Robin Liepman

Join Us for Our 2021 Heartland PDC April 1-18th

This Permaculture Design Course at Heartland combines the full accredited curriculum for the world-renowned Permaculture Design Certification with a People Care Extension that includes a dozen specialized sessions on Social Permaculture & Herbalism.

To learn all about it visit our website: http://heartlandcollective.org/pdc/

Permaculture:

Ethics
Site Analysis and Assessment
Principles
Base Mapping
Design Process
Zones and Sectors
Design Methods
Urban/Suburban/Rural Permaculture Strategies

Horticulture and Regenerative Agriculture:

Perennial Agriculture
Polycultures and Plant Guilds
Food Forests and Edible Forest Gardens
Soils and Compost
Propagation Techniques and Plant Care

Ecological Design:

Rainwater Harvesting: Catchment and Storage
Alternative Energy and Appropriate Technology
Greywater and Aquaculture
Climate Appropriate Design and Adaptive Strategies for Housing and Agriculture

Social Permaculture:

Community Organizing & Logistics of Liberation
Alternative Economies
Community Land Trusts
The Just Transition
Mediation and Conflict Resolution
Facilitation & Decision Making
Restorative Justice and Accountability Processes
Direct Action
Land Access and Issues of Land Use
Ecovillages & Community Design Process
Neighborhood Design & Placemaking
Collaborative Group Dynamics
Bioregional Governance
Approaches to Autonomy & Mutual Aid

Herbalism:

Human-Earth Interrelationships
Medicine Making: Tinctures, Salves, Teas
Basics of Planetary Energetics
Plants for Relief and Basic First Aid
Medicinal Plants in the Landscape
Home Apothecary
Medicinal Plant Guilds

About The Teachers

Sarah Wu

With 25 and counting, 75+hour Permaculture Design Courses in her portfolio, Sarah teaches full length and specialized Permaculture courses and workshops tailored to community dynamics, event production and holistic health. Sarah is the friendly Village Witch, co-founder and producer of Envision Festival, where she curates the educational offerings and founded the unique Herbal First Aid Clinic Training.

Sarah Wu is a passionate educational curator, facilitator and mentor dedicated to adult learners of all backgrounds. A representative for Mother Nature as a writer and teacher of Deep Ecology, Therapeutic Ecology and whole systems design through the lens of Herbalism and Permaculture. Sarah Wu has 19 years studying the science, art and craft of Planetary Eclectic Herbal Medicine. Her foundation is in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Wise Woman Tradition, actively practicing clinical herbalism in the Neo-Tropics for 10 years.

She founded and produced Medicines from the Edge: A Tropical Herbal Convergence, dedicated to bridging the eclectic healing traditions of Latin America, produced the Permaculture Plaza and Village Witches at the Oregon Eclipse, is a regular faculty member at the Punta Mona Center for Regenerative Design & Botanical Studies and Atitlan Organics,  is a faculty member of the Permaculture Women’s Guild and a regular contributor to organizations such as NuMundo and United Plant Savers. She has studied with numerous leaders in the Western Herbalism renaissance, such as David Winston, Rosemary Gladstar, Paul Bergner, and 7Song and has worked in relief efforts in Guatemala and at Natural Doctor’s International on the island of Omatepe, Nicaragua.



Ryan Rising

Ryan Rising brings more than a decade of permaculture design and implementation to his teaching. Learn from a facilitator who has organized more than 100 Permaculture Action Days in cities and land projects throughout the country. Ryan is a conduit of social permaculture and community building practices stretching from the relational to the economic with a specific eye toward practical organizing in the real world.

Ryan Rising is a community organizer and permaculture educator based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, and co-founder of the Permaculture Action Network.

After a decade working with various social movements around direct action, food justice, ecological design, and community living, Ryan organized the Permaculture Action Tour with music producer The Polish Ambassador in the fall of 2014. Over the last five years the Permaculture Action Network has partnered with touring artists and large cultural events like Rising Appalachia and Lightning in a Bottle to mobilize 15,000 people to days of action at community spaces and permaculture projects building regenerative systems such as natural buildings, medicinal gardens, & edible schoolyards.

Ryan has been integral in co-organizing these 100 Permaculture Action Days across the continent, bringing hundreds of people at a time to take hands-on action building greenhouses, rainwater catchment earthworks, perennial gardens, and a diversity of other regenerative systems at community spaces including public food forests, urban farms, and ecovillages.

