[Southern California Permaculture] Land Restoration AND Water Harvesting?

[Ana Brush]

Get ready for a 5 day intensive course with International Permaculture
Teacher and Broad-Acre Consultant, *Warren Brush*, at Casitas Valley Farm
in Carpinteria, CA focusing on:

*Earthworks for Resiliency*
*Land Restoration, Water Harvesting and Biological Stability*

*December 3-7, 2014*

Worldwide, topsoil erosion averages 30 to 40 tons per hectare (2.5 acres) a
year or 30- to 40-times faster than the replacement rate of topsoil. The
need for people with hands- on skills in landscape restoration and
drought-proofing is growing daily around the world. Whether you are working
on your own landscape or as a consultant, this course will grow your skills
in the appropriate design and construction of structures that will reduce
erosion, increase biological productivity, harvest & store water, and
create resiliency in the ecologies that sustain us.

At this course, you will get the opportunity to experience broad acre water
harvesting surveying, design, and construction of well proven Earth-Working
Technologies for land restoration, drought-proofing, and regenerative
systems establishment.

The program offers an overview of:

o Ethics and principles of permaculture as applied to land restoration and
regenerative design

o Land component identification, natural patterning classification o Water
harvesting & drought-proofing methods, systems and

applications
o Earthworks & soil renovation techniques and machinery applications

The following systems will be explained and participants will be able to
assist in surveying, mapping and construction of various elements of:

o Swales
o Dams
o Hugelkultur
o Keyline plow

o Erosion mitigation structures

*Sign Up Today at: *www.casitasvalley.com
<http://www.casitasvalley.com/#!courses/c144e>



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