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  • From: Living Mandala <livingmandala@livingmandala.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] Keyline Design Course with Darren Doherty: September 1 - 6, 2009
  • Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:54:18 -1000

Dear Friends,

Check out this amazing course series and instructor line-up happening at the Farm in TN this next month and at RDI in CA in October.

Some scholarships and worktrade opportunities are still available for the course at the Farm in, TN.

Carbon Farming is a hot topic bringing together quite a team of all- star sustainability specialists. The techniques being taught in this series 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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Keyline Design Course

with Darren Doherty
September 1 - 6, 2009


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

Click Here for More Information.



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 - DARREN DOHERTY


Darren Doherty (Australia) is one of the world's most experienced Permaculture Design professionals and Registered PDC Teacher who has designed and developed over 1100 properties across 4 continents and has taught many PDC's, including with both Bill Mollison & David Holmgren (the co-originators of Permaculture). Darren Doherty and David Holmgren co-teach one Permaculture Design Course a year in Darren’s home town of Bendigo, Central Victoria, which is the only PDC David teaches on these days. Darren has been a full-time Permaculture Designer since 1993 (at age 24) and focussed the first half of his career on design and development work, to the point where he became the most prolific Permaculture Designer in Australia, designing and developing over 1000 properties in that period, with a large development and management team backing his design efforts. With the births of his two younger children, by 2002 Darren tailed off his emphasis in that regard and is now working on selected "special projects" and teaching about 5 PDC's per year.

Darren spends about 40% of his working time these days in Viet Nam and managing the Viet Nam projects (Permaculture development and education projects for M&M's/Mars Inc. & ACDIVOCA) with the remaining time spent managing a 60ha working research & demonstration farm in Southern Victoria, Australia plus a smattering of broadacre design jobs here and there. He has taught 14 full PDC courses , many Keyline Design courses, as well as developed the working prototype of the world’s first Dojo Ripper/Tiller/Mounder in association with the Yeomans Plow ™.




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

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


CARBON FARMING SERIES WEST


Broadacre Permaculture Design Course

with Darren Doherty, Brad Lancaster, Brock Dolman, Penny Livingston- Stark

October 9 - 21, 2009


Hosted by the Regenerative Design Institute, Bolinas, CA

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



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

Visit http://LivingMandala.com/Living_Mandala/Carbon_Farming_Series_Bioregional_Congress.html for more information
Check out our new blog at: http://carbonfarmingcourse.blogspot.com/
Join us on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php? sid=5ce2b36c9e05a9cd4b6df9b6ed4781a7&eid=84581496075&ref=search
Join us on WiserEarth at:
http://www.wiserearth.org/event/view/58fef6120823c3212465aa1d510be64d

Email: carbonfarming@LivingMandala.com






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