Greetings Permaculture enthusiasts! We're putting on this intensive experiential workshop as part of Santa Barbara City College's Permaculture course. We want to open up some space in the workshop for non-SBCC folks as we've heard that Permaculture enthusiasts are often keen for opportunities to get some guided experience in a facilitated group setting.
The prerequisite to join this workshop is to have taken an Intro to Permaculture course, a Permaculture Design Certification course, or to have done some substantial reading on Permaculture - in order to have the group be up to speed with conceptual basics of Permaculture and ready to dive into the intensive together! *********************** Intensive Experiential Permaculture Workshop at Quail Springs Permaculture Farm Friday & Saturday, July 1-2 optional day, Sunday, July 3 Topics include: . In-Depth Tour of Quail Springs Site with focus on element and function relationships, zoning, legal barriers to sustainability, land and social history, feedback integration in incremental design, hydrological cycles and systems . Natural Building - hands-on working with cob . Chicken butchering process demonstration and hands-on . Permaculture in Africa presentation (through the eyes of the principles of permaculture) . Nature awareness/landscape observation activities . Building a micro-swale, use survey equipment . Composting - Build a thermophyllic compost pile, discuss and visit humanure composting systems and orchard toilet strategies (humanure tractors), and simple home bucket systems . Watershed Walk, watershed restoration work including building small gabions high on watershed . Making cheese and yogurts . Fireside sits, thanksgiving circles, shared meals, moon and star gazing, great conversations! Cost includes instruction, delicious catered meals and tent camping: $225 for 2 day (July 1-2) due by June 24th $75 for optional 3rd day (July 3) due upon arrival Contact to register or with questions ASAP: [email protected] or call 805-886-7239 _______________________________________________ Sdpg mailing list [email protected] https://www.arashi.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/sdpg
