Join us for a Permaculture Design Course!
We will be hosting two Permaculture design courses. A 2-week spring PDC intensive as well as a 12-week summer PDC.
This course is designed to help you connect to the land you live on, understand responsible resource use, and create a life crafted with respect to the plants, animals, and soil we live with.
Our lectures will be focused on temperate climate permaculture in urban and rural environments. Some of the topics that will be discussed in the lecture series include:
- the principles and ethics of permaculture
- sustainable regional food production
- small scale designs for yards and gardens
- Earth and the soil food web
- Water conservation and resiliency
- Wind, weather and climate patterns
- Fire and how to live on our daily sun
- life/death cycles and working with natural patterns
- designing integrated systems
- scalable strategies and techniques
Summer class time may occur outdoors so come prepared to learn both inside and out. This consists of observations walks and interaction with the permaculture demonstration site.
The purpose of these classes is to spread the knowledge and the joy of practicing permaculture and to empower our community to create a resilient and healthy world.
Spring PDC Intensive
February 20th – March 5th, 2023
(Class will meet all days, except February 26th & March 4th)
Summer 12 Week PDC
Mondays, June 19th – September 4th, 2023
Tracks to Learn Permaculture:
- Take either the 2-week spring intensive or the 12-week lecture course plus 15 hours of free hands-on experiential learning in the Permaculture gardens and get your PDC – Permaculture Design Certificate for $1,000.
- Don’t need a PDC? Just take the 12-week lecture series for only $800, no final design project is required.
How do I sign up?
Daily Schedule:
- 9:30-10:00 Coffee and Greeting
- 10:00-12:00 Lecture
- 12:00-1:00 Lunch (Bring a sack lunch)
- 1:00-3:30 Lecture
- 3:30-4:00 Q&A
Where: The lecture hall at Compass Rose Farms – 1463 W Uncas Rd., Port Townsend, WA 98368
course Outline
Day 1: INTRODUCTION
Teacher: Kateen Fitzgerald
Morning Introduction to Permaculture
Afternoon Ethics Principals (Holmgren’s 12)
Day 2: CONCEPTS AND THEMES OF DESIGN
Teacher: Kateen Fitzgerald
Morning Concepts and Themes of Natural Systems
Afternoon Concepts and Themes of Design
Day 3: METHODS OF DESIGN
Teacher: Kateen Fitzgerald
Morning Functional Analysis Zones, Sectors, Slope & Orientation Yeoman’s Scale of Permanence
Afternoon Building the Map
Day 4: PATTERN AND CLIMATE
Teacher: Miller Ward
Morning Pattern Understanding
Afternoon Nature and Climate Factors
Day 5: CLIMATE AND TREES
Teacher: Miller Ward
Morning Climate and its Effects on Design
Afternoon Succession/Establishment of Vegetation Trees Food Forests and Guilds
Day 6: SOIL AND FOOD SYSTEMS
Teacher: Kateen Fitzgerald
Morning Understanding and Working with Soils
Afternoon Garden Strategies Seed Saving
Day 7: WATER
Teacher: Simon Walter-Hanson
Morning Water Cycles and Management Keyline Design
Afternoon Water in Landscape Aquaculture and Mariculture
Day 8: ANIMALS
Teacher: Miller Ward and Kateen Fitzgerald
Morning Introduction to Mycology
Afternoon Domestic Animals Partnering with Wildlife
Day 9: APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY
Teacher: Simon Walter-Hanson
Morning Buildings and Structures
Afternoon Appropriate Energy Conserving Technology Waste Disposal and Recycling
Day 10: RESILIENT COMMUNITIES
Teacher: Kateen Fitzgerald
Morning Designing for Catastrophe
Afternoon Settlement Design
Day 11: SOCIAL PERMACULTURE
Teacher: Evelyn Cilley
Morning Vision and the Inner Landscape of You:
Afternoon Cultivating Social Permaculture
Day 12: PRESENTATIONS
Morning Present Final Projects
Afternoon Pot luck, Presentation and Graduation
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