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  • From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] Permaculture Courses at the Arboretum! LA/Intro Sat Aug 27/PDC Sept24-Nov 20/2011
  • Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:59:42 -0700

Permaculture Courses at the Arboretum!
http://www.arboretum.org/index.php/news/permaculture_design_certificate_pdc_course/

Introduction to Permaculture

Saturday, August 27
10am-12noon/ Palm Room
Caitlin Bergman, Instructor
$25 Arboretum members/$28 non-members
Join our exciting, interactive lecture and hands-on demonstrations as we learn how to create a food forest in our own backyard. Have you ever wondered why growing your own vegetables can be so difficult? Learn to work like nature, not against it. Discover a quickly growing revolution in sustainable gardening where overlooked materials become free resources, yields increase, work is minimized, and the mutual support between people and the local environment is restored. This seminar will give participants an understanding of the key concepts involved in Permaculture and you'll get to bring home seedballs too!

Dress comfortably. For more information: www.SayPermaculture.com
• Caitlin is a Certified Permaculture Designer & Educator, holds a degree in Botany, and is a Soil Foodweb Advisor. She has also served as the Arboretum’s Permaculture Garden Curator. Pre-registration preferred; please call 626.821.4623 to register for classes. You may also email jill.berry@arboretum.org

Permaculture Design Certificate Course
Fall 2011: Permaculture Design Course (PDC)
8:30am – 5:30pm

DATES: 5 Weekends - Every other weekend: September 24 & 25
October 8 & 9
October 22 & 23
November 5 & 6
November 19 & 20
TUITION: $1400
· Includes catered lunch, tea, snacks, and an excellent line-up of instructors
· Non-refundable $200 deposit to reserve your place due by August 15
· Full tuition due by Sept. 12
TO REGISTER: Call: (626) 821-4623 or Email: jill.berry@arboretum.org
Join us in our 3rd Course – Back by popular demand! Register early as fills quickly.
DOUBLE BONUS:

Students attend ‘Soil & Compost’ 2-Day Workshop with Dr. Elaine Ingham AND 2-Day ‘Garden Like a Forest Workshop’ with award-winning author, Dave Jacke!

Permaculture is sustainable land-use design based on ecological principles and ethics. Its aim is harmonizing habitats and inhabitants within sustainable cultural, food, shelter, energy, water, and waste systems. This hands-on course unites theory with practical applications. Our transformative 80-hour curriculum prepares individuals to become pro-active ecological designers, and covers the following topics:

• Permaculture Principles and Ethics • Rapid Soil Rehabilitation
• Water Harvesting • Food Forests • Renewable Energy Solutions
• Animal Systems • Designing with the Patterns of Nature • Natural Building • Aquaculture • Regenerating Resilient Communities

The course provides the crucial foundation in systems thinking that enables individuals to play an active role in holistically regenerating our landscapes, food systems, and communities. An environment of support and unity between classmates is fostered, which will enable collaboration in design projects and a strong network of fellow designers.
Participants become Certified Permaculture Designers upon successful completion.

Instructors:

Dr. Elaine Ingham, PhD is recognized around the world as a leader in soil microbiology and research of the soil foodweb. She is an energetic, down-to-earth speaker who explains what life in the soil is all about. With decades of experience as professor, researcher, and soil benefactor consulting in the field she’s helped thousands of homeowners, growers, and influential companies understand healthy soil via healthy organisms. Elaine transmits sophisticated information in a easy-to-understand way. Her mission is to show that the key to making any plant thrive, from the turf on golf courses to vegetables in the garden is to team up with suitable soil microbes. Elaine has astounding results to show for it. Dr. Ingham is President and Director of Research at Soil Foodweb Inc. (www.SoilFoodweb.com ).
Dave Jacke, primary author of the award winning two-volume book Edible Forest Gardens, has studied ecology and design since the 1970s, and has run his own design firm—Dynamics Ecological Design—since 1984. An engaging and passionate teacher of ecological design and permaculture, Dave has designed, built, and planted landscapes, homes, farms, and communities in the many parts of the United States, as well as overseas. A co-founder of Land Trust at Gap Mountain in Jaffrey, NH, he homesteaded there for a number of years. Dave holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Simon’s Rock College and a M.A. in Landscape Design from the Conway School of Landscape Design.

Warren Brush is internationally recognized as a youth educator, mentor, and Permaculture designer, teacher and lecturer. For over twenty years he has worked extensively to foster people’s discovery, expression and integration of their inherent gifts into the land and communities that sustain them. He has co-founded the following organizations and programs: Quail Springs Learning Oasis and Permaculture Farm(www.quailsprings.org), a 450-acre arid land Permaculture demonstration and educational center located in the southern California mountains. His work experience includes nurturing both disadvantaged and privileged youth and adults in learning place based awareness and experiencing initiatory processes, and working toward knowing how “green” and “sustainability looks on the ground. He has worked extensively with many constituencies of youth and adults, including former child soldiers in West Africa.

Caitlin Bergman is certified as both a Soil Foodweb Advisor and a Permaculture Design Course Instructor. She received her degree in Botany from the University of Hawaii, along with numerous awards for her research involving forest restoration, soil seed bank analyses, and ethnobotanical surveys. Caitlin has more recently served as The Los Angeles Arboretum and Botanic Garden’s (www.arboretum.org) full-time permaculture curator and Lead Designer of SayPermaculture! (www.SayPermaculture.com ). She tutors various colleges, schools, and residences to educate students and homeowners about putting permaculture into action. Caitlin teaches Permaculture Design and consults and designs with both urban and broadacre holistic, regenerative systems with the company of which she is Co-Founder: SweetSoil (www.Sweet-Soil.com ). Caitlin’s teaching credits include Edible Forest Gardening, Lawn to Garden Conversions, Soil Microbiology, Water Harvesting, and Soil Building. She has studied closely with soil expert
Dr. Elaine Ingham (www.SoilFoodweb.com ) and Edible Forest Gardens Author, Dave Jacke (www.edibleforestgardens.com). She received her Keyline Design Certification with Darren Doherty (http://www.permaculture.biz ).

Adam Wolpert is co-director of the Intentional Communities Program at Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC) in the bay area. He has lectured on sustainable community and led painting workshops at many West Coast venues and his painting has been widely exhibited throughout California. Adam offers workshops on group process and organizational structure in OAEC trainings and courses. His work can be viewed at www.adamwolpert.com.

PREVIOUS ARBORETUM PDC GRADUATE TESTIMONIAL: “Not having a lot of extra income to spare, I was a bit concerned about the cost of the course. All of my worries vanished after the first session, never to return. This course is amazing! The amount of information covered is phenomenal. All of the guest speakers bring real world experience with their teachings. Caitlin and Dan bring a wealth of world class knowledge to this course as does every guest speaker. This course will change your life for the better. And allow you to do the same for others. I have enjoyed every minute of this course and would highly recommend it to anyone who is even thinking of taking it. I took this course because I wanted to learn more about homesteading, and retire. Now, I want to start a new business and help others to do the same. Taking this course was one of the best decisions of my adult life, period. Massively educational on an unbelievable scale, this course opened doors to worlds I never knew existed. I am so grateful to Caitlin, Dan, Dr. Ingham and all of the instructors for their time and commitment to the course and to the work in their lives. I would not hesitate for a moment to recommend this course to anyone. It should be taught in all of our schools. This PDC course is invaluable. Thank you, thank you, thank you.”
-B. Butterfield
FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT: www.SayPermaculture.com





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