[permaculture] June 20 - July 3 Permaculture Design Course - Orella Ranch, Santa Barbara California, USA 2009

Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network lakinroe at silcom.com
Thu Apr 30 08:04:16 EDT 2009


Permaculture Design Course - Orella Ranch, Santa Barbara California, USA
with Australian Permaculture Teacher Darren Doherty

June 20 - July 3 Cost $950
Location:Orella Ranch, Santa Barbara Ca
To Register:
Guner Tautrim 805.698.8823 or 
<http://www.permaculture.biz>gunerandheidi at yahoo.com

  Our interactive Permaculture Design Certificate 
Course is designed to make you a more useful 
person capable of designing and developing 
sustainable systems anywhere in the world.

Our program is under continuous improvement and 
is determined to put the design back into the 
Permaculture Design Course, drawing on our broad 
experience in the design & development of over 
1300 projects on 5 continents in every climate. 
Students will have the opportunity to complete a 
minimum of 5 design projects throughout the 
course which are developed & presented in groups 
allowing for continuous feedback and improvement. 
One thing that won't change however is our Day to 
a Subject format, following the sequence of the 
curriculum: 'Permaculture: A Designer's Manual' 
(Bill Mollison, 1988, Tagari Publications)


Graduates of this 72 hour course will be awarded 
The Permaculture Institute (Australia:Bill 
Mollison) Permaculture Design Certificate.

Course Teachers for this PDC is Darren Doherty 
(Registered Teacher #29 with The Permaculture 
Institute) and has taught on over 30 PDC's (over 
10 solo) across the world with renowned teachers 
such as Bill Mollison, David Holmgren, Penny 
Livingston-Stark, Robina McCurdy & the late Joe 
Polaischer among many others.

	Certificate Presentation

	*	History, Theory, Ethics, & Principles of permaculture
	*	Nature-friendly house placement and design
	*	Keyline Design, Holistic Management & Carbon Farming
	*	Energy conservation techniques for all climates
	*	Recycling and waste management
	*	Organic food production
	*	Water harvesting, Irrigation systems management
	*	Waste Water Treatment Systems
	*	Ecological pest control
	*	Drought-proofing
	*	Soil rehabilitation and erosion control
	*	Livestock systems
	*	Aquaculture
	*	Catastrophe preparedness and prevention
	*	Windbreaks and fire control
	*	Community Development
	*	Enterprise Development Models
	*	GIS/CAD Design, Project Costing & Management

Recommended Reading for the PDC is as follows:
'Permaculture: A Designer's Manual' (Bill Mollison, 1988, Tagari Publications)

'Permaculture: Principles ' (David Holmgren, 2002, Holmgren Design Services)

'Holistic Management: Frameworks for Decision 
Making' (Allan Savory, 1999, Island Press)


Pricing:$950

includes 93 hours of theory & practicum, meals and camping
PDC Certificate awarded upon completion
To Register:
Guner Tautrim 805.698.8823 or 
<http://www.permaculture.biz>gunerandheidi at yahoo.com

Darren Doherty (Australia) www.permaculture.biz 
is one of the world's most experienced 
Permaculture Design professionals and Registered 
PDC Teacher who has designed and developed over 
1100 properties across 4 continents and has 
taught many PDC's, including with both Bill 
Mollison & David Holmgren (the co-originators of 
Permaculture). Darren Doherty and David Holmgren 
co-teach one Permaculture Design Course a year in 
Darren's home town of Bendigo, Central Victoria, 
which is the only PDC David teaches on these days.

Darren has been a full-time Permaculture Designer 
since 1993 (at age 24) and focussed the first 
half of his career on design and development 
work, to the point where he became the most 
prolific Permaculture Designer in Australia, 
designing and developing over 1000 properties in 
that period, with a large development and 
management team backing his design efforts. With 
the births of his two younger children, by 2002 
Darren tailed off his emphasis in that regard and 
is now working on selected "special projects" and 
teaching about 5 PDC's per year.

Darren spends about 40% of his working time these 
days in Viet Nam and managing the Viet Nam 
projects (Permaculture development and education 
projects for M&M's/Mars Inc. & ACDIVOCA) with the 
remaining time spent managing a 60ha working 
research & demonstration farm in Southern 
Victoria, Australia plus a smattering of 
broadacre design jobs here and there. He has 
taught 14 full PDC courses , many Keyline Design 
courses, as well as developed the working 
prototype of the world's first Dojo 
Ripper/Tiller/Mounder in association with the 
Yeomans Plow .


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