permaculture

[Marisha Auerbach <queenbee@herbnwisdom.com>]

*21st Annual Lost Valley Educational Center***

*Permaculture Design Course*
       *with Jude Hobbs, Rick Valley, & Marisha Auerbach*
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December 1 - 14, 2011

Near Eugene, OR


Permaculture offers a positive response to the uncertainties of the future. It
is a method of design that offers ways for you to create permanent culture
by conscious, sustainable use of resources in all aspects of living.

The time to plan for a resilient and prosperous future is now.


Course Topics Include:

* Permaculture Ethics & Principles

* Mapping & Design Exercises

* Natural Cycles & Pattern Recognition

* Observation & Site Analysis

* Garden Design & Establishment

* Useful Plants & Planting Strategies

* Water Harvesting, Management, & Conservation

* Soil Building & Ecology

* Animals in the System

* Forests, Agroforestry, & Tree Crops

* Eco-Building & Appropriate Technology

* Urban Permaculture & Village Design

* Cooperative Economics

*Instructors:*

*Jude Hobbs* has 30 years experience in the design & teaching fields,
utilizing whole systems design to generate environmentally sound solutions
that inspire sustainable actions. Jude shares her extensive practical
experience by teaching workshops & courses in the US & Canada. She has
developed curricula for diverse learning styles with techniques that are
inspiring & information rich.  Jude is a Field Director for the Permaculture
Institute (USA) and co-tends 7 acres in Cottage Grove, Oregon where there
are abundant micro-climate. www.cascadiapermacultrue.com

  *Rick Valley* is Lost Valley's land steward, and a licensed landscape
contractor, designer & nurseryman. He has consulted for communities such as
CoHo Cohousing in Corvallis, OR, and Linnea Farm in British Columbia. During
30 years of permaculture teaching & design experience, Rick has co-taught
the first design courses in Oregon, Canada, Belize, and Alaska. His favorite
parts of the permaculture whole are food forests and shaping earth to
enhance wetlands & store water. www.lostvalley.org

*Marisha Auerbach* has been actively teaching permaculture for the past 13
years with experience in both rural and urban areas. As a food security
activist, Marisha’s international permaculture work has taken her to Vietnam,
Nicaragua, and Haiti.  www.herbnwisdom.com <http://www.wildthymefarm.com/>



Cost: $1250 including accommodations and prepared organic meals.

To register, contact Marisha Auerbach (503) 464-5565 or
queenbee@herbnwisdom.com

Register now to reserve your space in this inspiring and informative course!

Lost Valley is an intentional community and nonprofit educational center,
dedicated to living, learning, and teaching sustainable, ecologically-based
culture in Dexter, OR. Our 87 acres in the foothills of the Cascades, 20
miles SE of Eugene, offer forests, a natural meadow, organic gardens, hiking
trails, a pond, and a creek.  www.lostvalley.org


-- 
Herb'n Wisdom
Queen Bee Flower Essences
www.herbnwisdom.com
www.wildthymefarm.com

"...the greatest change we need to make is from consumption to
production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of
us do this, there is enough for everyone.

Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on
the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food
and shelter." - Bill Mollison