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19. Permaculture Design Course 2007
in the Ohio Valley*
July 6-14 *
*Section I -
Permaculture Fundamentals*
*near.
Athens, Ohio*
*August 24 -
September 1*
*Section II -
Design Practicum*
*Loveland,
Ohio, nr. Cincinnati*
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The course
that's been called "life-changing, transformative, and enormously
affirming."/
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Join us as we
map the terrain of a low-energy, high-satisfaction future in the historic and
ecologically diverse Ohio Valley. Empower yourself with the skills of
ecological design as we search for the roots of permanent culture.
* *
*sponsored
by*
*Association
for Regenerative Culture*
*Contact
Peter Bane • 812-335-0383 • [log in to unmask]*
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*What is
Permaculture?*
Consciously
designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature,
while yielding an abundance of food, fiber, and energy for provision of local
needs. People, their buildings and the ways in which they organize themselves
are central to permaculture. Thus the permaculture vision of permanent or
sustainable agriculture has evolved into one of permanent or sustainable
culture.
*Who Benefits*
Gardeners,
farmers, homeowners, and prospective buyers of land and homes will benefit from
the energy-saving and productive insights of permaculture, while student and
professionals in the fields of ecology, agronomy, resource management,
architecture, and planning will find their work enlivened by the holistic and
interdisciplinary perspective of the course. Community development and aid
workers, rela estate brokers, municipal officials, and religious leaders will
find practical and creative applications for permaculture design in their
respective fields of endeavor.
*Ohio Valley
Locations*
• Near
Athens in SE Ohio, the United Plan Savers Sanctuary provides simple rooms or
camping in a beautiful forested setting. Bed & Breakfast lodging is also
available nearby. Academic credit may be arranged for this section through
Hocking College.
• Near
Cincinnati, Grailville at Loveland is the national center of The Grail, an
international women's spiritual association, and home of Heartland Ecovillage,
now in development. The 300-acre site features youth education, a residential
community, constructed wetland wastewater treatment, and a spacious and
complete campus set amid rolling woods and pastures.
*Meals*
We will enjoy
the best organic and locally grown foods of this diverse region, expertly
prepared.
*Fees*
Each section
is $475, or $895 for Fundamentals + Practicum: Tuition, meals, and materials
included. Lodging options vary. On-site lodging is
extra: in the
rustic setting near Athens we offer camping at $20 and a limited number of
indoor beds in shared rooms at $95 for the Fundamentals course. At Grailville,
lodging is available in semi-private rooms at $220. A limited number of
work-trade scholarships and guild discounts may be available by application.
See our on-line page at www.permacultureactivist.net
or contact Peter Bane at 812-335-0383, [log in to unmask] A certificate
of apprenticeship in Permaculture Design is awarded on completion of both
sections.
*Details*
*Permaculture
Fundamentals*
An
unparalleled opportunity to experience world-class instruction, this course
presents the elements of natural and cultivated sytems in the permaculture
curriculum, covering the following:
•
Ethics & Principles
• Observation and Patterns in Nature
• Climate & Biogeography
• Ecosystems
• Water in the Landscape
• Forests & Trees
• Building Healthy Soils
•
Zone & Sector Design
• The Home System
• Natural Building and Energy Design
• Microclimates
• Animals & Aquaculture
• Gardens & Plants
• Appropriate Technology
• Human Settlements
• Local Economics
• Mapping
• Design for Fire & Catastrophe
• Waste Cycling
*Permaculture
Practicum*
This training
in practical design for properties and human settlements will cover site
assessment, pattern languages, broadscale landscapes, community and social
design, map making, and presentation. The rural-to-suburban Grailville site
encompasses education, ecovillage planning, and preparation for the 10th Continental
Bioregional Congress on the edge of a large metropolitan region.
