Introduction to Permaculture Design

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:What is Permaculture?

Permaculture is the design of human habitats that have the stability, diversity, and resilience of natural ecosystems. Permaculture is about integrating housing with energy production, food production, rainwater harvesting, and more. Permaculture is about design, and it is a multidisciplinary design discipline. Permaculture includes renewable energy systems, energy efficiency, agriculture and food systems, natural building, rainwater harvesting, urban planning, and the economic, political, and social policy that make sustainable design possible and practical.

We developed this short course for those who just want an introduction to the field. Even in this short course, you will learn a lot about how to apply permaculture systems around your home from a dozen or so experts in each area of Permaculture. For more in depth study, see our two week Permaculture Design Certification course and our 10- week Big Green Summer intensive in sustainable systems design here\\.

For more discussion of what permaculture is, go here

INSTRUCTORS:

• Lonnie Gamble
• Grover Stock
• Brian Robbins
• and a dozen of the Big Green Summer teaching team

$180 (Students $120), meals and camping space included

Includes:

Lectures, hands-on projects, presentations, films, group discussions, networking, and tours of projects in the Fairfield area. We will cover Permaculture design theory & practice, natural building, forest gardening, perennial food systems, plant propagation, solar and wind power, efficient water & energy systems, fertility management – beneficial plants/healthy soils, and ecological systems as a model for human communities.

Course Tuition:

Carol Morehead
102 Full Moon Lane,
Fairfield,
IA.
52556

Questions?
641-472-4784
cmorehead55@hotmail.com

Facilities:

Hosted in facilities that are a lab for what you learn - built of local natural materials, powered by solar & wind energy, with harvested rain for water, and you are fed from own organic gardens.

Course Schedule (subject to changes and additions)

FRIDAY: Arrive, Artwalk or campfire and film

SATURDAY: Lectures and Farm Systems Tour

Our teaching staff will present short lectures on the major topics in Permaculture Design

• History, Overview
• Principles and Ethics
• Patterns in Nature
• Annual and perennial food systems, guilds, role of trees in energy, water, and nutrient cycling
• Design with Water
• Renewable Energy
• Natural Building
• Invisible structures - Business, economics, and public policy for sustainability

SATURDAY EVENING: Films, networking

SUNDAY:

Hands on extravaganza - All these hands-on workshops will be going on simultaneously

• Natural Building - building with straw, clay, stone, wood, earthbag, plasters, Japanese hand tools
  Brad Young, Duncan Macmaster
• Plant propagation, seed starting, and grafting
  Brian Robbins, Grover Stock, Sam James
• Renewable Energy - Solar and wind power, biodiesel, solar hot water
  Lonnie Gamble, Michael Havelka, Kevin Hopf, Julian Potter, Troy Van Beek
• Home and Market gardening - Biointensive, sheet mulching, CSA, composting, vermicomposting
  Alex Kachan, Stacy Maurer, Grover Stock
• Water Systems - Rain collection and storage, greywater, toilets
  Grover Stock, Lonnie Gamble, Brian Robbins, Hoshea Love

SUNDAY EVENING: Films and talent show

MONDAY: Tours of area sustainability projects, finish at lunch.

For more info contact:

Carol Morehead
641-472-4784
cmorehead55@hotmail.com

Lonnie Gamble
641-469-5240
lonniegamble@yahoo.com

CHECK OUT OUR 2 WEEK PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATION COURSE Here
WITH SPECIAL GUEST DOUGLAS BULLOCK
JUNE 1-16 2007

For more info contact:

Carol Morehead
641-472-4784
cmorehead55@hotmail.com

Lonnie Gamble
641-469-5240

Sponsored by Big Green Summer, Sustainable Living Coalition, and the Design Study Group