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 I think this is a fair question:  what do your students do with the
"Permaculture Designer Certification"?  Also, what are the requirements for
getting this Certification?

paul@largocreekfarms.com

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On 9/15/2004 at 10:48 PM McFarlandAIA@aol.com wrote:

>To all,
>
>It is in Austin that the Permaculture Designer Certification series is
>being 
>currently offered on the weekends. There are also some weekend classes I
>have 
>seen listed in Northern California. In the classes I took about 5 years
>ago, 
>the Permaculture Guild of Houston offered the class in 10 Saturdays over
>10 
>months at a rural location - Animal Farm. We had hands-on experience, but
>little 
>real powerpoint (slides) with handouts that we have now. We found that the

>Saturday courses were hard for people to commit to, so we switched to 2 
>Wednesdays a month and kept the prices really low because Urban Harvest
>umbrellaed us 
>into their hierarchy, the teachers were many and could teach after their
>day 
>job and we intentionally wanted to keep the classes affordable. We feel
>that we 
>are an urban area with specific urban problems and the classes are
>oriented 
>towards urban solutions. We have been very fortunate to find a vast
>untapped 
>reservoir of intentional students wanting this information and can share
>and 
>nurture Permaculture in an urban setting. Our prime goal is to grow the
>group 
>within Houston. We are not the best city for environmental sensitivities,
>but 
>teaching Permaculture will make a difference, one student at a time. We
>graduate 
>11 students this coming Sunday.
>
>If anyone is interested in how we made this transition from an
>in-residence 
>intensive class to a more fragmented allotment of core teaching modules
>which 
>can transfered to any available teacher (assuming you have many), please
>let me 
>know and I will share or post an article written by Dr. Bob Randall of
>Urban 
>Harvest about the evolution of our group and its teaching approach.
>
>Shawn McFarland, AIA, LEED
>Permaculture Guild of Houston
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