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A. “You can have organic IPM strategies using neem oil and various other natural alternatives. Remember even BT is organic approved… Also nutrient dense farming is just another method that can be done totally organically, with rock dust, seaw…eed and whatever else.

The main thing is that you are not dependent on lots of inputs, with permaculture you try and minimize your inputs as much as possible, but that doesn’t mean permaculture is a strictly no input type of farming…

I hear what you are saying but I don’t think either method is against permaculture unless you were using chemicals that are either non renewable(commercial NPK fertilizers) or toxic (synthetic pesticides).

Permaculture doesn’t mean you don’t dare use an excavator on site because it’s oil powered, it’s about the development of sustainable human settlements and we need to take advantage of available technology while it’s here, if that means buying a whole heap of cow manure, rock dust, seaweed, doing some advanced composting and buying/producing on site sustainable pest control chemicals.”

Warmly,

patty love, MALS, PDC

Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture – owner

patty

www.barefootpermaculture.com

RochesterPermacultureCenter – Program Director

www.rochesterpermaculturecenter.org

patty

http://www.meetup.com/RochesterPermaculture/

585.506.6505

PO Box 18212

Rochester, NY14618

Please note: I live a very full life, spending most of my time away from my computer and with my family and friends outdoors. There may be times when I don’t respond right away to your important email. If you require my immediate attention, please call 585.506.6505.

"My life’s purpose is gathering and sharing resources and information that regenerate my own and others’ abundant existence and vibrant well-being." patty love

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." ~ Albert Szent-Giorgi, Nobel Laureate

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" ~ Mary Oliver

We are inspired to be holding this unique and very affordable PDC in theBuddhist pilgrimage city of Bodhygaya, India this Spring.

The intention is to not only provide a high quality, information-filled, and hands-on immersion experience for participants; but also to support the on-going efforts of sustainable development in Bodhgaya by the humble people, activists, and Buddhists monks & nuns in the local community.

Please help us spread the word about this unique and very affordable course to westerners who may be traveling through India this Spring looking for a quality course and life-changing experience at this unique setting.

More Info Below.

-The Living Mandala Team

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Permaculture Design Certification Course
in the Heart of Bodhgaya, India

Sikkim House / Monastery, Bodhgaya, India

Only $175 – $525 US!

For More Information Click Here

In Association With

Sacred Earth Trust, Living Mandala, Itinerant Permaculture,

Instructor

Rico Zook & Support Staff

Course Description

Learn all about sustainability and receive your Permaculture Design Certificate in the setting of the sacred city of Bodghaya and its many monasteries, pilgrims and seekers who travel from all over the world to this place of the Buddha’s Enlightenment. Do hands-on projects, face challenging exercises, do a permaculture design, and learn about the many facets of creating a sustainable lifestyle while benefiting the local community and the efforts for sustainability in Bodhgaya. This is a full immersion experience that will change your outlook and your life forever, as you begin to build a life of resiliency.

Using a variety of learning techniques and strategies this course presents Permaculture as an integrated design approach to create sustainable human habitat. Course time will consist of traditional lectures, guest presentations, group discussions, games, exercises, hands-on projects, photos, movies and site visits. While we will focus on land systems, many discussions and examples will be explored of applications in the ‘Invisible Structures’. These are the social, cultural, political, and economic structures we create as humans that powerfully shape much of our world today. Not only will the course be about Permaculture, but it will also model it by its structure and the environment we create together during the course.

During the latter part of the course design teams will be formed and given real life design assignments that are relevant to the course venue. The course will culminate with each team giving presentations of their designs to the class and interested local people and groups. These designs will be left with venue to become valuable resources for them. Elements to whole sections of past student designs have been incorporated by many sites were this course has been hosted.

Join this course and be prepared for a life changing experience which will leave you much more prepared to respond to the global changes that are starting to happen with solutions, resiliency, and compassion.

The course will cover the soil food web, soil food web analysis, composts and compost extracts, and the use of microscopes.

Bodhgaya, India – The Place of the Buddha’s Enlightenment

Bodhgaya in northeastern India, is one of the most spiritual places in the Buddhist world and also an UNESCO WHS accredited town. Bodhgaya is the site of the Buddha’s enlightenment and the most important of four main Buddhist pilgrimage destinations. Known as Uruvela in the Buddha’s time, the city of Bodhgaya is now a town of about 30,000 permanent residents. The two major sacred sites in Bodhgaya are the Mahabodhi Temple and the Bodhi Tree, around which many other temples and monasteries of various Buddhist traditions (Japanese, Tibetan, Bhutanese and others) have been built. Every year, millions of Buddhist pilgrims flock to Bodhgaya to be inspired, dissipate negative karma and earn merit by visiting the holy site where the Buddha became the Buddha – the “Enlightened One.” There are many other sacred sites located nearby including Mahakala Cave and others. It is rich in culture and an international gateway, the busy winter season is frequented by pilgrims and visitors from all over the Himalayas and the world.

