I'm new to permaculture, Permies.com, and to Geoff Lawton's PDC, but I have been gardening (and eating, breathing, drinking, etc.) all my life and see the very disturbing shortcomings of both 'better-living-through-chemistry-' and corporate-farming. One of the aspects that made it acceptable for me to call in a debt to pay for this course is that Geoff has encouraged us to share the course with friends, neighbors, clubs, communities, etc., in order to get the word and knowledge to as many people as possible. One person (I) will receive the signed certificate, and I will have to complete a design, submitting it within a month of course completion. If any other friends, SE Wisconsin Master Gardener Volunteers, or any of you who live near enough to Milwaukee want to join me, please, PLEASE feel free to let me know - and I will happily share both access to course information and materials, as well as my enthusiastic conviction that this is the right thing to do (and I will run my design project past you, too, if you like).
The Introduction section has only piqued my fascination, imagination, enthusiasm, and my deep admiration for the high quality of the presentation. If this is the sign of things to come, as far as online classes are concerned, then the bar has indeed been set high! Come on - please help create that face-to-face discussion-group!
Thanks, Paul - without your daily-ish email, I never would have known about this! (I really want to drive that digger in Montana!)
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. -Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)