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- Subject: Permaculture Design Course CA
- From: Joe Dalsin <joed@igc.apc.org>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 12:06:57 -0700 (PDT)
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-------------------------------------------------------------------- PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSES WITH BILL MOLLISON AND SCOTT PITTMAN -------------------------------------------------------------------- (Permaculture <-- Permanent AgriCulture / Permanent Culture) The only classes with Bill Mollison in the Northern Hemisphere in 1997! Bill Mollison has announced his retirement from teaching! This may be your last chance to take a course from the creator of Permaculture! Southern California June 16-27, Near Santa Barbara Northern California July 14-25, Near Half Moon Bay This is a two week residential course with 72 hours of instruction. What are some of the things you'll learn in this course? How to: - Turn deserts into prairies within a year or two. - "Read the land" for it's potential. - Design inexpensive, environmentally sound buildings and incorporate them ecologically into the landscape. - Find land to farm in your community for $1 per acre per year. - More than double the yield from your rangeland while increasing soil fertility & the health of your herds. - Avoid disaster; fully and thoroughly check out a piece of land, inventory it's resources and problems before buying it. - Become an Ecological Land Developer and provide as many as three middle class incomes per acre in land based, value added, agricultural enterprises. - Rehabilitate destroyed soils to support limited agriculture in a few months. - Assemble high yield food forests. - Create Oases in drylands-Growing trees without irrigation using only 6 inches of rainfall. - Desalinate salted land What's Special about these Courses? Of course, any time Bill Mollison teaches, the course is special. Other unique aspects are: - Our strong international recruitment, you'll be learning alongside colleagues from other countries. - New material developed since the publication of Permaculture: A Designers' Manual. For instance, detailed information on the nuts and bolts of CSA farming, retirement crops, how to devise your farm/organization's legal structure to avoid paying unnecessary taxes, examples of making a living in ways that don't cause you to compromise your ecological/social values, and Mollison's "Next Phase of Permaculture"-designing whole, "self-building" fully self-sustaining towns. - Invaluable new written handouts, illustrations & resource lists. - Food will be largely organic and purchased or donated directly from the farmers who produce it!!! - Special guest presentations in the evenings. - Scholarships to encourage participation by people of diverse cultural and economic backgrounds. - "Trade show" day with suppliers and manufacturers of appropriate tech products which may be relevant to your own projects. - College credit, and PCA credits applied for. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For more information check out the Web site at: www.permaculture-institute.org Or write Dave Blume at: dblume@permaculture-institute.org Or write "real" mail to: International Institute for Ecological Agriculture(IIEA) PO Box 620930 Woodside, CA 94062-0930 Tel: 415-365-2993, Fax: 415-355-2241
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