One Day Permaculture Workshops

Permaculture is an ethical and holistic design system for building a sustainable culture. It offers practical ways to meet basic human needs for water, food, waste recycling, energy, shelter, and social connection without harming the environment. Learn how to apply Permaculture wherever you live and work!

Forest Gardens
Saturday, August 1, 8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Understand how to create perennial, multifunctional bits of paradise where everything gardens. From porches and lawns to fields and forests, learn how to use edges to plant guilds that nourish each other, meet real needs, and save human labor. Plant a peach guild with us using this Edge Patterning technology!

Animals and Aquaculture
Sunday, August 2, 8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Learn about designing and managing edges to serve everyone's needs and minimize labor on land and in water. From rotational grazing to human and wildlife forage--whether backyards, fields and forests or bathtubs, tanks, streams, ponds or artificial wetlands, integrate functionally-collaborative species for food, fibre and medicinals.

Course facilitator Dawn Shiner lives simply by choice and has guided Permaculture design presentations, workshops and courses at private residences, environmental centers, universities and colleges since 1987. She is the founder of Dancing Green, Inc. and also serves as a Regional Organizer for Gaia University. Dawn holds an MS in Integrative EcoSocial Design with a focus on Permaculture Education from Gaia University. For more information about Dawn’s workshops see www.sustainableagriculture.org.

Workshops will take place at Heathcote Community in Freeland, MD. Tuition is a sliding scale, $60-$100. Work exchange and financial aid is available. For more information or to register contact Karen Stupski at education@heathcote.org or 410-357-9523.

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