2011, Fall: Permaculture Design Course (PDC)
5 Weekends
8:30am – 5:30pm
The Los Angeles Arboretum & Botanic Garden
301 N Baldwin Ave
Arcadia, CA 91007
TO REGISTER: Call: (626)821-4623 or Email: jill.berry@arboretum.org
Join us in our 3rd Course – Back by popular demand!
Registration Deadline: Sept. 12 Absolutely no sign-ups past this date.
Limited seating, first come, first serve basis
DOUBLE BONUS:
Students attend Soil & Compost 2-Day Workshop with Dr. Elaine Ingham
AND 2-Day Garden Like a Forest Workshop with award-winning author, Dave Jacke!
Permaculture is sustainable land-use design based on ecological principles and ethics. Its aim is harmonizing habitats and inhabitants within sustainable cultural, food, shelter, energy, water, and waste systems. This hands-on course unites theory with practical applications. Our transformative 80-hour curriculum prepares individuals to become pro-active ecological designers, and covers the following topics:
• Permaculture Principles and Ethics • Rapid Soil Rehabilitation
• Water Harvesting • Food Forests • Renewable Energy Solutions
• Animal Systems • Designing with the Patterns of Nature
• Natural Building • Aquaculture • Regenerating Resilient Communities
The course provides the crucial foundation in systems thinking that enables individuals to play an active role in holistically regenerating our landscapes, food systems, and communities. An environment of support and unity between classmates is fostered, which will enable collaboration in design projects and a strong network of fellow designers.
TUITION:
$1400 Includes catered lunch, tea, snacks, an excellent line-up of instructors
AND… 2-Day Soil Foodweb Intensive with Dr. Elaine Ingham! (Oct 22-23)
-Non-refundable $400 deposit to reserve your place due by August 15
-Full tuition due by Sept. 12
DATES:
Every other weekend:
September 24 & 25
October 8 & 9
October 22 & 23
November 5 & 6
November 19 & 20
Instructors:
Dr. Elaine Ingham, PhD is recognized around the world as a leader in soil microbiology and research of the soil foodweb. She is an energetic, down-to-earth speaker who explains what life in the soil is all about. With decades of experience as professor, researcher, and soil benefactor consulting in the field she’s helped thousands of homeowners, growers, and influential companies understand healthy soil via healthy organisms. Elaine transmits sophisticated information in a easy-to-understand way. Her mission is to show that the key to making any plant thrive, from the turf on golf courses to vegetables in the garden is to team up with suitable soil microbes. Elaine has astounding results to show for it. Dr. Ingham is President and Director of Research at Soil Foodweb Inc. (www.SoilFoodweb.com).
Dave Jacke, primary author of the award winning two-volume book Edible Forest Gardens, has studied ecology and design since the 1970s, and has run his own design firm—Dynamics Ecological Design—since 1984. An engaging and passionate teacher of ecological design and permaculture, Dave has designed, built, and planted landscapes, homes, farms, and communities in the many parts of the United States, as well as overseas. A co-founder of Land Trust at Gap Mountain in Jaffrey, NH, he homesteaded there for a number of years. Dave holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Simon’s Rock College and a M.A. in Landscape Design from the Conway School of Landscape Design.
Warren Brush is internationally recognized as a youth educator, mentor, and Permaculture designer, teacher and lecturer. For over twenty years he has worked extensively to foster people’s discovery, expression and integration of their inherent gifts into the land and communities that sustain them. He has co-founded the following organizations and programs: Quail Springs Learning Oasis and Permaculture Farm(www.quailsprings.org), a 450-acre arid land Permaculture demonstration and educational center located in the southern California mountains. His work experience includes nurturing both disadvantaged and privileged youth and adults in learning place based awareness and experiencing initiatory processes, and working toward knowing how “green” and “sustainability looks on the ground. He has worked extensively with many constituencies of youth and adults, including former child soldiers in West Africa.
Caitlin Bergman is certified as both a Soil Foodweb Advisor and a Permaculture Design Course Instructor. She received her degree in Botany from the University of Hawaii, along with numerous awards for her research involving forest restoration, soil seed bank analyses, and ethnobotanical surveys. Caitlin has more recently served as The Los Angeles Arboretum and Botanic Garden’s (www.arboretum.org) full-time permaculture curator and Lead Designer of SayPermaculture! (www.SayPermaculture.com). She tutors various colleges, schools, and residences to educate students and homeowners about putting permaculture into action. Caitlin teaches Permaculture Design and consults and designs with both urban and broadacre holistic, regenerative systems with the company of which she is Co-Founder: SweetSoil (www.Sweet-Soil.com). Caitlin’s teaching credits include Edible Forest Gardening, Lawn to Garden Conversions, Soil Microbiology, Water Harvesting, and Soil Building. She has studied closely with soil expert Dr. Elaine Ingham (www.SoilFoodweb.com) and Edible Forest Gardens Author, Dave Jacke (www.edibleforestgardens.com). She received her Keyline Design Certification with Darren Doherty (http://www.permaculture.biz).
