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Latest News: Join us for the autumn PDC! October 2-15, 2010.

This cooperative permaculture design certification training weaves together the creativity and energy of the participants and trainers in a 14-day exploration of how to design our world to work for all life.

In the awesome presence of fall Sierra serenity we will share our collective insights, wisdom and experience about how to create sustainable, self-reliant communities, low maintenance foodscapes, healthy homes made from the earth, greywater systems, alternative economic systems and all the many other hallmark techniques of permaculture design.

Innovative Cooperative Model

This course is designed within an innovative cooperative framework which allows us to:

• Share in the work, quickly build community, and learn in a hands-on environment
• Invest in this special site and leave behind artifacts memorializing our time together and what we have learned.
• Reduce Costs! By sharing the work and its fruits, we have the potential to reduce the costs of this course further. As the number of participants crosses certain thresholds, the economy of scale will reduce everyone’s course fee, so tell — and bring — your friends!

The practical sustainable living and cooperative working skills built during course are set in the context of the ethics and principles of permaculture design – the principles of natural systems.

Full 14-Day Permaculture Design Course

Completion of the 14-day training results in the internationally standardized Permaculture Design Certificate.

Introductory Weekend Permaculture Course

The first two days of this course, October 2 & 3,  will be offered as a stand-alone ‘Introduction to Permaculture course for those with weekend availability only.

The training is appropriate for beginners just learning of permaculture for the first time and experienced designers looking to apply what they have learned before on an inchoate site, for job seekers looking to invent the new economy and for those interested in the intersection of spirit, yoga and sustainable living.

An Abbreviated List of Course Topics:
- Ethics, Principles and Methods of Permaculture Design
- Translating Patterns into Designs
- Watershed Stewardship
- Soil Fertility & Earthworks
- Food Forests and Perennial Vegetables
- Diversified Renewable Energy Strategies
- Community Economic Systems
- Natural Building

TOGETHER WE ARE A COMMUNITY OF ABUNDANCE !