permaculture

["J. Hobbs" <hobbsj@efn.org>]

Title: December PCDC, Oregon

13th Annual Permaculture Design Course at Lost Valley Educational  Center

December 1-12, 2003

in Dexter, Oregon

www.lostvalley.org

This intensive 2-week course brings together three of the leading

practitioners and teachers of permaculture in the US: Toby Hemenway, Jude

Hobbs, and Rick Valley. If you are seriously interested in permaculture,

this course is a great way to dive in.

In this course you will learn to weave ecologically sound design patterns that connect the earth, people, plants and animals. This intensive course, covering both the theory and practice of permaculture, will create in-depth learning that will give participants a  working knowledge of permaculture design and implementation. The course will include hands-on projects, lectures, discussions, slide shows, field  trips and design projects.

Topics will include:

        * Permaculture philosophy and methodology
       * Observation skills and site analysis
  * Natural cycles and pattern recognition

        * Ponds, swales and keyline systems
     * Soil building, erosion control
        * Animals and their place in the system
* Edible landscaping, organic gardening
* Integrated pest management

        * Agroforestry management and tree crops
        * Appropriate technology and housing
    * Energy conservation
   * Urban permaculture and village design

        * Community economics

        * And more

Certification: upon completion of the course, participants will be certified as Permaculture Design Trainees and entitled to use the term "Permaculture" in pursuit of a livelihood and for educational purposes.

Instructors:

Toby Hemenway is the author of "Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale

Permaculture" (http://www.patternliteracy.com) and associate editor of

Permaculture Activist. His writing has appeared in Whole Earth Review,

Natural Home, and other national magazines.

Jude Hobbs is a horticulturist, permaculture designer, and instructor.  Since 1982, Jude's landscape design business has provided environmental design solutions for urban and rural settings. She has written A Guide to Multi-Functional Hedgerows for Oregon State University Extension Service, and tends a forest garden in Eugene, Oregon. (cascadiapermaculture.com)

Rick Valley  has helped pioneer bamboo as a new crop in the Maritime Northwest for twenty years with his nursery Northern Groves.  He is particularly knowledgeable about wetlands restoration, underutilized plants, seed gathering, culinary herbs and fiber plants and working with design and construction of ponds and other earthworks.

Fee: $900-$1100 sliding scale (includes organic vegetarian meals and lodging).

 To register or for more info contact:

See our website http://www.lostvalley.org or call 541-937-3351 or write

Lost Valley Educational Center, 81868 Lost Valley Lane, Dexter, OR 97431

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