All About the Course

Permaculture Design Certification Course

Satsop River, Olympic Penninsula 2011-12

 

Emphasis

Growing Soil, Food, and Community with Artistic Beauty

Tutors

Huckleberry Leonard, with Ginger Leonard, Brent Naylor, and other Special Guest Instructors

Our primary tutor, Huckleberry, has 30 years experience doing edible landscaping in the Pacific NW before beginning his Permacaulture study and teaching experience in NZ with some of the movement’s most significant founders and teachers over a decade ago. He’s also a master natural builder and, in addition to teaching dozens of PDC and Natural Building Courses, has mentored many individuals worldwide. Many people are eagerly awaiting his book. We’re fortunate that Huckleberry, with his wife, Ginger (whose specialty is Dirt), have returned to Grays Harbor where he was raised, to offer us hands-on application of their extensive knowledge and skills.

See more info on this site: www.homeearth.pbworks.com

Description

Permaculture is an integrated land-use design methodology based on ecological principles and indigenous wisdom, with practical application from self-sufficient home/garden/paradises to ecosystem regeneration…even climate change solutions. Collectively we’re facing an uncertain future and need solutions like never before. This course is an immersion into practical approaches to teaming with Nature. Would you like to transform your home into a garden paradise? And help others too? Learn while building community.

This course takes place in a rural setting on the beautiful Satsop River the first weekend of each month (2^nd in Jan), from October through May. It will be taught with an integrated, dynamic, hands-on approach, culminating in several collaborative land-use design projects.

A Permaculture Design Certificate will be issued to each participant upon completion of the course.

COURSE DATES: Oct. 1-2; Nov. 5-6; Dec. 2-3; Jan. 7-8; Feb. 4-5; Mar. 3-4; Apr. 7-8; and May 5-6, plus Special Focus Workshops

Our first class will be held Saturday and Sunday, October 1 & 2, from 9:00 a.m. till 6:00 p.m. each day. Healthful lunches will be served. Please bring a food offering for our morning/afternoon snacks. Camping and indoor accommodations are available for those who wish to spend one or more Saturday nights.

Tuition: $600 – 800 on a sliding scale includes handouts, lunches, and certification. Contact if interested in partial work/trade.

PDC graduates are welcome to join us for cost of meals only.

Course includes these and much more:

*Permaculture Design Principles and Hands-on Installations

*Organic Growing Methods (no-till methods, soilfood web, remineralization, forest gardening, mycoremediation, much more…)

*Rural Land Management (orchards, pastures, plant communities, food forests, water systems, animals, steep slope solutions, more…)

*Sustainable Community/Eco-Village Design

*Wildlife Habitat and Degraded Land Regeneration

*Wild Harvest and Nature Connection

*Rocket Stoves, Biochar, Vermiculture, Humanure Systems, Roundhouse Construction, Reciprocating Roofs, Earth Building, Terracing, Water Collection and Management, Collaborative Land Design, Alternative Economies, Community Design and Food~the amazing story of how healthy food, healthy soil and healthy building materials are related elementally…and much much more…all with art and music, song and dance, good people, good fun… and plenty hands-on experience.

Contact

Call Beth @ 360-249-2231 bdaywaters@asd5.org Ginger & Huckleberry Leonard @ 360-249-3166 huckleberryleonard@gmail.com

Check out our blog @ www.permiedc.blogspot.com.

Greater Satsop Watershed Permaculture Cooperative

Of Course Food and Other Matters

Welcome PDC students and interested friends! Just to let you know that, even with the late notice, the course preparations are coming along well. We're excited to announce that our head chef, Steve whose family appeared magically in our lives, is exactly the kind of chef we were hoping for.

Our menus will be well-rounded, nourishing and traditional at the same time as educational.
Besides learning traditional food skills, we'll learn how they inter-connect with growing soil, growing food, growing community and even natural building.

This is going to be a dynamic course.

As the certifying/lead course instructor I'd like to share a bit about my experience with you.
After 25 years as an edible landscaper in this bioregion, I studied Permaculture Design, became impassioned,then spent a decade+ traveling and teaching Permaculture Design Courses and workshops, (occasionally with David Holmgren) ranging from England and Wales where I learned much about earth building and met my reciprocating roof mentor, to Brazil,Costa Rica, Chile,South Africa, and plenty in NZ. I met my wife on Kauai where I had gone to increase my knowledge about tropical permaculture. She was teaching Vermiculture and soil regeneration workshops with a passion and we recognized each other right away as kindred and soul partners.

Now we're here together and finding our merged education, collaboration and experimentation increases our learning exponentially. We live our lives full time in this 'permaculture' exploration; co-creation, and conversation with Mother Earth, constantly discovering how we can better live with her in harmony and beauty.

We are excited to share this PDC with you. A good PDC is a life-changing event and we think this one will be really good.

In addition to fantastic food and lots of hands-on learning of PC methods, this course will also feature doses of Earth-magic connection, artistic beauty and collaborative music. Please bring instruments and esp. your singing voice!

It is late notice for this course. We appreciate folks working with us on that. It came up because we want to support the efforts of teachers of a new high school course about sutainable and edible landscaping~starting 2 days after the course!

So let's make this happen for the kids, okay? Besides how great this course is going to be for the participants, the knowledge learned will be passed on to many low-income youth this coming year. It could literally mean survival for some, if not many.

We need at least 10 students to make it happen, we can have up to 18. Please let your friends know, post flyers, help us get the word out.

Thanks!
Lettuce bee for life!
Huckleberry Leonard