Permaculture Design Course
"E.Christopher Mare" <[email protected]>
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Check this out! This certified course is for anyone interested in sustainable systems design. This rare winter course offers an opportunity for farmers, restorationists, land managers, and people who have a hard time taking two weeks off during the growing season to get a full immersion in permaculture principles, practices, and methodologies. It'll be great..... EARTH-HEALING PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE February 7-21, 2004 Held at Sahale Retreat Center near Hood Canal, Western Washington. A two-week, certified Permaculture Design Course focused on Earth-Healing and Ecosystem Restoration. About this Course: Every permaculture course teaches how to design productive and beautiful yards, farms and properties. This course also has a major component on how to help restore degraded ecosystems in cities, agricultural areas, overgrazed, polluted, and disturbed environments. You will learn how to help enhance and speed up NatureÂs natural recovery processes. Healing the Earth is one of the most important tasks facing humanity in this century!! This Course will impart permaculture principles and methodologies which can be applied anywhere in the world. Through lecture, slide-shows, discussion, observation, field trips and hands-on activities, permaculture design students will develop the practical skills and knowledge necessary to design and implement sustainable systems that are in harmony with the natural world. We will cover hundreds of crops that can provide family needs or cash income. Medicinal herbs will be a major focus. Although this CourseÂs focus is on the Northwest, participants from other bioregions are welcome. Instructed by: Michael Pilarski  Friends of the Trees Society Marisha Auerbach  HerbÂn Wisdom Christopher Mare  Village Design Institute For further information contact: (360) 676-7704 ~ friendsofthetrees-/[email protected] ------------------------------------------------ To subscribe or unsubscribe to ecobalance go to: http://www.ecovillage.org/ecobalance ------------------------------------------------