The Fundamentals of Permaculture - A Self-Reliance Eco-Workshop

Learn About Permaculture, Sustainable Living, Landscape Design, Edible Landscaping, Self-Sufficiency, Organic Gardening, Urban Gardening, Forest Gardening and More.

Are you concerned about the declining nutritional values in your food and the environmental costs of transporting it from afar?

Would you like to grow your own delicious and healthy food and live more self-sufficiently in your own backyard? The Permaculture system can help you achieve these goals.

What is Permaculture?

It is a method of reproducing, on your city or country property, the harmony, diversity, stability and resilience found in the natural world and working with nature, rather than against it to live more self-reliantly off your land.

The Fundamentals of Permaculture Design course is an 8 day, 42 hour practical training in permaculture design principles and techniques empowering participants to create sustainable and ecological environments that can provide self-reliance in: food, shelter, energy, fulfilling employment and supportive community.

This Eco-Workshop provides a basic grounding in Permaculture as a whole
systems approach to ecological living so that participants are inspired to
apply these skills on their own properties and within their own
communities.

This training will be useful for people with varying levels of experience - from backyard gardeners to design professionals. Previous experience is not necessary.

There will be a balance between classroom time, hands-on experiential learning and personal empowerment work.

Included in the workshop is a comprehensive course manual.

Course Topics

• Permaculture Principles
• Energy Analysis and Landscape Design
• Organic Gardening
• Plant Knowledge, Planting Strategies,
• Soil Fertility
• Companion Planting
• No-till Food Production
• Edible Landscaping
• Conserving Water
• Forest Gardening & Ecosystems
• Microclimates
• Ponds, Swales, Stream Bank Restoration
• Keeping Small Animals,
• Building Design using Local, Natural and Recycled Materials
• Permaculture in the city/suburbs

COMPLETION OF THIS COURSE AND AN ADDITIONAL 7 DAYS OF PERMACULTURE PRACTICUM (OFFERED JULY 26 TO AUGUST 2, 2009, WILL FULFILL THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE CERTIFICATE

You will leave this week-long workshop with the knowledge and skills to:

• Design your property as unified whole system to live more self-reliantly
• Observe, identify and use to your advantage natural elements such as wind, sun, water, soil, etc on your property
• Plant an organic garden and orchard that requires less labour to maintain than a typical garden
• Compost, recycle water and nutrients
• Control potential problem elements such as wind, frost and rain
• Harvest more food from less space
• Create planting zones for sun, heat or shade loving plants
• Control insect and disease infestation
• Create plant guilds that naturally support each other

The Instructors

Gregoire Lamoureux is a permaculture designer, consultant and teacher. He is the director of the Kootenay Permaculture Institute and has worked with permaculture systems for over 17 years and teaches permaculture courses in many parts of the country.

Gregoire has served on the Board of\ Directors of Seeds of Diversity Canada for seven years. He is a founding member of Kootenay Organic Growers Society and was on the Certifying Committee for three years.

His work experience includes market gardening, greenhouse production, orcharding, ecological land restoration using bio-engineering techniques, small-scale nursery management, landscaping, aquaculture and forestry work. He has written articles for Natural Life and Eco Farm & Garden magazines.

Guest Speaker

Richard Griffith has been active in the permaculture movement since 1993. He organized the first courses taught in Ontario and has been teaching since 1999.

Richard has conducted many Permaculture workshops at universities and conferences across Ontario. He is a committed environmental activist with much experience in community gardening, sustainable forestry and renewable energy issues. He lives in a straw bale home, partly off-grid, on a beautiful southern Ontario woodlot. Other local guest speakers will present some of the sessions during the course

If you have always wanted to live more self-sufficiently and want to learn how or add to your existing knowledge, this is a complete comprehensive course.

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