Who Should Take This Course?

This course is both for those who want a general but comprehensive introduction to sustainability and how to create it, for those wishing to get a complete and in depth introduction to permaculture, all its component elements, and the process and methodologies for creating a holistic permaculture design, and for those who people traveling through India who want to experience a truly life changing course that will give you skills and a design framework you can take with you the rest of your life to any country, continent, and ecosystem on the planet. We expect the course will be filled half with International travelers, and half with Indian Nationals. It is especially beneficial for farmers, ranchers, teachers, designers, all types of agriculturalist, architects, urban planners, engineers, resource managers, and anyone else who works with our physical world or does design work in its many forms. However, one does not need to be going into a permaculture career or a related field to benefit from this training. Many artists, medical professionals, business people, housewives, cooks, international travelers, and others have gained insights, understandings and powerful life, changing experiences that have enabled them to both increase their quality of life, as well as move all their endeavors towards creating a more sustainable world.

Supporting Sustainable Development With Local Communities in Bodhgaya

This workshop will culminate with several groups doing a real life design projects that will be relevant to the site of the workshop. Not only will the teaching be about Permaculture, but it will also model it by its structure and the environment we create together in the course. This workshop will contribute to the enrichment of its site and each of its participants. With the goal of having half international students and half local students this workshop will not only be an opportunity to learn about Permaculture, it will also offer an opportunity to understand we can create a regenerative, sustainable world together. The person attending the Permaculture Design Course will not only gain theoretical and practical knowledge on Permaculture at the end of the workshop but will be handed a Permaculture Design Course Certificate. This certificate will enable the participant to be a certified Permaculture Practitioner.

Permaculture in Developing Countries

From its inception Permaculture has quickly spread to over One hundred and twenty countries where farms and other sites are successfully applying its’ ideas, techniques and strategies. As further testament to its applicability, Permaculture is now being applied in many urban and suburban areas. In many developed countries these applications hold much promise for dealing with the many issues associated with mass populations.

What is Permaculture?

Permaculture is a design system to create regenerative, sustainable systems. Envisioned over 25 years ago by Bill Mollison and Dan Holmgren, from Australia, it has now spread to over 120 countries. Though its conception was as a land based system, its effectiveness has moved it into urban settings and to being applied in various social, political, and economic environments. Permaculture was created through the synthesis of many design systems, with the emphasis on nature as the penultimate one. Similarly, the insights and value of traditional and indigenous practices and knowledge are acknowledged along with the necessity of molding these with our current understandings and the appropriate technologies of today’s world. What Permaculture seeks to do is to create three-dimensional designs that are site specific and sustainable. By bringing together elements (orchard, water system, farmer, cow, etc.), techniques (organic framing, natural building, etc.) and strategies (microclimate, relative placement, etc.) a system is designed or altered based on regenerative relationships. It is these regenerative, beneficial relationships that give a system complexity, three dimensionality, and thus, resiliency.

About Sacred Earth Trust

Sacred Earth Trust is a not for profit organisation set up since 2009 to support and encourage the sustainable development and environmental protection of Sacred sites and UNESCO world heritage sites around the world, through working in co-operation with the local, indigenous people and international groups.

For More Information & To Register Click Here

e-mail: education

Phone: (707) 634-1461

Living Mandala

Warmly,

patty love, MALS, PDC

Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture – owner

patty

www.barefootpermaculture.com

RochesterPermacultureCenter – Program Director

www.rochesterpermaculturecenter.org

patty

http://www.meetup.com/RochesterPermaculture/

585.506.6505

PO Box 18212

Rochester, NY14618

Please note: I live a very full life, spending most of my time away from my computer and with my family and friends outdoors. There may be times when I don’t respond right away to your important email. If you require my immediate attention, please call 585.506.6505.

"My life’s purpose is gathering and sharing resources and information that regenerate my own and others’ abundant existence and vibrant well-being." patty love

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." ~ Albert Szent-Giorgi, Nobel Laureate

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" ~ Mary Oliver

http://tinyurl.com/ForestMgmtMatters

thanks,
Steve

This is a Permaculture Design Course Announcement. Enclosed is a flyer file made by one of the course hosts. Please pass this around to anyone who might be interested.
This will be a Comprehensive and Mind Manifesting Permaculture Design Course. Learn Permaculture skills while helping to create the initial design for the Peace – Atorium. This course is expected to fill quickly so be sure to reserve your spot. Contact: http://clearlightpermaculture.com for details. Some accomodations are available.

