Permaculture Design Course with Robyn Francis and Cathe’ Fish

Learn how to design for stability,resilience, and abundance at a farm that is dedicated to sustainability and community health. COURSE INCLUDES: Permaculture Design Course and Course Graduation Certificate Housing and the best locally sourced healthy nutrient dense meals ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS: Robyn Francis is an award winning permaculture designer and educator who founded Australia's premier Permaculture Education Centre, Djanbung Gardens. Since 1985, Robyn has trained thousands of active permaculturists around the world. This will be the 122nd Permaculture Design Course she has taught. Cathe' Fish, international educator and founder of Practical Permaculture Research Institute, is a 23 year Master Gardener, and has been teaching passive solar and permaculture systems for 25 years. She has designed 40 acre farms to backyards. She will be teaching Solar Kitchens at the International Permaculture Convergence in Jordan in September 2011. ABOUT THE COURSE: The Permaculture Design Certificate course is an internationally-recognized course resulting in a Permaculture Design Certificate. While the course minimums are 72 hours, we are offering you a more in depth 90 hour 2 week intensive (with Halloween off) so that you may truly apply your permaculture skills as a graduate. The course covers sustainable living systems for a wide variety of landscapes and climates. It includes the application of permaculture principles to food production, home design/ construction, energy conservation/generation, and explores alternative economic structures and legal strategies supporting permaculture solutions. Certification from this course empowers you to develop a professional permaculture design,consultation and instruction business. Our mission is to share this knowledge and tools of empowerment for you to take and put into your home and garden, your property, your work/career, and in your community. We will show you how to do it. Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share How we are trying to make this event "green": Students will learn to use Nature as their pattern for food production, housing and community and will gain hands-on skills in sustainable systems design and application.

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