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
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