Come join us! This course takes place from February 2-16 at Project Bonafide
(www.projectbonafide.com). Project Bonafide is a 43-acre permaculture site
that has been in development for nearly a decade. It has become an important
center for education and community development. Infrastructure includes:
natural buildings, terraced and medicinal plant gardens, an extensive
nursery, fruit and nut orchards, food forests, native timber forestry,
timber bamboo plantings, drip-irrigation and ferrocement technologies,
renewable energy systems, and composting toilets. Outreach includes social
programs that provide educational opportunities based in ecological
agriculture, community reforestation efforts, local seed and plant
exchanges, a children's nutritional kitchen, and a new community center and
library that allows Bonafide to be an area for cultural exchange on the
island and beyond.
*Course Description:* In this hands-on, intensive course, participants will
use the 43-acre permaculture site of Project Bonafide as a living classroom
to explore the principles and ethics of permaculture. Specific topics
include:
-site analysis and design from the tropics to temperate regions
-landscape master planning and microclimate design
-pattern recognition and reading the landscape
-design for climate change
-regenerative land management
-water catchment, storage, filtration, and distribution
-biologically based treatment of grey and black water
-natural building techniques
-plant propagation and organic horticulture
-soil rehabilitation and fertility strategies
-myco-forestry
-orchard design and maintenance
-renewable energy
-local and regenerative economics
…and much, much more!
*Instructors:* Chris Shanks (USA), Kristofer Fallas (Costa Rica), Nevis
Ortiz Mairena (Nicaragua), Sylvia Lanuza (Nicaragua) and Jackie Pitts (USA)
*Course Fee:* $1250, includes housing and delicious meals
*Contact:* Jackie Pitts by email at jackie.pitts13@gmail.com
*Website*: *www.projectbonafide.com*
[permaculture] Nicaragua PDC: February 2010...Don't miss it!,
Jackie Pitts, 01/01/2010