I am thrilled to get information from you, but I would rather that you did not use this email address (I have no idea how you got it in the first place)

Please use ew instead.

Thanks,
Elizabeth

PS. Please look for a separate email about next Friday.

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Steve Gabriel <steve> wrote:

ANNOUNCING SPRING 2012 MUSHROOM CLASSES

NEWFIELD, NY — Work With Nature, LLC is pleased to announce a series of
Mushroom classes to be offered March through June in the Northeastern states
of New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.

The classes all focus on different elements of mushroom cultivation and the
link of mushrooms to healthy forests, soils, and people. Host sites for the
eleven classes include Cornell Cooperative Extension offices, permaculture
demonstration sites, and a range of local farms.

Workshops are being supported by the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute
(http://FingerLakesPermaculture.org) and the Northeast Mushroom Growers Network
(http://mushrooms.cals.cornell.edu/).

Mushroom cultivation and wild foraging have become increasingly popular in
recent years as growing interest in the organism has led to a range of
discoveries, from the compounds in shiitake mushrooms that prevent cancer to
the potential for oyster mushrooms to comsume oil from spills to the recent
discovery by a team of Yale students that the fungus Pestalotiopsis
microspora is able to decompose plastic trash. (see website for links)

Recently, work by researchers at Cornell University has demonstrated the economic
potential for farming Shiitake, which are grown on hardwood logs and soaked to force
fruiting. Research has established the most suitable northern hardwood
species for cultivation (Oak, Sugar Maple, Beech, Ironwood), the proper
cultivation methods, and the estimated yields from a well managed operation.
A high value food and medicine crop, shittakes retail at $12 to 16 dollars a
pound if grown outside naturally on logs.

Workshops are facilitated by Steve Gabriel, who has been cultivating and
experimenting with forest grown mushrooms, maple sugaring, and other
agroforestry practices since 2006. Participants will learn several
cultivation methods for multiple species (shiitake, lions mane, oyster, and
stropharia) that are practical on both a home and small commercial scale and
appropriate for all experience levels.

For more full class descriptions and registration info visit
www.workwithnaturedesign.com or call (607) 342-2825. Visitors to the website
can also sign up for a weekly blog with mushroom stories, research, and
recipes.

Dates and locations:

INOCULATION DEMONSTRATIONS
CCE Steuben County, Bath, NY: March 24
SUNY Ulster County, Kingston, NY: April 28
CCE Hamilton County, Piseco, NY: May 19

MUSHROOMS IN PERMACULTURE SYSTEMS
Brooks Bend Farm, Montague, MA: April 21
Three Sisters Farm, Sandy Lake, PA: May 12
Rochester Permaculture Center, Rochester NY: May 13

SMALL SCALE SHIITAKE PRODUCTION
Anderson Farm, Mecklenburg, NY: May 5th & 6th

MUSHROOMS & FOREST MANAGEMENT
Little Farm of Paradise, Hampton NY: May 20
Shannon Brook Farm, Watkins Glen, NY: June 10

MUSHROOMS WILD & CULTIVATED
Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, VT: June 2
Twin Ponds Retreat, Brookfield, VT: June 3

CONTACT:
Steve Gabriel, Work With Nature LLC
www.WorkWithNatureDesign.com
steve
607.342.2825

Hi!

I’m writing to let you know about the ‘Rahma Free Health Clinic Edible Forest Garden’

This is an urban forest garden project in Syracuse, NY that will be located on the grounds of a new free health clinic that is opening this spring – bringing the mission of the health clinic outside it’s doors using perennial Permaculture forest garden design – we hope this will be a model for health care sites everywhere in years to come. Providing a resilient food resource in the ‘food desert’ of the Syracuse south side. And contributing to the extensive green infrastructure goals of the city.

But we need your help to make it happen. Take a moment to check it out on IndieGoGo and also share it with your friends. All the tools are there. Get perks (everything from stickers and t-shirts to polyculture seed mixes, custom tree guild designs, signed full-color prints of the garden design, and consulting services for your donation), make a contribution, or simply follow updates. If enough of us get behind it, we can make ‘Rahma Free Health Clinic Edible Forest Garden’ happen.

http://www.indiegogo.com/Rahma-Free-Health-Clinic-Edible-Forest-Garden?a=373323&i=emal

And please, share far and wide, a crowdfunding grassroots campaign such as this relies heavily on word of mouth and sharing. Thank you. ~Frank