permaculture

["Jasmine Miller" <jasmiller@lycos.com>]

I would like to do a permaculture course.  I've been doing as much as I can 
on my own from reading the books, but would like to get more in depth and 
also get to see more in progress examples.  I'd like to do one in more or 
less a similar climate to what we plan to live in.  So that would make Hawaii 
or a desert permaculture  course unlikely :-). Where we will be living is 
uncertain due to job changes, but we are aiming for temperate climates.  
Later, I'd like
to expand knowledge to be skilled at tropical and desert as well, but think I 
could do more if I focused on one type of area to start with.

From reading about the courses, the ones at Earthaven/Culture's Edge or 
Occidental Arts and Ecology look interesting.  The ones Toby Hemenway talks 
about doing sound interesting as well, but lately seem to have been scheduled 
for an alpine region.  Maybe there will be some different locations in the 
next months???

So if you have been part of any of these or any similar, I would like to know 
what you thought of the courses/locations/instructors/guest 
instructors/instructional materials or anything I should have asked but don't 
know enough to ask about :-).

Thanks!

Jasmine


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At 09:50 PM 5/29/01 -0400, Jasmine Miller wrote:

> >From reading about the courses, the ones at Earthaven/Culture's Edge or 
> Occidental Arts and Ecology look interesting.  The ones Toby Hemenway 
> talks about doing sound interesting as well, but lately seem to have been 
> scheduled for an alpine region.  Maybe there will be some different 
> locations in the next months???
>
>So if you have been part of any of these or any similar, I would like to 
>know what you thought of the courses/locations/instructors/guest 
>instructors/instructional materials or anything I should have asked but 
>don't know enough to ask about :-).


I took my design course at OAEC, what seems like a lifetime ago, but was 
only a few years.  The instructors (Brock & Penny) truly care about the 
material, about the class, about sharing with us a way of perception and 
thought, and about helping us to believe that we can do this world-healing 
work.  There was some focus on northern California ecosystems - which is 
what I wanted - but the principles are applicable worldwide, with the 
appropriate research.

The site is beautiful as well, an example of what organic gardening, 
sustainable technologies, and Permaculture thinking can create over 
time.  I can only hope that my own site will one day approach the richness 
of what I found (and continue to find) at OAEC.

Just my $0.02,

Loren

Loren Davidson        Permaculturist, philosopher, writer
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