Greetings all,
While recovery moves ahead from
the recent flooding in our garden and river basin area…We intend to carry
on with the upcoming Permaculture Design Course, have all the necessary support
here onsite to do so, and are very much looking forward to the course!
We have a nearly full class with a
few spaces available – let us know asap if you’d like to join this
permaculture adventure!
This PDC, in fact, may have a
great deal to share that would be hard found at other times in terms of permaculture
in action in the midst of responding to changes. While the flood
damage to our agricultural and watershed restoration work is major, there were
no injuries to people or animals. Our camping area is undamaged and was
well out of the way of the flooding in the arroyo. There is no damage to
our class space, kitchen, homes, camping areas, nor to our livestock (goat herd
of 8, poultry of nearly 100). Our solar system is unscathed. While
we are sad to not be able to feed you vegies from the garden, we have great
local farm connections to supply our catering, our usual bulk grains through
the IV Coop, our Quail Springs’ dairy & poultry will feed the course
as originally planned along with our laden fruit trees and a good deal of
preserved foods from the summer.
Permaculture Design Certification Course at Quail Springs
October 31-November 13, 2010
Hands-On
Permaculture Design Certification Course (PDC) is sponsored
by Quail Springs Permaculture, an internationally recognized permaculture
education organization.
The grassroots Permaculture movement promotes effective methodologies for
attaining sustainability worldwide.
This 2-week course covers the permaculture curriculum for
certification, and includes hands-on learning in a diversity of applied topics
that lead to sustainability for individuals, families, businesses and
communities.You will learn to design and apply natural principles to create
stable and resilient systems that provide food, water, shelter and energy needs
while regenerating ecology, community and economy.
Instructors: Learn with Warren Brush,
international educator and co-founder of Quail Springs, and a team of
passionate and knowledgeable instructors.
Course Topics include:
Sm. Scale Food Production - Integrated Pest
Mgmt – Composting - Tree Planting - Water Harvesting -Greywater Systems -
Compost Toilet Systems - Natural Building – Earthworks - Watershed
Restoration – Keyline - Appropriate Technology – Beekeeping –
BioChar – BioEngineering - Alternative Economics - Green Job Preparation
- Livestock Care - Goat Milking - Pastured Poultry - Cheese Making - Bread
Baking - Saving the Harvest - Community Building - Nature Awareness
Permaculture is a conscious integrated design system based on ecology and
sustainability principles to create resource efficient and productive human
environments and reduce our footprint on the earth. Permaculture
provides a framework for consciously designed landscapes that mimic the patterns
and relationships found in nature that provide diversity, stability, and
resilience. These systems yield an abundance of shelter, water,
energy, and food for the provision of local needs.
Cost:
$950 (early bird registration by September 1, 2010) or $1,250 thereafter.
Includes instruction, catered meals. Limited partial work exchange positions
& payment plans, inquire early!
Referral offer: Receive
$100 off the course fee when a participant registers who was referred by you!
Contact for more info
or to register: Kolmi Majumdar info@quailsprings.org
or 805-886-7239