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[Cory Brennan <cory8570@yahoo.com>]

Great stuff, mEIKAL, thanks. No rest and relaxation for me! Planting about 
1000 starts and cuttings for a nursery in Florida here, no frosts to put 
things to sleep..

Cory


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From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Kudzu bug threatens farms across U.S. South

Here's the online version of The Book of Kudzu, a great read with
endless recipes & ideas.

http://books.google.com/books?id=jSQzR6_h9yEC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false


~mIEKAL

Killer frost hitting tonight, finally I can see a bit of rest &
relaxation in the near future....

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Cory Brennan <cory8570@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Jenny's sig line clued me in - "Bugs, the OTHER white meat" lol.  And kudzu 
> is an edible green that can be prepared a number of ways. Kudzu potato 
> chips! Way crunchier than fried twinkies lol (never thought of frying 
> twinkies, lmao!)  It's also great fodder, nitro fixer, fiber, pollinator, 
> and about 20 other uses. Great permaculture plant. "use abundances to 
> remedy scarcities"  Someday, someone will figure out how to make a lot of 
> money on kudzu by harvesting it rather than spraying. 
> http://www.slashfood.com/2007/03/22/kudzu-destroyer-or-dinner/ (love that 
> car picture :-)
> http://www.maxshores.com/kudzu/
>
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Please forward, post and/or announce.

Elfin Permaculture Announces the 15th Annual Permaculture Design Course Online
http://www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org/onlinepdc.htm

Registration packet with 62 pages of info about the course -- 
http://www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org/preregistration.pdf

After a one-year sabbatical, Elfin Permaculture's Annual Permaculture Design 
Course Online resumes, beginning Jan. 9, 2012. The course benefits from 
experience gleaned during a decade and a half of Elfin Permaculture online 
courses, and about 30 years of permaculture teaching by the lead instructor, 
Dan Hemenway. 

The certificate course runs six months and includes the following learning 
approaches:

• Extensive reading in books, papers, both in print and on the course 
CD-ROM;

• 21 modules of at least one week, mainly presented on the CD, representing 
the formal presentations of course instructors;

•  At least four reports from each student, including a full permaculture 
design report[1];

•  Class discussion, via email, of readings and reports, as well as 
questions and issues raised by students or instructors;

•  The opportunity to participate in student study groups where interested 
students can pursue any agreed-upon topic for as long as they wish 
(independently of the course schedule); 

• Support for students by three instructors: Dan Hemenway, course designer 
leader; Cynthia Hemenway CNM, designer and discussion leader for a special 
week on Design for Health, and Robert Waldrop, founder of the Oklahoma Food 
Cooperative and leader of several online discussion groups, our course 
moderator and discussion leader. You may read further background of our 
instructors on our web site.  In practice, Robert will lead most discussion 
groups and review early design work and Dan will review more complete design 
drafts and provide deep backup throughout, as needed.  Cynthia focuses mainly 
on the Design for Health module and serves as further deep back up for Dan.

The online course consists of three consecutive sections, plus work on a 
permaculture design which students undertake throughout the cycle in which 
they are registered. Samples of student design work are included in the 
course CD. We offer several registration options to accommodate people in 
varied circumstances including a non-certificate track, certificate training 
in one six-month cycle, and a two year ‘deliberate track’ that enables a 
student to participate in two consecutive course cycles and take ample time 
to prepare the design report for certification. 

Registration is limited because of the time required to review and critique 
individual designs. (See below for registration limits.) Because students may 
enroll in a fast track or deliberate track, each with different design report 
deadlines, we can accommodate more students.

Content of the course sections:

    Section 1:  Introduction and Basic Principles
          a) World ecological problems and interrelationships.
          b)  Basics.Principles of natural design. Sustainability and 
appropriate scale as concepts and principles in permaculture.
          c)  Permaculture design concepts.
          d)  Classical landscapes.
          e)  Patterning, edges, edge effects.
          f)  The Permaculture Design Report.
           g)  Principles of transformation (Unique to Elfin Permaculture 
courses). Succession, logarithmic change, exponential change, chaos, 
modulation, etc.

    Section 2: Appropriate Technologies in Permaculture Design
          a)  Energy--solar, wind, hydro, biomass, etc.
          b)  Nutrient cycles (3 modules)--soil, microclimates, gardening 
methods, perennials, tree crops, food parks, composting toilets, livestock, 
"pest" management, food storage, seed saving, cultivated systems, forests,  
etc.
          c)   Water--impoundments, aquaculture, conservation, etc.
          d)   Shelter/buildings and access.
          e)   Design for Health.

    Section 3:  Social permaculture.  Design Report.
          a)  Design for catastrophe.
          b)  Urban permaculture.
          c)  Bioregionalism.
          d)  Alternative economics.
          e)  Village development.
          f)   Final design reports and critiques.
          g)  Final evaluation.

Online course participants have come from every inhabited continent and a 
number of island countries, from latitudes spanning the equatorial tropics to 
sub-arctic, and a comparable range of elevations, climates, etc. The course 
is suited to beginning permaculture design students, people seeking deep 
support in producing a permaculture design for their own homes, and, by 
special arrangement, people with some permaculture training and experience 
who wish to undertake advanced work[3]. Successful students receive 
certification as entry-level permaculturists. Advanced students pay no extra, 
but are expected to serve as additional resources to the beginning students.

