<http://barefootpermaculture.com/coming-events/efg> Four Seasons Permaculture Design Certification 72 hour course - March 2013 - Feb 2014 $900-1000 Dates: Introductory weekend Sat. March 9th and Sunday March 10th 9-5
Then Sundays 9am-5pm - 4/14, 5/5, 6/2, 7/14, 8/11, 9/8, 10/13, 11/10, 12/8/13 and 1/12 and 2/9/14.This course is structured in one introductory weekend followed by monthly Sunday sessions, allowing full-time workers, students, and people with families more flexibility to participate. This dynamic, hands-on class will meet from 9 am-5 pm. All classes will be held in Rochester, NY. Class size is limited. Sliding scale $900-1000. Lunches are potluck. Preregistration is required. To register: Send a check payable to Rochester Permaculture Center, PO Box 18212, Rochester, NY 14618 by February 23, 2012 along with (1) your name, (2) your mailing address, (3) your email address, and (4) phone number. Additionally, please send a quick email to [email protected] letting me know to expect you. Save $100 if you register and pay in full by January 31, 2012. PDC Description: In our permaculture design certification courses, you will learn how to observe and use the same principles that make ecological systems self-sustaining and apply them to integrated homes and gardens. In addition, you will learn how to apply these principles to energy systems and water supplies, healthy communities, meaningful and fulfilling work, ecological economies, and global political movements for change. Throughout it all, you'll be engaged in learning and experiencing an empowering way of living in the world, surrounded and supported by like-minded people and instructors. Our goal is to make you a part of Rochester Permaculture Institute's community, incorporating our seasonal activities into your permaculture experience as time permits. Activities may include spring and fall pruning, seed planting, plant propagation, bed preparation, compost pile making, water harvesting techniques, natural building, and other activities. Each of our permaculture design certification courses includes the following: │Permaculture principles and ethics │Reading the landscape │Pattern and pattern application │Water harvesting │Swale building │Zone and sector analysis │Climate and micro climate │Mapping │Waste composting and treatment │Urban permaculture │Land access │Community building │Plant guilds │Forest gardening │Aquaculture & Animals │The design process, principles, strategies and techniques │Soil building and sheet mulching │Pond management and ecology │Earthworks, green roofs, and natural building │Grey water systems │Bioremediation │Renewable energy systems │Forest management │Watershed management │Group work on a conceptual design project for RPC │Individual work on a conceptual design project for RPC This 72-hour permaculture design certificate course will give participants a comprehensive understanding of permaculture principles & ethics; design processes, methodologies & tools; and how they can be applied to create regenerative human systems including food, housing, personal relationships, communities, and economies. Successful completion of this course will earn participants an internationally recognized Permaculture Design Certificate. Warmly, patty love, Owner Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture [email protected] www.barefootpermaculture.com Rochester Permaculture Center, Program Director www.rochesterpermacultureinstitute.org http://www.meetup.com/RochesterPermaculture/ 585.506.6505 PO Box 18212 Rochester, NY 14618 My life's purpose is gathering and sharing resources and information that regenerate my own and others' abundant existence and vibrant well-being -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "upstateNYpermaculture" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://upstateNYpermaculture.net
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