2009 Permaculture News & Scholarship Deadlines
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• 14th Annual Permacultur
e Design Course Online
• Permaculture
Solution Journal to Resume Publication
• Discounted
Publications Still Available
• Permaculture
images: Searches, CDs, Scanned
slide presentations.
• Internships
• Florida
Permaculture Workshop Opportunities
• Scholarship
Deadline--Aug. 1
• Permaculture-suitable
Land for Sale
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Elfin
Permaculture Announces
14th Annual Permaculture
Design Course Online
Elfin
Permaculture's 14th Annual Permaculture Design Course Online, which begins Oct. 4,
2009, benefits from more than a dozen years of th
e online courses and more than
a quarter century of teaching permaculture by the lead instructor, Dan Hemenway.
The
deadline for scholarship applications is Aug. 1 each year. (See below.)
Otherwise, students may register at any time. Students who are fully paid
before the cycle begins receive a $100 discount. We are in great need of contributions to supply reading
materials to scholarship students.
People
with limited funds or time may also monitor the course free with purchase of
the course CD self-study version, or the full self-study reading package. Monitor
registration must accompany registration for free tuition. See the Course
Protocol, on our web site, for details.
The
certificate course runs six months and includes the following learning
approaches:
•
extensive reading in books, papers, both in print and on the course CD-ROM;
•
21 modules of at least one week, mainly presented on the CD, representing the
formal presentati
ons of course instructors;
• at least four reports from each
student, including a full permaculture design report;
• class discussion via email of readings
and reports, as well as questions and issues raised by students or instructors;
• the opportunity to participate in
student study groups where interested students can pursue any agreed-upon topic
for as long as they wish (independently of the course schedule);
•
support for students by three instructors: Dan Hemenway, course designer
leader; Cynthia Hemenway CNM, designer and discussion leader for a special week
on Design for Health, and Robert Waldrop, founder of the Oklahoma Food
Cooperative and leader of several online discussion grou
ps, course moderator
and currently discussion leader. You may read further background of our
instructors on our web site. In
practice, Robert will lead most discussion groups and review early design work
and Dan will review more complete design drafts and provide deep backup
throughout, as needed. Cynthia
focuses mainly on the Design for Health module and serves as further deep back
up.
The
online course consists of three consecutive sections, plus work on a
permaculture design which students undertake throughout the cycle in which they
are registered. Samples of student design work are included in the course CD.
We offer several registration options to accommodate people in varied
circumstances including a non-certificate track, certificate training in one
six-month cycle, and a two year ‘deliberate track’ that enables a student to
participate in two consecutive course cycles and take extra time to prepare the
design report for certification.
Registration
is limited because of the time required to review and critique individual
designs. To enable more stude
nts to participate, students may enroll in a fast
track or deliberate track, each with different design report deadlines.
Content
of the course sections follow:
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A
Section 1: Introduction and
Basic Principles
a) World
ecological problems and interrelationships.
b) Principles of natural design.
c) Permaculture design concepts.
d) Classical landscapes.
e) Patterning, edges, edge effects.
f) The Permaculture Design Report
g) Principles of transformation (Unique to Elfin Permaculture courses.).
Section 2: Appropriate Technologies in Permaculture Design
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0a) Energy--solar, wind, hydro, biomass,
etc.
b) Nutrient cycles (3 modules)--soil,
microclimates, gardening methods, perennials, tree crops, food parks, composting
toilets, livestock, "pest" management, food storage, s
eed saving,
cultivated systems, forests, etc.
c) Water--impoundments, aquaculture,
conservation, etc.
d) Shelter/buildings and access.
e) Design for
Health.
Section 3: Social
permaculture. Design Report.
a) Design for catastrophe.
b) Urban permaculture.
c) Bioregionalism.
d) Alternative economics.
e) Village development.
f) Final design reports and critiques.
g) Final evaluation.
Online course
participants have come from every inh
abited continent and a number of island
countries, from latitudes spanning the equatorial tropics to sub-arctic, and a
comparable range of elevations, climates, etc.. The course is suited to
beginning permaculture design students, people seeking deep support in
producing a permaculture design for their own homes, and, by special
arrangement, people with some permaculture training and experience who wish to
undertake work. Successful students receive certification as entry-level
permaculturists. Advanced students pay no extra, but are expected to serve as
additional resources to the beginning students.
To
review information about the course methodology, content, certification
requirements, tuition & fees, registration process, scholarship policies,
reading list & cost, and assignment schedule, download the course
preregistration package from our web site, www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org
Enrollment
has begun for Cycle 14.
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Permaculture
Solutions Journal to Resume Publication
After
a long dormancy, we are reviving our publication, The International
Permaculture S
olutions Journal. The revival issue is
more than 85% complete. It features a substantial section in “Patterning in
Permaculture,” with drawings, text, and contributions from several
permaculturists. Other articles
will address some often misunderstood permaculture basics, and will include an
ear
thy article by Joe Jenkins, author of The Humanure Handbook. The upgraded journal will be available mainly
on CD, with a limited number of print copies in black and white. Offprints will be available beginning 6
months after publication.
Check
our website for details.
