[Scpg] Ensuring Food Security in Belize: Permaculture Course Feb 07

[L.Santoyo Designs]

A Learning & Working Vacation in Southern Belize...

Permaculture Design Certificate Course: Ensuring Food Security
Maya Mountain Research Center -Punta Gorda, Belize

http://earthflow.com/mayaposter.pdf

February 11 - 25, 2007

$1200.00 US  -includes tuition, field trip expeditions, meals and 
accommodations.

Instructors:
Toby Hemenway <www.patternliteracy.com>
Larry Santoyo <www.earthflow.com>
with local guests

To register contact:
<info at mmrfbl.org>

Maya Mountain Research Farm-
Maya Mountain Research Farm (MMRF), a demonstration farm in rural 
southern Belize, is working to strengthen food security. We focus on 
developing sustainable agricultural methods that are accessible to 
small-holders in the lowland humid tropics. We are utilizing 
traditional polycultural forest garden techniques, and running trials 
on innovative low impact, low external input practices. Using 
permaculture, appropriate technology and renewable energy we have 
established and are continually improving a model agricultural system 
predicated on biodiversity. MMRF is a research and training center 
dedicated to promoting applied biological diversity as a means of 
ensuring food security.

Maya Mountain Research Farm is fairly remote. We are two miles up 
river from the predominantly Kek'chi Mayan village of San Pedro 
Columbia, in Belize's southernmost district of Toledo. One border of 
MMRF is the river called the Columbia Branch of the Rio Grande, the 
other side of which is the Columbia Indian Reservation. We are about 
a mile and a half's walk on rugged trails from the ancient Mayan 
ruins of Lubaantun. The river emerges from the ground 1/4 mile up 
river from us, and the drainage for this watershed begins in the 
Columbia River Forest Reserve, a 100,000 acre, unique, fairly 
pristine natural area of broadleaf forest. We are in a wonderful 
location, on the one hand connected to the village by the river that 
is the local highway, and on the other hand in close proximity to 
high bush in the Columbia River Forest Reserve.

http://www.mmrfbz.org/index.html
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