[Southern California Permaculture] PDC in Mexico/Rancho Sol Y Mar/March 6th - 20th 2015

Mon Feb 16 22:49:10 PST 2015

Former Santa Barbara residents & friends Michael 
& Grace Hernandez are currently living & working 
at Rancho Sol y Mar and send this PDC 
announcement, they need a few more sign 
ups!  Looks like a wonderful place to take a PDC.

Permaculture Design Certification Course in Mexico
March 6th - 20th  2015
Rancho Sol y Mar - Sustainability Education Center

With Scott Pittman (lead instructor)
Mayto, Mexico (2 hours South of Puerto Vallarta)

Mexico/ Permaculture Design Certification + Farm and Ranch Practicum
<http://www.permaculture.org/design-courses/mexico/_dsc0202/>
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horse and a horseman
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donkey
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Rancho Sol y Mar is extremely pleased to announce 
its first formal Permaculture Design 
Certification course taught by the Permaculture 
Institute 
<http://www.permaculture.org/>http://www.permaculture.org/. 
Take a sunny get-away this winter and learn 
hands-on skills to change the world! Join a 
renowned team of designers and teachers this 
February for a Permaculture Design Certification 
course at Rancho Sol y Mar on the warm  Pacific coast of Mexico.

This Permaculture Design Certification Course 
builds on the standard 72-hour PDC curriculum 
with special attention on the design process, 
site assessment skills and personal sustainability.

Studying permaculture at Rancho Sol y Mar offers 
you the opportunity to learn from and interact 
with existing regenerative living systems AND 
help design and build new systems using permaculture strategies and techniques.

The practicum of this course will include design 
of a Perennial Food Forest and a ranch-wide 
review of systems and best practices.  Working with a design team, you will:

- Gain design experience to apply in any climate 
zone for your own permaculture site.

-  Log extensive design time mentored by leading ecological designers.

- Learn mapping tools, working with light and water

- Work with renewable energy systems and natural building

- Build and improve soil through multiple regenerative techniques

- Experience food preservation, fermentation, cheese making, etc

- Gather earthworks & planting techniques for 
installing a perennial food forest

- Participate in animal husbandry (goats & chickens)

-Practice personal sustainable living skills to renew and replenish the earth

Located located just minutes away from the Mayto 
Beach, two hours south from Puerto Vallarta on 
the Pacific Coast of Mexico,  Rancho Sol Y Mar is 
a working organic dairy farm, off-grid ranch and solar campground.

Rancho Sol y Mar is powered by solar energy to 
create electricity, heat, pump and recycle water, 
run electric fencing, as well as for cooking and 
dehydrating the organic foods grown on site. 
Participants join a medley of farm animals 
(chickens, horses, a mischievous burro, an 
equally mischievous dog, and a frolicking herd of 
happy goats). Ranch produces its own artisan 
cheeses. There are adobe, compressed earth block, 
stone, and other natural, locally sourced 
building materials produced and used on site. 
Students participate in permaculture-based work 
at the ranch with dairying,composting, solar 
system observation, adobe and cob demonstration, 
gardening support and watershed restoration. This 
class is particularly recommended for 
environmental students and educators, 
homesteaders, small scale farmers, design 
professionals, and people involved with small 
scale diverse agricultural settings as well as 
anyone wishing to apply permaculture principles 
to their own lifestyle. Participants receive an 
<http://www.permaculture.org/?page_id=8>internationally 
recognized certificate in Permaculture Design.

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seaside sunset
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goats
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seaside fishermen
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Mexican seaside garden
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purple flowers

LOCATION: This course is offered at the 
<http://www.ranchosolymar.com>Rancho Sol Y Mar 
Sustainability Education Center that is located 2 
hours south of Puerto Vallarta, near town of 
Mayto. The area has seen almost no commercial 
development but that is rapidly changing. Five 
minutes from Mayto (population approximately 200) 
the town of Tehuamixtle, a beautiful fishing 
village of about 100 people, tucked into a rocky 
headland, and with a calm, swimmable beach. 
Rancho Sol Y Mar offers a wonderfully tranquil 
opportunity to learn sustainability in action, 
gain practical skills and enjoy 
tropics.  Participants have options of renting 
spaces at the low-impact 
<http://ranchosolymar.com/RanchoSolyMar/Camping_Sol_y_Mar.html>Sol 
Y  Mar Solar Campground – with their own RVs, or 
tent camping with access to all 
facilities.<http://ranchosolymar.com/RanchoSolyMar/Camping_Sol_y_Mar.html>

To Learn More or sign up:

http://www.permaculture.org/design-courses/mexico/

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(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie at sbpermaculture.org
http://www.sbpermaculture.org

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