Publications
Discounted by as Up to _
We continue to
offer heavy discounts on some of our publications that have been stained in
storage. These contain all
information of unstained copies.
We also have a number of single copies of books that we will list on our
web site from time to time. Check our web site for details. We are clearing our
inventory of the permaculture design course pamphlets, and offer these at a
very low price. See our web site
for current details.
Permaculture
images: Searches, CDs, Scanned
slide presentations.
We
have been working on a two-prong effort to make available for sale images in
our extensive permaculture photo library.
We have to date indexed about 4,000 images on a database (FileMaker
Pro.) We are presently importing
images to the database so that others can scan for images that they need. Simultaneously, we are20scanning our
extensive library of 35 millimeter slides, starting with formal slide
presentations. We envision the
following licensed uses for photos in these digital formats:
·
A series of library CDs with low-resolution images, a keywords
field, descriptive information, and, where available, presentation script,
additional notes, and suggestions regarding the educational objectives that the
images serve. This will be available as a pdf file.
·
A series of ‘slide’ shows on CD, duplicating our older 35mm slide
presentations. These are listed on
our website. Presentations for self-education will be on pdf, with a relatively
low price. Shows for public presentation
will be on a graphics format such as jpeg, and will feature higher
resolution.
·
Custom production of CDs containing digital images. We will price
these based on the intended use and the registration required.
Internships
at Barking Frogs Permaculture Center
While Barking Frogs Permaculture Center, for various reasons, is
not open to the public, we infrequently host permaculture interns who
wish to learn practical20matters associated with permaculture design
implementation and maintenance.
For details, see our Intern FAQs and related documents on our
web site. Our location in North-Central Florida particularly suits internships
over the winter months. Interns here may simultaneously participate in Cycle 14
of our online course at no tuition charge. This option may not be available in
future course cycles.
Florida
Permaculture Workshop Opportunities
For personal reasons, we have drastically curtained travel for
teaching and consulting in the US and Canada. (We will consider requests for programs in other countries
on a case-by-case basis.) In order
to continuing sharing our permaculture experience and insights, we are looking
to offer permacultu
re programs in Florida, where we now live. The preferred region is an elipse 50 miles
from Ocala to the south and 50 miles from Gainesville to the north.
If you live elsewhere
in Florida, we will evaluate logistics on a case by case basis.
To explore the possibility for program in your area, please download
the appropriate documents from our web site explaining our standard terms and
what is involved. We are looking
at designing programs ove
r a series of weekends, as well, to minimize the
duration of time away from our own site. For programs offered nearby, we can
commute. This would be the area
between Gainesville and Ocala. We are interested in offering a life certificate
course weekends, to shadow our online course synchronously, using the same
reading package. We do not
organize or host programs—we teach them.
Permaculture is a self-reliance movement. If you want a program, you need to take the
initiative. As you can see from the above, we do
not lack for things to do.
After reading what is
involved, please contact us if you are interested.
We are also willing to undertake a few consulting jobs each year
in Florida. Again, details are
already on our web site.
We never offer training pr
ograms at Barking Frogs Permaculture
Center. This is an ironclad
policy.
Scholarship
Deadline--Aug. 1
The annual deadline for scholarship submissions is August 1. ONLY APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED BETWEEN
JULY 1 AND AUG. 1 WILL BE
CONSIDERED. Instructions for scholarship application
may be downloaded from our web site. They are also included in our course
preregistration package.
Permaculture-Suitable
Land for Sale
We have not yet found someone worthy of buying our land in
Williamsburg, Massachusetts. Because we are consolidating our resources at our
current home base in Florida, we are seeking to sell 18 acres of land that Dan
has owned since 1968. This land
has not been sprayed for decades, is very suited to the construction of a
resource and energy-efficient solar home, and has fruit and nut trees planted
in several areas. Photos and more
details are on our web site.
Purchase of the entire parcel comes with a one-day verbal consult on the
land's features and potential by Dan Hemenway. We will consider subdividing, starting at the south end of
the property.
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The
course CD includes more than 300 separate items, including papers, databases,
weekly teaching modules, samples of design work, and other resources.
Donations
are needed to suppor
t additional scholarships and to provide reading materi
als
to scholarship students. (We cannot include these in our scholarships.) Inquire
at
BarkingFrogsPC@aol.com or send contributions to Barking Frogs Permaculture
Center, PO Box 69, Sparr FL 32192-0069 USA. Please include the term
“permaculture” in the subject field when sending email to us.
Elfin
Permaculture is a project of Barking Frogs Permaculture Center operated by Dan
and Cynthia Hemenway. Other projects include Yankee Permaculture (publications)
and the Solutions Network (permaculture volunteers).
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To
Editors: Permaculture
publications, media, and closely allied publications may request a review copy
the latest version (7.x) of the course CD for self-study by sending an email to
Dan Hemenway at BarkingFrogsPC@aol.com This
version is substantially enlarged and refined from the review version we
distributed at the inception of this online approach to the Permaculture Design
Course. The self-study version
omits a few files restricted to certificate course students, but is
substantially the same otherwise.
A complete list
of Yankee Permaculture publications by category may be downloaded from: