Permaculture Design Course 09

Eco-village Design for a changing world

ECETI Ranch, Trout Lake, WA    August 9th-23rd.

The International Permaculture Certificate course is a 2-week (72- hour) curriculum encompassing whole-systems design methods for creating healthy communities of people, plants and animals. This course will center around skills valuable for creating communities encompassing social aspects of building a healthy community, along with practical skills needed for selfsustainability. The learning process is itself designed around whole systems principles, and project-based education. This course will minimize conventional “sageon-the-stage” (lecture) delivery, while maximizing the “guide-on-the-side” (experiential learning) approach for creating the conditions in which learning will most efficiently occur. People learn best by talking and doing; people teach best by listening.

• principles of design
• agriculture: soil, sustainable gardening, integrating animals; agro-forestry
• food preservation, plant propagation, seed-saving
• natural building
• earthworks, catching and storing water and energy, aquaculture
• human settlements
• community-building, conflict resolution, governance
• applications to other climates, urban permaculture
• alternative economic systems, local currencies
• spiritual permaculture, inner landscape

PDC graduates will be able to apply whole systems design skills to the home yard, neighborhood, or farm -and to understanding the scope of eco-village design.

Instructors:

Chuck Estin, principal instructor:  a permaculture design consultant and nurseryman, with previous careers as a-research scientist, high school science teacher and education consultant.

Carol Heywood Babrauskas: Eco-village designer, author and artist and additional instructors will assist.

The cost of the course is $1300, which includes a copy of Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual; yummy vegetarian food; and campsite facilities on the scenic ranch site located at the base of Mt. Adams, 30 minutes north of Hood River, within earshot of the White Salmon River.

A $200 deposit will reserve your space. An on-site Kid’s Camp may be available at additional cost for families with children, depending on interest.

download PDC09 flier Permaculture Design Course Description.