Four Seasons Permaculture Design Certification 72 hour course – Rochester, NY
Permaculture Design Certification – Four Seasons Permaculture Design Certification 72 hour course
Rochester Permaculture Institute (a program of Seeking Common Ground), Rochester, NY
Re-design your life, re-envision your future
Are you looking for an empowering and sustainable way to create change in yourself, the land you live on, and your community?
Permaculture is a design science rooted in the observation of natural systems. The principles of permaculture teach us how to design ways of living that have the stability and resiliency of natural ecosystems — they show us positive solutions for creating and managing systems for food, medicine, and building materials, as well as relationships with ourselves, animals, and our communities. Permaculture always keeps in sight three ethics: Earth care, people care, and surplus share.
We have solutions that are available on any scale, and we can make a change that will reach out to future generations.
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Four Seasons Permaculture Design Certification 72 hour course
May 21-22, 2011 – April 2012
Successful completion of this course will earn participants an internationally recognized Permaculture Design Certificate.
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Rochester Permaculture Institute’s Permaculture Design Certification Course
In our permaculture design certification course, you will learn how to observe and use the same principles that make ecological systems self-sustaining and apply them to integrated homes and gardens. In addition, you will learn how to apply these principles to energy systems and water supplies, healthy communities, meaningful and fulfilling work, ecological economies, and global political movements for change.
Throughout it all, you’ll be engaged in learning and experiencing an empowering way of living in the world, surrounded and supported by like-minded people and instructors. Our goal is to make you a part of Rochester Permaculture Institute’s community, incorporating our seasonal activities into your permaculture experience as time permits. Activities may include spring and fall pruning, seed planting, plant propagation, bed preparation, compost pile making, water harvesting techniques, natural building, and other activities.
Each of our permaculture design certification courses includes the following:
■Permaculture principles and ethics
■Reading the landscape
■Pattern and pattern application
■Water harvesting
■Swale building
■Zone and sector analysis
■Climate and micro climate
■Mapping
■Waste composting and treatment
■Urban permaculture
■Land access
■Community building
■Plant guilds
■Forest gardening
■Aquaculture & Animals
■The design process, principles, strategies and techniques
■Soil building and sheet mulching
■Pond management and ecology
■Earthworks, green roofs, and natural building
■Grey water systems
■Bioremediation
■Renewable energy systems
■Forest management
■Watershed management
■Group work on a conceptual design project
■Individual work on a conceptual design project
This 72-hour permaculture design certificate course will give participants a comprehensive understanding of permaculture principles & ethics; design processes, methodologies & tools; and how they can be applied to create regenerative human systems including food, housing, personal relationships, communities, and economies.
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Four Seasons Permaculture Design Certification 72 hour course
May 21-22, 2011 – April 2012
This course is structured in one introductory weekend followed by monthly Sunday sessions, allowing full-time workers, students, and people with families more flexibility to participate. All classes will be held in Rochester, NY. Camping and a few indoor overnight accommodations are available. Sliding scale $800-1000.
Dates are:
May 21-22, 2011
June 19, 2011
July 31, 2011
August 21, 2011
September 18, 2011
October 16, 2011
November 13, 2011
December 11, 2011
January 29, 2012
February 26, 2012
March 18, 2012
April 15, 2012 – Design Project Presentation and Graduation Party
Registration: Send a check payable to Rochester Permaculture Institute, PO Box 18212, Rochester, NY14618 along with (1) your name, (2) your mailing address, (3) your email address, and (4) phone number. Additionally, please send a quick email to patty@barefootpermaculture.com letting me know to expect you. Must register by 10 days before first class. Refund Policy: Cancellations up to 2 weeks before the course begins will be refunded, excluding a $100 processing fee. No refunds are given after that date.
Warmly,
patty love, Owner
Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture
patty
Program Director
Rochester Permaculture Institute
www.rochesterpermacultureinstitute.org
patty
http://www.meetup.com/RochesterPermaculture/
585.506.6505
PO Box 18212
Rochester, NY14618
My life’s purpose is gathering and sharing resources and information that regenerate my own and others’ abundant existence and vibrant well-being.
"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
Upstate NY Permaculture Network 