permaculture

[Selwyn Polit <selwyn@austintx.com>]

For the Central Texas Area - free 1-2 hour intros to Permaculture in 
Austin, TX and 9-day Permaculture Fundamentals Course near Austin.  Please 
distribute widely to friends & family.  For a unique holiday gift maybe?

Selwyn


Introduction to Permaculture
Practical principles and tools for living in alignment with nature
by Dick Pierce and Selwyn Polit

Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable and ecologically 
sound ways to live our lives in harmony with nature. It covers a wide range 
of topics including edible landscapes, integrating animals, organic
growing, herb spirals, ponds, natural and green-building, maximizing food 
production with small scale intensive growing and designing 
self-maintaining landscapes.

Join us to learn more about Permaculture's practical principles and tools 
for living in alignment with nature and making a difference.

This 2 hours short course will be repeated on the following dates:
Tue Dec 2 6:30-8:30pm at American Youthworks 216 E. 4th  (betw Brazos & San
Jacinto)
Sat Dec 6 10:30-11:30am at The Natural Gardener 8648 Old Bee Caves Road
Tue Dec 16 6:30-8:30pm at Windsor Park Library 5833 Westminster Drive


These workshops are free and all are welcome. Please contact Selwyn Polit
Selwyn@austintx.com  512-926-7876 or Dick Pierce dpierce@ail.org 
512-236-6126 with questions.  More at www.AustinProgressiveCalendar.com 
(click on Permaculture)



Permaculture Fundamentals Class A 9-Day Fundamentals of Permaculture Course 
will be held near Austin, Texas,

March 26-April 4, 2004. Teacher Patricia Allison of Earthaven Ecovillage 
will lead the class. She will be assisted by Dick Pierce of Austin and a 
team of Permaculture teachers. The format is discussion and lecture with 
lots of
hands-on activities.

Permaculture is a Grassroots Movement teaching practical sustainability as 
well as an ethics based design system for effective landscaping and 
ultimately living well on our planet. Permaculture originated through the 
efforts of Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in the late 1970's.  The course 
includes ethics and principles, analysis and observation, water harvesting 
and use, basic design process, natural building, gardening, soil building, 
composting and much more.

Learn to heal the land and to use economic strategies for sustainable urban 
and rural lifestyles.  All organic delicious vegetarian & vegan food will 
be served.

Contact Selwyn Polit email: selwyn@austintx.com or 512-926-7876. On the web 
at http://www.austinprogressivecalendar.com/permaculture.htm

Not Sure? Check it out first. Free 2 hour 'Intro to Permaculture' sessions 
will be regularly scheduled throughout the Winter and Spring.  Attend an 
Intro session and get free introductory materials."





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Selwyn Polit
(512)926-7876
<mailto:selwyn@austintx.com>selwyn@austintx.com