EARN YOUR PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATE!

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PERMACULTURE OFFERS POSITIVE SOLUTIONS TO A PLANET IN CRISIS

PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE

with Cathe’ Fish & Neil Bertrando

March 12- March 20, 2011

BLUEBIRD FARM – SUSTAINABLE FARM IN NEVADA CITY, CA

Learn how to design for stability, resilience, and abundance at a farm that is dedicated to sustainability and community health. Gain hands-on skills in sustainable systems design and application.

Permaculture provides a framework for consciously designed landscapes that mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature. These systems yield an abundance of shelter, water, energy, and food for the provision of local needs that provide diversity, stability, and resilience for local populations.

DISCOVER SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR FARM, RURAL LAND OR SUBURBAN BACKYARD 

SPECIFIC COURSE TOPICS

• Theory and Principles of Permaculture

• Methods of Design

• Understanding Patterns in Nature

• Eco-friendly House Design

• Strategies for Urban & Rural Settings

• Passive Solar Greenhouses

• Composting Toilets & Greywater Systems

• Small Scale Food Production

• Farming For the Future

• Seed Saving

• Drought-Proof Property

• Water Harvesting & Management

• Trees & Their Energy Transactions

• Ecological Pest Control

• Food Forests & Plant Nurseries

• Livestock & Pasture Care

• Aquaculture & Fishponds

• Soil Rehabilitation & Erosion Control

• Land and Creek Restoration

• Catastrophe Preparedness

• Community Building

• Right Livelihood

• Alternative Economics

• Ethical Investment

• Bio-Regional Organization

• Legal Strategies and Trusts

• Collaborative Design Teams

• Effective Aid

HANDS ON ACTIVITIES

 • Nature Awareness

• Quick Ways to Create a Food Garden

• Passive Solar Kitchen

• Water Harvesting Earthworks

• Compost and Compost Tea

• Tree Planting and Pruning

• Making Sauerkraut & Cheese

• Regional Wild Foods

 ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS

Cathe' Fish, international educator and founder of Practical Permaculture Research Institute. Cathe’ is a Master Gardener, and has been teaching passive solar and permaculture systems for 25 years. She has designed 40 acre farms to backyards.

Neil Bertrando works as a project coordinator for the Great Basin Institute, where he collaborates on ecological development and invasive weed management projects using Permaculture strategies and patterns. 

Also joining the course will be a team of passionate and knowledgeable instructors.

  

LEARN TO USE NATURE AS YOUR PATTERN FOR FOOD PRODUCTION, HOUSING, AND COMMUNITY

The Permaculture Design Certificate course is an internationally-recognized, 72 hour course resulting in a Permaculture Design Certificate. The course covers sustainable living systems for a wide variety of landscapes and climates. It includes the application of permaculture principles to food production, home design/ construction, energy conservation/generation, and explores alternative economic structures and legal strategies supporting permaculture solutions. Credit for this course is now accepted by a growing number of universities around the world. Certification from this course empowers you to develop a professional permaculture design, consultation and instruction business.

Course includes:

Permaculture Design Course and Course Graduation Certificate

Housing and the best locally sourced healthy nutrient dense meals

Course Fee:

$1000 early bird special

$1200.00 after 2/19/2011

To Register:

http://littleurl.info/permaculture

(http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e3a8p5ot78ad6805&llr=scoupddab)

For more information*:

Cathe’ Fish

Practical Permaculture Research Institute

530-274-2575

e-mail: practicalpermaculture@gmail.com

*Spanish Translator available on request