PDC in Portland with Toby Hemenway

Permaculture Design Course: Six Weekends in Portland

Join us for six weekends of permaculture, a design approach that uses ecological principles to create sustainable human communities that are harmoniously woven into the environment and that have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. This certification course will give you holistic tools for food, water, and energy security; building social capital; developing a sustainable economy; and much more.

The lead instructor, Toby Hemenway, is the author of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, for the last six years the best-selling permaculture book in the world. Guests will include local experts and some of the best-known permaculture teachers in the country, such as Tom Ward and Larry Santoyo. The course is adapted to a wide variety of learning styles and is presented via lecture, images, video, group discussion, exercises, and design projects. Course graduates will receive a Permaculture Design Trainee Certificate from the Permaculture Institute (USA).

The cost is $850 for 12 full-day sessions, meeting at Portland State University on the third weekend of each month from May through October. To register, or for more information, contact Jenny Leis at patternliteracy@gmail.com or 503-548-8459.

A link to the course flyer is here: http://www.patternliteracy.com/Resources/PDXPDC%20S10.pdf
For an FAQ on the Permaculture Design Course, see http://www.patternliteracy.com/designcoursefaq.html

I posted this to my facebook group, we have a handful of portlander members who might be really interested.

Thanks, once again!

wow, would love to do this.
i'm in NY though. a stretched-out program like this wouldnt work out of state.

good luck!

Would love to be attending but alas, I live in Seattle and am in the Hort program at Lake Washington. Just a note, I introduced your book 'Gaia's Garden' to my instructor Don Marshall, told him it was my 'garden bible' (no, I do not worship him, just a great book) and my instructor read it and ordered it. He felt it was the best example of what he taught throughout the years and really enjoyed it.  Excellent.

Love the book!  Anna

Anna,

I'm also teaching a PDC in Seattle. It starts next weekend (May 9) at South Seattle Community College. Info is at
http://www.patternliteracy.com/Resources/SeaPDC%20S10.pdf
and you can contact Carrie Niskanen <carrieniskanen@seattletilth.org at Seattle Tilth for details.

On the chance that Toby is still reading this thread, and that he's mostly on the permaculture forum, I'm hoping he might take a quick look at the "Gardening West of the Cascades" thread on this Cascadia forum.  Some of us are struggling with the contradictions/challenges that Steve Solomon's work poses to permaculture on the West coast, and I'd love to hear Toby's thoughts...

Thanks!
Rosie

(hoping it's not too rude to hijack this thread briefly...)