DARREN DOHERTY IN THE FINGER LAKES REGION OF NEW YORK STATE “Keyline Design & Practices, A Pasture Walk with Darren Doherty”, sponsored in part with the co-operation of the Yeomans Plow Company, AU. and A.H. Tuttle and Company.
www.permaculture.biz.au announces the opportunity to attend both a 2007 Pasture Walk –and- 2-Day condensed Keyline Design Course with Darren Doherty. Please find attached a web link to the photo album for our recent 6-day Keyline Design Course held in Brihuega Spain. The address is: http://picasaweb.google.com.au/permaculture.biz/KeylineDesignCourseSpain And another installment of photos from the Keyline Course the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network staged in Goleta is now online and ready for viewing: Address is : http://picasaweb.google.com.au/permaculture.biz/KeylineDesignCourseGoletaCalifornia And please find following the link to our new PhotoLog: http://picasaweb.google.com.au/permaculture.biz Darren Doherty website: http://www.permaculture.biz/ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A PASTURE WALK with Darren Doherty Friday September 14th 11:00am – 3:00pm with Darren Doherty and Keith Ryan Simple Buffalo meat Lunch at noon Charge – No charge The pasture walk will be held at the grazing farm of Oliver and Andrea Scott, Wideside Farms LLC, 8675 Taft Road, Bloomfield, NY. 14469; (One mile South of State Rt. 5 & 20 ; One mile South on Conn Road to Taft; watch for signs) **PRE-REGISTER NOW!! For 2-day KEYLINE DESIGN COURSE** KEYLINE DESIGN PRINCIPLES Saturday September 15th, Sunday September 16th 9:00am - 5:00pm with Darren Doherty $250.00 plus $30 includes lunch each day You are invited to join the ever growing list of participants to the 2007 world tour for the $250.00 2-day Fall return leg of the normally $600.00 6-day course. The 2-day New York KDC is targeted at farm land managers who have an interest in applying Keyline Design techniques on their properties. Topics will include: * History of Keyline Design * Scales of Permanence * Keyline Design Applications * Low Tech Cartography * Low – Medium Tech Survey Equipment * Site Analysis Techniques * Broadacre Soil Improvement Techniques * Keyline Soil Renovation & Pattern Cultivation * Keyline/Water Harvesting Earthworks Design & Construction Session Times Saturday and Sunday A - 0900 - 1030 Break - 1030 - 1100 B - 1100 - 1230 Lunch - 1230 - 1330 C - 1330 - 1500 Break - 1500 – 1530 D 1530 - 1700 Keyline Design Course lecture to be given at the Community College of the Finger Lakes Campus Lecture Hall. Located at 4355 Lakeshore Drive, Canandaigua, NY. 14424 Pre-register by September 11th. For a registration form and further information contact Royal A. Purdy at [EMAIL PROTECTED], (315)-986-7007 DESCRIPTION “Keyline” is a set of principles, techniques and systems, which form the logical basis for a plan for the sustainable development of rural and urban landscapes. The application of Keyline Design presents a great departure from mere “Soil Conservation” as practiced by so many. The application of Keyline Pattern Plowing for example is designed to not be satisfied with Soil Conservation but with “Soil Creation”. One of the primary objectives of Keyline planning is to enhance the swift development of deep biologically fertile soil – living soil. This is achieved through systematically designed farm-scapes. Developing and deepening the soils biological fertility will rebuild the soil structure, reduce run-off and increase the ‘field capacity” of the land. The land will more readily distribute, absorb and hold more water. It is designed to create extra humus and depth of soil to prevent the leaching of nutrients. GOALS OF THE COURSE This event will have condensed versions of the same content as the six-day Keyline coarse involving broadacre applications to pasture, vineyards and croplands. INSTRUCTOR The principal of Australia Felix Permaculture since 1993, Darren Doherty has had extensive experience across the planet in Permaculture project design, development & management, with a focus on retrofitting broadacre agricultural systems and farms, and has been identified as a pioneer in this important and often overlooked field. He is a qualified Whole Farm Planner (University of Melbourne), and an Approved Keyline Design Consultant. Darren Doherty is an Australian Keyline Designer, Developer & Manager and Australian Approved Keyline Design™ Farm Planning Consultant, and recipient of Whole Farm Planning Certificate ~ Train the Trainer (University of Melbourne 1995). He has designed and developed over 1100 properties across four continents working most recently in Vietnam, on land projects for Mars Inc, owners of Seeds of Change. His remaining time is spent managing a working research & demonstration farm in Southern Victoria, Australia. You can also view an online film footage of Darren using the Keyline plow and technique by searching either “You Tube” or “Goggle Videos” using the keywords “Yeomans Keyline Plow”. Description: Darren Doherty of Australia Felix Permaculture ( www.permaculture.biz) describes in detail the Yeomans Keyline Plow plus a range of innovative attachments, to a group of farmers, ranchers and people from the Gaviota CA (USA) region of CA. Darren Doherty website: http://www.permaculture.biz/ To view more information on “Keyline” practice concepts please visit: “Keyline Design ” ™ website of Ken Yeomans: http://www.keyline.com.au/ad1ans.htm To view more information on the “Yeomans Plow Company” and their versatile minimally invasive plow please visit the Yeomans Plow Company website: http://www.yeomansplow.com.au/yeomans-plows.htm FOR MORE INFORMATION on Elysian ©, Sustainable High Tensile, and / or Yeomans Keyline Plow Co. info. and sales, contact Dealer - Royal A. Purdy at [EMAIL PROTECTED], (315)-986-7007 _______________________________________________ [email protected] listserv RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information: http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/fingerlakespermaculture Support the list host by donating to: http://www.mutualaid.org