*Faculty*
*Peter Bane*
for the past 16 years has published /Permaculture Activist, /now the world's
longest-running permaculture journal. He holds the Permaculture Diploma, and
since 1992 has trained over 900 students in locales from Canada to Patagonia. A
co-founder and planner of Earthaven Ecovillage in the N.C. Blue Ridge, where he
designed and built his own passive solar, off-grid natural home, Peter serves
as Vice-President of the Assn. for Regenerative Culture. He is helping to
create a network of 20 "soaking centers " across the eastern US. He
lives in Bloomington, Indiana.
*Keith
Johnson* has gardened for over 30 years from northern New Hampshire to
subtropical California to southern Indiana and the southern Appalachians. For
half that time he has applied permaculture, growing and propagating thousands
of varieties of plants, and maintaining a large collection of seeds. He has
worked as a journalist, chimneysweep, gourmet chef, bodyworker, webmaster, and
orchardist, and founded Sonoma
(Calif.)
Permaculture. Keith has also managed a design, consulting, and construction
company specializing in masonry, earth repair, food forestry, and runoff
management.
*Rhonda
Baird* has been a labor organizer and a student of religion. A working mother
and fiber artist, she took teacher training at the Central Rocky Mountain
Permaculture Institute, and is now writing curriculum as she teaches
permaculture to young children. In 2006 she launched the Bloomington-area
Permaculture Guild. Her current projects include designing a food landscape and
living roof for Middleway House, a women's shelter, raising rabbits, and
home-schooling her five-year old daughter.
*Scott
Horton* is the editor of /Permaculture Activist, /a landscape artist, musician,
and a working designer. He teaches at the Ecovillage Training Center in
Tennessee, in the highlands of central Mexico, and in his native southern
California. He lives in the San Jacinto Mountains near Palm Springs.
*Andrew
Goodheart Brown *is a naturalist, raconteur, and an urban farmer in Asheville,
North Carolina, where he makes brooms, ferments beer and wine, bakes bread, and
cooks a wide assortment of fine foods. A permaculture teacher since 1995, he
has trained farmers in sustainable agriculture in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus,
south Asia, Latin America, and central Africa. Andrew was awarded his M.S. in
Ecology by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Peter Bane (publisher of "Permaculture
Activist") will host permaculture workshops in Ohio this summer, and will
also be in Columbus and Athens in April for free public talks. Check it out! -
Anne
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Assn. for Regenerative Culture
Peter Bane, Vice President
April 2007
Permaculture offers many locally
appropriate solutions to the complex worldwide problems posed by pollution and
resource depletion. Teaching people everywhere to take responsibility for food,
water, energy, and economic security is the most powerful means to reduce the
human footprint on our beleaguered planet.
We are offering the internationally
recognized curriculum in permaculture design for the first time in Ohio at two
locations this summer: July 6-14 near Athens, and August 24-Sept. 1 at Loveland,
near Cincinnati. Cost is $475 for the week course which includes, course,
materials and meals. Various lodging options are available in addition to this
cost. A parallel program concluding this month near Charlottesville, Virginia,
has attracted unprecedented interest.
This course, which has been taught to
hundreds of thousands worldwide, has been called "transformative,"
and "life-changing." Certainly, for those aware of the urgent nature
of the planetary crisis we face, this training in holistic ecological design
will be empowering.
We ask your help in spreading the word.
Please pass this e-flyer along to colleagues, your staff, students in your
institution, or other members of your constituency. Our work is not-for-profit,
offered at moderate cost, and applicable to people from all walks of life.
Consider investing in training for key individuals in your organization.
Donations for scholarship are welcome, are tax-deductible, and may be directed
to Permaculture Scholarships—ARC, PO Box 1303, Waynesville, NC.
For further details on the course visit:
www.permacultureactivist.net/DesignCourse
For an expanded view of permaculture:
www.relocalize.net/time_to_garden_the_planet
For inquiries
write: [log in to unmask]
Vicki Morrone
Organic Vegetable and Crop Outreach Specialist
Michigan State University
C.S. Mott Sustainable Food Systems
303 Natural Resources Bldg.
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-353-3542
517-282-3557 (cell)
517-353-3834 (fax)
http://www.MichiganOrganic.msu.edu/
http://www.mottgroup.msu.edu/
