Description

This is a 12-week Permaculture design course. This class will be held in our garden and classroom with access to a bathroom and kitchen, chairs will be provided.  Please bring your lunch as we have too many dietary needs to be able to adequately provide for.

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 with the web of life
• social and structural community building