Ryan also co-founded the Gill Tract Community Farm, which produces tons of organic food annually that is distributed for free all around the Bay Area, and the Omni Commons, an urban commons and community center; and continues to work on growing the movement for a just transition through facilitation of the Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory, the Non-Profit Democracy Network, and a variety of other organizing projects.


Permaculture Design Certification Details
There is an integral and reciprocal relationship between the health of the environment and human health. We cultivate our wellness simultaneously with the regeneration of the biological life systems that support our planet earth. Through the lens and practical application of herbalism as a modality for ecosystem and human regeneration we will expand our understanding of the core Permaculture ethic of People Care by laying a foundational review of the ways in which we can integrate holistic wellness into our land and community design.

Explore social permaculture to assist you in building strong relationships that will create the most solid foundation for your vision. Learn how to build a community that can co-create viable and regenerative organization models to bring your dream vision to life.

The Permaculture Design Course will be supplemented with guided movement and meditation practices, and will culminate in group permaculture design projects.

Dive into a lakeside PDC in the rolling oak-covered foothills of the California Sierra Nevadas. Enjoy profound lessons from teachers with over 30 years of collective permaculture hands-on experience. Make powerful connections, eat well, and enjoy amazing sunsets. We welcome you to Heartland!

Heartland Collective is an off-grid, solar-powered, 25 acre lakeside venue and regenerative business incubator. The Heartland Collective is excited to offer its first annual Permaculture Design Course. This is an opportunity to join Heartland’s nutrient-rich culture and be a part of a budding ecovillage.

Why say YES Now?

Immune Health
Practical Community Organizing Skills
New Career
Gain Knowledge of the Local Ecosystem
Connection
Land Restoration

Heartland Collective Bonus Gifts for Signup
Saying YES to the Heartland PDC offers you several FREE bonuses:

2 year Heartland Membership ($500 value) which includes 20% savings to Heartland glamping, Heartland products, and all Heartland events (*events hosted by other's at Heartland not included)
2 Free tickets to CoLab Campout ($440 value, one ticket per year for 2 years)
50% discount on a Heartland PDC redo during the next 5 years (Learn more and keep your skills in tip/top shape!)
We want you to say YES to this because we want you to be part of the Heartland Collective culture for life.

We want to make this invitation easy and stack all our functions into long term win-win-win creations.

Learn more and register at: http://heartlandcollective.org/pdc/
And join the facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/events/833491044130075

We're looking forward to learning and growing with you at Heartland! Please reach out with any questions!

Robin Liepman (Bloom)
E-mail: rliepman@gmail.com

Imagine waking up to an empowering and activating yoga class, sharing organic vegan local delicious meals in community, learning about & practicing Permaculture & Herbalism, writing and recording newly created songs, and finishing each day with Ecstatic Dance sets from World Class DJs. This is Tierra Musica.

Apply for the Tierra Musica immersion Here:
http://www.bloomingbiodiversity.solutions/tierramusica

Permaculture & Yoga:
Blooming Biodiversity Permaculture Network and Blooming Biodiversity Community Liberated Heart Yoga & Bodywork with Anahata

MUSIC LINEUP
Bloom Music and Blooming Anahata
Ecstatic Dance: AMANI of Desert Dwellers & Liquid Bloom
Mose ∞- Mose Cagen
Yemanjo- Ben Harris
Mix Well

Let's start our year together collectively, intentionally, and creatively! Join us in Santiago, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, at the Mystical Yoga Farm, after Cosmic Convergence, for "Tierra Musica," a creative immersion into Earth Activist Songwriting, Permaculture design, Herbalism, Yoga, & Ecstatic Dance.

~ Permaculture ~
We will be planting seeds, herbs, veggies and trees, learning about tropical permaculture and traditional agroforestry/gardening.

~ Earth Activist Music Song-Writing and Recording ~
During this retreat, we will have the opportunity to write Earth Activist Music individually and collectively as a form of addressing social and environmental issues happening in Guatemala and the US. We will also get to record our music, and optionally make music videos. The eagle and condor indigenous prophecy for us translates at people of the Eagle, of the North, connecting to people of the Condor the South.
The Eagle and Condor will not fly in Peace until the children at the border are united with their families.

