PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATION COURSE
AT WORLD STEWARD'S HIGHLAND FARM
Join us for a two-week intensive design course facilitated by Toby
Hemenway and Jude Hobbs at Highland Farm.
Permaculture is a whole-systems method of design that organizes ideas,
strategies, and techniques from agriculture, appropriate technology,
natural building, economics, and other disciplines into a pattern of
mutually supportive relationships. By using principles from nature to
thoughtfully integrate land, water, plants, people, animals, shelter,
technologies, and community, Permaculture lets us design sustainable
places to live.
WHERE: Across from Hood River in Underwood Washington. Located in the
heart of the Columbia River Gorge in the inspirational complexity of both
east and west Cascade ecosystems, Highland Farm is dedicated to landscape
based education for a sustainable culture.
WHEN: August 19-31, 2005
COST: $1,400 includes local organic farm-fresh meals, covered camping,
workshops and course materials, and a subscription to the Permaculture
Activist. Certification is available upon completion of the two-week
course.
Generous Scholarships are available to those interested in doing work
exchange.
CONTACT: For details and Registration call Abel Kloster at (503)
358-5890. Or write abel@worldsteward.org
Check out the web sites:
www.worldsteward.org
www.cascadiapermaculture.com
www.patternliteracy.com
Participants will learn among other things: Permaculture ethics and principles, observation and site analysis, water catchment techniques, soil building, organic agriculture, plant identification, edible landscaping, animals in Agriculture and in the habitat, Agroforestry and tree crops, eco building, village economics, and urban strategies.
TOBY HEMENWAY is the author of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home Scale Permaculture and associate editor of Permaculture Activist Magazine.
JUDE HOBBS is a horticulturist, permaculture designer, and instructor. Since 1982 Jude’s landscape design business has provided environmental design solutions for urban and rural settings. She has written a Guide to Multi-Functional Hedgerows for Oregon State University Extension Service