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[Michael Burns <michael@fingerlakespermaculture.org>]

DARREN DOHERTY IN THE FINGER LAKES REGION OF NEW YORK STATE

“Keyline Design & Practices, A Pasture Walk with Darren Doherty”,
sponsored in part with the co-operation of the Yeomans Plow Company, AU.
and A.H. Tuttle and Company.

www.permaculture.biz.au announces the opportunity to attend both a 2007
Pasture Walk –and- 2-Day condensed Keyline Design Course with Darren
Doherty.

Please find attached a web link to the photo album for our recent 6-day
Keyline Design Course held in Brihuega Spain. The address is:
http://picasaweb.google.com.au/permaculture.biz/KeylineDesignCourseSpain

And another installment of photos from the Keyline Course the Santa
Barbara Permaculture Network staged in Goleta is now online and ready
for viewing: Address is :
http://picasaweb.google.com.au/permaculture.biz/ 
KeylineDesignCourseGoletaCalifornia

And please find following the link to our new PhotoLog:
http://picasaweb.google.com.au/permaculture.biz

Darren Doherty website: http://www.permaculture.biz/


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

A PASTURE WALK with Darren Doherty

Friday September 14th

11:00am – 3:00pm
with Darren Doherty and Keith Ryan
Simple Buffalo meat Lunch at noon

Charge – No charge
The pasture walk will be held at the grazing farm of Oliver and Andrea
Scott, Wideside Farms LLC,
8675 Taft Road, Bloomfield, NY. 14469; (One mile South of State Rt. 5 &
20 ; One mile South on Conn Road to Taft; watch for signs)


**PRE-REGISTER NOW!! For 2-day KEYLINE DESIGN COURSE**

KEYLINE DESIGN PRINCIPLES
Saturday September 15th, Sunday September 16th
9:00am - 5:00pm
with Darren Doherty
$250.00 plus $30 includes lunch each day

You are invited to join the ever growing list of participants to the
2007 world tour for the $250.00 2-day Fall return leg of the normally
$600.00 6-day course.
The 2-day New York KDC is targeted at farm land managers who have an
interest in applying Keyline Design techniques on their properties.

Topics will include:

* History of Keyline Design
* Scales of Permanence
* Keyline Design Applications
* Low Tech Cartography
* Low – Medium Tech Survey Equipment
* Site Analysis Techniques
* Broadacre Soil Improvement Techniques
* Keyline Soil Renovation & Pattern Cultivation
* Keyline/Water Harvesting Earthworks Design & Construction

Session Times Saturday and Sunday
A - 0900 - 1030
Break - 1030 - 1100
B - 1100 - 1230
Lunch - 1230 - 1330
C - 1330 - 1500
Break - 1500 – 1530
D 1530 - 1700

Keyline Design Course lecture to be given at the Community College of
the Finger Lakes Campus Lecture Hall. Located at 4355 Lakeshore Drive,
Canandaigua, NY. 14424

Pre-register by September 11th. For a registration form and further
information contact Royal A. Purdy at (315)-986-7007


DESCRIPTION
“Keyline” is a set of principles, techniques and systems, which form the
logical basis for a plan for the sustainable development of rural and
urban landscapes. The application of Keyline Design presents a great
departure from mere “Soil Conservation” as practiced by so many. The
application of Keyline Pattern Plowing for example is designed to not be
satisfied with Soil Conservation but with “Soil Creation”.

One of the primary objectives of Keyline planning is to enhance the
swift development of deep biologically fertile soil – living soil. This
is achieved through systematically designed farm-scapes. Developing and
deepening the soils biological fertility will rebuild the soil
structure, reduce run-off and increase the ‘field capacity” of the land.
The land will more readily distribute, absorb and hold more water. It is
designed to create extra humus and depth of soil to prevent the leaching
of nutrients.

GOALS OF THE COURSE
This event will have condensed versions of the same content as the
six-day Keyline coarse involving broadacre applications to pasture,
vineyards and croplands.

INSTRUCTOR
The principal of Australia Felix Permaculture since 1993, Darren Doherty
has had extensive experience across the planet in Permaculture project
design, development & management, with a focus on retrofitting broadacre
agricultural systems and farms, and has been identified as a pioneer in
this important and often overlooked field. He is a qualified Whole Farm
Planner (University of Melbourne), and an Approved Keyline Design
Consultant.

Darren Doherty is an Australian Keyline Designer, Developer & Manager
and Australian Approved Keyline Design™ Farm Planning Consultant, and  
recipient of
Whole Farm Planning Certificate ~ Train the Trainer (University of
Melbourne 1995). He has designed and developed over 1100 properties
across four continents working most recently in Vietnam, on land
projects for Mars Inc, owners of Seeds of Change. His remaining time is
spent managing a working research & demonstration farm in Southern
Victoria, Australia.

You can also view an online film footage of Darren using the Keyline
plow and technique by searching either “You Tube” or “Goggle Videos”
using the keywords “Yeomans Keyline Plow”. Description: Darren Doherty
of Australia Felix Permaculture ( www.permaculture.biz) describes in
detail the Yeomans Keyline Plow plus a range of innovative attachments,
to a group of farmers, ranchers and people from the Gaviota CA (USA)
region of CA.

Darren Doherty website: http://www.permaculture.biz/

To view more information on “Keyline” practice concepts please visit:
“Keyline Design ” ™ website of Ken Yeomans:
http://www.keyline.com.au/ad1ans.htm

To view more information on the “Yeomans Plow Company” and their
versatile minimally invasive plow please visit the Yeomans Plow Company
website:

http://www.yeomansplow.com.au/yeomans-plows.htm

FOR MORE INFORMATION on Elysian ©, Sustainable High Tensile, and / or
Yeomans Keyline Plow Co. info. and sales, contact Dealer - Royal A.
Purdy at  (315)-986-7007

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