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  • From: Jackie Pitts <jackie.pitts13@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Nicaragua PDC: February 2010...Don't miss it!
  • Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:04:37 -0500

*Permaculture Design Course: Isla Ometepe, Nicaragua*

*February 2-16, 2010*

* *

Come join us! This course takes place from February 2-16 at Project Bonafide
(www.projectbonafide.com). Project Bonafide is a 43-acre permaculture site
that has been in development for nearly a decade. It has become an important
center for education and community development. Infrastructure includes:
natural buildings, terraced and medicinal plant gardens, an extensive
nursery, fruit and nut orchards, food forests, native timber forestry,
timber bamboo plantings, drip-irrigation and ferrocement technologies,
renewable energy systems, and composting toilets. Outreach includes social
programs that provide educational opportunities based in ecological
agriculture, community reforestation efforts, local seed and plant
exchanges, a children's nutritional kitchen, and a new community center and
library that allows Bonafide to be an area for cultural exchange on the
island and beyond.



*Course Description:* In this hands-on, intensive course, participants will
use the 43-acre permaculture site of Project Bonafide as a living classroom
to explore the principles and ethics of permaculture. Specific topics
include:

-site analysis and design from the tropics to temperate regions

-landscape master planning and microclimate design

-pattern recognition and reading the landscape

-design for climate change

-regenerative land management

-water catchment, storage, filtration, and distribution

-biologically based treatment of grey and black water

-natural building techniques

-plant propagation and organic horticulture

-soil rehabilitation and fertility strategies

-myco-forestry

-orchard design and maintenance

-renewable energy

-local and regenerative economics

…and much, much more!



*Instructors:* Chris Shanks (USA), Kristofer Fallas (Costa Rica), Nevis
Ortiz Mairena (Nicaragua), Sylvia Lanuza (Nicaragua) and Jackie Pitts (USA)

*Course Fee:* $1250, includes housing and delicious meals

*Contact:* Jackie Pitts by email at jackie.pitts13@gmail.com
*Website*: *www.projectbonafide.com*



  • [permaculture] Nicaragua PDC: February 2010...Don't miss it!, Jackie Pitts, 01/01/2010

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