~ Eco-Poetics & SongWeaving ~
This an interactive participatory experience that engages the five senses and grounds our collective creativity into word flow, free-styling, vocal/instrumental improve, stream of consciousness and song co-creation. We write our own songs & poems, weaving in collectively shared ideas, visions and words, and then perform our creation to the group in a supportive environment with music to back us up. You will emerge from this workshop with a new song to share with the world, and a newfound inner songbird ready to sing!

~ Ecstatic & Embodied Dance ~
Embodiment is how we ground our visionary creativity into reality. Ecstacy, from "Ekstasis," literally means "to Step Out." We will be stepping out of the ordinary, and into the extra-ordinary through movement and dance, integrated throughout this immersion, with both live and eclectic electronic music. Join us for Ecstatic Dance with AMANI of Desert Dwellers and Liquid Bloom!

~ Embodying Permaculture ~
The Embodying Permaculture Workshop is an experience designed to integrate mind, body, heart and spirit with the values and principles of permaculture. As facilitators we will take participants through a journey of body centered awareness practices including transformational theater, embodied movement, guided music creation, vinyasa yoga flow, and guided visualization meditations activating the 5 senses and permaculture. We will engage in interactive games and exercises for each of the 5 senses. We will also facilitate a Solutionary discussion counsel where the participants will have the opportunity to share their vision of being a co-creative change-maker in a thriving sustainable community. When we are fully in alignment with our true selves as multidimensional beings, we develop a strong connection to ourselves, our community and our environment.

~ Liberated Heart Yoga with Pranassage Partner Bodywork ~
Daily earth embodied yoga lead by Anahata, and frequent partner Pranassage to keep our bodies happy and healthy!
Hatha Vinyasa Flow with Self Awakening Therapeutic Yoga from Nosara Yoga Institute.
Prananasage Bodywork-Thai Yoga Massage with Iyengar alinements, energy, breathwork and sound healing.
Anahata studied in India at Auroville Ecovillage as well as Nosara Yoga institute in Costa Rica.

~ Herbal Medicine Making ~
We will make personal herbal medicine for our body-mind-spirit-heart! We will get to dive into herbal medicine making projects with tinctures, salves, balms, etc., using mostly herbs growing at the Mystical Yoga Farm.
Anahata worked at the Herb Pharm in Williams Oregon, and Bloom & Anahata both worked as herbal medics at Standing Rock.

~ Earth Altar Creation Earth Based Spirituality Rituals ~
We will ceremonially gather flowers, leaves, sticks, and anything we find in nature and around the garden to create an Earth Altar for our immersion.

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Music, Art, Dance, Poetry and all forms of Creativity generate healing for all people. This is our outlet to express our passion, joy, fears, anger and activism.

We invite you to reflect on these questions:
What kind of world do we want to live in?
How can we be in service of indigenous and local Guatemalan voices, vision and wisdom?
What does it mean to be a person in humble service of Mother Earth, in right relation with culture, & honoring of heritage?

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About Us:

Bloom( Robin Liepman) and Anahata (Anna Simone Combi) are earth activist musicians, certified Permaculture teachers & designers, ecovillage educators, healers, artists and transformational paradigm shifters. They have facilitated community workshops, retreats, gatherings, concerts and Permaculture action events together in Costa Rica, Canada, California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Hawaii, Peru, Bali, Australia, New Zealand and beyond. They are co-organizers of Blooming Biodiversity Tour which spanned the North American West Coast, Fall 2015, offering events that brought together communities in transformational celebration to learn and practice permaculture.

Anahata is certified Nosara yoga teacher, bodyworker and former herbalist apprentice at Herb Pharm.
Bloom is a Generation Waking Up facilitator. They have worked as teacher assistants for Starhawk’s Earth Activist Training Permaculture Design Course, the Ecovillage Design Education. They are trained Work That Reconnects facilitators with Joanna Macy.

They were interns Arkana Alliance, an indigenous rainforest activist organization in Peru. They have both have facilitated workshops, performed music and have had extensive, organization, volunteer, and staff coordination roles at transformational festivals, including: Envision Festival, Lightning in a Bottle, Once Upon a Festival, Lucidity, Global Eclipse, Bali Spirit Fest, Imagine, Big Surreal, Flow Festival, Earth Frequency, Singing Alive, Plants EnChant, Good Medicine, Mystic Rising, Enchanted Forest, and more. They are social/environmental activist filmmakers and have produced and presented a variety of their films. They have both participated in and presented at a variety of social and environmental conferences and convergences including: Bioneers, The NorCal Building Resilient Communities Permaculture Convergence, Pure Living Expo, Tribalize, Cumbre de Los Pueblos COP20 in Peru. They have both taught college courses at their perspective universities on Sustainability and Social Justice.