To review information about the course methodology, content, certification 
requirements, tuition & fees, registration process, scholarship policies, 
reading list & cost, and assignment schedule, download the free course 
preregistration package from our web site, 
http://www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org/onlinepdc.htm  .


To download only the package without visiting our site, go to 
http://www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org/preregistration.pdf  .


Enrollment

Because we put many hours into reviewing drafts of each student design 
report, we limit enrollment of certificate students to five who report in the 
current year and five who report in the next course cycle. Up to ten 
additional students not submitting design reports may enroll. 

Enrollment has begun for Cycle 15. Late enrollments are accepted, but the 
late-enrolling student may have trouble keeping up.  To get the most from the 
course, register early, obtain the course reading package, and begin reading 
the assignments in advance.

Scholarships

We award scholarships mainly to students working in countries lacking 
reasonable access to US funds.  Scholarship students should show a strong 
potential and disposition to become organizers or teachers of permaculture in 
their home region. They must be truly unable to pay tuition. Full scholarship 
details may be downloaded from our website.  The course protocol includes 
basic scholarship information.  

We accept scholarship applications for one month only each year.  Previously 
this has been August.  Because we are moving the course calendar to begin 
around March or April, starting in Cycle 16, January[4] will be the only 
month when we accept scholarship applications. Applications sent at other 
times will not be considered, and will prejudice subsequent applications sent 
at the designated time, except in remarkable and extraordinary circumstances 
(which occurred once in 15 years.) 

Because of the workload added by each student, we almost invariably limit 
scholarships to one per cycle.  The scholarship for Cycle 15 has been awarded.

Monitors

Anyone can monitor the course (receive most course posts). Monitor tuition is 
free if s/he registers in the same envelope used to send the order for the 
course CD. (One can also monitor for a fee.) We also sometimes allow 
potential scholarship candidates to monitor using slightly a slightly older 
CD that has been returned by a student seeking an update or upgrade.  
Monitors receive a special Self-Study version of the CD in any case. Inquire. 

Course CD & Reading List

During our sabbatical, we conducted a comprehensive review of the course CD, 
with about 2-dozen major changes or new items, and hundreds (at least) 
updates, refinements, rewrites, etc. The course CD (all versions) 
nevertheless has remained at the same price for several years.   

The reading list and reading assignments (see Preregistration Package) have 
been revised reflect changes in availability of documents, newly published 
materials, etc.


ANNUAL LETTER – Barking Frogs Permaculture Center

All of the projects described in our 2010-2011 letter 
http://www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org/2011letter.htm continue at Barking 
Frogs Permaculture Center. Therefore we will tack changes to the course 
announcement, and avoid sending this to you separately.

About the only change in our programs has been an increase in emphasis on our 
green manure trials, which we have not previously mentioned in our annual 
newsletters. We have a number of legumes (Sesbania, crimson clover, cowpea, 
etc.) now established as encouraged nitrogen-fixing weeds in one or both of 
the main chinampas.  We are blessed with remarkably poor soil, which gives us 
an exceptional opportunity to prove-out various green manure plants, for 
which we have established trial areas and additional gardens. Crimson clover, 
cowpeas, and Mucuna (which does not self-sow in our climate) have proven 
themselves in the infertile-soil trial areas, and, after a slow start, we are 
having success this year with Crotolaria, planted this spring.  Non-legume 
green manures of value have in previous years included daikon radish and 
wheat, which grow best here in the coolest months, and castor bean for the 
warm seasons[5].  This year we began tests of promising warm season 
non-legume species: sorghum, Tithonia diversifolia, and T. rotundifolia, all 
fairly drought tolerant, very heat tolerant, and the latter also nutrient 
accumulators. (Tithonia spp. bring deep nutrients to the soil surface layers 
where most other plants have their feeder roots.  This is particularly 
helpful here, as several decades ago canals where dug across this area and 
infertile sand and marl spread over the rich, black, mucky marsh soils.) Next 
year we plant to combine sorghum with cowpeas, following this year’s 
Tithonia planting.

We will report these results in detail in a future edition of our Florida 
version of our Basic Gardening Data CD, which we released this year. (A 
Yankee Permaculture publication[6].) The basic CD includes databases and 
tables showing plant nutrient content of abut 400 materials commonly 
recovered or scrounged, tables of plant symptoms of soil nutrient deficiency, 
fertility and pH requirements of hundred of cultivated crops, etc.  The 
Florida edition also includes planting tables and other items of specific 
pertinence to Florida climate and soils.


Notes: 
[1] Designs for certification in this course should be for a single-unit 
residence on no more than 2 acres of land.  We strongly caution against 
designing for groups, businesses, etc. (e.g., a family CSA) in this 
entry-level course.
[2] Student design work can begins in Section I and continues throughout, 
with regularly scheduled design review and discussion modules.
[3] Advanced work should be negotiated with the instructor before registering.
[4] Beginning in Jan. 2013.
[5] While a minor contributor to warm season green manure, it is an important 
inhibitor of root knot nematodes.
[6] You may download the Yankee Permaculture publications list/order form at 
http://www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org/orderform.pdf

Dan Hemenway
permacltur@aol.com

www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org 


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