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  • From: christopher nesbitt <christopher.nesbitt@mmrfbz.org>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Upcoming PDC in Belize
  • Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:25:58 -0600

Permaculture Design Course,

February 20th through March 2nd, 2012
Place: Maya Mountain Research Farm
San Pedro Columbia, BELIZE

Instructors:
Albert Bates, Andrew Leslie Phillips, Ciff Davis, Christopher Nesbitt & local
guest instructors.
Cost:USD1250/Belize$2500 includes organic farm fresh meals, all course
materials and expeditions, comfortable accommodation in the farm, and a
certificate or Permaculture Design upon completion of the course.
For Details, or to register, please see http://www.mmrfbz.org or contact
Christopher at info(a)mmrfbz.org.

Through lecture, discussion, small groups, site visits and hands on
experience, participants will gain the tools to create sustainable,
ecologically based homes, farms, businesses and communities.

Tucked into the foothills of the Maya Mountains, two miles up river from the
village of San Pedro Columbia in southern Belize, Maya Mountain Research Farm
is a working demonstration farm and registered NGO that promotes sustainable
agriculture, appropriate technology and food security using permaculture
principles and applied biodiversity. With over 20 years of organic management
and conversion from an abandoned cattle and citrus farm to a polyculture,
MMRF is one of Central Americas oldest permaculture farms.

A scholarship for this Permaculture Design Course is being offered by Maya
Mountain Research Farm in memory of Anne Bulford. Anne Bulford graduated from
Antioch College, was active in organic agriculture in Ohio, working at Ohio
Ecological Food and Farming Association, and died in November, 2008 of
cancer. She has two boys, Peter and Skyler, who live with Annes mother,
Sally. Applicants must be Belizean or Guatemalan, working in agriculture in
the communities adjacent to the Maya Mountains in Belize, or in Izabel or
Peten Department of Guatemala, and a farmer or community leader. To apply,
please contact Christopher Nesbitt at christopher.nesbitt@mmrfbz.org with a
description of the work you are doing, and a resume or CV and explain why you
would like to participate in this course.


Teachers:

Albert Bates is a former lawyer, paramedic, graphic artist and author of
eleven books on energy, environment and law, and produced two films on
ecovillages. He is the founder of the Ecovillage Network of the Americas and
was active in the creation of the Global Ecovillage Network. He has lectured
and universities and government agencies and worked on natural buildings,
village infrastructure, and permaculture landscapes on 6 continents. He has
been teaching permaculture design courses since 1994.

Andrew Leslie Phillips A native of Australia, Andrew studied permaculture
with Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton, He convenes and teaches permaculture in
the north-eastern U.S. He is founder of Hancock Permaculture Center and
consults through his consulting organization: Permaculture Design Solutions

Cliff Davis is a permaculture designer based in the Cumberland region of
Tennessee. He is currently co-director of Spiral Ridge Permaculture Gardens,
an off grid permaculture homestead/design firm that includes extensive swale
systems, terraces and ponds, edible forest gardens, year round food
production, a useful plants nursery, bamboo agroforestry, diverse animal
systems, aquaculture, worm compost, natural building, top bar hive
beekeeping, family and fun.

Christopher Nesbitt
Christopher has lived and studied agriculture in Belize since the mid 1980s.
He worked for Green & Blacks, an organic chocolate company, from 1997 to 2004
on issues related to organic certification, Fairtrade certification and
extension. He was a founding member of Belize Organic Producers Association,
and has worked as a consultant for the Government of Belize’s Ministry of
Health, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries Department. He installs
photovoltaic and photovoltaic/wind hybrid systems in protected areas,
photovoltaic water pumps, and teaches agroforestry.


Group discount available.


_____________________________
Christopher Nesbitt

Maya Mountain Research Farm
San Pedro Columbia, Toledo
PO 153 Punta Gorda Town, Toledo
BELIZE,
Central America

www.mmrfbz.org






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