[permaculture] Announcing Advanced Permaculture Design Courses Ellenville, NY Faust/C BL
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treefaust at juno.com
Mon Apr 20 20:19:09 EDT 2009
Please circulate these highly professional stand alone design courses focusing on whole systems site development Permaculture style.
Thank you,
Andrew Faust
The Center For Bioregional Living
www.homebiome
Advanced Permaculture Design Courses with Andrew Faust
This May and June at
The Center for Bioregional Living
253 Briggs Hwy
Ellenville, NY 12428
www.homebiome.com
email andrew at homebiome.com for info / registration
Andrew Faust and The Center for Bioregional Living are proud to present their very first series of advanced Permaculture and ecological design courses this May and June 2009. Focused on honing the areas where our unique strengths as Permacultue designers reside, we have thoughtfully crafted each of these offerings to function as stand alone teachings or to build off of each other when taken as the whole series. Come participate in the groundbreaking of The Center for Bioregional Livings Permaculture and Ecological Design Educational center where we will help to teach people the essentials of high quality ways of living abundantly now and into the future.
May 16th & 17th
Advanced Permaculture Design for Whole Site Development
This course will focus on laying the groundwork for an entire land development project such as establishing ecological businesses, community farms, eco-villages, co-housing and homesteads.
Topics covered: whole site analysis, mapping techniques, reading the landscape, making use of topography and hydrology, reading biological indicators
Hands-on activities: siting buildings, laying out and establishing earthworks and infrastructure.
May 23rd & 24th
Advanced Permaculture Design for Water in the Permaculture Landscape
This course will focus in-depth on the energetics of water in the landscape by designing in the context of your watershed and implementing multi-functional farmscapes. You will learn layout and integration of off-the-grid, passive and gravity fed water supplies and low tech active systems.
Topics covered: finding and developing springs, uses for springs, siting ponds, siting buildings & earthworks for rainwater catchment, grey water systems, outhouses and composting humanure
Hands-on activities: spring development, spring house construction and outhouse construction.
June 6th & 7th
Advanced Permaculture Design for Edible Forest Gardens and Tree Crops
This course will focus on gardening with nature through the creation of edible forest gardens as well as the design and management of multi-functional woodlots.
Topics covered: designing, planting and management of woodlots for selective harvesting of fuel and building materials, understory value-added crops like shitake, ginseng, goldenseal and wild garlic, techniques for increasing the quality and productivity of wild edibles.
Hands-on activities: planting, pruning and land management to accelerate succession, mushroom log inoculation.
Each course $250 / $700 for all three
Register a week before each class starts so we know how many to accommodate.
Most of our time will be spent outdoors and there will be plenty of hands-on work building and designing.
Home cooked and locally sourced meals included!
Lodging options include limited indoor common area as well as tent space on our beautiful 14 acres. Bring tents, sleeping pads, sleeping bags whatever you need to sleep.
Classes will start at 9am Saturday and Sunday with evening sessions on Saturday. Students are welcome to arrive no earlier than 5pm on the Friday before class for dinner that evening at 7pm.
There is a bus from Port Authority that leaves at 5:30 and arrives at 8:02 in Ellenville where we could pick you up. Let us know if this is the best way for you to travel and we will save dinner for you!
Anyone driving who has extra space in their car let us know so that we may organize carpooling.
There is a NJ Transit Train that runs to Middletown about 40 minutes away, but we are unable to organize service to pick people up from there at this time. Possibly in the future?
For questions or to reserve a space email Andrew at homebiome.com
Link for Short Line Bus
http://www.coachusa.com/shortline/ss.details.asp?action=Lookup&c1=New+York&s1=NY&c2=Ellenville&s2=NY&resultId=112640&order=&dayFilter=&scheduleChoice=&sitePageName=%2Fshortline%2Findex.asp&cbid=389946338079
Google map of our area
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=253%20briggs%20hwy%20ellenville&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl
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