Course Description -

A 10-day Permaculture Design Certificate course led by noted Permaculture instructors Dick Pierce and Selwyn Polit, offering practical training and skills in sustainable living. We will cover design principles and technologies that you can easily apply to your home, workplace, and community to help you live well in the city or the country.

Weekends & Saturdays, Jan – Mar , 2007 in Austin, Texas
Attend for 1 day or the whole course

What: 10-day course led by Dick Pierce, Selwyn Polit, and other Austin area instructors/designers, offering practical training and skills in sustainable living. We will cover design principles and technologies that you can easily apply to your home, workplace, and community to help you live well in the city or the country.

Who: Professionals and amateurs: Homeowners, apartment dwellers, farmers, foresters, land developers, city planners, architects, teachers, and many others

Why: To learn techniques, tools & design ideas to...
Mimic nature to design solutions to problems unique to our Central Texas climate, water, soil, vegetation, gardening etc.
Capture and effectively use and re-use water
Build an herb spiral
Install a pond
Use natural & green building techniques
Read a landscape to determine optimum placement of design elements
Maximize food output - compact growing areas
Encourage natural cycles - plants, animals, etc.
Design homes and landscapes that serve people, attract wildlife, and create restorative habitat.
Implement landscapes that take care of themselves
Considerations & designs for rural land, farms, ranch, animals, orchards

Additional topics: Ecosystems, Ecology, Microclimate, Edible landscape, Waste, Wastewater, Trees & Forests, Soil, Erosion Control, Water harvesting, Aquaculture, Animals, Gardening, Urban strategies, Wild land rehabilitation, Chickens, Design, Creating a culture of cooperation, Building design, Maps and mapping

Convenient schedule: weekends & Saturdays

Course Description -

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