From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [permaculture] June 20 - July 3 Permaculture Design Course - Orella Ranch, Santa Barbara California, USA 2009
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:04:16 -0700
Permaculture Design Course - Orella Ranch, Santa Barbara California, USA
with Australian Permaculture Teacher Darren Doherty
June 20 - July 3 Cost $950
Location:Orella Ranch, Santa Barbara Ca
To Register:
Guner Tautrim 805.698.8823 or
<http://www.permaculture.biz>gunerandheidi@yahoo.com
Our interactive Permaculture Design Certificate
Course is designed to make you a more useful
person capable of designing and developing
sustainable systems anywhere in the world.
Our program is under continuous improvement and
is determined to put the design back into the
Permaculture Design Course, drawing on our broad
experience in the design & development of over
1300 projects on 5 continents in every climate.
Students will have the opportunity to complete a
minimum of 5 design projects throughout the
course which are developed & presented in groups
allowing for continuous feedback and improvement.
One thing that won't change however is our Day to
a Subject format, following the sequence of the
curriculum: 'Permaculture: A Designer's Manual'
(Bill Mollison, 1988, Tagari Publications)
Graduates of this 72 hour course will be awarded
The Permaculture Institute (Australia:Bill
Mollison) Permaculture Design Certificate.
Course Teachers for this PDC is Darren Doherty
(Registered Teacher #29 with The Permaculture
Institute) and has taught on over 30 PDC's (over
10 solo) across the world with renowned teachers
such as Bill Mollison, David Holmgren, Penny
Livingston-Stark, Robina McCurdy & the late Joe
Polaischer among many others.
Certificate Presentation
* History, Theory, Ethics, & Principles of permaculture
* Nature-friendly house placement and design
* Keyline Design, Holistic Management & Carbon Farming
* Energy conservation techniques for all climates
* Recycling and waste management
* Organic food production
* Water harvesting, Irrigation systems management
* Waste Water Treatment Systems
* Ecological pest control
* Drought-proofing
* Soil rehabilitation and erosion control
* Livestock systems
* Aquaculture
* Catastrophe preparedness and prevention
* Windbreaks and fire control
* Community Development
* Enterprise Development Models
* GIS/CAD Design, Project Costing & Management
Recommended Reading for the PDC is as follows:
'Permaculture: A Designer's Manual' (Bill Mollison, 1988, Tagari Publications)
'Holistic Management: Frameworks for Decision
Making' (Allan Savory, 1999, Island Press)
Pricing:$950
includes 93 hours of theory & practicum, meals and camping
PDC Certificate awarded upon completion
To Register:
Guner Tautrim 805.698.8823 or
<http://www.permaculture.biz>gunerandheidi@yahoo.com
Darren Doherty (Australia) www.permaculture.biz
is one of the world's most experienced
Permaculture Design professionals and Registered
PDC Teacher who has designed and developed over
1100 properties across 4 continents and has
taught many PDC's, including with both Bill
Mollison & David Holmgren (the co-originators of
Permaculture). Darren Doherty and David Holmgren
co-teach one Permaculture Design Course a year in
Darren's home town of Bendigo, Central Victoria,
which is the only PDC David teaches on these days.
Darren has been a full-time Permaculture Designer
since 1993 (at age 24) and focussed the first
half of his career on design and development
work, to the point where he became the most
prolific Permaculture Designer in Australia,
designing and developing over 1000 properties in
that period, with a large development and
management team backing his design efforts. With
the births of his two younger children, by 2002
Darren tailed off his emphasis in that regard and
is now working on selected "special projects" and
teaching about 5 PDC's per year.
Darren spends about 40% of his working time these
days in Viet Nam and managing the Viet Nam
projects (Permaculture development and education
projects for M&M's/Mars Inc. & ACDIVOCA) with the
remaining time spent managing a 60ha working
research & demonstration farm in Southern
Victoria, Australia plus a smattering of
broadacre design jobs here and there. He has
taught 14 full PDC courses , many Keyline Design
courses, as well as developed the working
prototype of the world's first Dojo
Ripper/Tiller/Mounder in association with the
Yeomans Plow .
[permaculture] June 20 - July 3 Permaculture Design Course - Orella Ranch, Santa Barbara California, USA 2009,
Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, 04/30/2009