permaculture

[Living Mandala <livingmandala@livingmandala.com>]

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

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