Northern Arizona Permaculture Design Course |
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Learn how Permaculture design can meet and exceed human needs by transforming human gardens and communities into fully functioning ecosystems. Receive hands-on experience on how to apply the principles of ecological design in your own home, neighborhood, and city. Home owners, renters, gardeners, farmers, ranchers, landscapers, architects, builders, developers, civic planners, educators, environmentalists, students … everyone who wishes to learn how to live sustainably and apply the principles of holistic design to their respective fields. Course topics:
About the course: This 72 hour curriculum will cover Bill Mollison’s PERMACULTURE DESIGNERS MANUAL plus more recent material. The course consists of four (4) three (3)-day weekends held in Flagstaff, Tucson, the Verde Valley & Sedona. The spread out weekend format is to accommodate local residents schedules to participate in this valuable learning experience taught by regional experts in Permaculture & Sustainability. Course experience will include classroom instruction, field trips, hands-on activities, required & suggested readings & completion of a permaculture design project. Upon successful completion of the course, the student will receive Permaculture Design Certification. |
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| Instruction on all course dates is from 9 AM to 5 PM, with the exception of the field-trip to Tucson. Weekend 1, July 30-Aug 1 – Flagstaff, AZ "Introduction to Permaculture Design" This first week session lays the ground work for permaculture design and can be taken as a single "Introduction to Permaculture" workshop. This session will include Permaculture Ethics & Principles, Regenerative, Generative & Degenerative Systems, Pattern Recognition, Climactic Pattern Understanding, Site Assessment, Forests & Energy, Permaculture Design Methodologies, Solar Cooking lunch demo by Lisa Rayner & tours of urban & rural, active, mature Permaculture sites including Quaking Aspen and Mountain Meadow Farm. Weekend 2, Aug 6-8 – Tucson, AZ "Permaculture in Practice" In the second weekend session we will look at "Permaculture in Practice" as we tour Tucson with permaculture and water harvesting expert Brad Lancaster. In this session students will learn the fundamentals of water harvesting, tour co-housing developments, meet with city officials who are applying permaculture in the government, learn about simple neighborhood community co-operative sharing models, backyard Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) examples, and much more. Due to the popularity of this weekend, we are offering the "Permaculture in Practice" session as a single workshop as well. Course participants will camp near Tucson Friday and Saturday nights. Weekend 3, Aug 13-15 – Cornville, AZ "Permaculture for the Farm and Beyond" The third weekend builds upon the first two as we learn to apply Permaculture on farms and ranches. Topics include Keyline Design, Perennial agriculture systems including guild planting, agroforestry and food forests, , Animal Husbandry, Seed Saving with Bill McDorman, and the Soil Food Web. Hands-on projects include creating water harvesting earthworks and planting a food forest at a 3 acre site next to Oak Creek in Cornville. Camping available for the weekend. Weekend 4, Aug 20-22 – Flagstaff, AZ In the final weekend we will apply permaculture on the community scale and learn about Land Access, The City Repair Project, Creating a Local/Regional Food Economy, Alternative Economics and Local Currencies, and Right Livelihood. This weekend will feature a hands-on natural building project with Cassadra Lasdin. Culminating the whole course will be student design presentations and the infamous permaculture costume and talent / no talent show! |
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