Advanced Permaculture Design Practicum
This Advanced Design course is a unique opportunity to combine theory and practice as we follow the entire Permaculture process from survey to implementation with a HANDS ON PRACTICUM in Earthworks for water and food.
Soil erosion and clear cut remediation offers us a hands on glimpse into how to create lush green forest out of a wasteland of desertification caused by clear cutting. For an idea about the impact of earthworks (keyline systems and swales) on a dry climate check out this video. Our first weekend will be focused on broad-scale permaculture design of earthworks for water catchment, erosion control and clear cut remediation.
Topics:
*Site Analysis
*Site Design
*Keyline thoery and practice
*Mulched Swales
*Earthen Ponds
*Low Tech Cartography,
*Low - Medium Tech Survey Equipment
Forest Gardening and orchard remediation will give us a chance to delve into food forestry: a retirement plan for seven generations. Forest gardening and restoring orchards into productive multi-yield oasis can provide food, fuel and fodder for a sustainable future. Check out this video on one of the original temperate forest gardens.
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 planting a food forest, harvesting apples and doing rehab on an old orchard.
Topics:
*Agroforestry theory and practice
*Bud grafting
*Harvesting
*Food Storage
*Native Orchards
*Planting and mulching fruit trees
*Rehabilitating old orchard trees
*picking the right root stock
*annual inter-cropping
*and more
Instructors:
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 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.
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Earthworks for water catchment, erosion control and clear cut remediation
Price: $200-400 Sliding Scale
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Price: $200-400 sliding scale
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.
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Weekend One: Next Date TBA
Forest Gardening and orchard remediation
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 in between @ the Ecovillage Training Center.
*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!
Weekend Two: Next Date TBA
Small steps towards big change