Dates: February 13, 2009 - April 5, 2009

Location: Charlottesville, Virginia

Scope: Statewide

Type: Class/Course

Description: Sustainability Strategies for the Blue Ridge:
Permaculture Design Course in Spring 2009
with Ted Butchart, Christine Gyovai, Dave Jacke, Dave O'Neill and Joel Salatin.

This Permaculture Design Course lays the foundation for understanding the workings of natural systems and for designing human environments that produce food, shelter, and energy. It also provides participants with models of community development and extension by which they can create networks of support for themselves and empower others to do the same. The course provides tools to help design and develop an individual’s urban or rural property in a sustainable manner, revitalize local communities, and help restore ecological balance. Permaculture promotes land use systems that work with natural rhythms and patterns to create sustainable cultivated ecosystems. Participants will learn how to design and build gardens, homes, and neighborhoods that model living ecosystems. By understanding patterns in nature students will learn how to grow food, manage water catchment and storage, utilize renewable energy and build community.
This course covers themes such as: ecological systems understanding, organic food production, natural soil improvement, watershed restoration, water conservation and management, edible forest gardening, native medicinal plants, natural habitat restoration, healthy buildings and human settlements, community and consensus building strategies, renewable energy systems, sustainable community development, local economics, reducing our ecological footprint, and ecological planning and design methods.
This 72 hour certificate course, presented by the Blue Ridge Permaculture Institute, is a rare opportunity to learn from the best teachers in the permaculture movement.
Dates: Feb. 13-15, Feb. 28-Mar. 1, Mar. 14-15, Mar. 27-29, and Apr. 4-5, 2009
For more information, email tygerlilley@gmail.com
or visit the website
www.blueridgepermaculture.net

Website:

http://www.blueridgepermaculture.net

Terry Lilley
Address:
1508 Green St
Charlottesville, VA
22902
Phone: 434 296-3963
email: tygerlilley@gmail.com