Home-Scale Permaculture Course starting Feb. 13, 2010

Tap your own natural resources: sunlight, wind, water, soil, flora, fauna

Take responsibility for your own consumption

Reduce your dependency on fossil fuels

Design for Living

HOME-SCALE PERMACULTURE COURSE

Introductory Option ($700)

7 Saturdays in 2010:  February 13 & 27, March 13 & 27, April 10 & 24, May 8

Design Certificate Option ($1400)

12 Days in 2010:  Introductory Course plus May 22-23, June 5-6, & June 19

Enjoy the bounty and beauty of an edible landscape… Store free renewable energy…

Create your own microclimate and wildlife habitat… Capture rainwater, replenish the water table…

Improve your health and well-being… Awaken your connection to nature…

Permaculture, a term originated by Australian ecologists, Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, means permanent culture.  Using both ancient and modern knowledge, this design methodology mimics universal patterns found in nature to create healthy human communities.  Guided by ethical behavior, Permaculture is both theory and practice.  It is a system of designing ecologically inspired landscapes that integrate food production with energy, shelter and water.

Permaculture is a frame of reference for analyzing specific human habitats and finding sustainable solutions to their inherent problems or needs.  Whether one is designing a small-scale backyard or patio, or large-scale farm, village or city, Permaculture principles provide basic criteria for informed decision-making.  Permaculture suggests our limits to growth, and our potential for peaceful interdependence.

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Instructor:  As a Permaculture design consultant, architect, and life-long organic gardener, Patty Ceglia is passionate about revealing the inherent beauty of every site.  She uses her professional design expertise to integrate dwellings with their immediate environment, applying appropriate land use for diverse productivity.  She has designed passive-solar and timber-frame houses, forest gardens and edible landscapes.  As an educator, Patty has taught Permaculture Design and Sustainable Architecture since 1990, for the Environmental Studies Department at Wilson College, where her students practice hands-on strategies at the 160 acre Center for Sustainable Living. 

T hrough the collective intentional efforts of many individuals, a healing momentum can transform our planet into the radiant life source that it is intended to be.

Hosted by SCHOOL OF LIVING and HEATHCOTE COMMUNITY in Freeland, MD.

Register at http://www.heathcote.org/cms/content/home-scale-permaculture-design-course-2010 

For more information call 410-357-9523 or email education@heathcote.org.      

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