permaculture

[Living Mandala <livingmandala@livingmandala.com>]

Dear Friends of the Earth,

Check out this amazing course series and instructor line-up happening  
at the Farm at the end of August and September - beginning with  
Holistic Management.

Carbon Farming is a hot topic bringing together quite an all-star  
instruction team. The technologies being presented in this course  
could truly transform agriculture, land management, food production,  
and economic hardship while addressing climate change issues with real  
solutions at the same time.

-Living Mandala

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Holistic Management:

with Kirk Gadzia

August 25 – 30, 2009

Hosted by the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm, Summertown, TN

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Sept 23 – Oct 1, 2009

Hosted by the Regenerative Design Institute, Bolinas, CA


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DESCRIPTION


Holistic Resource Management offers land stewards a way to make  
grazing, land management and financial decisions that positively  
impact land health and productivity. At present, agriculture and many  
other businesses are struggling to maintain viabilty. Decreased income  
often leads to a focus on increased production and harder work.  
Presently, many people involved in agriculture do not realize they are  
working against "nature's rules" and that their efforts are likely to  
be unsuccessful until they learn to work with this process. In the  
end, nature always wins and our production systems must change to be  
sustainable. Too often, conventional agriculture focuses almost solely  
on achieving production goals and solving specific problems, which can  
create unforseen and unintended consequences that eventually detract  
from land health, personal and family time and, ultimately,  
profitability.

Holistic Resource Management brings the abundance and diversity of  
natural systems to large-scale permaculture systems. Managing land  
holistically integrates land planning, financial planning, grazing  
planning and biological monitoring to find ways of being efficient and  
creative with your resources to achieve the environmental and  
financial results that make for a sustainable, long-term business.  
Holistic management is effective because the resouce base ultimately  
supports the financial goals and those of the people involved who  
depend on the business for their livlihood. It teaches land stewards  
to define their unique whole, to define their unique holistic goal,  
and to make decisions that are economically, environmentally and  
socially sound towards that goal.



INSTRUCTOR BIO - KIRK GADZIA


Kirk Gadzia owns and operates Resource Management Services, LLC, a  
training and consulting firm located in Bernalillo, NM. Kirk has  
extensive international experience in consulting with many large  
ranching and agricultural operations throughout the United States and  
overseas. The focus of his work is a holistic approach to agriculture  
and life, whereby land, animals, crops, wildlife and other resources  
are planned into the operation and financial picture.  The model for  
making this work is mimicking natural systems and balancing life style  
with long and short term goal. Kirk also provides customized training  
and consulting to a wide variety of public and private business and  
conservation organizations. Kirk is co-author of the National Academy  
of Science 1994 publication entitled Rangeland Health, and is working  
to improve rangeland health monitoring techniques in a wide variety of  
environments.   Kirk has presented talks at the No-till on the Plains  
Annual Conference in 2003 and 2004, 11th AAPRESID Argentinean No-till  
Farmers Association Rosario, Argentina in 2003, and The South Dakota  
No-till Annual Conference in 2007.



Interview With Kirk Gadzia

Click here to listen to an Interview with Kirk Gadzia on Holistic  
Management on the Living Mandala Carbon Farming Series on TalkShoe Radio



EAST & WEST CARBON FARMING SERIES:

Hands-on Training for Ecological and Economic Resilience


http://LivingMandala.com/Living_Mandala/Carbon_Farming_Series_Bioregional_Congress.html



CARBON FARMING SERIES EAST

Broadacre Permaculture and Holistic Management for Carbon Negative  
Agriculture

Exploring Soil, Water, Carbon, Energy & the Economy

Darren Doherty - Elaine Ingham - Eric Toensmeier

Brad Lancaster - Kirk Gadzia - Joel Salatin

Hosted by the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm, Summertown, TN

August 25 – September 16, 2009

COURSE INFORMATION
Visit http://LivingMandala.com/Living_Mandala/Carbon_Farming_09.html  
for more information



CARBON FARMING SERIES WEST

Building Resiliency: Managing Land to Conserve Soil, Water, and Energy

Exploring Soil, Water, Carbon, Energy & the Economy

Darren Doherty - Kirk Gadzia - Terry Gompert - Elaine Ingham

Paul Taylor - Brad Lancaster - Brock Dolman - Penny Livingston - Joel  
Salatin

Hosted by the Regenerative Design Institute, Bolinas,CA

September 23 - October 29,  2009


COURSE INFORMATION
Visit http://www.regenerativedesign.org/courses-events/carbon-farming  
for more information

