[Scpg] Permaculture Design Certificate Course Honduras 12th June to 26th 2004

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

Permaculture Design Certificate Course Honduras 12th June to 26th June


This course will by taught by Geoff and Nadia Lawton on Sustainable Harvest 
International's demonstration farm in Santa Barbara, Honduras. The total 
cost is $1,100. The course cost is US$500. $600 covers all in-country 
travel, food and lodging for 20 days, including a trip to the amazing Mayan 
ruin site at Copan after the course. Pick up at San Pedro Sula 
International airport on Thursday, June 10th. Drop off at airport Tuesday, 
June 29th. The demonstration farm is situated in the Municipality of Nueva 
Frontera, 4 miles (7 kilometers) from Trascerros. The city of San Pedro 
Sula is 50 miles to the east by paved road. The Center has 8.3 hectares (20 
acres) for use in demonstrative, experimental and commercial plots that 
show appropriate and environmentally sustainable technologies that 
Sustainable Harvest International’s Honduras Program is promoting. The farm 
was recently acquired, so much work remains. The land is steep and 
deforested. The elevation is about 800 meters. Class size limited to 15. 
For more info about Sustainable Harvest International, visit: 
www.sustainableharvest.org For more info about the course contact Bruce 
Maanum: bruce at sustainableharvest.org


Click on website below on  Seeds of Change eNewsletter .,about the 
grassroots development work being in done in Central America by Sustainable 
Harvest International

Much with Little: A Central American Journey with Sustainable Harvest 
International By Scott Vlaun
http://www.seedsofchange.com/enewsletter/issue_34/dear_gardeners.asp



IMPORTANT DETAILS about SADEC
http://www.permaculture.org.au/coursedetail.php?classid=26


Description of SADEC

The SADEC is situated in the Municipality of Nueva Frontera, 4 miles (7 
kilometers) from Trascerros. The city of San Pedro Sula is 50 miles to the 
east by paved road.

The Center has 8.3 hectares (20 acres) for use in demonstrative, 
experimental and commercial plots that show appropriate and environmentally 
sustainable technologies that Sustainable Harvest International¦s Honduras 
Program is promoting to the rural families in this country. The Center has 
the following three components:


Construction of an Agroforestry Training Center Building in Honduras
I. Project Name: Construction of an Agroforestry Training Center Building
II. Project Description: Sustainable Harvest International in Honduras 
(SHI-Honduras) is a nonprofit organization that is working in rural areas 
of northern Honduras, giving technical assistance, training event and 
logistic support to 500 families in 35 communities. SHI is owner of a 20 
acre property that the organization wants to convert to a sustainable 
agriculture center to teach with the (learn-doing¦ methodology to farmers, 
rural women, school students and teachers about appropriate techniques for 
homestead improvement, sustainable and organic agriculture, crop 
diversification, micro-enterprise and environmental management. All these 
activities are to improve the actual living conditions of the rural families.
Objectives of the Project:
1. To construct an appropriate and comfortable training building where 
approximately 300 persons per year can receive technical knowledge that 
improves their agriculture production, family nutrition, local environment 
and generally, and their living conditions.
2. To establish social and cultural relations between people of northern 
Honduras and volunteers of United States that creates a strong and durable 
friendship and cooperation for the two groups.
3. To obtain participation of representatives of 10 communities assisted by 
SHI-Honduras to support the training center construction so that they feel 
invested in the center.