Permaculture is a design system for shelter, energy, waste, water and food production and provides concepts, tools, techniques and strategies that empower individuals to create human environments that are not only sustainable, but regenerative.
Top for reasons to take this course:
1. This is an efficient and cost effective means of gaining strategies, skills, techniques and an overall foundational knowledge for designing & developing sustainable human environments - from balcony gardens, small urban homes, acreages to broad acre farms.
2. The course will cover such interesting topics as: eco-friendly house placement and design, renewable energy systems, organic food production, survey for property design, recycling and waste management, grey water utilization, regenerative earth surgery, urban & rural livestock, aquaculture, soil rehabilitation and much, much more!
3. Rob Avis, our lead instructor, is a highly active permaculturist and offers a wealth of knowledge and experience from around the world. He is a student of Geoff Lawton and has hands-on experience with numerous concepts including: strawbale buildings, earthships, low-energy homes, wind turbines and solar power & heating but also understands and emphasizes the importance of biological systems: soil, water-harvesting, landscape re-hydration, composting, growing food, grey water and biological waste-water treatment.
4. Students who complete this course are welcome to attend as a refresher any of our future permaculture courses (week-end introduction or full design course) at cost, pending room in the course.
Whether your interest is gardening, building homes, community work, economic regeneration, education, health, planning, business or green lifestyles, the application of permaculture design provides positive solutions towards a sustainable future.
How we are trying to make this event "green":
Our actions can positively impact and enhance our environment, our communities and our health. Permaculture is a design system for shelter, energy, waste, water and food production and provides concepts, tools, techniques and strategies that empower individuals to create human environments that are not only sustainable, but regenerative.
Participants of this course will learn to:
- Improve their homes & backyards while saving resources and building a healthy place for family, friends and community
- Save money on energy bills with efficient home design, retrofit and renewable energy systems
- Bring fertility back to soil, store water in the landscape and shape earth for water harvesting
- Pattern functional and edible perennials into food forest assemblies and eat fresh, organic & healthy food grown outside their doorsteps
- Reduce or eliminate waste and pollution to assure a healthy environment for them, their children and grandchildren
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