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[permaculture] Permaculture Design Certification and Apprenticeship/July 15 to August 14, 2014 - 4 weeks Casitas Valley Farm and Creamery Carpinteria, California, USA
- From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>
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- Subject: [permaculture] Permaculture Design Certification and Apprenticeship/July 15 to August 14, 2014 - 4 weeks Casitas Valley Farm and Creamery Carpinteria, California, USA
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 00:12:18 -0700
Permaculture Design Certification and Apprenticeship
July 15 to August 14, 2014 - 4 weeks
A unique mentoring journey with Warren Brush at Casitas Valley Farm and
Creamery Carpinteria, California, USA
Cost: $2600
www.casitasvalley.com www.permaculturedesign.us ana@regenerativeearth.com
Join international educator and permaculture practitioner, Warren Brush, the
co-founder of Wilderness Youth Project, Quail Springs Permaculture,
Sustainable Vocations, Regenerative Earth, True Nature Design, Casitas Valley
Farm, and Casitas Valley Creamery, for an inspiring journey into the heart of
applied permaculture. This mentoring and hands-on experiential journey, with
a small number of students, will weave together a full Permaculture Design
Certification course (recognized by the international Permaculture Research
Institute), financial permaculture, nature awareness, and community and
cultural regeneration.
This learning journey will encompass the full curriculum of the
internationally recognized permaculture design course that is creatively
delivered through a mentoring journey with Warren and his family and friends,
storytelling, lectures, hands-on farm experience on a working farm, and
visiting other local permaculture and community sites of interest including
Quail Springs Permaculture. While residing on our family farm you will have
an opportunity to combine learning and working into a unique dynamic and
living classroom, gain valuable skills in permaculture farm planning and
implementation, earn your Permaculture Design Certification, grow in your
understanding of nature and be steeped in an exciting diverse business that
is showing how permaculture can be financially viable.
Casitas Valley Farm is located in a beautiful valley six miles from
Carpinteria, California (and the ocean at Rincon Point which is one of the
best surf spots on the south coast) and is just 16 miles south of Santa
Barbara, California. It is situated in a small inland valley 700 feet above
sea level and has sub-tropical growing conditions and is a borderline arid
landscape with just an average of 12 inches of rain per year. This family
friendly farm sits amidst oak groves, 1600 avocado trees, 160 apple trees,
300 persimmon trees, walnuts, blackberries, aloe vera, apuntia, ginger, fig,
citrus, along with many other plants and trees, heritage pigs, chickens,
goats, a roadside farm stand, and a legal, fully operational artisanal cheese
creamery.
Included in the cost of tuition is:
Camping in the shade of the persimmon orchard, basic healthy food staples,
course instruction, mentoring, experiential learning, a possibility to
creatively contribute to the farm vision, nurture and appreciation.
Living the Learning Journey
This four week intensive Permaculture Design Certification and
Apprenticeship will include:
Living the Learning Journey
I.
II.
The Beginning Place
Story, Community Dynamics, Surrender, Council
Introduction to Permaculture, its influences, history, principles, ethics and
issues
of energy and sustainability
Creative problem solving, individual learning styles, parallel thinking, and
group
dynamics
Ecological Literacy, Patterns and Processes for Sustainable Living
Basic earth sciences, patterns in nature, patterns in business, patterns in
community
Landform and landscape reading, water’s role in both landscape and political-
scapes.
Soil as a living system, business as a soil building enterprise, composting
and broad acre application
Global climate systems, climate weirding and its influence on health,
business and community stability, biomes, and microclimates
III. Sustainable Design, Productive Ecology and Healthy Economy
Design processes and methodologies applied to homes, farms, business and
conservation
Zone 1: appropriate technology, energy and resource efficient house design,
site planning, home-scale economics, micro-earthworks, garden design,
harvesting, adding value, long- term storage, seed saving, farm to table
pathways
Zone 2: Livestock, orchards, food forestry, beekeeping, export economics and
production and waste stream planning, community food stability
Zone 3: Main crops, windbreaks, long term financial viability, market
gardening, forage systems, aquaculture, broad scale earthworks, horizontal
and vertical farm planning, farm product sales strategies and
micro-farm-enterprises.
Zone 4: Tree crops, grazing and foraging systems, primary production and
value adding, community relationships and integration, integrated pest
management, sustainable vocations
Zone 5: Nature integration and stewardship, conservation, erosion mitigation,
wild harvesting, fire mitigation and planning, visioning
IV.Bioregional Stability, Social Ecology, Family, and Financial Modelling
Transition planning, community wealth, cultural regeneration, legal
structures, land access and community dynamics and projects
Financial permaculture, investment strategies, economic capital to natural
capital
C. International development for a sustainable world
V. Wrapping the Bundle
A. Creating peace, inherent gifts, envisioning, lighting the fire, and
“letting go of the
lamp-post”
Daily activities may include:
Solo sit spot routine
Shared meals
Farm chores
tending to animals
watering
harvesting
planting
saving the harvest
•
Work at the farm stand
Tend to orchards
Process farm products for sale
Cheesemaking
Contribute to a gratitude circle
Hands-On projects planned in our time together include:
Building a greywater system
Learn to make and market cheese in our artisanal creamery
A “cob” natural building project
Build a pig shelter
Compost and compost tea making
Build an egg mobile
Planting and tending various annuals, perennial shrubs, herbs and trees
Create a hugelkultur planting bed
Plant a food forest
Implement an earthworks
Make a top-bar bee hive
Make a compost toilet and “tippy tap”
Complete both a holistic and system design
Living the Learning Journey
We are looking for people with or willing to develop the following
characteristics:
Willingness to learn
Expresses positivity and gratitude
Desires community and mutual interdependence
Have a sense of self-worth
Interest in being an active vessel of culture
Willing to work within the ethics of permaculture
Love of nature
A joyous work ethic
Be truly helpful
Have an appreciation for family and friends
To apply for this Apprenticeship please email Ana Brush
ana@regenerativeearth.com for the application along with a letter of interest
or you may call her at 805-649-8179. She will send you a registration package
and explain how to become a part of this exciting learning journey.
Permaculture is a conscious integrated design system based on ecological
principles that create resource efficient and productive human environments.
Permaculture provides a framework for consciously designed landscapes that
mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature. These systems yield an
abundance of shelter, water, energy, and food for the provision of local
needs that provide diversity, stability, and resilience for local
populations.
- [permaculture] Permaculture Design Certification and Apprenticeship/July 15 to August 14, 2014 - 4 weeks Casitas Valley Farm and Creamery Carpinteria, California, USA, Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, 05/28/2014
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