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This year, we are starting the Community
Permaculture Education Activist Program. Through this program,
we will offer a Permaculture Course Subsidy for community
service and education in Permaculture. Prior to the 15-day
Permaculture Certification training course, students arrange
to teach one or a series of one-day introduction to Permaculture
Fundamentals classes after the course.
A typical charge
for this one-day course is $20-$50. In this way, when the
student cum teacher organizes 20-50 new people interested
in Permaculture, they will earn $1000 toward their course.
Once a student has earned at least $1000, the IIEA will subsidize
the remaining cost of the course.
To apply for this program, please email
info@permaculture.com
with a letter of introduction and a list of locations where
you are considering teaching. We will send you a packet of
information and discuss it with you in more detail.
Courses Currently
Being Offered
No courses are
currently being offered at this time.
Past Courses
Grass
Valley, California Course
Sunday, December 12th, 2004
Teacher: Nolita Matuschka
Grass
Valley, California Course
Sunday, October 24th, 2004
Teacher: Kathy Laible
Cantonment,
Florida Course
August 28th, 2004
Teacher: Cliff Davis
Introduction
to Permaculture
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| Nolita has studied science, ayurveda, health,
massage and consciousness. She currently lives in the
Grass Valley area. |
Date: Sunday, December 12, 2004
Location: Grass Valley, California
410 S. Church St, Grass Valley (St. Joseph's Cultural Center)
at Moving Ground Studio
Time: 10:30-5 with Indian lunch
Cost: $50 (includes Indian lunch) (sliding
scale for students, seniors etc.)
Course Teacher: Nolita Matuschka
Course Description:
Permaculture addresses humans' interactions with Earth, including
farming & gardening, animals landscape, weather, water,
fire, air, energy & alternative fuel, buildings, business,
legal structures, currency, social harmony and spirituality.
In this class, we will touch on many of these topics, showing
how they are connected and that by consciously designing systems
with careful attention to their relationships, we can begin
to heal our world/ourselves. The theory and practice of permaculture
works on all scales, from the family home to the community
and the world.
You will learn to:
• support yourself financially on small acreage.
• create efficiency through utilizing techniques presented.
• turn problems into solutions.
• discover how the "problems" on your landscape
are undiscovered resources.
• see the world differently.
Introduction
to Permaculture
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| Kathy is a full-time gardener and garden
designer in the Nevada City area. |
Date: Sunday, October 24, 2004
Location: Prospector's Nursery, 10003 Granholm,
Nevada City, California
Time: 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Cost: $50 includes vegetarian lunch
Course Teacher: Kathy Laible
Course Description: An introduction to the
principles of Permaculture with applications to the home landscape
and small-scale farming. Informal discussions of site evaluation,
planning and evolution for efficient and effective landscaping
based on the philosophy of caring for and working with the
land.
We will learn to see the resource cycles available in our
individual landscapes, and to look at how to integrate all
aspects, for a healthy system.
Topics will include water harvesting and irrigation methods;
planting for efficiency, all-season bounty, and pest management;
community agriculture; natural building techniques; and much
more.
Literature and reference materials will be available for local
resources, plus a video presentation of The Global Gardener
by B.C. Mollison and a slide presentation of alternative building
design.
Thanks to local growers, we will share a vegetarian lunch
to celebrate the bounty of the harvest.
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| Cliff with his wife and children. Cliff
attended FSU and now lives on 15 acres of land north of
Pensacola, Florida, in the small town of Cantonment. |
Introduction
to Permaculture
Date:
August 28th, 2004
Location:
Cantonment, Florida
Time:
9 A.M. - 3 P.M.
Cost:
$50.00 includes vegetarian lunch
Teacher:
Cliff Davis
Course
Description: The course will include videos on Ecological
Agriculture, Natural building and The Global Gardener by B.C.
Mollison. Plus, we will learn to understand our personal sites
as whole energy systems that can provide us with endless resources.
In addition we will apply what we have discussed on the land.
Sheet Mulching,
Swales, Water Harvesting, Grey Water, and much more will be
available for demonstration. The format of the course will
be based on the philosophy that we are all students, and we
are all teachers.
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