Eight Day Permaculture Design Certificate Course at Solid Ground Farm in Athens, Ohio
Join Wayne Weismen and the Permaculture Project for a weeklong ecological design immersion       Sunday March 18 – Sunday March 25, 2012

Explore the concepts, theories, and practice of Permaculture design.  Experience Permaculture applied directly to the Midwest, as you live and learn with practicing ecological designers on Solid Ground Farm.   Discover the interrelations of natural building, sustainable agriculture, biomimicry,  broad-scale site design, local economies, local ecosystems, earthworks and waterways.  Sure to be an exciting week of on-site projects, lectures, special guest teachers, site walks around the area, and fun nightly activities from African drumming lessons, to Capoeira and yoga classes.  Come join the fun.

Cost:  $800-1000 (sliding scale) base fee includes space for onsite camping, three meals a day, textbook and access to online resources, and a certificate from The Permaculture Project, LLC.  For offsite accommodations please  contact us.  Pre-registration required. Register by sending a check written out to RAW (along with your name, address, phone number and email) to Solid Ground Farm, 13262 Liars Corner Rd, Millfield, Ohio  45761.  For more information, contact Weston Lombard at 740-856-6299 or westonlombard@gmail.com or visit http://www.solidgroundfarm.com.  Space is limited.

Biodynamics and Permaculture: Exploring Tools to Heal the Earth, A Workshop in New York
October 29, 2011; 9 am to 5 pm; $95
The Pfeiffer Center, Chestnut Ridge, NY; info@pfeiffercenter.org; www.pfeiffercenter.org/workshops

Biodynamics and permaculture are two approaches to agriculture and land care that work to engage the forces of nature to foster a healing relationship between humanity and the earth. Permaculture is used by millions of people in over 150 countries to design sustainable habitats that integrate humans into their ecosystems. Biodynamics is widely practiced in North America, Europe, and Australia and promotes an understanding of the “dynamic” life forces at work in nature to create agricultural systems that bring about balance and healing. Where do these powerful systems overlap in the world? What are their similarities, their differences?

This one-day workshop will explore principles, practices, goals and methods of biodynamics and permaculture. We’ll clearly define and demystify the language of each system, building a foundational, holistic understanding, while discovering and seeking deeper truths. Read more »

An internationally certified Permaculture Design Certificate Course will be held in Ashfield, Massachusetts 1 weekend/month (5 sessions) from July 2011 through November 2011. This course is designed for busy people who want to take a PDC but can’t get away for a 9-day course.

For more information: http://www.terra-genesis.com/permaculture-design-course-july-nov-2011-one-weekendmonth-western-massachusetts-usa/

This course is designed for busy people who want to take a PDC but can’t get away for a 9-day course.  This certified 72-hour Permaculture Design Course (PDC) taught by Terra-Genesis’s Mary Johnson will incorporate field trips to local farms, cultural events and guest appearances from other local teachers (tba). Mary has been teaching and working internationally for many years and brings strong practical experience to her permaculture design perspective that is grounded in farm business planning and holistic management.

Please contact Mary at wrcinashfield@yahoo.com with any questions, and to register.

Course: Suburban Permaculture Design & Leadership Certificate
Dates: July 9 – 24th
Location: Eugene, Oregon – Organic meals and lodging included

Gain cutting-edge skills in nature-inspired sustainable design that’s applicable virtually anywhere design is used — from green businesses to your own back yard.  Visit ecovillages, organic farms, the nation’s first biofuel station (ever seen a gas station with solar panels and a green roof selling kombucha? ;), while spending two weeks with some of the most inspiring people around!
Join an unforgettable program in leadership, permaculture and sustainable design in Oregon with the world’s most renowned instructors and change your life, your community and your planet.  Not only do Common Circle Education courses offer the most complete curriculum of any similar program, but the people who come to the programs make this the most powerful training offered anywhere. Read more »

Weekend Permaculture Design Course – Columbus, OH 2011

Olentangy Wetland

Dates: July 16-17, August 13-14, August 27-28, September 10-11, October 8-9, and October 22-23. 

