
• Chickens in permaculture systems
• Water catchment systems
• Swale layout and building
• Forest Garden Design and succession

• Ethics and Principals of Permaculture
• Zones and sectors, design views
• Stacking functions, edge, relationships
• Permaculture in practice: Chicken Tractor/Mulched garden
• Community Agriculture
• Designing a small Permaculture system

• Why grow a forest garden?
• The components of a forest garden
• Putting things together: Principals of design
• Preparation, planning and maintenance
• The Design: Putting together the elements
• Hands on design at the site
• Designing hedgerows and Shelterbelts

• Keyline system principals: Keeping water in the landscape
• Contours: Reading the land
• On the ground: Site evaluation
• Pond Building
• Integrating agroforestry systems with keylines
• Hands on: Implementing the design
• Using a keyline plow to increase soil fertility

• Natural Systems as Models
• Finding the spiritual center of the land
• The caretaker model of land
• Observation and listening to the natural rhythms of a place
• Animal observation and signs
• Energy flow on the land
• Integrating observation skills and designing ecological systems

All things are connected Whatever befalls the earth befalls The suns and daughters of the earth, We do not weave the web of life, We are merely a strand in it. What we do to the earth we do to ourselvesþ.           -Chief Seattle

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