Fall & Winter Weekend Permaculture Design Certificate Course

One Weekend per Month • October ’07 thru March ’08
Epworth Camp and Retreat Center • High Falls, New York

Permaculture Design Fall & Winter 2007

Participants learn about the CONNECTIONS between various disciplines, and learn to design truly sustainable systems for themselves. Participants engage in hands-on permaculture practicums, bioregional research and real-life design exercises.

About

Permaculture is a set of tools and a process for designing a sustainable way to live based on observing nature and stable natural systems.

Topics: Climate change, sustainable agriculture, natural building, annual and forest gardening, renewable energy, trees and landscape regeneration, water & alternative waste systems, community living, bioremediation, alternative economies, and more. Most importantly, participants learn about the CONNECTIONS between various disciplines, and learn to design truly sustainable systems for themselves. Participants engage in hands-on permaculture practicums, bioregional research and real-life design exercises.

Ethan Roland

Teachers

Ethan Roland [AppleSeed Permaculture] and friends. Ethan teaches permaculture design courses around the world, from his native Hudson Valley to the mountains of northern Thailand. Most recently, he co-taught a 2-week intensive course with Geoff Lawton at Camp Epworth and several modular courses at the Hancock Permaculture Center and at universities across the Northeast. After graduating from Haverford College with a degree in Biology, Ethan traveled the world studying the global diversity of apples and organic farming systems. He now runs the ecological farm & home design firm AppleSeed Permaculture [www.appleseedpermaculture.com] and continues his research on carbon-neutral perennial agriculture systems.

Details

Where: Epworth Camp and Retreat Center, High Falls, N.Y. High Falls is located near Kingston and New Paltz, about 2 hours north of NYC. The camp is easily accessible by public transportation.

When: One weekend per month —

  • October 6 & 7, 2007
  • November 10 & 11, 2007
  • December 8 & 9, 2007
  • January 12 & 13, 2008
  • February 9 & 10, 2008
  • March 8 & 9, 2008

Cost: Sliding scale: $600-1200. This cost covers tuition for 6 weekends and use of the camp facilities, including overnight. Food is potluck or bring your own for the weekend, although we will provide some basic dishes. Sliding scale is honor system and helps us meet our minimum to hold the course. Any extra helps to build our sustainable farm demonstration center and straw-bale buildings at Camp Epworth. Payments can be made to “Green Phoenix Permaculture.” Some work-trade available. Please contact us via the methods listed under “contacts” for more information.

Scholarship Fund

Even though this course is more affordable, it is still not affordable to everyone. We will gladly accept tax deductable donations to assist people, especially young people, who wish to learn and contribute their knowledge to others, but cannot afford the cost of the course. Any donations above what is needed for this course will be forwarded to internships and scholarships for our natural building courses. Donations can be made to “Epworth Camp and Retreat Center”, with a note: Permaculture Scholarship Fund.

Related Events

Natural Building: Stone Foundation Workshop — This is the first in a series of workshops we will offer as we build the farmhouse. Information on this and the other natural building workshops is available directly if you contact us as well as on the northeasternpermaculture permaculture network calendar at: www.northeasternpermaculture.wikispaces.com

Note: the Stone Foundation Workshop has been postponed. Please contact Green Phoenix for rescheduling details.

Contacts

Joan and Wilton:

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