TOPICS COVERED
HOLISTIC DESIGN; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; WATER HARVESTING; IRRIGATION  
SYSTEMS; MYCOFILTRATION; MYCOREMEDIATION; ECOLOGICAL PEST MANAGEMENT;  
SOIL MICROBIAL ANALYSIS; DROUGHT-PROOFING; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT;  
INTEGRATED LIVESTOCK SYSTEMS; SOIL REHABILITATION; EROSION CONTROL;  
PRODUCTIVE WINDBREAKS; FIRE CONTROL; ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT MODELS;  
GIS/CAD DESIGN; ADVANCED PERMACULTURE DESIGN; KEYLINE DESIGN &  
IMPLEMENTATION; FOOD FOREST GARDENING; ECONOMIC LOCALIZATION

DESCRIPTION

The Carbon Farming Course Series will launch the nation’s first  
holistic curriculum for carbon negative agriculture, and will be the  
first event in a national campaign to spread this cutting edge  
curriculum throughout the United States. Taught by leading global  
experts in sustainable agriculture and carbon sequestration, this  
professional training course will encompass all of the design elements  
needed to create a carbon sequestering agricultural system—returning  
carbon to the soil while increasing food production.

The audience for the upcoming Holistic Carbon Farming Course Series  
will include farmers, permaculturists, biologists, policy makers,  
grounds keepers, land-owners etc. interested in regenerating thriving  
local ecosystems throughout the world.

These courses are in direct response to the current challenges  
experienced by producers & communities across the globe by a variety  
of climatic, agronomic & economic conditions. Studies have shown that  
permaculture-inspired soil building techniques lead to signficant  
carbon sequestration, while also increasing soil fertility and water  
retention. This course will provide participants with an opportunity  
to learn these techniques in order to create resilient, drought proof,  
soil-rich, carbon-negative agricultural systems that produce organic  
food as well as additional income through the international carbon  
market.


FORMAT

This course will be offered through four interrelated modules  
constituting the nation’s first holistic curriculum for carbon  
negative agriculture.  Participants can choose to attend the entire  
course, individual modules or combined selections. (Read more details  
online at http://LivingMandala.com/Living_Mandala/ 
Carbon_Farming_09.html )

Carbon Farming East
Module 1: Aug 25-30 - Holistic Management® Training with Kirk Gadzia

Holistic Management applies systems thinking approach to managing land  
resources that builds biodiversity, improves production, generates  
financial strength, and improves the quality of life for those who use  
it.  The whole system design integrates financial planing and land use  
to create profitable and sustainable agricultural systems.

Module 2: Sept 1-6 - Keyline Design with Darren Doherty

Keyline Design is a corner stone of landscape regeneration, soil  
building and water retention.  It is applicable in all climates and  
provides an holistic framework for integrating soil building, animal  
management and watershed health and agroforestry.


Module 3:  Sept 8-12 - Earthworks and Food Forestry with Brad  
Lancaster and Eric Toensmeier

This module focuses on landscape regeneration using permaculture  
design to hold water in the landscape, and create integrated  
ecosystems that provide food, fuel and fiber while increasing  
biodiversity and resilience.  Together, Earthworks and Food forestry  
provide key building blocks for local food and water security as well  
as climate change mitigation and carbon sequestration.

Module 4: Sept 13-16 - Soil Food Webs and Relocalization with Dr.  
Elaine Ingham, Soil Food Web Inc. and Joel Salatin

Improving soil health and community health go hand in hand to creating  
resilient local food systems that reinforce biodiversity.



Carbon Farming West
Module 1: Holistic Management: Sept 23 - Oct 1-  Instructors: Kirk  
Gadzia and Terry Gompert

Module 2: Soil Food Web Analysis, Technologies and Applications: Oct 3  
- 7 - Instructors: Elaine Ingham and Paul Taylor

Module 3: Broadacre Permaculture Design Course: Oct 9 - 21 -  
Instructors: Darren Doherty, Brad Lancaster, Brock Dolman & Penny  
Livingston-Stark

Module 4: Pathways to Relocalization: to be announced - Instructor:   
Joel Salatin

Module 5: Soil Building and Water Management Systems: November 1 - 3 -  
Instructors: Darren Doherty, Penny Livingston-Stark and Lisa Lurie


Becoming an Affiliate or Sponsor of the Carbon Farming Series

Start supporting sustainable progress today! Help us spread the good  
word about this course and others and earn cash. Affiliate marketing  
is a de-centralized and synergistic model in which affiliates help to  
spread the word in exchange for a referral fee or course discount.  
Referrals for each registration range from $50-$150/referral .

Contact: Outreach@LivingMandala.com to find out more about being a  
pollinator/sponsor for this and other related courses.


Mutual Benefits for Organizational Sponsors

Sponsors can have their logo displayed on the Living Mandala website  
and other Carbon Farming partners as well as in promotional materials  
regarding the series. Being a sponsor can include promoting the course  
with a live link on your organization's website, sending promotional  
emails about the course to related networks, or by donating resources  
to support the course such as scholarship money, food, tools, office  
supplies, etc.

For details about becoming an affiliate or sponsor e-mail: 
affiliates@livingmandala.com


MORE INFO

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