Portland, Oregon 4 Seasons Permaculture Design Certification Immersion program
January 15-September 23, 2010,
Friday with scheduled weekend overnights
Perhaps the first of it’s kind, the Trackers Permaculture Immersion is a 9-month, one day-a-week, urban-focused Permaculture Design Certification course with extensive hands-on training opportunities. Core curriculum will be taught by internationally sought-after permaculture educator Toby Hemenway (author Gaia’s Garden,
www.patternliteracy.com), Cascadian permaculture goddess Marisha Auerbach (
www.herbnwisdom.com), designer Leonard Barrett
(www.barrettecological.com), and several other local permaculture teachers. Guest lectures will be delivered by some of the regions most outstanding thinkers in ecological design and related fields. You become part of team, an emerging village exploring the restoration of the Earth and the reorganization of healthy communities and families. With some the best voices and leaders in the field of sustainability, our student directed learning environment shifts from simply a classroom setting to an entirely new way of collaborative project development and design. One that brings new life to communities, landscapes and cultural movements.
The Earth Village The Four Seasons Permaculture Design Certification is for people who need to get their Permaculture Design Certification and also wish to arrive at a richer experience and root in sustainability issues through long term study and team collaboration. Our facilitators and students tackle hard questions of sustainability and environmental stewardship side by side. This program is for the mature student looking to invest in relationships with local leaders and individuals creating change on the level of community organizing, social entrepreneurship and balanced action. Students must be willing to foster functional dialogue with local politicians, conservation activists, elders, park officials, neighborhood planners and government agencies. They also have to be ready to make the value of family and land paramount in their efforts of project design. This program is a think tank for sustainability and caretaking for the Earth and its people.
Learn more or register for the permaculture course at TrackersTEAMS Course curriculum includes... • Permaculture Design Certification
• A strong emphasis on strategies for urban permaculture
• Appropriate technology, natural building and design methodologies
• Intensive landscape and systems mapping with ecological systems awareness and interpretation
• Plant propagation, seed saving, grafting, budding and pruning
• Carrying communities and landscapes through crises, not fixing but featuring challenges
• Increasing both yield and bio-diversity, realigning our human needs with sustainability
• Diversity of natural and cultural communities, blurring the line between the two
• Wild edible and medicinal plants, a wild land garden as relationship and mutual support
• Oral tradition and storytelling, its value to culture development and familial care
• The born and adopted family as a core value of culture
• Key speakers and experts on topics of Traditional Ecological Knowledge
• Grandmas, Grandpas, Aunties and Uncles talk about tending to healthy communities and families
• Regenerative business models and strategies and local economics
• Basic tracking, nature awareness, and observation
• Permaculture principles and strategies, edible landscaping
• Design for urban revitalization
• Site analysis and documentation
• Design methodologies, co-housing
• Eco-villages and other collaborative living models
• Design for water, energy, and food systems
When January-Setember 2010
Where Portland, Oregon
Class takes place every Friday with holidays breaks. Class hours are 8am-4:30pm. A 1 week Nature of the Village is included at the beginning and end of summer (June 13-19, August 15-21) along with a weekend overnight at the Trackers Homestead at the beginning of each season.
Learn more or register for the permaculture course at TrackersTEAMS 
