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  • From: michaellockman@juno.com
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  • Cc: permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu, PermacultureUK@listbot.com, permaculture@envirolink.org, trees@telcomplus.net, maddy@permaculture.co.uk, permawest@olywa.net, perma@eepo.com.au, PDrylands@aol.com, pij@nor.com.au
  • Subject: Permaculture Skills Intensive
  • Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 10:43:28 -0700

1999 PERMACULTURE SKILLS INTENSIVE
An Ecological Design & Sustainable Living Apprenticeship
July 10 to August 6
Orcas Island, WA at the Bullock Brothers' Homestead
Visit www.sustainablelivingnews.com for a complete course outline.

Learn Sustainable Design & Living Skills at a Premier Permaculture Site!
Using examples on the Bullock Brothers' 17-year-old working permaculture
farm, participants will learn to apply ecological design, while living
it. This residential intensive will provide an opportunity to learn the
hands-on skills necessary to design & implement sustainable human
ecosystems.

What you can expect:
*Design Skills: Learn How to Read the Landscape,
Methodologies, Observation Skills, & Mapping
*Integrated Home Ecosystems: Strategies & Tools for Urban & Rural
Homesteads
*Food Forests & Orchards
Practical Skills Learned in the Bullocks' Gardens & Orchards: Including
Greenhouse Operation, Wildcrafting, & Bamboo
*Sustainable Living Skills: From Plant Propagation to Water Systems to
Simple Carpentry & Woodworking Skills
*Natural Building: Passive Solar House Design, Cob Construction,
Solar Electric Heating & Water Systems
*Wetland & Habitat Restoration: Hands-On in the 20-acre Bog & Wildlife
Preserve

About the Course:
The Bullocks', Michael Lockman & guest instructors combine their
various
skills in permaculture, urban sustainability, natural building, &
community development to create a wholistic approach to design.
The main purpose of the course is to teach principles & methodologies
of
permaculture (sustainable ecological design) so you can understand &
apply these methods & skills to your home property & local community.
Through hands-on learning, lecture, discussion, observation, and field
trips, participants will develop the practical skills and knowledge to
design & implement sustainable systems in harmony with the natural world.
Practical skills include: water systems, nursery work, orcharding,
pruning, greenhouse operation, tree planting, preparing garden beds,
thinning bamboo, wildcrafting, raising small animals, simple carpentry &
woodworking skills, wetland & habitat restoration, & building with cob.
Participants will learn propagation & grafting skills & receive
cuttings
to take with them.
Innovative methods of growing food, featuring the use of fruits, nuts,
vines, shrubs, herbs, & annual vegetables will be taught while working in
the gardens & orchards.
Solar electricity, passive solar house design, & sustainable economic
planning will be studied using examples on site.

About The Bullocks' Homestead:
For the past 16 years the Bullock brothers have been living with their
families on 10 acres on Orcas Island, Washington in the San Juan
archipelago.
Their homestead is a working example of sustainable design & living
with
food forests, greenhouses, passive-solar house construction, solar
electricity, appropriate technology, aquaculture & more.
By combining their love of travel & botany, the Bullocks' have
assembled
a collection of edible & useful plants that include species from Russia,
the Tropics, Mexico, & Japan.
This is a unique opportunity to study & live at one of the premier
permaculture sites in North America!

Certification:
This course will cover the Basic Permaculture Curriculum &
participants
will be certified as Permaculture Design Trainees, & after two years
experience will be eligible for a Diploma of Applied Permaculture Design.
Graduates are entitled to use the term "Permaculture" in pursuit of
livelihood & for educational purposes.

Course Site & Facilities:
10 glorious acres on beautiful Orcas Island. Facilities are rustic
(hot
shower, outhouse & outdoor kitchen) with limited indoor sleeping space
(plenty of tent space & room to park campers & trucks). There are limited
overnight accommodations available in the area, please contact us for
information.

Course Instructors:
Douglas, Joseph & Samuel Bullock, landscape, orchard & homestead
designers, nurserymen & world travelers with extensive experience in all
aspects of permaculture design & installation.
Michael Lockman, ecological designer, educator & editor with his own
design business. Publisher of the Sustainable Living News.

Guests Instructors:
John Valenzuela, horticulturist & teacher on the Big Island of Hawaii.
He specializes in home gardens, food forests, ethnobotany, & plant
propagation.
Simon Henderson, permaculture designer & educator since 1984. Author of
Raising the Dragon: Bamboo Agroforestry in Vietnam.
Emily Heindsmann, natural builder, & co-editor of the Sustainable Living
News.
Marna Hauk, natural builder & permaculture designer in Portland, OR.
Yuriko Bullock, chef, homesteader & gardener with her own restaurant.
Lonnie Gamble, president of Hydroelectric Power Development Co.,
specializing in wind, solar, thermal, biomass, & solar energy systems.
Toby Hemenway, Permaculture Writer & Soil Scientist in Oregon.

Fee: $1750
Includes Home Cooked Meals, Tent Space, Materials, Certification, &
Subscriptions to Sustainable Living News & The Permaculture Activist!
Limited Scholarships Available.

You may reserve your space with a $300 non-refundable deposit.

Make checks payable to: WE-Design, PO Box 45472, Seattle, WA 98145.
Email to michaellockman@juno.com with questions. Or call 206-567-5447.
Visit www.sustainablelivingnews.com for a complete course outline.



  • Permaculture Skills Intensive, michaellockman, 05/08/1999

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