PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE Always Coming Home: Skills for Transitional Times
with Siskiyou Permaculture main Instructor Tom Ward joined by Karen Taylor, Melanie Mindlin and guests
http://sites.google.com/a/mind.net/siskiyou-permaculture/courses-and-event s
Six Weekends
December 2010 - May 2011 Cost: $500 with early discount until November 1st
$600 after November 1st
certification by Cascadia Permaculture Institute
To register contact Melanie [email]sassetta@mind.net[/email], 541-482-7909
This course presents an array of solutions, tools & strategies for moving into a low carbon way of living sustainably on the only planet we have. We will learn to design home centered economies that support a community culture of life celebration. This is the full certificate course covering the permaculture curriculum set out by Bill Mollison, along with lots of local knowledge and applications. Participants will learn to apply regenerative permaculture principles and patterns to design an integrated homestead, energy and water systems, forestry and healthy communities. You will gather practical skills and learn about whole systems design principles for living in ecological balance with the earth.
Course Dates:
December 4-5, 2010
January 15-16, 2011
February 12-13, 2011
March 12-13, 2011
April 9-10, 2011
May 7-8, 2011
The course will be held at several different venues in the Ashland area. Exact location schedule TBA. We will arrange carpools to out of town locations. Does not include food and lodging. Contact us for more information if you are coming from out of town.
Tom Ward has taught dozens of permaculture design courses, adnvanced permaculture courses and teachers' training courses in Southern Oregon and Northern California over the last 25 years. He is a frequent guest instructor at PDC courses taught by Toby Hemenway, as well as other instructors in the Pacific Northwest. He is the author of
Greenward Ho! Herbal Home Remedies: An Ecological Approach to Sustainable Health. Tom is the main instructor for Siskiyou Permaculture, an organization offering permaculture courses, counseling and design services. He is an advisor on numerous local farms and has a social forestry project in the Little Applegate Valley where he is demonstrating natural building, fuel hazard materials utilization, multiple products woods-crafting, wildlife enhancement and desert forest water management.