Owen Hablutzel is a consultant and educator working with clients and students to facilitate practical whole systems design and thinking for land health. Having lived and worked in Africa, Australia, and much of the western United States, Owen brings a wide array of experiences to his work with Keyline, Permaculture, and Holistic Management applications. Whether with farms, ranches, classrooms, non-profits, or larger land managing entities, the core work is always empowering people and communities for greater land health, resilience, and stewardship. Owen is a Certified Educator with Holistic Management International, holds a masters in Eastern Philosophy (the original systems thinking / ‘science of the whole’), and currently serves as a director of the Permaculture Research Institute, USA.
Adam Wolpert is co-director of the Intentional Communities Program at Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC) in the bay area. He has lectured on sustainable community and led painting workshops at many West Coast venues and his painting has been widely exhibited throughout California. Adam offers workshops on group process and organizational structure in OAEC trainings and courses. His work can be viewed at www.adamwolpert.com.
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PREVIOUS ARBORETUM PDC GRADUATE TESTIMONIALS:
“…like getting a masters degree in 8 weeks with plenty of hands-on experiences so you aren’t afraid to go out and use what you know.” -S. Holmes
“Not having a lot of extra income to spare, I was a bit concerned about the cost of the course. All of my worries vanished after the first session, never to return. This course is amazing! The amount of information covered is phenomenal. All of the guest speakers bring real world experience with their teachings. Caitlin and Dan bring a wealth of world class knowledge to this course as does every guest speaker. This course will change your life for the better. And allow you to do the same for others. I have enjoyed every minute of this course and would highly recommend it to anyone who is even thinking of taking it. I took this course because I wanted to learn more about homesteading, and retire. Now, I want to start a new business and help others to do the same. Taking this course was one of the best decisions of my adult life, period. Massively educational on an unbelievable scale, this course opened doors to worlds I never knew existed. I am so grateful to Caitlin, Dan, Dr. Ingham and all of the instructors for their time and commitment to the course and to the work in their lives. I would not hesitate for a moment to recommend this course to anyone. It should be taught in all of our schools. This PDC course is invaluable. Thank you, thank you, thank you.”
-B. Butterfield
“I was leery about signing up for the course because I had already taken a PDC with high hopes and didn’t get much out of it. I’m so happy that I did end up taking your course because I’m getting hundreds of times more depth, both with the science as well as hands on, with this one and finally feel that I can present this information to my students. I got the cliches in the other course and this one I’m actually getting the real deal. Thank you!”
-S. Fennoy, PhD, Plant Physiology, College Professor
“The curriculum for this PDC was packed with cutting-edge material and taught by renowned and totally engaging designers spanning a cross-section of fields. Their expertise was only surpassed by the conscious, dynamic and accessible manner in which Caitlin and Dan facilitated the course. I highly recommend it to anybody interested in an intensive study of principles surrounding holistic design, Permaculture.”
-D. Brous
“I highly recommend Caitlin and Dan’s Permaculture Design Course. Their lectures are engaging and fun, and their diverse visiting lecturers topnotch. I’ve made made friends, and connected with a group of people who are aware and concerned for the fate of the planet, and wish to contribute their awareness… You won’t regret the time and energy given to witnessing the limitless potential of permaculture with Dan & Caitlin.”
-S. Adeli
“When I signed up for the PDC Course, I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect. After 6 weeks into the course, I am just blown away at how much I have learned and I have been telling everyone I meet about it. It has truly has changed the way I look at the world around me… I highly recommend anyone taking this course whether you want to apply it just to your personal life or if you want to go big and spread it around the world. It’s truly a life changing experience.”
-B. Ryan
“…a priceless opportunity to explore permaculture concepts, techniques, & strategies that have the potential of solving some of today’s most pressing social and environmental problems. The class succeeded in inspiring each student to build a wide set of skills while building a supportive community and their presentations made complex information accessible and understandable. The hands on experience demystified many permaculture techniques, such as effective composting, greywater reclamation, and soil building… I understand now that permaculture is as viable in large agriculture as it is in every backyard. This is one class I would recommend to everyone!”
-J. Nordman
“I highly recommend that people take this Permaculture Design Certificate course. It has left me with the awareness of our only home: Earth, and our relationship with all beings in it.
This is a fabulous course that integrates all elements of holistic life “self, community, habitat, environment, architecture and agriculture. It teaches the practice of permaculture as a whole, considering the environment as a quality of life by growing healthy plants, nutritious food that is produced without chemicals herbicides or pesticides… and ensuring life for future generations. The mushroom inoculation workshop was great! Phenomenal!!! I am excited to start my own shitake mushroom production in my backyard!!”
-C. Yoshihara, Architect
“I’ve enjoyed this Permaculture Design Course so much more than I imagined….every weekend has been a great source of inspiration. When I began the course, I had a vague understanding of what permaculture encompasses, and now I realize that it is so important for us all to be leading our lives in this direction. I’m used to following my heart and listening to what direction it wants me to take, and this has been quite an eventful eight weeks. After each class, I’m fully inspired by all the work I’ve seen in the presentations and all the new opportunities out there to live my fullest potential. Right now I have many paths to choose from, and they are all aligned with my heart’s desire. I’m thrilled to have found this at this time and have found a good handful of people in the class who I’m combining resources with. My very special thanks to Caitlin and Dan for their tremendous effort, guidance and love!”