permaculture

[Cory Brennan <cory8570@yahoo.com>]

Several apprentices have arrived at the Oglala-Lakota Cultural and Economic 
Revitalization Initiative at Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, and a 
number more are scheduled to arrive in the next three weeks. We're getting 
some good projects done and would love to have more help! We have apprentices 
coming from all corners of the US - Florida, Washington State, SF, New York, 
Texas, etc.

The kitchen garden, with a medicine wheel in the middle and three sisters 
guild (soon to be four sisters), is producing abundant food, and the ranch 
now has a milking goat. We're finishing up the infrastructure for students 
and apprentices and working out details on the straw bale building, keyline 
plow and other major projects. 

We've rescheduled the Keyline Design course (a technique which regenerates 
and rebuilds depleted soils and holds and controls water on the land) to 
occur right after the Permaculture Design Course at Pine Ridge reservation, 
South Dakota - from Aug 31-Sept 2. That way, Haitians and other students who 
are interested can attend both courses. We plan to do some keyline work 
directly after the course. If you know of farmers/ranchers/agroforesters or 
permaculturists who are interested in learning this important skill, please 
let them know about this unique opportunity. We want to train Lakota and 
launch a major keyline project on the rez this year if at all possible. 
Instructor is Warren Brush of Quail Springs (quailsprings.org), who started 
the process of keyline design last year that inspired the OLCERI group to 
plan major broadscale rehabilitation. 

http://www.permacultureguild.us/keyline-design-course/

The Straw Bale building course is scheduled to go forward as planned, from 30 
July to 1 Aug and apprenticeship follows - we want to complete putting up the 
walls before the permaculture course. 

http://www.permacultureguild.us/category/courses/permaculture-certification-pineridge-2010/pr-strawbale/

We have extended the Early Bird rate for the Permaculture Design Course and 
Straw Bale building course to 18 July! We would like to get early enrollment 
so we can put all of our attention on completing the ongoing projects at the 
site. 

We still have apprenticeship positions open and much to accomplish this 
summer, including projects with wind power, food forestry, straw bale 
building, food storage, greenhouses and more, so we welcome your help - for 
more info see:

http://www.permacultureguild.us/category/courses/permaculture-certification-pineridge-2010/apprenticeships/

We will reschedule the Keyline/Holistic Management course with Abe Collins 
and Kurt Gadzia to occur in spring of next year.

See you at the rez! 

Mitakuye Oyasin!

Cory Brennan
cory@permacultureguild.us