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Permaculture Practicum: Principles & Practices

Permaculture Practicum: Principles & Practices

Forest Path"What Permaculturalists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet"
~Dr. David Suzuki

The word permaculture was coined by Bill Mollison and David in the mid-1970's to describe an integrated, evolving system of perennial or self-perpetuating species useful to humans.

A more current definition of permaculture, is 'Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fiber and energy for provision of local needs. People, their buildings and the ways in which they organize themselves are central to permaculture. Thus the permaculture vision of permanent or sustainable agriculture has evolved to one of permanent or sustainable culture.  Earth

This two-part evening series teaches the skills necessary to become confident in basic Permaculture Principles and Practices. Between time in the nature and classroom you will learn how make a wide variety of nature practices. Learn how to identify and see patterns of sustainability on our nature~earth walks.

"You can fix all the world's problems, in a garden. You can solve them all in a garden. You can solve all your pollution problems, and all your supply line needs in a garden. And most people today actually don't know that, and that makes most people very insecure."
~Geoff Lawton, Permaculture Designer and Teacher

At the end of the series, you will have the beginnings of seeing how to become part of the change by becoming part of the solution. as well as the knowledge to expand it on their own. The curriculum will focus on the following areas:

Permaculture Principles: The Essence of Permaculture
We will explore the ethics and 12 design principles behind the diversity and creativity of permaculture.

Sustainability through Permaculture: Learn how to create sustainable, productive, and beautiful human environments using natural ecosystems as models. Permaculture is an evolving and expanding design system for ecological living, integrating plants, people, and planetary communities.

The Vision: Even Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts are taught to leave a campsite in better shape than how they found it. As a culture, just imagine if every generation left their part of the world in better shape then when they found it.

Hands Holding Earth Sustainable landscapes are life filled places that not only provide food for humans, they are habitats for wildlife, carbon sequestering, biodiversity, natural soil building gardens of fruit, berries and nuts, perennial and annual vegetables and herbs. These many-layered gardens are beautiful, resilient and self-renewing. With the emphasis on the whole system as an interrelated organism, interconnectedness is the key to a healthy, dynamic garden. Let nature be the model we use to design landscape. The vision is to maintain the benefits of a natural ecosystem while increasing the amount of food produced aiming towards sustainability, productivity and low maintenance.

Is It Possible? This is not hard to do. This series will make that perfectly clear. We can create a culture and a way of living on this planet that is bountiful rather than consumptive, that creates healthy soil, water and air instead of pollution, that creates beauty everywhere.

We can live in abundance while still improving the planet for future generations. That is what the primary focus is of this series. How do we learn to observe what is truly going on? How do we use the natural abundance that surround us to provide our needs? How do we do it in such a way as to create no pollution or waste? We can create abundance, beauty and healthfulness everywhere on the planet and for everyone. It all comes down to desire and design.

"It is time for all of us to make changes about how we live our lives and to follow a path of the heart. By following our intuition and inspiration we encourage our own acts of heartfelt genius and boldness. This makes us feel alive and vital, gives us a great purpose and harnesses parts of ourselves we may have neglected or didn't even know we had. We no longer feel overwhelmed by the way the Earth's resources are managed, but recognize that change is in our hands, yours and mine, the hands of extraordinary people who have made a leap of understanding and are determined to make a difference. We become part of the change by becoming part of the solution."
 ~Glennie Kindred ‘Earth Wisdom'


An article written by one of our students and her experience
The Living Centre: Permaculture in Canada

  

 

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