[permaculture] Permaculture Design Certification Course in New York City, 13 weeks Fe b.-may 08

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Sat Jan 5 18:17:05 EST 2008


Hello to all of you in the Permaculture community,
 This is my latest offering in my rigorous heavily science based Design course offerings,
please circulate for me,much appreciated,
 Sincerely,
 Andrew Faust
610-420-6106


Permaculture Design Certification in New York City
With Andrew Faust and Guests

Andrew Faust (B.A., Guilford College) has been a certified
permaculture designer since 1996 and a certified alternative school
teacher since 1993. He has homesteaded off the grid in WV for six
years where he created the Center for Bioregional Living
(www.homebiome.com). With 17 years of experience in bioregional
education, Andrew is presently thriving on permaculture design work,
teaching, consulting, and gardening in New York City and the
northeastern U.S. with nonprofits, businesses, schools, communities
and homeowners.

Course Description

This course will cover the core 72 hour Permaculture Design
curriculum, including 12 additional hours of class time to adapt this
course to our region and to contemporary ecological issues in the
United States. You will learn how to apply permaculture principles to
a diversity of settings and issues with an emphasis on urban and
temperate environments.

In addition, there will be three sessions for open enrolment: Natural
Building on February 22nd, Urban Permaculture on March 14th and
Bioregional Economies on April 4th. $40 each session payable on
arrival. Please pre-register at least one week in advance.

Lectures, extensive and diverse handouts, discussions and field trips
will explore: evolution of agriculture, Biodynamics, bioregional
designs, natural history of Eastern woodlands and designs that
cooperate with their regeneration, passive solar and natural building
techniques, passive integrated water systems, Living machines and
natural wastewater treatment, energy and nutrient cycling, watershed
health and the integration of animals into cultivated ecosystems.

Other topics include: growing organic and biodynamic orchards,
creating organic raised vegetable beds in inner city garden plots with
hand tools, cultivating gourmet mushrooms employing living roofs and
rooftop gardens, indoor and apartment gardening, sprouted grains and
beans, making tinctures and salves, making fermented foods, whole
foods and designing rain gardens that will prevent flooding, address
sewage treatment plant overflows and provide clean water.



Course will conclude with students doing their own Permaculture site design.

Cost: $1000 payable in advance with a $100 deposit to reserve a space.

Make checks payable to:

Andrew Faust
302 Bedford Ave. PMB #22
Brooklyn, NY 11211

Andrew at homebiome.com

Classes will be held at:

15th Street Meeting House
15 Rutherford Place (between 2nd and 3rd ave)
Room 1
NYC

All classes and field trips are from 9am – 4pm.
Some class time will be spent outdoors. Please dress appropriately.

SPACE IS LIMITED! Please register early.

For more information contact Andrew at homebiome.com


Syllabus

 Week 1
 Friday, February 1st

     * Formation of Universe
     * Earth Geology
     * Gaia Theory
     * Anthropology
     * Pollution Issues and World Patterns
     * What Is Permaculture?

 Week 2
 Friday, February 8th

     * Industry & Environment
     * Economics
     * Climate Ecology
     * Soil
     * Map Reading

 Week 3
 Friday, February 15th

* Water
* Reading the Landscape
* Afternoon walk to apply ideas in the field
* Patterns
* Microclimates
* Riparian Buffers
* Streambank Restoration

 Week 4
 Friday, February 22nd

     * Design Principles
     * Zones & Sectors

      +++Afternoon session begins+++
     * Zone 0 Natural Local Ecological Buildings
     * Zone I Biodynamic & Organic Gardens
     * Zone II Fruit Tree Forest
  (Afternoon 1-4pm session open for general enrolment $40 pre-register
one week in advance)

 Week 5
 Friday, February 29th

     * Earthworks
     * Domestic Animals
     * Rotational grazing
     * Wetlands
     * Aquaculture
     * Humanure


 Week 6
 Friday, March 7th

     * Designer/Client Relationship
     * Design Elements
     * Designing for Human Nature
     * Income Site Analysis
     * Weed Ecology & Restoration Ecology
     * Villages & Communities

 Week 7
 Friday, March 14th

     * Suburban & Urban Permaculture
     * Biodynamic Systems
      +++Morning session ends+++

     * Zone 3 Crops & Animals
     * Design Work
(Morning session 9am-12pm open for general enrolment $40 pre-register
one week in advance)

 Saturday, March 15th

     * Field Trip

 Week 8
 Friday, March 28th

     * Aquaculture
     * Zone 4 Agroforestry
     * Zone 5 Wilderness & Wildlife Corridors
     * Design Work

 Saturday, March 29th

     * Field Trip

 Week 9
 Friday, April 4th

     * Bioregions
     * Local Wealth & Energy
      +++Morning session ends+++

     * Pioneer Design & Land Use Ethics
     * Consultation
(Friday, April 4th Morning session 9am-12pm open for general enrolment
$40 pre-register one week in advance)


 Week 10
 Friday, April 11th


     * Earthworks
     * Economics & Budgeting
     * Mapping & Presentation

 Week 11
 Friday, May 2nd

     * Design Work
     * Design Presentations
     * Evaluations

 Readings
    - Mollison, Bill. Introduction to Permaculture
    - Holmgren, David, Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond
      Sustainability
    - Pfeiffer, Ehrenfried. The Biodynamic Treatment of Fruit Trees,
      Berries and Shrubs.
    - Hawken, Paul, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins. Natural Capitalism:
      Creating the Next Industrial Revolution.
    - Lowdermilk, W. C. Conquest of the Land through Seven Thousand Years.
    - Bolgiano, Chris. Living in the Appalachian Forest: True Tales of
      Sustainable Forestry.
    - Nearing, Helen and Scott. The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's
      Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living.
    - Huggett, Frank E. The Land Question and European Society since 1650.
    - Ward, Diane Raines. Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly and the
      Politics of Thirst.
    - McDonough, William. Keynote Address for the Pennsylvania Association
      for Sustainable Agriculture's 1999 Farming for the Future Conference:
      Designing Sustainable Food Systems.
    - Magazine articles from: The Permaculture Activist, New
      Internationalist, The Last Straw: The International Journal of Straw
      Bale and Natural Building, The Whole Earth Review, and Third
World Resurgence


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