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  • From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] December 3-7 2014 Earthworks For Resiliency Land Restoration, Water Harvesting and Biological Stability Casitas Valley Farm, Carpinteria, California
  • Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 10:21:45 -0700

Earthworks For Resiliency

Land Restoration, Water Harvesting and Biological Stability

sign up at www.casitasvalley.com.

When: December 3-7, 2014
Where: Casitas Valley Farm, Carpinteria, California
Cost: $750 includes instruction, camping (if needed), and a catered lunch
each day

Worldwide, topsoil erosion averages 30 to 40 tons per hectare (2.5 acres) a
year or 30- to 40-times faster than the replacement rate of topsoil. The need
for people with hands- on skills in landscape restoration and
drought-proofing is growing daily around the world. Whether you are working
on your own landscape or as a consultant, this course will grow your skills
in the appropriate design and construction of structures that will reduce
erosion, increase biological productivity, harvest & store water, and create
resiliency in the ecologies that sustain us.

Join international teacher and broad acre consultant, Warren Brush of Quail
Springs Permaculture and Casitas Valley Farm, for this intensive five-day
learning journey where you will get the opportunity to experience broad acre
water harvesting surveying, design, and construction of well proven
Earth-Working Technologies for land restoration, drought-proofing, and
regenerative systems establishment.

The program offers an overview of:

o Ethics and principles of permaculture as applied to land restoration and
regenerative design

o Land component identification, natural patterning classification o Water
harvesting & drought-proofing methods, systems and

applications
o Earthworks & soil renovation techniques and machinery applications

The following systems will be explained and participants will be able to
assist in surveying, mapping and construction of:

o Swales
o Dams
o Hugelkultur
o Keyline plow
o Gabion systems

A major component of this course will be hands-on skill development in the
following where we will develop on-site earthworks with professional large
earthmoving equipment operators and their machines:

o Landform discovery and mapping o Use of survey equipment
o Soil testing
o Construction flagging

o Appropriate earthworks system application
o Working appropriately with equipment operators o Equipment overview and
application
o Large swale development and systems linking
o Hugelkultur and swale integration
o Dam development and partial construction
o Keyline plowing for broad acre application
o System planting and commissioning

To register for this course: ...

Casitas Valley Farm, developed with the founders of QUAIL SPRINGS
PERMACULTURE, is located just six miles from the Pacific Ocean near the small
town of Carpentaria, 8 miles south of Santa Barbara, California. On this
fifty acre working farm, we are working to be a regenerative example of land
stewardship combined with an economically viable broad acre farm that is
deeply involved in the local food movement and in the international
permaculture movement. Our farm has a multitude of enterprises including all
organic: 1600 avocado trees, 160 apple trees, 300 persimmon trees, a heritage
pig operation, free ranging chickens, and many other plantings, an organic
cheese creamery, a roadside farmstand, event venue and we host permaculture
and related programs year round.

Warren Brush is a mentor, storyteller, a certified Permaculture designer and
teacher, as well as a husband, a father and a grandfather. He has worked for
over 25 years in inspiring people of all ages to discover, nurture and
express their inherent gifts while living in a sustainable manner.
He is co-founder and a tender of Quail Springs Permaculture, Regenerative
Earth Enterprises, Sustainable Vocations, Wilderness Youth Project, Casitas
Valley Farm and Creamery and his Permaculture design company, True Nature
Design. He works extensively in Permaculture education and sustainable
systems design in North America, Africa, Middle East, Europe, and Australia.
He has devoted many years to mentoring youth and adults to inspire and equip
them to live in a sustainable manner with integrity and a hopeful outlook.
His mentoring includes working with those who are former child soldiers,
orphans, youth, young adults, families
and indigenous peoples worldwide. He teaches courses including: Permaculture
Design Certification, Permaculture for International Development,
Earthworking for Resiliency, Rainwater Harvesting Systems, Ferro-Cement Tank
Building, Spring Rejuvenation, Compost Toilet Systems, Water for Every Farm,
Drought Proofing, Ecological Restoration, Cultural Mentoring, Introduction to
Permaculture Systems, Food Forestry, and Origins Skills among other
offerings.


  • [permaculture] December 3-7 2014 Earthworks For Resiliency Land Restoration, Water Harvesting and Biological Stability Casitas Valley Farm, Carpinteria, California, Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, 10/05/2014

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