UPDATED: As Permaculture Design Course (PDC) graduates, we always like to share permaculture courses that we would recommend. Lisa DePiano, one of our head PDC teachers, is involved with the following courses in the summer and fall of this year.
Please list in the comments any other courses you'd recommend or would like to share. We've already added one shared with us in the comments! We also have a full list of regularly available PDC courses in the Northeast on our resources page if these dates, times and locations are not convenient. Summer 2013 Permaculture Design and Practice - UMass Amherst A great opportunity to build your portfolio and gain skills in permaculture design by touring existing projects and then working as a team to design a permaculture homestead. This three-credit course includes in-class lectures, field trips, design studio and a hands-on field component, to offer students a deepened practice in permaculture design process and techniques. The course culminates with students completing their own permaculture design for a site in the pioneer valley. The framework behind the theory and practice of permaculture is rooted in the observation of natural systems. By observing key ecological relationships, we can mimic and apply these beneficial relationships in the design of systems that serve humans while helping to regenerate the natural world. This course trains students as critical thinkers, observers, and analysts of the world(s) around them, and provides tools needed to design for positive change. Successful completion of this course and PLSOILIN 197G in the fall semester will enable students to be eligible for the internationally recognized permaculture design certificate.
Important Dates; Last Day to: Register 7/11, Drop 7/12, Withdraw 7/26 Refund Schedule: Full refund through 7/12 (registration fee not refundable) No refund after 7/12 Fall 2013 F.E.A.S.T. Permaculture Design Course (the course we took!) This weekend permaculture design course moves from principles and patterns to details in a supportive, respectful and collaborative atmosphere to promote rapid learning of whole systems design. The course will center around experiential learning and hands-on skill building, including local field trips where we will see theory in action. The course will conclude with a design practicum, where participants will work in small groups to develop a design for the course client. Dates and Cost: September 7,8, 28, 29 October 18 (evening only), 19, 20 November 2, 3, 16, 17, 30 December 1, 7 (make up day in case of bad weather) $998 early bird price $1250 after August 1st Tons of info, testimonials, and registration instructions on the website here: http://permaculturefeast.org/ --------------- Earth Activist Training Prospect Rock Permaculture Center, Johnson, Vermont September 7-21, 2013 Instructors: Starhawk, Charles Williams, Keith Morris, Lisa DePiano, and Skotty Kellogg A two-week permaculture design certificate course with a focus on organizing and activism, and a grounding in earth based spirituality. Learn how to heal soil and cleanse water, how to design human systems that mimic natural systems, using a minimum of energy and resources and creating real abundance and social justice. Explore the strategies and organizing tools we need to make our visions real, and the daily practice, magic and rituals that can sustain our spirits. Participatory, hands-on teaching with lots of ritual, games, projects, songs, and laughs along with an intensive curriculum in ecological design. Visit the EAT course information page and sample schedule for details on this course.
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Teacher Jonathan Bates on polyculture design We took our PDC last fall with Permaculture F.E.A.S.T. (for ecological and social transformation). As working folks, we could not find the time off to attend a week-long course. F.E.A.S.T. is one of the few offered on weekend. We woke up every other Saturday for 4 months at 5:30am for the two hour drive to Northampton to start class at 9am. We'd return after a full weekend of theorizing and practicing permaculture principles and ethics, urban homesteading, forest gardening, water harvesting, soil regeneration, creative waste cycling, micro-livestock, energy and building systems, social justice, food systems planning, cooperative economics, design for climate change, community building, aquaculture, design projects, methods, and tools. We spent a lot of time talking and digging deep, unlearning and learning, thinking and strategizing. We did hands-on, skills-building activities during the course and have been immediately able to apply with little previous knowledge most of the projects and methods we learned about during the course. This includes our aquaponics system, our backyard polyculture plantings, harvesting rainwater, organizing the permaculture convergence, and doing it all with 'permaculture goggles' on. We had an incredible teaching team and field trips to local permaculture sites. Our permaculture trip was catalyzed by this design course, and we highly recommend it. There are only a few spots left for the Fall 2012 course, so register now. We've posted several videos on ourYouTube channel from the course and have shared one and some photos below. There are also pictures from the design project we did as part of the course if you are interested in learning more. If you've taken a PDC, share your yields in the comments. We'd love to hear what skills and ideas have been influenced by such a course. |
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