They have facilitated Ecological Awareness workshops at Esalen Institute for the Integral Leadership Program. They worked as herbal medics and water protectors at Standing Rock in November and December of 2016. They recently co- taught a Permaculture Design Course, Aloha Aina Winter On Maui with Jenny Pell. Bloom and Anahata continue to lead Permaculture activation events and co-creative musical experiences globally. Check out Blooming Biodiversity Permaculture Network here: www.BloomingBiodiversity.org

Music Projects: Blooming Anahata is a mystical and heart-opening earth activist musical group born from unconditional love, forest exploration, visionary dreams, ecovillages, & indigenous wisdom. Their music is a holistic and wholesome blend of soulful singer/songwriter serenades, rainbow/medicine songs, and earth activism. All of his songs are original and have channeled through him during significant experiences in nature, sacred ceremonies, and divine moments of clarity. Many of their songs are interactive and often catalyze group singing and dancing. They integrate their own stream of consciousness poetry with their medicine songs. Bloom and Anahata have traveled around the world sharing their music from Bali, India, Australia, New Zealand, Peru, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Hawaii, and throughout the US and Canada. learning from indigenous communities, and sharing their wisdom as healers, permaculture teachers and activists.
www.Bloomsounds.org & www.BloomingAnahata.org

We both grew up in California with many Guatemalan and Central American families in our hometowns. Many of which were in our schools, inspiring fellow farmers, builders, educators, activists and of all different professions. Currently Guatemalan children are being separated from their parents at the US border and severely exploited. These are our peers! People in our neighborhoods are being taken away by ICE! People deserving of equal opportunity and rights as us. Our great grandparents of Jewish Eastern European descent had the privilege of safely entering the US during the genocide of our people during the Holocaust and dictatorship of Soviet Union. Guatemalan families do not have the same privilege as our relatives did.

Menu Example:

Breakfast:
Spiced & Sweet Chia Pudding
Ayurvedic Papaya w/ginger, spirulina, & lime
Fruits
Cacao Oats Strawberries or Fruit for Topping
Smoothie

Lunch:
Raw Tacos w/ Godess Dressing
Locally Harvested Flower & Greens Salad
Mushroom Soup
Vegan/GF Brazilian Seeded Bread
Dinner:
Kitchari
Local Loved (Fried) Rice w/ Greens
Eggplant & Potato Curry w/ Tumeric Cashew Cream Sauce

January 5-10
Mystical Yoga Farm
Santiago, Lake Atitlan Guatemala

$888 full price.
Includes accommodation, organic vegan meals, and full retreat workshops, music recording & immersion.

We acknowledge that it is a privilege to have the opportunity to get to have enough funds to travel to Guatemala. To learn from the ecosystem, local Mayan culture, activist and important wisdom. A few Partial Scholarship & Worktrade positions available for low income & POC.

Contact Anna Simone Combi and Robin Liepman on facebook messenger, or e-mail solutionarproductions@gmail.com to secure your spot for this transformational immersion!

~ APPLY HERE ~
http://www.bloomingbiodiversity.solutions/tierramusica
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WINTER-ON-MAUI
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ONE-MONTH PROGRAM

JANUARY 8 – FEBRUARY 8
$3,000

COMPLETE PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATION COURSE

The month-long course will take place at four locations across Maui. Each week we will travel to a different farm so students have the opportunity to experience a range of farming styles and learn from our diverse guest teachers. And we get to see more of the beauty of Maui!

Multiple locations around the island
Field Trips to different projects
Delicious locally-grown organic vegetarian meals
College credit for qualifying students
Weekends free to explore Maui!
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FULL QUARTER PROGRAM

JANUARY 8 – MARCH 19
$4,000

COMPLETE COURSE + 5-WEEK INTERNSHIP

The extended 5-week internship will be available to students who want to learn hands-on farming skills, living and working with select farms across the island. There will be internships with the four host farms listed below, and we have other unique opportunities specifically designed to support your interests.

Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
Pono Grown Farm Center
Whispering Winds Bamboo Cooperative
Hale Akua Garden Farm and Permaculture Center
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This program is open to all students of any age and from any culture. It will be taught in English, and we welcome students from overseas. We especially welcome any students local to Hawai`i. We welcome students from the Evergreen State College and are working with Evergreen faculty to sponsor students for college credit.

We’ve taken the standard international permaculture certification curriculum and extended it to a month-long integrated studies program that emphasizes hands-on skills, diverse farming techniques, and appropriate technology solutions for low-impact living and working.

We will be working with permaculture designers, organic farmers, native Hawai`ian traditional farmers, and have many local teachers and practitioners joining our core staff every day. Our guest roster includes tropical medicinal plant experts, a high-altitude trout aquaponics business, a local seed saving non-profit, food sovereignty and food security policy makers, and climate adaptation specialists to name a few.

For more information about the program curriculum take a look at our reading and watching list. The website FAQ should answer most of your questions, and feel free to contact us for more details and information.

Mahalo, and see you on Maui in January!

TEACHERS

JENNY PELL
Jenny Pell is a full-time permaculture designer, consultant and educator based on Maui, with ongoing work overseas. She has an extensive portfolio of projects large and small that span the Pacific NW, Central America, and the Hawai`ian Islands. She was the lead designer for the Beacon Food Forest in Seattle, co-author of the Future of Maui Regenerative Agriculture Report, and has been teaching permaculture for 15 years.

EVAN RYAN
Evan Ryan is an agricultural landscape consultant, designer, farmer, project manager, author, and educator. His focus is applying permaculture systems to production agriculture, utilizing holistic land care practices to nurture resilient environments rich in clean air, fresh water, nourishing food. and community. He has been learning and practicing permaculture since 1998 in Hawai‘i, California, Colorado, Central and South America and has extensive experience working with Indigenous agroforestry practices.

SPENCER ONEAL
Spencer Oneal is a northwest native, and lives part- time in Hawai`i practicing bio-dynamic farming and sustainable agriculture. He graduated from The Evergreen State College in Conscious Business and Sustainable Community Development discovering new holistic ways of living. He has lived and been involved in intentional communities and eco-villages throughout the Hawai’i and Central America. Spencer travels regularly helping to manage, produce and support conscious and transformational festivals including Envision, Lightning in a Bottle, and Beloved.

Anna Simone Combi
Anna Combi is a certified permaculture teacher, certified yoga teacher, herbalist, bodyworker, earth activist musician, community organizer, workshop facilitator and co-founder of Blooming Biodiversity, a creative social-environmental education organization focused on integrating hands-on permaculture with expressive arts . Through her organization Blooming Biodiversity, she has facilitated community workshops, retreats, gatherings, concerts and permaculture events in Costa Rica, Canada, California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Texas, Big Island of Hawaii, Maui, Kauai, Peru, Bali and Australia. In each location she works with the local community and indigenous communities, collaborating with mentors, farmers, healers, activists, musicians and artists. She designed her own interdisciplinary a BA in Cross-Cultural Social Work and Sustainable Development at University of Redlands, Johnston Center for Integrative Studies. While in college she studied permaculture in courses, internships and semester programs in California, Oregon, Hawaii and and Auroville Ecovillage in India. She is a certified Teacher’s Assistant for Starhawk and Charles Williams Earth Activist Training and Permaculture Design Course at O.U.R Ecovillage on Vancouver Island, BC. She was certified with her Permaculture Teacher Training with Jude Hobbs and Andrew Millison of Cascadia Permaculture in Eugene Oregon. She is a certified 300hr Yoga Teacher through Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. She worked as an herbalist intern at Herb Pharm.

Robin Liepman (Bloom)
Robin Liepman (Bloom) is Permaculture teacher, designer, organizer, and Earth-Activist musician. Bloom co-founded the Blooming Biodiversity Permaculture Network (www.BloomingBiodiversity.org), a tour through the North American West Coast, Hawaii, Peru, Bali and Australia, consisting of events that integrate hands-on Permaculture projects with music, expressive & healing arts, solutionary counsel, and community building.
Bloom was born in San Luis Obispo, California, studied Psychology & Cognitive Science at the University of California Santa Cruz, and traveled through Central, South, and North America, working at a variety of Permaculture farms, conferences and transformational festivals.Bloom has a Permaculture Design Certification/Earth Activist Training through Starhawk and Charles Williams, and worked with them as a Teacher’s Assistant on Vancouver Island at O.U.R. Ecovillage. Bloom has assisted teaching the Ecovillage Design Education, a U.N. recognized course, certified through GAIA education. Bloom has an Advanced Certificate in Permaculture Teaching through Jude Hobbs at Cascadia Permaculture. He is also a trained Generation Waking Up facilitator and has participated in the Work That Reconnects Intensive with Joanna Macy, and taught Ecological Awareness to the Integral Leadership Program at Esalen Institute. Bloom continues to teach Permaculture and lead projects worldwide.Bloom has a solo music project (www.BloomSounds.org) and a duo music project called Blooming Anahata with his partner Anna (Anahata) Combi. Bloom is dedicated to co-cultivating a thriving, equitable, regenerative, healthy and vibrant existence that supports a
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Register and Learn More at: www.Winter-On-Maui.com

