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  • From: Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>
  • To: Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>
  • Subject: Culture's Edge Program for 2001
  • Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:20:25 -0500

Hi Y'all,
Enclosed is the Culture's Edge program of events for 2001. Please look
it over and, if you're feeling neighborly, forward it to your list of
friends and contacts. Thank you for your support.
Keith Johnson
Title: Untitled Document

Culture's Edge Calendar of Events for 2000

March 17-18 Sustainable Forestry - Earth-friendly alternatives to conventional forestry practices. Innovative forest management, directional felling, diverse forest products, and more. Hosted by the Earthaven Forestry Co-op. $125
April 21 The Kindest Cut: Tree Care, Pruning, and Grafting - Learn how to work with trees and shrubs to maintain health, direct growth, and increase quality and yield of flowers and fruit. Keith Johnson. $75
April 28-May 6 Mystic Road Meditation Camp - Based on the teachings of Osho, this 9-day meditation event involves sitting, moving, dancing, singing, crying, laughing - all the ways of Being the One. $375
May 19 The Power of Body Prayer - The most potent prayers come from deep within our bodies which, when activated by our spirits, have the capacity to generate expanded states of consciousness. Mia Beale. $60
May 26 The Magnification of Abundance: Plant Propagation Made Easier - Plants just wanna grow! Save money and learn ways to successfully encourage plants to multiply. Keith Johnson. $60
June 1-3 An Intentional Community Experience: Spend a day or weekend as a communtarian! Saturday, the Fellowship of Intentional Community offers workshops in all aspects of community life. Fri evening and Sunday, Earthaven members provide a deeper look into the dreams and realities of village life. Sat $75, Fri through Sunday $150
June 21-24 ADVANCED PERMACULTURE LANDSCAPE DESIGN- Learn real world skills from a master! Apply elegant traditional and contemporary design patterns and principles to an Earthaven village center site. Will Hooker. $125
June 29-July 2 Women's Work: Creating Sustainable Futures - Women sharing information, skills, experience, song, prayer, and dance. Introducing Permaculture as a tool for creating harmonious lives. Patricia Allison, Mollie Curry. $175
July 5-August 18 Permaculture Residency Program - Includes Fundamentals and Practicum Courses plus 4 weeks of hands on ecovillage activities and skill development. $2000 see below
July 6-14 Permaculture Fundamentals Course - Permaculture is about designing and living in a regenerative human culture. Learn principles, strategies and techniques for reinhabiting your world. $600 see below
July 21-22 Coming to Consensus - Learn to communicate and make decisions in ways that empower you to be an equal participant in the process . The cutting edge for effectiveness in business, civic groups, service organizations, activist, and other team venues. $175
July 28 Hands-on Herbal Medicine: Edible and Medicinal Plant Walk and Medicine Making - Learn to identify, harvest and use wild plants that have been food and medicine to generations of humans. Corrinna Wood of Red Moon Herbs. $60
August 2-5 8th Annual Permaculture Summer Gathering - Celebrate and Network with Permaculturists, organic growers, natural builders, and others. Workshops, projects, bonfires, music, and abundant great food! At Celo (NC) Community. $75
August 10-18 Permaculture Design Practicum - Part 2 of the Permaculture Design Course. Work in teams to design homesites and neighborhoods at Earthaven Ecovillage. $600 see below
September 1-2 Earth Skills - Experience the ways of our ancient ancestors as you learn and practice fire-making, cordage, rabbit stick/sling making, harvesting and cooking in a pit oven, shelter-building, and more. Taught by Summer Deal. $95
September 14-16 Intro to Natural Building: Materials, Methods, and Systems - Cob, strawbale, slipstraw, earthen plasters, and timber frame techniques being used in Earthaven's innovative buildings. Paul Caron, Mollie Curry, Chuck Marsh. $175
September 22-23 The Fine Art of Earth Plasters - Experience the grounding sensuousness of this earthy art. Practice preparing and applying earth plaster to interior and exterior walls. Mollie Curry, Chuck Marsh. $125
September 28 Nonviolent Communication - Ways to stay centered no matter who you're connected to or what you're talking about by disarming conflict and inviting cooperation. Diana Christian. $125
October 5-7 The Epic of Evolution: Learning the Great Story, Living the Great Work. Exploring the Universe Story and the role of humanity in the "Ecozoic" Era. Shawn Swartz, Steve Torma. Special invited guest Thomas Berry. $175
October 13Village Culture Celebration - Cocreate with us an honoring and celebration of the wisdom, costume, stories, music and cuisine of village peoples around the world. Sign up with your own ethnic treasures. $35
October 14 The Ecovillage Alternative - Spend an afternoon learning about the global ecovillage movement. Shortcuts to starting your own. Discussion, slides, video. $15

