Optical Survey Advanced PC Course with Tom Ward

Dear Friends,

If you want to take your Permaculture Design skills to another level and learn some very practical tools, we highly recommend this Advanced Optical Surveying Course for Earthworks and Water, lead by veteran Instructor – Tom Ward.

Tom Ward has been consulting and teaching Permaculture for over 30 years, and has a plethora of knowledge, wisdom and experience to share – including the the little known art of old school Optical Surveying… with the Permaculture Eye.

More Info below.

– The Living Mandala Team

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Optical Surveying for Earthworks and Water
Advanced Permaculture Course

With Tom Ward

September 8 – 13, 2012
Atlan Center, Nester Peak Rd., White Salmon, WA

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Course Overview

Basic surveying and layout are essential skillsets for every farmer, homesteader, designer, and consultant. In this six-day course (Sept. 8-13), Tom Ward teaches the use of many types of analog (non-battery operated) surveying tools, along with advanced skills in keyline, pond and swale layout, mapping skills, and other core competencies for design and execution of permaculture projects.

Students will become familiar with swale, terrace, ditch and pond layout, profile cross-section drawing, keyline and trail system locating, solar assessment, ditch and wiggle water way layout, small cabin orientation and pad layout, staking, note taking, and compass and map reading. We will use telescope-like devices and other hand tools such as sight levels, pocket transits, builders levels, A-frames and various vertical measurement rods, as well as measuring tapes and wheels. The course will include flagging for trails, swales and ponds, as well as observations on the landscape with mapping of topographic, ecological, and cultural data.

Tom Ward – Instructor

Tom Ward is a long time resident of the Southern Oregon bioregion first settling here in the early 70’s, and has been advising farms and teaching Permaculture for over thirty years. He has degrees in Forestry and Botany from Syracuse University and has taught at Laney College in Oakland CA., D-Q University in Davis CA, and at Thlolego Learning Centre in South Africa among many other institutes and communities. He is presently managing a Social Forestry experimental station in Little Wolf Gulch near Ruch, OR, where he is demonstrating natural building, fuel hazard materials utilization, multiple products woods-crafting, wildlife enhancement and desert forest water management.

Tom Ward has taught dozens of permaculture design courses, advanced permaculture courses and permaculture teachers training courses in Southern Oregon and Northern California over the last 25 years, as well as occasional jaunts farther afield. He is a frequent guest instructor with Toby Hemenway and other instructors in the Northwest. In conjunction with Siskiyou Permaculture, he teaches a weekend PDC each winter in Southern Oregon and advanced permaculture courses at his site in the Little Applegate. He is the author of Greenward Ho! Herbal Home Remedies: An Ecological Approach to Sustainable Health. Tom gives talks on all aspects of Permaculture with recent topics being Social Forestry, Ecological Opportunities and Constraints of the Upper Bear Creek Basin and Becoming Indigenous to the Siskiyous.

More Information

For questions and more information regarding the course
e-mail: education or
call: 707-634-1461

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