Permaculture Design Course

Join us for a two-week intensive certificate course in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Learn how to design sustainable and regenerative systems that are in balance with the natural world. Based on the traditional Permaculture Design Course curriculum, this residential course will include permaculture ethics and principles, patterns and design, soil building, food forests, water harvesting, natural building, zero waste systems, community design, aquaculture, medicinal plants, mycology, alternative economics, watershed management, sustainable forestry, and much more.  The course will use a diversity of formats, including lecture, discussions, hands-on activities, field trips, and team design projects.
Incorporating Woodbine's commitment to indigenous values and sustainable communities, the course will also include sessions on traditional ecological knowledge, social and environmental justice, and indigenous permaculture.
Students can also choose to stay for the first Indigenous Permaculture Convergence that will follow this course for an additional $75.00.
Instructors: Andrew Goodheart Brown, Shannon Francis, Pavlos Stavropoulos, Jim Gibson, Mary O'Brien, and special guests.
Cost: $1,100 by July 31, 2010. $1,200 after August 1, 2010. Cost includes meals and lodging. Limited scholarships and worktrade opportunities available.