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Permaculture Design Certificate Course ~Hands On~

Fall 2014: 4 Weekends over 4 Months

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Fall 2014                                                    4 Weekends from Equinox to Solstice:

  • September 27/28
  • October 25/26
  • November 15/16
  • December 13/14

REGISTER NOW

Register now to let us know you want to reserve a seat in this class. All you have to do is fill out the registration form.

Register Now

  For More Info, Contact

Cathe' Fish   Practical Permaculture Research Institute  Phone: 530-432-5109 E-mail: practicalpermaculture@gmail.com 
Website: www.practicalpermaculture.com

DISCOVER SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR FARM, RURAL LAND OR SUBURBAN BACKYARD

SPECIFIC COURSE TOPICS

  • Permaculture Principles and Ethics
  • Creative Problem Solving and Systems Thinking
  • Theory and Design Principles of Permaculture
  • Site Analysis
  • Reading the Land
  • Designing Sustainability with Permaculture
  • Pattern and Pattern Application
  • The Living Soil
  • Small Scale Food Production
  • Farm For the Future
  • Eco-friendly House Design and Construction
  • Passive Solar Greenhouse
  • Composting Toilets & Greywater Systems
  • Water Harvesting & Management
  • Drought-Proof Property
  • Soil Rehabilitation & Erosion Control
  • Bio-remediation
  • Food Forest & Starting Your Plant Nursery
  • Seed Saving
  • Animal Systems
  • Using Livestock to improve Pasture
  • Climate and Micro climate
  • Mapping
  • Urban Permaculture -Growing in Small Spaces
  • Food Forests and Agroforestry
  • Soil Building, Sheet Mulching & Compost Tea
  • Aquaponics
  • Pond Ecology and Management
  • Solar Kitchen
  • Catastrophe Preparedness

GAIN HANDS-ON SKILLS IN SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS DESIGN AND APPLICATION

 

HANDS ON ACTIVITIES 

•  Quick Ways to Create a Food Garden  (with Sheet Mulching)

  •  How to Grow Your Own Animal Feed

• Creating a Sustainable Solar Kitchen

  •  Working with Dumpy levels, Bunyips and A frame levels to Create Water Harvesting Earthworks and Swales
  • How to Rehabilitate  Ponds

• Making Compost and Compost Tea

• Food Forest Designing, Planting and Pruning

  •  Creating Permaculture Designs
  • Solar Cooked Potluck 
  • Creating Permaculture Businesses

and much more!

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CLASS SPACE IS LIMITED.    

 Please register now to let us know of your interest by filling out the registration form and reserving a space in the class.

Pay the full amount now or make at least a $300 deposit now and come back and pay the balance before September 27, 2014

(Note: If  you pay the balance at the first class, you must bring cash.)  Register Now      

 PERMACULTURE OFFERS POSITIVE SOLUTIONS TO A PLANET IN CRISIS

Permaculture is a design science that brings together nature, earth sciences and human intelligence to develop positive solutions to create healthy and sustainable environments and build resiliant communities. Permaculture has accumulated over 35 years of experimentation and application around the world, urban and rural, in    all climates and with diverse cultures.

  PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATE COURSE

The Permaculture Design Certificate Course is an internationally-recognized 72   hour course resulting in a Permaculture Design Certificate. The course includes   the application of permaculture principles to food production, home design/ construction, energy conservation/generation, and explores alternative economic structures and legal strategies supporting permaculture solutions.

Certification from this course empowers you to develop a professional permaculture design, consultation and instruction business. As graduate, you will find yourself a member of an exceptional international community of permaculturists. If you desire, you can work in a much needed AID project somewhere in the world. As a graduate, you will  also be eligible to attend the stimulating International Permaculture Conference and Convergences in England in 2015 and India in 2017 to create a network of permaculture practioner friends from around the world.

LEARN TO USE NATURE AS YOUR PATTERN FOR FOOD PRODUCTION, HOUSING, AND COMMUNITY

Permaculture is a design science providing a practical framework for consciously designed landscapes that mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature. These systems yield an abundance of shelter, water, energy, and food for the provision of local needs that provide diversity, stability, and resilience for local populations.

LEARN HOW TO DESIGN FOR STABILITY, RESILIANCE, AND ABUNDANCE AT A BEAUTIFUL FARM THAT IS DEDICATED TO PERMACULTURE

 

 COURSE LOCATION IS A PERMACULTURE DEMONSTRATION FARM IN ROUGH AND READY, CALIFORNIA NEAR GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA IN THE SIERRA FOOTHILLS.

  ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS

Cathe' Fish is the director of the Practical Permaculture Research Institute. She is a very experienced international educator, and has been teaching permaculture since 1987. She is also an experienced permaculture designer and consultant, designing 150 acre ranches, 40 acre farms to backyards.   Read her bio on her website www.practicalpermaculture.com. 

Stephanie Ladwig Cooper is co-owner of Gaia Creations, a permaculture based landscape company in the Chico area. She and her husband Brian have specialized in large and small ecological/permaculture based projects since 2000. Read her bio on their website www.gaiacreationsecoland.com 

Assisting is a team of dedicated, knowledgable and passionate instructors.

REGISTER NOW

Register now to let us know you want to reserve a seat in this class. All you have to do is fill out the registration form below.    That's it.                                         

This lets us know you are interested by reserving a seat in this amazing class. You can come back to the registration form at anytime and pay when you have organized your funds.

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 COURSE INCLUDES

  • 72+ Hour Permaculture Design Course with Hands On
  • Course Handbook and Curriculum
  •  Course Graduation Certificate
  • AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE

COURSE FEE

We know that many people who care for the Earth would like to take this class. Considering the economic downturn, we have lowered the price of the course.

 In 2009,  this Permaculture Design Course class was $1450. In Fall 2011, we reduced the course fee to $1350. This is a bargain for a  design course of this caliber. Because we want as many people as possible to take this course, we have lowered the price for this course to $1100, with discounts for registering early. Look for the discount at the bottom of the registration form.

How are we keeping the cost so low?  We are holding this course only on the weekend to help people who work during the week. And we are not serving meals. You must bring your own food: lunch and snacks.

Note: We will contact you if you request work trade and it is available.

For raising funds for the course, check out  www.wethetrees.com

        FOR MORE INFORMATION

Cathe' Fish, Practical Permaculture Research Institute

530-432-5109           email: practicalpermaculture at gmail.com  

website: www.practicalpermaculture.com

"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."
	                       Dr David Suzuki geneticist, broadcaster 
	                       and international environmental advocate
"I have evaluated classroom teachers at all levels for many years.
You are a master teacher with great organization and management.
It is hard for me to watch/ be part of lousy teaching. 
So your class has been a joy for me to participate in."
	                       T.W, previous school administrator and consultant

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