Promotion - win a ticket to the 3-Day Keyline Design Course in Portland, Oregon

This week we are giving away a ticket to 3-day Keyline Design Course in Portland, Oregon with Neil Bertrando and Owen Hablutzel.

Paul recently made a podcast with Owen discussing their work in the Chihuahuan desert, utilizing keyline design in a very dry, cracked clay area.



Neil and Owen will be popping into the forum over the next few days answering questions and joining in discussions.

From now through til Friday, any posts in this forum, ie the permaculture forum, could be selected to win a ticket to the 3-day course. Full details are here.

To win, you must use a name that follows our naming policy and you must have your email set up in Paul's daily-ish email..

The winner will be notified by email and must respond within 24 hours with their snail mail address.





Here are some of the podcasts Paul has made with Owen and Neil.

Podcast 191 - Resilience Science, with Owen Hablutzel
Podcast 190 - Raise Cattle without Hay, with Owen Hablutzel
Podcast 185 - A Good Road, with Neil Bertrando. Part one, part two, part three and part four.
Podcast 172 -Hugelkulture and Reading the Land, with Neil Bertrando.
Podcast 171 - Sepp Holzer vist final notes, with Owen and John.
Podcast 168 - Keyline Systems part 2, with Owen Hablutzel and Neil Bertrando.
Podcast 167 - Sepp Holzer visit part 3, with Schneiders, Owen Hablutzel and Neil Bertrando.
Podcast 72 - Keyline Systems part 1, with Michael Pilarski (I know, not with Neil or Owen, but it goes with part 2...)


Posts in this thread won't count, but please feel free to say hi to Neil and Owen and make them feel at home!

HI Everyone,

I've attached a list of some references and resources, including links to PA Yeomans books and some recent videos by Andrew Millison, Tom Ward, and Don Tipping showcasing Keyline systems in the Western US.

If you have any favorite Keyline resources, please share them and I will update my references file.

Please visit our thread 3-Day Keyline Design Course in Portland, Oregon
for info on our course, photos, and other info. You can post questions or comments there too.

you can also visit http://naturespermaculture.org/

contact Mike Langevin to register.

Mike Langevin
Phone: (541) 550-8921
E-Mail: mclangevin [at] gmail [dot] com

cheers,
Neil

I've split a load of posts off to a new topic - posts in this thread don't count towards the promotion!

Paul and Owen have just released a new podcast - Greening the Sahara Desert

Here's the blurb...

"Paul Wheaton talks to Owen Hablutzel about greening the Sahara Desert. 90% of the challenge with permaculture projects is the social and political dynamics. Owen talks about keeping humans and the ecosystem from being worked with separately. Organic matter does last in the Sahara, because there’s 2 inches of rain on average per year. Thus any form of hugelkultur does help. Paul talks about using biochar in the tropics. Paul talks about the book, the Poisonwood Bible. They talk about a holistic management perspective. Paul and Owen describe the Saharan landscape. Paul talks about the Sahara’s potential to return to lush savannah and jungle. Owen talks about working with local social dynamics as they restore the landscape. Owen shares about the local people and their nomadic transhuman lifestyle. They talk about refugee camps, and wells and gardens there. Owen talks about the utilization of holistic management there. Owen plans to do some experimental projects with keyline there. Owen mentions the movie, The Man Who Stopped the Desert. They talk about salinity and rocks. Owen talks about being very adaptive, and listening to the people there. Paul suggests a wicking technique that might help desalinate the soil. Paul gets into zai techniques."

What I would give to go to a Keyline course!! We need that info so badly here in the Ozarks. Steep hills, lots of runoff and not enough rain. But, unfortunately, Oregon is too far to go for a course.....plane trip, not great for the environment. Nobody to mind the farm while I am away. I shall continue to flounder on my own and read everything available.

Gerald Griffin,
Your post was moved to a new topic.

I ran the app and it presented ten posts. I reviewed the posts and picked "the best". I then verified that that person was, indeed, signed up for the daily-ish email. So .... the winner is:


Brent Rogers




Congratulations Brent! I sent your name and email address to Owne and Neil. They should be making arrangments for you to get to the class.

Totally crazy!

I was just skimming through this post and there my name was in big, bold letters! I am very excited and very appreciative, thanks Paul!

Chris Vincent,
Your post was moved to a new topic.

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