Community Training in Ecological Design: Tompkins County, NY (Oct.-Dec. 2014)

The Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute
(http://FingerLakesPermaculture.org)

presents

COMMUNITY TRAINING IN ECOLOGICAL DESIGN

Design your backyard or acreage for the coming season and long term.

Grow food, build soil, and manage water in rural and urban landscapes.

Meet others and make beneficial connections in your community.

Hosted at Ecovillage @ Ithaca, in Ithaca, NY

Permaculture design mimics the patterns and processes found in nature. Learn strategies for garden and farm-scale systems that meet human needs while improving ecological health. Join a learning environment where teachers support students to develop design ideas for their own projects.

Classes and take-home assignments cover a wide range of site mapping, assessment, planning and design skills. Students learn the how and why of many strategies including polyculture gardening, cover cropping, sheet mulching, backyard poultry, mushroom cultivation, tree crops and rainwater catchment.

– 36 hours of instruction
– One full weekend & nine Monday evenings
– October through December

Instructors: Michael Burns, Steve Gabriel, & Karryn Olson-Ramanujan plus guests

Read more and register at: http://FingerLakesPermaculture.org/?p=2644