Are you a college student looking for career training in ecological design and community-scale agriculture?
Are you a schoolteacher bringing gardening and nature education into your classroom?
Are you a small farmer or homesteader wanting to diversify your crops and build soil and biodiversity for the long term?
Are you looking for new tools, new skills, and new community to navigate a rapidly changing world?
Permaculture Design Course in Southern Vermont – June 5 to August 15, 2010
You’ll learn:
–How to work with nature and apply systems thinking and ecological design skills to any project;
–How to design, plant, and manage highly diverse, productive perennial forest gardens on a home and small farm scale;
–How to catch and store water in the landscape using simple earthworks for irrigation and aquaculture;
–How to regenerate highly disturbed ecosystems using low-cost, low-tech methods;
–How to build resilient local community to prepare for times of economic change and resource depletion;
–How to connect more deeply with yourself, your neighbors, your community, and the earth.
Meet our team of instructors here.
Where: Locations in Putney and Brattleboro, VT
When: 72-hour certification course over 6 weekends:
June 5-6
June 19-20
July 10-11
July 24-25
August 7-8
August 14-15 (project presentations and graduation!)
Cost: $850 with registration by May 1; $900 thereafter. Some scholarships available. Contact calaurel@sover.net for scholarship application forms.
To Register: Download <this form here> and mail with $300 deposit to: <calaurel address>. Checks made out to Vermont Wilderness School.