17th Annual Advanced Permaculture Course in Teaching at Wilson Creek Gardens, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Taught by Jude Hobbs. August 1 – 7.
http://cascadiapermaculture.com/advanced-trainings/current-trainings/



Course Topics Include:
Philosophy and Ethics of Instruction • Pedagogy, Teaching Systems, Principles and Patterns • Adult Learning Styles • Curriculum and Lesson Plan Building • Presenting • Facilitator Roles • Utilizing Media and Activities • Co-Instructing • Time Management • Planning, Marketing, and Budgets • Venue Logistics • Interns and Apprentices • Evaluations and Feedback • Tips from the Trade • Keeping Up The Spirit • Self-care • Right Livelihood •Extensive Resources and More

A core part of Jude’s work is inspiring and training the next generation of Permaculture advocates. This is a Certificate Course offered by the Cascadia Permaculture Institute with Permaculture Institute of North America.

Prerequisite: Permaculture Design Course Certificate or instructor’s approval.

Enrollment: limited to 15 participants

Cost: $950.00 Includes course materials, camping & 3 deliciously local meals a day

Register at http://cascadiapermaculture.com/advanced-trainings/current-trainings/

Permaculture Teacher Training with Jude Hobbs at Wilson Creek Gardens, Oregon August 1-7


Cascadia Permaculture is a training hub for students, teachers and stewards of the land who want to learn about Whole Systems Design for Self-Reliant Living.

Learn more about Cascadia Permaculture here: http://cascadiapermaculture.com/
Register here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwviKPXwbRnNT1M5M09MVHJra28/view



ABOUT JUDE HOBBS

Jude is an internationally recognized permaculture educator, land consultant, and designer. Drawing upon 30 years’ experience in utilizing whole-system design techniques, she provides environmentally sound solutions in urban and rural settings which promotes sustainable actions.

Through her business, Ago-Ecology Northwest, Jude specializes in encouraging farm management practices for optimizing resource conservation, biodiversity, watershed enhancement and income diversification.

As an educator she brings her passion for Permaculture to her courses by developing curricula that encompass diverse learning styles and methods that are inspiring and information rich. Jude’s intention is to empower people to creatively change their everyday patterns so as to care for the earth and each other.

As a co-founder of the Permaculture Institute of North America (PINA) and Cascadia Permaculture Institute (CPI) she actively supports the next generation of permaculturists through continuing education and professional development.

Jude co-tends Wilson Creek Gardens a 7-acre Permaculture demonstration site in Cottage Grove, Oregon where there are abundant micro-climates from which to learn.

2017 Permaculture Design Certificate with Earth Activist Training by Starhawk!
Register at: http://ourecovillage.org/events/2017-permaculture-design-certificate-with-earth-activist-training-by-starhawk/

O.U.R. Permaculture Design Certificate with Earth Activist Training by Starhawk!

April 28th to May 14th, 2017

*arrive for dinner before 5 pm on Friday, April 28th!

Taught by: Starhawk and many other fantastic guest teachers!

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OUR Ecovillage is proud to host this two-week permaculture design certificate course with a focus on organizing and activism, and a grounding in earth based spirituality. Learn how to heal soil and cleanse water, how to design human systems that mimic natural systems using a minimum of energy and resources, and how to create real abundance and social justice. Explore the strategies and organizing tools we need to make our visions real, as well as the daily practice, magic, and rituals that can sustain our spirits. Participatory, hands-on teaching with lots of rituals, games, projects, songs, and laughs along with an intensive curriculum in ecological design.

