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• From: Joe Dalsin <joed@igc.apc.org>
• Subject: Permaculture Design Course CA
• Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 12:06:57 -0700 (PDT)

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PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSES WITH BILL MOLLISON AND SCOTT PITTMAN
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(Permaculture <-- Permanent AgriCulture / Permanent Culture)

The only classes with Bill Mollison in the Northern Hemisphere in 1997!

Bill Mollison has announced his retirement from teaching!
This may be your last chance to take a course
from the creator of Permaculture!

Southern California June 16-27, Near Santa Barbara
Northern California July 14-25, Near Half Moon Bay

This is a two week residential course with 72 hours of instruction.

What are some of the things you'll learn in this course?

How to:
- Turn deserts into prairies within a year or two.
- "Read the land" for it's potential.
- Design inexpensive, environmentally sound buildings and
incorporate them ecologically into the landscape.
- Find land to farm in your community for $1 per acre per year.
- More than double the yield from your rangeland while
increasing soil fertility & the health of your herds.
- Avoid disaster; fully and thoroughly check out a piece of
land, inventory it's resources and problems before buying it.
- Become an Ecological Land Developer and provide as many as
three middle class incomes per acre in land based, value
added, agricultural enterprises.
- Rehabilitate destroyed soils to support limited agriculture
in a few months.
- Assemble high yield food forests.
- Create Oases in drylands-Growing trees without irrigation
using only 6 inches of rainfall.
- Desalinate salted land

What's Special about these Courses?

Of course, any time Bill Mollison teaches, the course is special.

Other unique aspects are:

- Our strong international recruitment, you'll be learning
alongside colleagues from other countries.

- New material developed since the publication of Permaculture: A
Designers' Manual. For instance, detailed information on the
nuts and bolts of CSA farming, retirement crops, how to devise
your farm/organization's legal structure to avoid paying
unnecessary taxes, examples of making a living in ways that
don't cause you to compromise your ecological/social values,
and Mollison's "Next Phase of Permaculture"-designing whole,
"self-building" fully self-sustaining towns.

- Invaluable new written handouts, illustrations & resource lists.

- Food will be largely organic and purchased or donated directly
from the farmers who produce it!!!

- Special guest presentations in the evenings.

- Scholarships to encourage participation by people of diverse
cultural and economic backgrounds.

- "Trade show" day with suppliers and manufacturers of
appropriate tech products which may be relevant to your own projects.

- College credit, and PCA credits applied for.

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For more information check out the Web site at:
www.permaculture-institute.org

Or write Dave Blume at: dblume@permaculture-institute.org

Or write "real" mail to:

International Institute for Ecological Agriculture(IIEA)
PO Box 620930
Woodside, CA 94062-0930

Tel: 415-365-2993, Fax: 415-355-2241

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