Our fall workshops are completed but several are offered again this spring.  Take this opportunity to learn how permaculture can meet your own needs while working with and restoring the environment.

WORKSHOPS Co-Sponsored by DAWN/ Out On Bale By Mail  Spring 2002 (watch for updates on http://www.greenbuilder.com/dawn which also contains our catalog of resource materials.  )

TO REGISTER FOR COURSES DESCRIBED BELOW, use registration form below. Or contact: DAWN/Out On Bale By Mail, 6570 W. Illinois St., Tucson, AZ 85735, Tel: 520- 624 1673 or email: dawnaz@earthlink.net, web site: http://www.greenbuilder.com/dawn

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SONORAN PERMACULTURE TEACHER'S GUILD (A Project of NEST, Inc., a local Non- Profit organization)
Co-sponsors:  DAWN/Out On Bale By Mail & Permaculture Drylands Institute
 EVENTS FOR  SPRING & SUMMER 2002

INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE FOR HOUSEHOLDERS, Saturday & Sunday,   January 26-27, 2002, Tucson, AZ  This newly developed 2-day course is specifically designed to get you started designing your site for a sustainable future. Exercises will show you how to map and assess sun, wind, water drainage, cold air drainage, artificial light, noise, and other important factors affecting a site. Make seed pellets and plant tree seeds in tubes to take home and use at your own site. See slides of rainwater harvesting, desert housing, appropriate building techniques, gardening, and native food harvesting techniques and discuss these with teachers and students in an interactive setting. Learn about community resources, sample native food snacks, and meet like-minded people in this fun and action-packed weekend that just might change your life! This will be offered in both fall 2001 and spring 2002. Each workshop will cover the same information. Bring gloves, hat, water bottle, and sack lunch. Cost: $150.

DESERT HOUSING AND APPROPRIATE BUILDING TECHNIQUES,   Saturday, February 9, 2002, Tucson, AZ
Sun, wind, water and earth create the patterns at the heart of appropriate desert building. These patterns will be the starting point for a day of immersion in sustainable building techniques. Adobe, cob, rammed earth and strawbale will be used in hand-on projects to create walls, benches, and other small structures. The wonderful world of earth plasters will be explored. Sizing, design, foundations and protection will be addressed for different building materials. You'll learn the simple, inexpensive and highly effective keys to energy efficiency including appropriate solar orientation, strategic shading, appropriate sizing, harvesting rainwater and graywater to support vegetation, appropriate choice of building materials, and appropriate scale. A resource handout will be provided. This is a hands-on workshop so come prepared to get dirty and bring gloves, hat, water bottle, and sack lunch. Cost: $125.

HANDS-ON RAINWATER HARVESTING,   Saturday, March 2, 2002, Tucson, AZ
Learning how to use rainfall and stormwater runoff helps you save groundwater,  reduce your overall water needs, reduce erosion, and make your plants happy, all at the same time. This hands-on workshop will show you how to lay out and build microbasins, swales, French drains and small gabions. Principles of reading and assessing a landscape's water flow, basic water harvesting strategies, working with gravity and land contours, mulching, and plant selection will be covered. A steel culvert cistern will be constructed to capture rooftop runoff. You will help lay out the plumbing, create the base of the tank, place a steel culvert cistern into place, and hook up the cistern to the roof downspout. We will cover runoff calculations, tank size, optimum tank placement, water quality, safety issues, other types of tank systems, and mosquito prevention. A resource handout will be provided. Be ready for the rainy season! This is a hands-on workshop so come prepared to get dirty, and bring gloves, hat, water bottle, and sack lunch. information.  Cost: $125.
 

PERMACULTURE BASIC DESIGN COURSE - 2002
This course focuses on drylands applications of permaculture and is taught by instructors well-versed in the unique characteristics of the southwestern US. Integrated site analysis and integrated design for drylands are the cornerstones of the course, which consists of classroom activities, hands-on experience, and design projects. The  72 hours of instruction cover patterns in nature and design, permaculture principles, mapping, integrated site analysis, energy sectors and zones, drylands characteristics,  site design. sustainability techniques, plants and animals in permaculture design, and community resources.  Hands-on activities will include designing and constructing earthen water harvesting  structures, using natural building materials and plasters, arranging and constructing drylands gardens and processing and cooking native foods.  Students will help prepare a permaculture concept design for the course site as well as developing permaculture designs for their own stes.   Course format will be a  9-day residential course, with teaching occurring each day of that time period. This course is certified through the Permaculture Drylands Institute.

This event is still in planning stages.  If you have an interest in taking the course this coming summer or fall, please do send us an email so we can evaluate interest.  We can then also send you more details  as soon as  they are finalized.  Registration will be accepted at that time. Thanks so much for your interest. SEND EMAIL REQUEST TO  dawnaz@earthlink.net
 

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Registration Form: (print  and mail or email to address above)

 Name(s)______________________________________________No. in party________

Address__________________________________________________________________

City, State, Zip____________________________________________________________

Payment by check________OR money order________  MADE PAYABLE TO: NEST, INC./SPG

Telephone_____________________________Email______________________________

Directions and more information will be returned upon receipt of fee.
THANKS FOR BUILDING A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD!
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Joelee Joyce
DAWN / Out On Bale By Mail
6570 W. Illinois St.
Tucson, AZ 85735
Tel: 520 624 1673
Email: dawnaz@earthlink.net
Web site: http://www.greenbuilder.com/dawn