Applied Permaculture Design Course
7 Week or 2 Week Intensive Courses
This course offers a unique opportunity to learn hands on the skills in applied Permaculture on an organic farm and homestead. Here you will learn how to create resilient and sustainable home and community resource systems that combat the forces of environmental disasters from human created toxicity and help us destroy the social-economic systems that are controlling the world through an evolution of Care for the Earth, for the People, and for Voluntaryism.
Participants will engage with systems on the farm and homestead including:
-Earth based home with established garden
-Mature fruit orchard and nuts
-Pond with grove irrigation
-Zone 1, 2, 3, and 4 homestead systems
-Newly established mushroom garden
-Water catchment
-A working homestead
This course is an Applied Permaculture Design course because we are able to provide students with more than the conceptual and philosophical background. At our courses, students will be immersed in hands-on building and learning. Every student who enrolls will be sent a pre-requisite reading list. Students will be expected to have read the requirements and able to arrive with a foundation to build upon through action-based education.
Students of our course will learn resilient Permaculture skills such as:
-Planting your garden
-Companion planting
-How to plant and propagate fruit trees
-Building railroad tie stairs
-How to layout, on contour, burms and swales
-Design water catchment systems
-Inoculate mushroom logs
-Harvest and prepare meals
-Design and create zones around a homestead
-Basic natural earth building skills
-Composting systems
-Animal manures?
-Cover cropping
-Forest management
-Reusing resources on the land
-And numerous other hard skills necessary for the One Great Work
Please do not be discouraged if you are a beginner. Although students will be expected to complete the pre-requisite reading, this is a course open to beginners, but one that is going to take students on a deep dive into applied Permaculture.
2 Week Permaculture Design Intensive
Next Course: TBA
$2,250
This Permaculture Design course is a 2 week intensive that is all inclusive, with organic and farm to table vegan meals, camping, and immersion in a working farm and homestead.
Course Highlights:
-Learn and practice in a beautiful and active Permaculture homestead site
-Enjoy the perfect southern California weather in DeLuz and our daily afternoon breeze
-Immersion in homestead skills and established systems
-Building and adding on new systems
-All inclusive community prepared meals, some farm to table, all 100% organic, local, and vegetarian/vegan
-Reverse-osmosis water available
-Swimming in the pond or the pool!
-Local hikes and river access on day off
-A Natural Law and skill-based intensive and applied Permaculture curriculum focused on care for the Earth, care for people, and care for voluntaryism.
Next course: TBA