permaculture

[Cory Brennan <cory8570@yahoo.com>]

There is a full line up of permaculture-related courses, apprenticeships and 
volunteer opportunities at Pine Ridge reservation this summer, starting 
mid-July. This reservation is the home of Wounded Knee and other well-known 
historic sites.

All courses are aligned with key projects that will complete steps to make a 
site on the rez fully self-reliant and resilient, as well as complete 
infrastructure for a permaculture/sustainability school on the site, do broad 
scale rehab of the prairie and consolidate a microlending/cooperative 
economics project.

This will create a great demonstration site as well as the energy to build 
more resilient sites quickly at Pine Ridge. All activities will be carried 
out in cultural context of the Lakota. Permaculture Guild is partnering with 
Oglala-Lakota Cultural and Economic Revitilization Initiative to exchange 
beneficial energies. Community leaders from Haiti will also be at Pine Ridge 
this summer to learn and exchange wisdom, bringing three of the four races 
together in cooperation.

Pine Ridge remains the poorest county in the US and The People suffer many 
hardships. This is an opportunity to contribute to the success and well-being 
of a nation that has long struggled.

We currently have an opportunity to access funding that may be used to 
rehabilitate hundreds or thousands of acres of degraded, eroded tribal 
prairie lands back to the fertile, highly diverse mature prairie ecosystems 
enjoyed by the Lakota 150 years ago.

We're holding a keyline design/holistic management course in July that will 
enable prairie rehabilitation to go forward. Do you want to learn how to 
reverse desertification by building soils fast and reviving water supply and 
moisture over thousands of acres while providing food for a tribe? This 
course demonstrates how!

We're offering a straw bale workshop from two of the top builders in the US 
and a project to build a classroom/workshop that will support these 
activities.

Our Permaculture Design Course in August will be taught by veteran 
permaculturist Warren Brush.

A food forest course will design and implement a food forest on the rez, 
taught by Marisha Aurbach and Cory Brennan. Learn how to create a dense, 
diverse, stable food supply that needs little care once established by 
mimicking the elements of a mature, stable forest system. 

Volunteers are needed now to help with logistics as there are many elements 
of coordination needed to pull off this ambitious project. Much of the work 
can be done remotely, wherever you are. We can do this with the right people 
- the elements are all aligning and it is time to do this.

Tent camping available - also tipis, geodomes and other housing on first 
register/first served basis. Participants will have opportunities to interact 
with life on the rez, and ceremony as appropriate.

Please see our web site for more info:
permacultureguild.us

Love and light,

Cory