Location: Columbus, Ohio at the Olentangy River Wetland Research Park

Description: Join us as we explore the power of ecological design to create resilience and beauty in our communities. Over six weekends, Saturday morning through Sunday afternoon, we will present the internationally recognized curriculum in permaculture design. Participants will gain experience with permaculture by developing designs for emerging urban garden projects, installing a demonstration garden and visiting established systems. This course will also include a weekend at a well developed permaculture homestead located on a long term community land trust in Athens county, Ohio.

Urban Permaculture

Instructors: Josh Beniston, Peter Bane, Ryan Hottle, Deb Knapke, Mark Cohen, and guests.

Cost: $875

Website: columbuspdc.wordpress.com

Contact: Josh Beniston 740-818-8422

There are a bunch of local permaculture courses coming to Michigan (Washtenaw and Hillsdale Counties). Yes that’s right, Washtenaw Community College has welcomed Permaculture into the halls of higher education. These intro courses are a worthwhile endeavor for anyone interested in sustainable solutions you can start NOW at home, in food, energy, water, waste, building, and transportation. This is the Summer of Grow!

Wednesday, May 11th from 6-9 PM – Cottage Food Industry: Make Money Selling Your Home Made Foods A Class in the Permaculture Design Series
Recently passed amendments to the Food Law of 2000 define a cottage food operation as one where a person produces or packages non-potentially hazardous food in a kitchen of that person’s primary domestic residence. The law allows sales of allowable foods produced by a cottage food operation to homes, farm markets, roadside stands, municipal farmers markets, county fairs, celebrations, festivals and other events. Learn how to set up your own cottage based industry and how the concept relates to the Permaculture concept. Examine what foods are allowable for sale, the requirements for labels and listings, sales records, and learn how to plug into the network of existing cottage food operations.
To learn more and register, click here: http://www.wccnet.edu/lifelong-learning/browse/view/category/careers/

And there are more… Read more »

An 8-Day Permaculture Design Certification (PDC) Course will take place May 14 – 21, 2011 at Blueberry Hill Farm in central Ohio

Permaculture educators Wayne Weiseman of The Permaculture Project and Bill Wilson of Midwest Permaculture will present a variety of subjects including:

•      Observation / Patterns; Principles / Ethics; Soil / Plants / Trees; Guilds / Polycultures; Water / Earthworks; Climate / Microclimate

Students will learn permaculture design principles suited for:

•      Urban & Suburban; Small Farm Strategies; Large Farm Possibilities

Topics to include:

•      Garden Management; Eco Building; Planning a Homestead; Aquaculture; Biofuels; Economics; Sustainable Living

This eight day course includes pre-course online webinars, detailed handouts, course text and onsite hands-on practicum and instruction. Camping & meals are included.* The course cost is $1200.00 for eight days and your time commitment to study the pre-course materials.

For more information and registration, please go online to www.blueberryhillfamilyfarms.com. TO REGISTER BY MAIL, please use the form below. For more  information, please call 330.351.1886.

*Local lodging is available at your own expense. Special dietary needs will be addressed if you let us know in advance.

8-Day Permaculture Design Certification (PDC) Course Mail-In Registration Form May 14 – 21, 2011 at Blueberry Hill Family Farms

Name:_________________________________________________________________________

Address:_______________________________________________________________________

City:________________________________    State:_________  Zip:______________________

Phone Number:____________________  Email:_______________________________________

Please make check for $1200.00 payable to Mustard Seed Market & Café and mail, along with this completed form, to Mustard Seed Market & Café, Attn: Adria Owens, 6025 Kruse Drive, Solon, OH 44139.

Payment and completed form must be received no later than Monday, May 2, 2011.

Song of the Morning Ranch will be hosting a permaculture workshop featuring Permaculture Design Course instructor Wayne Weiseman on the weekend of April 29-May 1.

Join us for this three-day Introduction to Permaculture, which will involve a combination of classroom instruction and field experience that will help us view our respective landscapes, at Song of the Morning and elsewhere, with fresh eyes. Permaculture is a land use and community building movement that strives for the harmonious integration of human dwellings, microclimate, annual and perennial plants, animals, soils, and water into stable, productive communities – it is an approach that honors spirit in nature. The focus is on the relationships created among these elements and the way we place them in the landscape. Instructor Wayne Weiseman is certified by the Permaculture Institute of Australia as an instructor of the Permaculture Design Certificate Course, which he has taught for many years. Wayne is Director of The Permaculture Project, a full service, international consulting business promoting the ideas of eco-agriculture, renewable energy resources, eco-construction methods, and education. Fee: $250 ($225 on/before April 15). For more information, see http://www.goldenlotus.org/Permaculture1.pdf

Title: Head Grower/CSA Manager, Outback Farm & CSA

Location: High Falls, NY

Compensation: On-farm, furnished residence is available.

