Keyline Design Course: 3-days near Portland, OR August 24-26

On August 24-26 (Friday-Sunday),

Nature's Permaculture will be hosting a 3-day Keyline Design course.

Teachers will be Owen Hablutzel from PRI USA and HMI, and myself Neil Bertrando from RT Permaculture.

Course topics will include:
-The Keyline Design system
-Scales of Permanence
-Whole Farm Planning
-The geographic and topographic basis of Keyline
-Keyline Pattern Cultivation and Yeomans' Plows
-Multifunction Tree Belts
-Farm Dam, Road, and Fence placement
-Perennial Polyculture pastures
-and more.

If you are interested in registering or for more info, please contact Mike Langevin at Nature's Permaculture mclangevin@gmail.com

More Details!

Article on Keyline Scale of Permanence and Yeomans' gargantuan impact on the development of Permaculture... with a free GRAPHIC and downloadable pdf versions for the Keyline Workshop, August 24-26... near Portland, OR.


Planning for Permanence with Yeomans' Keyline Scale

These images show a couple of examples of what this course offers...

Designing farm and ranch landscapes for optimising fertility is a job of integrating the water systems, and land components (topography, pastures, treed areas, fencing, roads, etc), and your grazing managment to work together. An example can be seen in the design map image. These synergies combine to produce increasing fertility in the land and improved bottom lines.

The plow photo is the Yeomans Keyline plow I use in New Mexico, where we have had much succesful soil building, water harvesting, erosion control, brush control and other beneficial outcomes. This approach has benefits for wetter and dryer portions of the Pacific Northwest and Cascadia region. The workshop will include a demostration using a Yeomans plow along with learning how to perform Keyline Pattern cultivation with this non-inversion tillage instrument.

See you there!

Here's a more detailed description of the class.

some photos of keyline in action and design templates

For a photo gallery of the effects of Keyline pattern cultivation, check out the Circle R Ranch run by Chris Gill in West Texas. N. American Dryland example. He has treated several hundred acres this way...maybe over 1000.

photos from 2010
http://circleranchtx.com/circle-ranch-keyline-contrast-photos-9410

JUST TWO DAYS LEFT FOR 'EARLY-BIRD' DISCOUNT!

AUGUST 11 IS THE LAST DAY TO SAVE $50 BUCKS ON THE COURSE... $325.-

AFTER AUGUST 11 THE REGULAR PRICE IS $375.- FOR THE 3 DAY WORKSHOP!

SIGN UP SOON FOLKS!

CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU THERE!

If you want to register quickly on the web visit http://tanyahuertas.wufoo.com/forms/keyline-design-for-whole-farm-fertility/