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Weekend Permaculture Design Certification 72 hour course – Weekends Jan – March 2012 $800-1000

2012:  January 14-16, 28, February 11-12, 19, 25, March 10-11, 24-25

This course is structured as one introductory weekend (Sat-Mon) followed by various weekend sessions, allowing full-time workers, students, and people with families more flexibility to participate.  The winter scheduling allows landscape professionals to participate in the off-season.  All classes will be held in Rochester, NY.  Sliding scale $800-1000.  Lunches are potluck.  Preregistration is required (see below).

 

PDC Description:  In our permaculture design certification courses, you will learn how to observe and use the same principles that make ecological systems self-sustaining and apply them to integrated homes and gardens. In addition, you will learn how to apply these principles to energy systems and water supplies, healthy communities, meaningful and fulfilling work, ecological economies, and global political movements for change.

 

Throughout it all, you’ll be engaged in learning and experiencing an empowering way of living in the world, surrounded and supported by like-minded people and instructors. Our goal is to make you a part of Rochester Permaculture Institute’s community, incorporating our seasonal activities into your permaculture experience as time permits. Activities may include spring and fall pruning, seed planting, plant propagation, bed preparation, compost pile making, water harvesting techniques, natural building, and other activities.

 

Each of our permaculture design certification courses includes the following:

 

■Permaculture principles and ethics

■Reading the landscape

■Pattern and pattern application

■Water harvesting

■Swale building

■Zone and sector analysis

■Climate and micro climate

■Mapping

■Waste composting and treatment

■Urban permaculture

■Land access

■Community building

■Plant guilds

 ■Forest gardening

■Aquaculture & Animals

■The design process, principles, strategies and techniques

■Soil building and sheet mulching

■Pond management and ecology

■Earthworks, green roofs, and natural building

■Grey water systems

■Bioremediation

■Renewable energy systems

■Forest management

■Watershed management

■Group work on a conceptual design project

■Individual work on a conceptual design project

 

This 72-hour permaculture design certificate course will give participants a comprehensive understanding of permaculture principles & ethics; design processes, methodologies & tools; and how they can be applied to create regenerative human systems including food, housing, personal relationships, communities, and economies.  Successful completion of this course will earn participants an internationally recognized Permaculture Design Certificate.

Registration:  Send a check payable to Rochester Permaculture Center, PO Box 18212, Rochester, NY 14618 along with (1) your name, (2) your mailing address, (3) your email address, and (4) phone number.  Additionally, please send a quick email to patty AT barefootpermaculture.com letting me know to expect you.  Must register and pay in full by December 31, 2012.  Refund Policy:  Cancellations up to 2 weeks before the course begins will be refunded, excluding a $100 processing fee.  No refunds are given after that date.

Warmly,

patty love, Owner

Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture

patty AT barefootpermaculture.com

www.barefootpermaculture.com

Program Director
Rochester Permaculture Center

www.rochesterpermacultureinstitute.org

patty AT barefootpermaculture.com

http://www.meetup.com/RochesterPermaculture/

585.506.6505

PO Box 18212

Rochester, NY 14618

My life's purpose is gathering and sharing resources and information that regenerate my own and others' abundant existence and vibrant well-being.

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