October 27 Mushroom Propagation for Food and Medicine - Focus is on home propagation of several varieties - shiitake, oyster, and more. Participants will take an inoculated log or bag of medium to grow at home. Keith Johnson $75

Permaculture Fundamentals July 6- 14, 2001
This is the basic course for understanding Permaculture Design. Learning format is multi-modal with a high teacher/student ratio. Practical exercises, demonstrations, audio-visuals, and discussion complement focused presentations. Forty-four hours of instruction covers:

Ethics and Principles
Observation, Pattern & Design
The Natural World: Climate Forest, Soils
The Cultivated Ecology: Gardens, Plants & Animals
The Home System: Building Design, Energy, Water & Waste
Developing Settlements: Land Use, Appropriate Technology, Economics & Finance, Urban Applications

8-Day Course Fee: $600-800 (camping, meals, materials, & tuition) Students receive a subscription to the Permaculture Activist. Contact: Culture's Edge, 1025 Camp Elliott Rd., Black Mountain, NC 28711, 828-669-3937, culturesedge@earthaven.org, http://earthaven.org

Village Design Practicum August 10 - 18, 2001
Combining the larger subjects of the permaculture curriculum with a focus on design of the Earthaven village landscape and culture, this course together with Fundamentals completes the requirements for the Permaculture Design Certificate. Presentations by experienced designers introduce mentored small group design projects. Students will develop skill in:

Mapping, Field Survey, and Drawing
Pattern Languages and Meta-Systems
Economic, Social, and Community Design
Broadscale Landscape: Agriculture, Wildlife, Earthworks, Restoration Forestry
Interview, Presentation, Project Management & Earning a Living

8-Day Course Fee: $600-800, sliding scale (camping, meals, materials, & tuition) Students receive a subscription to the Permaculture Activist. Contact: Culture's Edge, 1025 Camp Elliott Rd., Black Mountain, NC 28711, 828-669-3937, culturesedge@earthaven.org, http://earthaven.org
Permaculture Residency Program July 5 - August 18, 2001
For a limited number of mature individuals we offer a summer residency at Earthaven combining the two certificate courses above with four weeks of directed work projects applying design skills and techniques to community infrastructure. This is a unique opportunity to anchor learning with action for self-reliant living. Application with references is required by June 1st.

Work-Study Residency fee: $2000 (camping, meals, materials, & tuition) Students receive a subscription to the Permaculture Activist. Contact: Culture's Edge, 1025 Camp Elliott Rd., Black Mountain, NC 28711, 828-669-3937, culturesedge@earthaven.org, http://earthaven.org

Our Teaching Team and Our Community Make the Difference!
The most experienced permaculture teaching team in Eastern North America: Chuck Marsh, Peter Bane, Patricia Allison, Andrew Goodheart Brown, Keith Johnson, Mollie Curry, Paul Caron, Sudhangshu Swartz, and Arjuna daSilva bring together decades of experience at the forefront of cultural evolution. Pioneers in the new paradigm of holistic living, they are at home in America's first Permaculture Ecovillage, Earthaven:
http://earthaven.org

 




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