organizing experiential learning events for sustainable and regenerative design

Join our Summer Permaculture Design Certification course running from July 23 through August 8, 2010. This is our eighth internationally recognized certification course. We train people of all backgrounds to mimic natural patterns and principles in their yards, on their land, and in their homes and businesses.

This year's teaching staff includes Michael Burns, Steve Gabriel, Karryn Olson-Ramanujan, and Rafter Sass, plus guest presenters from the local permaculture community.

This affordable course highlights hands-on learning in the beautiful rural Cayuta Lake Valley. The class equips students with the knowledge of whole systems and the principles, techniques, and challenges of permaculture as a system of sustainable design. Our off-grid learning community explores topics such as soil regeneration, water conservation, building ponds and swales, managing woodlots, building natural and efficient homes, utilizing renewable energy, and designing gardens.

We teach these topics through presentations, case studies, and student design projects and exercises. Our student design practicum will inform the final design of the Cayuta Sun Homestead. Instruction is augmented by presentations from local experts, field trips, and games.

Completion of the course earns participants an internationally recognized design certificate.

Topics include:
Ethics - Principles - Ecology - Whole Systems - Water - Soils - Pattern - Climate - Earthworks - Forests & Trees - Economics - Governance - Gardening - Waste Treatment - Buildings - Tools - Appropriate Technology - Design  Practicum and more...

$1200 tuition includes prepared meals and camping. Sign up by May 1 and save $150. Sign up by July 1 and save $50.

Please register to attend. Class size is limited. There are no scholarships available.

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