About Starhawk:

Starhawk is an author, activist, permaculture designer, and one of the foremost voices in earth-based spirituality. She has lived and worked in collectives for thirty years. Her twelve books include The Spiral Dance, The Fifth Sacred Thing, The Earth Path, and her first picture book for children, The Last Wild Witch. Her book on group dynamics, The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, is available from New Society. She often directs and teaches Earth Activist Trainings, which combine a permaculture design certificate course with a grounding in spirit and a focus on organizing and activism.

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About OUR Permaculture Design Certificate:

72-hour PDC over 16 days & evenings packed with learning from various instructors who are specialists in their fields.

“What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. We don’t know what details of a truly sustainable future are going to be like, but we need options, we need people experimenting in all kinds of ways and permaculturists are one of the critical gangs that are doing that.” – David Suzuki, International Environmental Advocate

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The Permaculture Design Course Package is  $1,950.00 plus tax

This package includes
Program cost
Meals plan (three chefed meals per day plus snacks)
Accommodation: includes an indoor shared dorm space or outdoor camping: – bring your own shelter
Indoor Upgrades: please inquire with OUR accommodation staff by either email or phone
For locals who do not need onsite accommodation please contact us
*our booking software will show the price beginning at $1230.00 which is the price of the program.

Course Description and Content:

The Permaculture Design Course is an information packed 72-hour intensive course combining theory with practical hands-on learning. Completion of the course earns participants a Permaculture Design Certificate – the foundation for further permaculture work and study and a prerequisite for the Diploma in Permaculture Design, offered through The Permaculture Institute in Australia.. Participants will learn Permaculture design principles & techniques. The course includes lectures, discussions, hands-on, slide shows, field trips and design projects. We will examine the underlying assumptions of the current culture of consumerism and economic globalization, and encourage exploration of ways to contribute to the emergence of a culture of sustainability, compassion and equity. The Permaculture Design Certificate course covers a broad range of subjects to provide a holistic overview of Permaculture systems and sustainable living. Some of the topics / themes to be covered are:

– Evidence for change & the ethics of sustainability
– Principles of Permaculture
– Observation & landscape analysis
– Ecological planning & design methods
– Organic food production and food security
– Climatic factors in design
– Soils: natural soil improvement
– Integrated animal systems
– Water: harvesting, conservation, and management
– Agroforestry & forest gardening
– Appropriate technologies & renewable energy systems
– Mapping & design exercises
– Techniques and design strategies for both urban & rural applications
– Ecovillages & sustainable human settlements

What is the Permaculture Design Certificate?

“Permaculture” is a copyrighted word. Only upon satisfactory completion of this course is an internationally recognized “Certificate of Permaculture Design” issued. Graduates are then eligible to use Permaculture in the promotion of designs, teaching and landscaping. Following at least two years of applied work, you are eligible to apply for a Diploma of Permaculture Design through the International Permaculture Institute.

Students who complete this course will be able to assess human landscapes and dwellings and then provide design solutions towards living sustainably. With practice and mentorship students will develop design skills that may lead to a meaningful livelihood. All students who complete this certification course leave with a much deeper understanding of their impact on the planet and each other, and with the critical thinking skills to lessen or improve that impact.

Participants from over 60 countries in all regions of the world and from all walks of life have called the Permaculture Design Course “ life-changing, transformative, and enormously affirming.” In the lively company of a diverse group of engaged and motivated women and men with a common interest in the future of humanity, learning is rapid, multidimensional, and long lasting.

Where can I go after this course?

– Embark on new farming practices
– Find ways of dramatically reducing energy consumption
– Begin land-based ventures & small businesses such as: nurseries, landscape design consultancies, etc.
– Realize goals towards self-sufficiency

City dwellers have found that even with little or no land, Permaculture shows them how to work with their home to produce food, reduce energy needs, live more ecologically and in closer connection with their communities. Educators, farm advisers, international development workers, garden directors, builders, master gardeners, and landscape architects have all reported that what they’ve learned in this course has become a foundation for their work. Farmers, nursery owners, foresters and livestock farmers have all found that Permaculture design has multiplied their incomes, reduced their work, and improved the health of their stock.

Teaching Assistants on this course: TBA (if this is you please let us know!).

Ian Ralston has been the main BC Wastewater Reclamation approving officer for British Columbia and has been the lead approval for most of the innovative ‘green’ greywater reuse allowances in the province. With full regulatory authority he has vast engineering knowledge for systems design and installation. Years of practical experience and now teaching has helped to have him become one of the BC Code writers for legal Composting Toilets etc as of 2015.