Outback Farm and CSA is currently looking for a handy farmer (or farmers) with experience or interest in no-till permacultre to run the 15-25 family CSA and market-garden farm. Please contact us ASAP.

Our working farm is about 1.5 acres fenced in four plots (on 36 acres). We have a combination of living paths, mulched paths, wild buffers and no-till bed space built up in the last four years of growing annuals. The soil is generally clay-heavy but does vary. Coxing Kill creek runs at the bottom of property; a gravity-fed spring serves to irrigate some but not all of the plots. There is a hoop house, 10×10 compost heated greenhouse with germination station, multiple cold frames and other plastic polycarbonate structures.

On-farm, furnished residence is available.

We would like to have our grower in place and acclimated soon; please be swift and diligent if you are interested!

845-687-0692

riostover@gmail.com

•Permaculture Design and Edible Forest Gardens; Wood Coppice Forestry and Keyline; Bioremediation and Intentional Waster Water Treatment; Land Trust Strategies and Conservation Easements; Green Roof Design

FEBRUARY 5TH – 10am-5pm $60: Mark Krawczyk is taking time out of his busy schedule of writing a book with Dave Jacke titled “Coppice Agroforestry”  to come and share his incredible knowledge with us. Topics covered will be history of Euro & U.S. wood use, woodlot mgmt. techniques, keyline, natural building. Check out their Kickstarter Campaign to learn more about the book!

MARCH 26TH - 10am-5pm $60: Bill Young is a recognized leader in the environmental field with more than 25 years experience and will talk to us about the capping of fresh kills landfill, bioremediation, intentional waste water treatment and much more. See more about Bill HERE.

APRIL 2ND – 10am-5pm $60: David Harper is a conservation professional who works with communities, land owners and governments to secure access to land for food, fuel and fiber use.
he will be talking to us about local food and access to the land, global food security, land trusts & farms, U.S.. land patterns, leverage points and opportunities. a thought provoking and important area of study for all of you who are unfamiliar!

APRIL 9TH – 1pm-5pm $30: Dwaine Lee is a field manager for Sustainable South Bronx and graduate of Andrew Faust’s PDC course. Dwaine will be talking to the class about green roof implementation, design and installation as well as rain gardens, wildlife habitat corridors and the ecological restoration of urban forests.

For more information or to register email dreikycaprice@gmail.com; And Please check out http://www.souldish.com/

From The Institute for Social Ecology:

The Social Ecology Education and Demonstration School (SEEDS), located on Vashon Island near Seattle, Washington (USA) is putting on a series of 8 weekend permaculture workshops between April 30 and June 25. Pre-register by March 1 for a nearly 20% reduced rate! Details.

This video is a little bit choppy, but it’s actually one of the more informative pieces I’ve seen explaining the innovative, unique aquaculture, produce, compost system used at Growing Power urban farm in Milwaukee. – TR

Computer Aided Permaculture Design and Site Assessment with Internet Resources

Sat, 01/15/2011 – 6:00pm – 9:00pm

Designing your city lot or homestead in the woods? Have a concept for a community farm garden or CSA? Much of the information you need is free and on-line. Read more »

Title: Farm Manager

Location: Washington

The Guemes and Fidalgo Islands Staple Foods Project is setting up a CSA whose goal is helping transition our community to a less energy intensive future. Our initial focus will be on growing staple crops such as grains, beans and potatoes. We need a farm manager who will be in charge of planting, harvesting and farm operations and work closely with the project initiator. We are starting out with less than 2 acres and should be selling memberships by late winter 2011. The right person for the job will have experience in and be committed to organic methods and permaculture. Enthusiasm is important. This is a unique opportunity to get in on the beginnings of a project that is changing our food system from the bottom up. Call Sequoia (Susan) Ferrel for more information, or email her at ; sueforpeace@gmail.com. You can read our brochure at http://thetimeisripe.blogspot.com/