Meadowbrook Hands-On Permaculture Experience
2 weeks by appointment January-March 2012
Offered By - Meadowbrook Farm
Big Bend, CA
Contact Person - Charlotte Anthony
Phone - 530-337-6395
email - victorygardensforall@gmail.com
Web Address - sites.google.com/a/mind.net/meadowbrook-hands-on-permaculture/2-week-hands-on
Course Fee - $300
Course Format - Hands-on Learning
Course Location - Big Bend, CA
Course Instructor(s) - Charlotte Anthony
Course Description -
Meadowbrook Hands-On Permaculture Experience
During the winter season of 2012, participants will spend two weeks at Meadowbrook Farm helping to start up food production under the guidance of Charlotte Anthony. Projects include planting a food forest, hugelkultur, greenhouse construction, plant propagation, grafting, building a methane digester and energy conservation. While working together, Charlotte will share techniques for making useful farming observations, intuitive plant communication, smart ergonomic work habits and applying permaculture principles.
We are now accepting applications to join Charlotte Anthony for 2 weeks at Big Bend, California. Flexible dates by appointment, January – March 2012. Cost: $300 includes simple vegetarian food and shared room accommodations.
Meadowbrook Farm is offering this low-cost two-week hands-on permaculture learning experience to students serious about doing regenerative, self-sufficient farming. This is the precursor to a long-term residential program at Meadowbrook now being developed. Whether you want to join us for just the two weeks or are interested in checking out our project with an eye to participating in the long term program, we hope you’ll join us in Big Bend this winter.
Hands-on activities will be about 25 hours/week, and the rest of your time may be spent socializing, studying, cooking and exploring the region. Lots more information is available on our website. For questions or an application, contact us at: victorygardensforall@gmail.com, 530-337-6395
CHARLOTTE ANTHONY is an experienced orchardist, farmer, community organizer and leader of hands-on work projects. She began organic and biodynamic gardening in 1967, working in fruit growing and farm management until 1980, when she started a career as a chiropractor. After many life adventures, she started farming again in 2004. After Katrina, Charlotte became site coordinator for the New Orleans permaculture gardens where as many as 80 volunteers a day came to learn about permaculture. In 2007, she moved to Eugene, Oregon and started a volunteer based organization called Victory Gardens which installed 650 gardens in the Eugene area in 4 years. Seeking a location to prove her concepts for forest gardens and other permaculture food production methodologies, Charlotte has recently moved to Meadowbrook Farm in Big Bend where she is starting up food production for the emerging eco-village.
Four Seasons Permaculture Design Certification
October 22, 2011 – September 22, 2012
Offered By - Regenerative Design Institute
480 Mesa Road
Bolinas, CA
94924
Contact Person - Dylan Squires
Phone - 415-868-9681
email - info@regenerativedesign.org
Web Address - www.regenerativedesign.org
Course Fee - $1,100 Course Tuition. $975 Early-bird discount, if registered and paid in full by September 9. $880 Partner/Spouse discount. $660 Child Discount. $975 Transition Town Member Discount. $880 Full-time K-12 School Teacher Discount.
Course Format - Lecture/Hands-on
Course Location - Commonweal Garden
Course Instructor(s) - Penny Livingston-Stark
Course Description -
This course is a great opportunity to take a permaculture design certification course over a full year of nature's rhythms. You will learn how to observe and use the same principles that make ecological systems self-sustaining, and apply them to integrated homes and gardens. In addition, you will learn how to apply these principles to energy systems and water supplies, healthy communities, meaningful and fulfilling work, ecological economies and global political movements for change. The four-seasons format also allows you the opportunity to implement permaculture principles at home and bring your experiences and questions back to the class for feedback and discussion.
Ecology of Leadership
October 2011 – February 2012
Offered By - Regenerative Design Institute
480 Mesa Road
Bolinas, CA
94924
Contact Person - Dylan Squires
Phone - 415-868-9681
email - info@regenerativedesign.org
Web Address - www.regenerativedesign.org
Course Fee - $975 – Early-bird discount, if registered and paid in full by August 19. $1100 program tuition, if registered after August 19. $875 - Non-Profit Discount. $750 - Student Discount.
Course Format - The time commitment for your participation – outside of workshops and the project you will develop – will vary by individual. However, you can expect to spend approximately 6-10 hours per month in peer coaching and engaging in program assignments on your own time. The assignments are designed to integrate into and empower the life that you choose to lead. Please consider your capacity to participate fully before applying to the program.
Course Location - Commonweal Garden
Course Instructor(s) - James Stark and Christopher Kuntzsch
Course Description -
Through EOL, you will experience what is naturally yours – an intimate relationship with the natural world. You will learn to source your leadership from this connection and stay attuned to the patterns in your own life, creating a new level of effectiveness and awareness in your leadership. On your leadership development journey, you will: Design and implement a self-inspired project, giving you the opportunity to practice new leadership skills while making a difference in your community; Explore your patterns of belief, behavior and thought and determine which ones serve you and which can be released; Receive structured coaching and support from your peers between workshops; Adopt stress-reducing routines that connect you with nature; Take on practice assignments that will help cultivate your leadership skills and integrate the skills, mindset, and routines of the course into your daily life; Nurture a regional leadership circle that will continue to serve and support you on your leadership journey after the formal component of the program ends.
Four Seasons Permaculture Design Certification
November 2011 – October 2012
Offered By - Regenerative Design Institute
480 Mesa Road
Bolinas, CA
94924
Contact Person - Dylan Squires
Phone - 415-868-9681
email - info@regenerativedesign.org
Web Address - www.regenerativedesign.org
Course Fee - $1050 Early-Bird discount, if registered and paid in full by September 23. $1185 Course Tuition. $960 Partner/Spouse discount. $720 Child Discount. $1050 Transition Town Member Discount. $960 Full-time K-12 School Teacher Discount.
Course Format - Lecture/Hands-on
Course Location - Santa Cruz Waldorf School, Santa Cruz, CA
Course Instructor(s) - Lydia Neilsen, Dave Shaw and Ken Foster
Course Description -
In addition to the full curriculum presented in all of RDI's permaculture design certification courses, the PDC offered at the Santa Cruz Waldorf School will be uniquely integrated with the Waldorf School Community as well as being connected with the UCSC agro-ecology community, Transition Santa Cruz, and the Live Oak Grange. The course will include discussion of Rudolf Steiner's teachings on agriculture, known as Biodynamics, which is being recognized for increasing soil health and corresponding plant and animal health and nutritional quality. We will also explore Steiner's thoughts on the human-nature connection and land stewardship, as well as business, economics and the three-fold social order. This collaboration will be a dynamic and community building experience for all involved.
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