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Practical Permaculture is dedicated to living sustainably with a lighter footprint on the earth. We use natural patterns to design easy to grow foodscapes and easy to live in homesteads and villages. Imagine drought proofing your property while increasing soil fertility.
What do you dream of creating?
We are offering the Permaculture Design Course in Fall 2008. See below for more information.
For a permaculture consultation or design service for your property, no matter how large or small, please call 530-478-1852. Or take one of our workshops to learn how to do it for your own property.
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For a list of subjects that we can teach at your event, please e-mail practicalpermaculture at gmail dot com. Want us to do a class in your location? Talk to us at 530-478-1852.
There is Hope. We are already creating a Sustainable Future.
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Cathe', Practical Permaculture
Practical Permaculture Design Course
Permaculture Design Certification FALL 2008
An innovative approach to the 13 day design certification course…
we will be conducting the course over 4 weekends, at four different locations. This is a huge
advantage to you, as you will learn to apply permaculture design in 4 different towns, from
zone 2 to zone 9, from sea level to 7,000
This design course will teach you the latest in permaculture design including:
| Sustainable Edible Landscapes | Water Harvesting | Food Forests | Small and Large Earthworks | Easy to Grow Strategies |
| Energy and Nutrient Cycling | Energy Proofing your Shelter | Urban Permaculture | Drought proofing your Property | Building Swales and Dams |
| Cooperative Economics | Food Security | Mapping and Design Projects | Community | And more … |
Instructors Cathe' Fish and Neil Bertrando are professional permaculture teachers and designers. They both just recently worked with international Master Permaculture Innovator Geoff Lawton of Australia.
This PDC will follow the complete course outline of founder Bill Mollison's Permaculture Institute, and upon graduation, you
will be issued a course graduation certificate from the Permaculture Institute.
Required text: Bill Mollison's Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual (available in local bookstores, Amazon.com, seedsofchange.com, local library, or call with questions for ordering)
| Fees: | COURSE FEE: $1400.00. A $250 deposit is required at the time of the booking to reserve a space. Balance is due at least one week prior to the course start date. Discounts: Course Fee includes Meals and Camping/Housing |
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Dates: |
October 18 and 19 in Truckee/Sierraville, CA Zone 2-3 (6000-7000’) November 1 and 2 in Reno, NV Zone 5 (4500’) November 22 and 23 in Nevada City, CA Zone 7 (2800’) December 13 and 14 in Chico area, CA Zone 9 (235’) |
| Location: | We will send you location info and what to bring once you register for the class. Ask us to connect you with other attendees for carpooling. |
| More Info: | Cathe' at Practical Permaculture 530-478-1852 |
| Email: | practicalpermaculture at gmail dot com |
The objective of the Permaculture grassroots international movement is to liberate people everywhere to provide for their family’s and their community’s needs for food, sustainable energy, suitable shelter, and well being without exploitation or pollution... from the smallest practical piece of land.
“You can fix all the world's problems, in a garden. . . You can solve all your pollution problems, and all your supply line needs in a garden. And most people today actually don't know that, and that makes most people very insecure.” -Geoff Lawton
From Permaculturist Scott Pitman:
"To my mind the very act of enrolling for a permaculture design course is one of the most political acts most people ever engage in.
The very act of reading "Permaculture - A Design Manual" is extremely radical and political as the information and realizations sink in of the ultimate outcome of following the permaculture path. The beauty of permaculture has always meant, to me, that I can travel all over the world, in some of the most brutal dictatorships, espousing a revolutionary system of design and I am considered harmless by the powers that be. That is an incredible advantage in a world that has become increasingly polarized by the paranoia of rampant capitalism and lack of ethical guidance.
Within the ethical guideposts of permaculture are contained all the political guidance one could need."
From Permaculture Founder Bill Mollison:
"This course has already changed a lot of the world - Come help us change the rest.”
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I can teach a class for you in your location if you can collect 20 people to sign up for the class, and find a place to have the class with yard or land for doing the hands-on work. I will make posters for you. For details, contact me. Cathe'
Example of a Weekend Workshop:
Intro to Practical Permaculture
Learn to use nature as your pattern for food production, housing, and community.
Discover solutions for your apartment, backyard or farm in the areas of:
| Edible Landscapes | Water Harvesting | Solar Kitchens & Solar Ovens | Seeds | Easy to Grow Strategies |
| Passive Solar Greenhouse | Useful Tools | Urban Permaculture | Green Buildings | Transportation |
| Local Financial Abundance | Food Preservation | Soil and Creek Restoration | Community | And more … |
This course will introduce you to the basic principles and applications of Permaculture through beautiful multi sensory presentations, hands-on projects and materials.
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Instructor:
Cathe' Fish (and friends)
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- Making seedballs for hard to plant areas
- Designing water storage in swales
- Using A Frame levels to determine contour lines
- Digging swales
- Innoculating covercrops and spreading them
- Sheet Mulching
- Growing mushrooms
- Fruit trees for small spaces
- Chickens and best feed practices
- Life in Cohousing Village
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| Sarah mixes seeds for the swale | Phil and others digging the swale |
| Fees: | Fee includes nutrient dense lunch both days Fee postmarked or Paypal by March 15: $150 Fee postmarked or Paypal by March 22: $165 Fee postmarked by March 27: $170 Fee walk in
on day of class: $180. |
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| Time: | Saturday March 29 2008 9am to 5pm Sunday March 30 2008 9am to 3pm or so |
| Location: | Nevada City Cohousing. We will send you location info and what to bring one week before the class. Out-of-towners : call or e-mail if you need suggestions for where to sleep. |
| More Info: | Cathe' at Practical Permaculture 530-478-1852 |
| Email: | practicalpermaculture at gmail dot com |
Testimonials "Excellent class! It is so useful to have this abundance of information synthesized by someone so knowledgeable. It has given me a starting point to tackling something that has seemed so overwhelming." "Terrific workshop. 12 out of 10." " Incredibly inspiring and informational. It was a ton of great information and very inspirational. The hands-on element really made it all come together. I'm excited to do more and be better prepared for the future - and more connected with others in the community," "I learned so many new things, such exciting and practical ideas for recovery of the old ways for a healthier earth and healthier people." "I enjoyed your workshop so much. It was such a nice combo of down home sustainable living ideas, and practical gardening tips, and so warm and wonderful with the addition of the food and ideas around that..and your personality. Very hopeful feeling, that this can still be done in our days, and how crucial it is, and that we can spread it more and more." |
"Great
experience! Non stop and high energy. All the info I hoped for and
so much more. Very well organized and held my attention at all times.
Very thorough coverage of the many connected aspects of Permaculture
and our place in the big picture - local and global. I am infinitely
more optimistic about the future." HG, architect
Port Angeles, WAContact Cathe' |
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