[Scpg] 9-day Edible Forest Garden Design Intensive with Dave Jacke /Sept 14-23 2012 Portland

[Margie Bushman, Coordinator, SBCC Center for Sustainabilty]

9-day Edible Forest Garden Design Intensive with 
Dave Jacke, who was guest speaker at SBCC Center 
for Sustainability's Benefit for Mesa Harmony 
Gardens (emerging food forest) October 2011...

Edible Ecosystems Emerging: Food Forestry for the 21st Century
9-Day Forest Garden Design Intensive

September 14th - 23rd, 2012
Near Portland, Oregon, USA
Dave rarely teaches on the west coast, please 
share this with your friends and colleagues who 
might be interested in attending.
This course expected to fill, so please register early!!

With:
    Dave Jacke, primary author of Edible Forest Gardens
    Juliette Jones of Pittsburgh Food Forests, and Friends

  Forest ecosystems exhibit many beneficial 
properties we humans would be wise to emulate in 
our culture, agriculture and horticulture:

    *     they maintain, renew, fertilize, and 
propagate themselves without human inputs;
    *     they build, store, and conserve clean 
air, clean water, nutrients, soil quality, and biodiversity; and
    *     they exhibit stability, resilience, and adaptability.

These qualities emerge from the dynamics of the 
forest as a whole system, not from any one or 
more of the elements that comprise the forest 
alone.  To design productive edible ecosystems 
that express these same qualities, we must 
understand forest structures, functions, 
patterns, and processes, and use this knowledge wisely.

In this nine-day intensive course, you will dive 
deeply into the vision, theory, and practice of 
designing wholesome, dynamic, and resilient 
edible ecosystems using temperate deciduous 
forests as models.  Dave Jacke and his teaching 
team will offer lectures, site walks, and 
experiential exercises to help you understand how 
the architecture, social structure, underground 
economics, and successional processes of natural 
forests apply to the design of edible ecosystems of all kinds.

You'll learn a variety of ecological design 
processes while designing a range of 
food-producing ecologies at our host farm.  We'll 
also engage with issues of garden management, 
economics, and the deep paradigmatic shifts 
required to succeed at cocreating 
“humanatural” landscapes and cultures.  You 
will leave inspired and empowered to design food 
forests at home for yourself, and your friends, neighbors and clients.

Biographies:
Dave Jacke holds a MA from the Conway School of 
Landscape Design and was the lead author of the 
award winning two-volume book Edible Forest 
Gardens. He owns and operates Dynamics Ecological 
Design in Greenfield, MA, and teaches forest 
gardening and advanced permaculture throughout 
the United States, Canada, and overseas. www.edibleforestgardens.com

Juliette Jones designs, installs and manages 
urban and community forest gardens through 
Pittsurgh Permaculture, including the Hazelwood 
Food Forest, the city’s first.  Juliette also 
teaches at Phipps Conservatory, and through 
Chatham University’s graduate Food Studies 
Program.  www.pittsburghpermaculture.org/

  Costs:  Sliding scale from $1,200 to $1,500

     Tuition includes all course materials, all 
meals, homestays or tent space, & complete (rustic) facilities.
     Local commuters very welcome, but will be 
expected to share all meals if possible.
     All payments above $1,200 go directly to our scholarship fund!
     Scholarship candidates please email Jenny Pell for an application.

Donations to our scholarship fund are greatly 
appreciated and can be made by clicking on the "Donate" button below.

Cancellation Policy:  There is a $350 
non-refundable deposit to reserve your space.  If 
you cancel your registration, you will get a 
refund of $850.  Any donations to the scholarship fund are non-refundable.

Available Spots:  We have 27 total spots for this 
course.  This class is likely to fill early, as 
David Jacke rarely teaches on the West 
Coast.  Early registration helps facilitate our 
planning enormously ­ thank you  for registering 
early and thank you for supporting our scholarship fund if you can.

Keep up with course news at the event facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/393228524053446/

Jenny Pell at Permaculture Now!
hosting Dave, so please contact Jenny directly with any questions.
jennypell at gmail.com
(206) 949-0496
Questions:  Please contact Jenny Pell:  jennypell at gmail.com, (206) 949-0496.
Price: $1200.00 (USD




Margie Bushman
Coordinator, SBCC Center for Sustainability
http://sustainability.sbcc.edu/
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