[permaculture] Permaculture Design Course

Hannah Roessler hannahroessler at hotmail.com
Mon Sep 10 18:53:52 EDT 2007


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PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE
ISLA OMETEPE, NICARAGUA
FEBRUARY 10th-25th, 2008

www.projectbonafide.com

This 16-day permaculture course will be held on stunning Isla Ometepe, an 
island of twin volcanoes in southern Nicaragua.  The permaculture site, 
Project Bona Fide (www.projectbonafide.com) has been in development for 
nearly a decade, and has become an important center for education and 
community development.  The 26-acre demonstration site features 
infrastructural systems such as: natural buildings built with local 
materials, terraced zone 1 gardens, medicinal plant gardens, an extensive 
nursery, seed bank, developing fruit and nut orchards, food forests, native 
timber forestry initiatives, timber bamboo plantings, water-catchment, drip 
irrigation and ferrocement technologies, renewable energy systems, and 
composting toilets.  These systems help to support social programs, such as 
the Escuela del Campo which provides educational opportunities based in 
ecological agriculture in order to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and 
skills throughout the local community.  We also work closely with a local 
Women’s Group, Rosas de Volcanes, on a variety of community based efforts.  
The Escuela del Campo, Rosas de Volcanes, and Bona Fide all work together on 
community reforestation efforts that are supported by our seed bank and 
nursery endeavors.  These reforestation efforts are furthered supported by 
our annual “Intercambio des Semillas”, or Seed and Plant Exchange.  Bona 
Fide also supports Café Infantil, a children’s nutritional kitchen run by 
local women in the town of Balgue (the local community we serve). Upcoming 
projects include a community center, planned for 2008.  The developing site, 
interwoven with the support we’ve received from our local community, allows 
Bona Fide to be fertile ground for cultural exchange on the island and 
beyond.
Some of the topics covered in the February 2008 Permaculture Design Course 
will include:

•	Principles and Ethics of Permaculture Design
•	Site analysis and design, from the tropics to temperate regions
•	Landscape master planning and microclimate design
•	Reading the landscape and pattern recognition
•	Design for climate change
•	Regenerative Land Management and Stewardship
•	Water catchment, storage, filtration, and distribution
•	Biologically based treatment of greywater and blackwater
•	Using greywater in the landscape
•	Natural building techniques and vernacular architecture
•	Plant propagation and grafting
•	Organic horticulture
•	Medicinal plant propagation, usage and preparations
•	Biointensive gardening and seed saving
•	Soil rehabilitation and fertility strategies
•	Myco-forestry and myco-filtration
•	Orchard design and maintenance
•	Renewable energies and biofuels
•	Local and Regenerative economics
•	Urban and suburban permaculture strategies
•	Ecovillage design and community building strategies
•	Networking within the permaculture community and beyond

…..and much more!

The course is taught in English and is simultaneously translated into 
Spanish via FM-headsets in the classroom.

Instructors:  Christopher Shanks (US), Micheal Judd (US), Andrea Calfuquir 
(Argentina), Katherine Young (GB), Hannah Roessler (Canada).

Interpreter:  Christopher Fallas (Costa Rica)

Course Cost: $1250 US

www.projectbonafide.com

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