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Contents below:
o New Online Program--Help With Your Home Permaculture Design
o 13th Annual Permaculture Design Course Online
o Discounted Publications
o Internships
o Florida Permaculture Workshop Opportunities
o Scholarship Deadline--Aug. 1
o Permaculture-suitable Land for Sale
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This is our annual news release. For more detail information and updates,
please visit our web site at www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org
New: Elfin Permaculture Design Clinic Online Begins Sept.14
For the first time this year we offer a special program to support people in
producing a permaculture design for their own home. This non-certificate
program features looser structure and total focus on the designs offered by each
participant. The program will follow the outline of our Online Permaculture
Design Course and run concurrently with the online course. Robert Waldrop
(see below) will moderate the course and lead discussions, with backup by course
designer Dan Hemenway. The clinic suits people who do not currently plan
for permaculture to be a major focus of their lives, but who wish to undertake a
transition to more nearly sustainable living. The program is not intended
as support for people designing for others. The more rigorous online course
is better supports professional design projects.
Unlike the online certificate course, all clinic participants are expected to
complete their work within the six-month schedule. (If a need arises for
continued support of difficult designs, we will consider the matter for future
clinics.)
The clinic design allows for three levels of design support and
correspondingly three levels of tuition. Homeowners or renters also have the option of
taking the full Online Permaculture Design Course, which will provide greater
depth of design support, but at a larger tuition.
While following the same overall schedule as the online course, in the
clinic, no assignments are required. The moderator will identify those topics that
he feels are of least importance to someone simply working on a home design
with no immediate goals of outreach or professional permaculture service.
Go to our website for a preregistration package that includes a protocol for
this first clinic, fee schedules, a registration form, and related
information.
Elfin Permaculture Announces
13th Annual Permaculture Design Course Online
Elfin Permaculture's 13th Annual Permaculture Design Course Online, which
begins Sept. 14, 2008, benefits from more than a dozen years of the 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.
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:
o extensive reading in books, papers, both in print and on the course CD-ROM;
o 21 modules of at least one week, mainly presented on the CD, representing
the formal presentations of course instructors;
o at least four reports from each student, including a full permaculture
design report;
o class discussion via email of readings and reports, as well as questions
and issues raised by students or instructors;
o the opportunity to participate in student study groups where interested
students can pursue any agreed-upon topic as long as they wish (independently
of the course schedule);
o 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 groups, 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 pro
vide 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 two ways to carry training into the next six-month cycle.
Registration is limited because of the time required to review and critique
individual designs. To enable more students to participate, students may enroll
in a fast track, 2-cycle track, or deliberate track, each with different
design report deadlines.
Content of the course sections follow:
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
a) 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, seed 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 inhabited 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
To download only the package without visiting our site, go to
http://www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org/Preregistration8_10_07.pdf
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Publications Discounted by as Up to _
We have begun 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.
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
practical matters 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.
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 short programs
in Florida, where we now live.
We have strong interest in programs in the Palm Bay area and in the Tampa
area. Contact us to be put on a list for notice of such programs, if they
develop. (You can also check our website periodically.)
If you live elsewhere in Florida, and wish to have a 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 over a
series of weekends, as well, to minimize the duration of time away from our
own site. For programs offered nearby, of course, we can commute. This would
be the area between Gainesville and Ocala.
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 programs 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 AUG. 1 AND SEPT. 1 WILL BE CONSIDERED. Instructions
for scholarship application may be downloaded from our web site.
Permaculture-Suitable Land for Sale
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.
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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 support additional scholarships and to provide
reading materials to scholarship students. (We cannot include these in our
scholarships.) Inquire at BarkingFrogsPC at 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 (6.x) of the course CD for
self-study by sending an email to Dan Hemenway at BarkingFrogsPC at 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.
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Our 13th Annual Permaculture Design Course Online begins Sept. 14, 2008. The
protocol for our Annual Permaculture Design Course Online is at
http://www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org/Protocol4-23-06.pdf Simultaneously, we will begin a
concurrent Permaculture Design Clinic Online, serving people who mainly wish
to design their own homes.
A complete list of Yankee Permaculture publications by category may be
downloaded from:
http://www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org/YPCpublicationsbycategory.pdf
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