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*  Our 11th Annual Permaculture Design Course Online Begins Nov. 5.

*  Faculty added to the permaculture design course.

*  New Barking Frogs Permaculture web site.

*  New features to the permaculture design course online

*  Scholarship Application Deadline

*  Internships at Barking Frogs Permaculture Center.

*  Massachusetts permaculture site available to buy.


o  The 11th annual Elfin Permaculture Design Course Online begins Nov. 5, 2006, and runs about six months.  Learning tools include a course CD with more than 300 items including instructors' "lectures," data bases, handbooks, pamphlets, sample designs, and reference materials.  Students complete a minimum of four reports each, including a full permaculture design report, complete weekly readings, and discuss readings and designs via conventional email. During the course cycle, we frequently send students emails with supplemental materials. Persons not enrolled in the course may enroll as silent monitors for the price of the course CD.  The highly discounted course reading list is available to all students and a self-study version is available to monitors or others for who wish to advance their permaculture knowledge and skills at their own pace.  For information, download the course preregistration package from www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org or request the package from BarkingFrogsPC@aol.com  Tuition will remain frozen at the old level until Jan. 1, 2007, when there will be a general tuition increase. See the Course Fee Table on our web site or in the course protocol for fees, which vary according to how the student customizes participation in the course.

o  Willem Smuts, associated with the Elfin Permaculture online course for more than 10 years, will lead discussions beginning in cycle 11 of the online course.  Dan Hemenway, who designed this online version of the certificate permaculture course, will continue to oversee and review student design projects and make certification decisions, and Cynthia Hemenway, CNM, will continue to lead the course's unique Design for Health module.  Robert Waldrop, key person in the Oklahoma Food Cooperative and the Oklahoma Sustainability Network, will serve as assistant instructor.  Biographical info on the instructors is available at www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org 

o  Robert Waldrop has created our new web site at www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org The site is now up and running and includes all basic documents to date.

o  We have added two new features to the Elfin Permaculture Design Course to make it more flexible and useful to a broader spectrum of prospective permaculturists.  Certificate students now can select either of two alternatives for completing the full required permaculture design report. Students seeking relatively prompt certification can elect the “fast track”, which enables them to earn certification, with intensive work, within the framework of the six-month cycles.  Now students who wish a longer period of support on the design process can take up to two years to complete their design and get certification. Students must elect either the “fast track” or the “deliberate track” early in the course cycle.  Enrollment in either track is limited because review of design reports is a time consuming job.  Download the course protocol from our web site for details.  As of July 1, 2006, is the option to take the course on a not-for-certification basis at a reduced tuition.  Non-certificate students may present design reports for up to two readings with review and commentary by one of the instructors.  If the details are not yet up on our web site, contact BarkingFrogsPC@aol.com .  The non-certificate status is a superior way to get sustained consulting on a design for one's home at much less cost than one-on-one consulting fees.  Moreover the student receives input from the entire class, not just one permaculturists.

•  The deadline for scholarship applications to our online course is Aug. 1.  This is the deadline every year.  Download instructions from our web site, www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org

o Up to two simultaneous internships are available at Barking Frogs Permaculture Center for people age18 or over living locally or willing to tent.  Interns may elect to complete work on the Barking Frogs guest quarters and then use them for the balance of the internship.  Internships can be for any portion of the year or for an entire year, as we can work out of doors at all seasons in our Florida site.  There is no charge for training. Successful interns may move on to develop profit sharing enterprises based on use of our permaculture site. For details, download the intern FAQs from the Barking Frogs web site.  The FAQs provide instructions for applying for an internship.  We cannot consider prospective interns who do not follow these instructions.  Interns who have completed a certificate Elfin Permaculture Design Course may be given advanced work.  Interns may be allowed to monitor the online course if it is running during their internship.  In addition to general implementation, operation and management of our design, interns may specialize in projects such as chinampas building and management, tree crops/agroforestry/forest garden work, aquaculture, livestock integration, bamboo growing and utilization, roof catchment and cistern systems, various building, repair, earthworks, and masonry projects, etc.

o  About 18 acres of land which has received no toxic chemicals for at least 25 years, longer in most parts, are available in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, just north of Northampton.  The site is not "developed", but includes plantings of fully mature black walnut, blueberries, and other tree crops.  Mostly wooded, it is bounded by a year-round excellent trout stream on one side.  Purchase will include a full day of consulting by Dan Hemenway, co-owner of the land.  The site is presently in a form of conservation status with greatly reduced taxes. This is transferable to a new owner of at least 5 acres.  We will subdivide, if desired, but only in a rational pattern that is best for the land.  Frontage is an excellent county road, and the site, while very rural, is accessible to cultural resources in Northampton by car within 10 to 15 minutes, a bit longer by bus.  Contact Dan Hemenway at BarkingFrogsPC@aol.com with specific questions. 

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Our 11th Annual Permaculture Design Course Online begins Nov. 5, 2006. The protocol for our Annual Permaculture Design Course Online is at http://www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org/Protocol7_05_06.pdf


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