Gord Baird was raised the youngest of five children, where he spent many hours playing in a semi-rural area of Victoria. As a teenager he was introduced to canoeing and kayaking and became hooked on exploring his spectacular West Coast surroundings. Originally drawn to a business degree, Gord changed his course and instead graduated Simon Fraser University with a Bachelor’s degree in experimental psychology. Rather than continue with a Master’s degree Gord fell into the family auto body repair business. It was here that he practiced valuing and balancing ethics and the environment with profit.

Today Gord uses his hands creatively in building everything from homes, gardens, and jewelry. He maintains that his greatest challenge is to live and lead by example, to teach his children that it is OK to step away from a culture marketing self-importance and consumerism.

Brandon Bauer has been studying Permaculture for 16 years and is actively applying Permaculture on various sites on Salt Spring Island and abroad. Over the last 8 years he has participated in teaching Permaculture Design courses at O.U.R. Ecovillage, The Bullock Brother’s Permaculture Homestead, UBC and at The Blue Raven Farm. He is a naturalist, organic farmer, biodiversity specialist, seed saver, herbalist, and soil scientist. He is the co-creator of The Blue Raven Permaculture Farm on Salt Spring Island. He is currently working with Salt Spring Seeds and Anderson Greenplan. Like Bill Mollison, Brandon believes “we are only limited by information and our imagination”. Brandon sees permaculture as one of the most inspiring and action focused ways to live. He continues to practice what he teaches farming on Salt Spring Island, supporting local food and enjoying the many lakes of the island with his family.

Brandy Gallagher has a deep compassion for people and place, and is naturally drawn and adept to working with and within communities. She is dedicated to furthering the regulatory and legal development of legitimate models of land use, alternative building, socially responsible financing, food security practices, ownership, and governance, while aiding others in finding their way through such challenging areas. As one of the main proponents behind the Canadian precedent-setting rezoning, and with her work in sustainable land management planning and ecological design, Brandy has helped manifest multi-use allowances for ecovillages and shared land projects that encompass a framework of legal, political, and community integration.

Brandy is OUR Ecovillage Co-founder and Developer, was OUR Community Association Executive Director for 17 years, OUR Community Association Executive Director, OUR Ecovillage Cooperative Founding Member, Sustainable Communities Teacher and Consultant, Mother, Resident, and TOPIA: The Sustainable Learning Community Institute Developer.

About OUR Ecovillage:

OUR Ecovillage is a great place to stay. OUR land offers plenty of space to camp, there are diverse natural buildings to see, and we have space for gatherings of different flavours: a large Yurt (great for circles and dancing), a large Community Classroom (for presentations), the Healing Sanctuary (for quiet conversation and meditation) and the Chillage (a casual covered outdoor space). There are solar showers, composting toilets, and a few guest rooms as well. For some quiet time you can walk the labyrinth, sit by the pond, or take a walk in the woods.

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Testimonial:

I completed a two week permaculture course at OUR Ecovillage in August, 2009, and I found it to be both an enlightening and a grounding experience. I am currently studying to become a doctor of naturopathic medicine, and it struck me how the principles of permaculture could equally well me applied to our bodies as to our Earth. Taking the course helped me to expand my understanding of that “health” actually means by widening my horizons outside of just the health of the individual or the household to encompass all the living aspects of the land on which we live. It struck me that we are so willing to spend thousands of dollars on our health, but what about our environment? We can only be as healthy as the land on which we live and the food which builds our cells, so we need to tread tenderly. This course helped me to form a concrete understanding of how to do that. I came away feeling both inspired and empowered to change the world, one plot of land at a time!

The immersed learning environment of OUR Ecovillage had a profound effect on the success of this course, whereby all the students ate, drank, showered, slept, rested, played, studied and worked on-site in a community setting. The Ecovillage is such a serene and delicious place to spend your time, and it illustrates a living example of the principles of permaculture from composting toilets, to expansive gardens, to solar showers to cob structures. My experience at OUR Ecovillage this summer enriched and expanded my horizons and I would take another course or just spend some time at the Ecovillage again in a heartbeat. I highly recommend this course and this site to any person of any age or race without hesitation or conditions. – Sarah Berrett, BSc, ND (Cand) 2009

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