Permaculture Design Certificate - Nelson, BC
Permaculture is a design system for creating dynamic and sustainable human environments. This course is for those who want to link the personal with the planetary, so as to lessen their ecological footprint and make sustainability a key part of their lives and legacy. With approximately 72 hours of classroom and hands on instruction, this two week intensive course will provide you with a tool box of skills that will allow you to design and implement living environments that are both regenerative and sustainable.
This course will be taught by RAVIS Sustainable, but is facilitated by Valerie Andrews and Mountain Waters Retreats.
To register Contact Valerie Andrews at 403-690-0365 (in Alberta), email earthspirittechnologies@shaw.
Permaculture empowers individuals to take sustainability into their own hands by providing key design principals and ethics that allow individuals to design sustainability into their life. The Pemaculture design system is based around holistic philosophies and systems thinking which allow humans to work with nature rather than against it.
The course is applicable to everyone from beginner home gardeners to professional horticulturists and engineers to landscape architects wishing to learn more about designing for sustainability. Whether your interest is gardening, farming, planning, building homes, community work, economic regeneration, business or green lifestyles, the application of permaculture principles empowers you to make a positive contribution towards a sustainable future. With approximately 72 hours of classroom and hands on instruction this two week intensive course will provide a tool box that will allow students to design meaningful systems that are not only sustainable but regenerative.
Course will cover:
Theory and principles of permaculture
Eco-friendly house placement and design
Energy conservation techniques for cold climates
Renewable energy systems, feasibility, placement and design
Recycling and waste management
Organic food production
Cold temperate food forest design based on Canadian climatic conditions
Water harvesting and management
Grey water utilization and management
Ecological pest control
Drought-proofing
Soil rehabilitation and erosion control
Sustainable livestock management
Aquaculture systems and design
Catastrophe preparedness and prevention
Windbreaks and fire control
and more...
There’s no question that this Permaculture Design Course will equip you with the ability to confront cultural, environmental and energy-supply change and provide you with the tools to become a more sustainable and energy efficient member of the community.
All students will receive their own copy of Bill Mollison’s Permaculture A Designers Manual, on which the course content is based. Students who successfully complete the course will receive a Permaculture Design Certificate. Course completion is based upon attendance and a group presentation of a final design project.
The lead instructor is Rob Avis.
This course is facilitated by Valerie Andrews and Mountain Waters Retreats.
Mountain Waters Retreats is located on a mountainside, 2.5 kilometers above Nelson BC. The Retreat Facility is surrounded on three sides by the 27,000 hectare West Arm Wilderness Park and is within walking distance of the town of Nelson and all of its amenities. Mountain Waters Retreats are fortunate stewards of a unique piece of land that has cultivated meadows, old and diverse forests and bubbling creeks that run out of the parkland above.
To register, Contact Valerie Andrews at (403) 690-0365 (in Alberta), email earthspirittechnologies@shaw.
Course fees for the two week program, include all meals, supplies and instruction:
Private Room $1900.- Shared Cabins $1650.-
If you have any other questions or requests for information, don't hesitate to contact us.
Course Description:
This course is an efficient and cost effective means of gaining strategies, skills, techniques and an overall foundational knowledge for designing & developing sustainable human settlements from small urban homes to broad acre farms and both small & large communities.
Location
The facility includes private rooms, cabins and dorm accommodation as well as two beautiful large group teaching rooms.
Other Information
Camping & Dorm $1450.- + gst
