[Sdpg] True Nature Intensive this July at Quail Springs

[Quail Springs]

Quail Springs Learning Oasis
www.quailsprings.org


True Nature Intensive in Permaculture, Nature Awareness and Community
At Quail Springs Learning Oasis and Permaculture Farm

July 7th to July 31st, 2008

Join us for an exciting learning adventure into sustainable living and the seeding of culture.  Students will be involved 
in hands-on building projects, resource training, applied permaculture, community dynamics and nature immersion. 
Our co-founder, Warren Brush, will be leading the instruction team to offer you, the participant, a vital and unique 
experience that will inform how you walk on the earth for the rest of your life.  We have a very limited capacity for 
this intensive three-week program...please register today to ensure your place in this dynamic journey.
Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems that have the diversity, 
resilience, and stability of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape with humans in providing 
shelter, water, food, energy and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable manner.
 
The True Nature Intensive gives the participant a practical understanding of the diverse wefts and weaves of the 
Permaculture and community living basket through experiential learning opportunities, workshops, facilitated nature 
awareness, and immersion in a supportive community. This course will be supported by Quail Springs' diverse teaching 
team, as well as guest teachers.
 
Be a part of the healing change that is rooting itself in the earth....
 
The intensive curriculum is delivered in a balance of hands-on application and supportive presentation and includes:

Natural Building - Basic understandings of design, site selection and resource identification. Building with cob, 
strawbale, waddle and daub, and timber. Build a cob oven.

Sustainable Food Systems - Soil health and regeneration. Nutrition farming and gardening. Food Forestry. 

Dryland cropping. Perennial gardening. Planting, tending, seed saving, harvesting, and storing of crops.

Water Health and Reticulation in a Drylands Environment - Grey water systems. Rainwater harvesting. 
Building Gabions. Bio-Swale systems both in macro and micro scale.

Closing the Waste Cycle - Thermophyllic Compost toilet construction and safe use. Composting basics

Energy Systems - Introduction to solar energy systems: PV, cooking, passive cooling and heating. Energy 
storage. Build a small thermophyllic energy plant.

Watershed Restoration - Determining the health of a watershed. Riparian regeneration design and 
application. Water testing.

Permaculture Design - Methods of Design. Basic introduction to all chapters of the Permaculture Designer's 
Manual including: PC philosophy, Concepts and Themes in Design, Methods of Design, Pattern Understanding, 
Climate, Trees, Water, Soils, Earthwork, Tropics, Drylands, Temperate, Aquaculture, and Strategies of an 
alternative global nation. Landscape tracking and observation. Permaculture design application.

Nature Awareness - Awareness awakening exercises. Tracking. Landscape observation and journaling.

Personal Growth - Solo sit spot routine. Solo Fire - Fast option. Community support.
Weaves and Wefts of Growing Community - Council. Weaving Synergy. Gratitude as a foundation. Supporting 
the many while tending oneself. Be a working member of a growing community.
Sharing Your Gifts - A multitude of opportunities to share your gifts for the community to learn from and 
appreciate.

Cost, includes tuition, meals and camping: $1,000-$2,500 sliding scale.  A deposit of $400 holds your space, with the 
balance due by July 1, 2008. We have very limited space for this unique opportunity.
 
Contact to apply: info at quailsprings.org or 805-886-7239, or download the application at 
www.quailsprings.org/programs 




Ongoing Offerings ...

Integrative Service Learning Journeys
Learn permaculture, natural building and more through service and immersion in day to day community 
life at Quail Springs' demonstration site!  Welcoming you this spring, summer or fall!   Visit www.quailsprings.org/programs to learn more.  


Updates...

PDC is full, we are offering a waiting list and working on creating more space

Permaculture Design Certification course with Geoff Lawton (August 2008) 
Visit www.quailsprings.org/events for more info or contact Kolmi at info at quailsprings.org.  




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