Dear Friend,
On the outskirts of Davis, California lies a
640-acre farm - the home of D-Q University, the only Native American
university in the United States not on reservation land. It is a place
of great dreams and great hopes.
This September, collaboration between the
Regenerative Design Institute and D-Q University will bring together
an incredible array of permaculture teachers and Native American
instructors for two weeks of intensive training in permaculture
design, inter-generational mentoring and cultural connections.
We invite you to spend two weeks participating in
an amazing experience of revitalizing land and people.
The course will introduce the ancient principles
of the Great Law of Peace, originally brought to the people of the
Five Nations hundreds of years ago to help restore peace to their
warring nations.
Together with hands-on training in the principles
of permaculture, this course will provide an experience of beginning
to heal our relationships to the Earth and each other. The gift will
be helping to revitalize a site rich in possibilities for future
generations of indigenous people.
Permaculture Design Certification
Course
Offered: September 3-18
Location: D-Q University, Davis,
California
Find out more about the Peacemaking and
Permaculture Design Certification Course on our
website!
http://regenerativedesign.org/courses-events/permaculture-design-certification-courses
We hope to see you there!
Regenerative Design Institute
P.O. Box 923 | Bolinas, California, 94924
415-868-9681
RDI's Permaculture Design Courses
In
our permaculture design certification courses, you will learn how to
observe and use the same principles that make ecological systems
self-sustaining and apply them to integrated homes and gardens. In
addition, you will learn how to apply these principles to energy
systems and water supplies, healthy communities, meaningful and
fulfilling work, ecological economies and global political movements
for change.
The course also weaves together the principles and practices of
permaculture with nature awareness - participate in activities that
deepen your awareness and intimacy with the rest of the natural world.
Our program is founded on the reality that we are nature and have an
amazing role in our watershed ecosystems.
Throughout it all, you'll be engaged in learning and experiencing an
empowering way of living in the world, surrounded and supported by
like-minded people and instructors. Our goal is to make you a part of
our farm community, incorporating our seasonal activities into your
permaculture experience as time permits. Activities may include spring
and fall pruning, seed planting, plant propagation, bed preparation,
compost pile making, water harvesting techniques, natural building and
other activities.
Each of our permaculture design certification courses includes the
following:
*
Permaculture principles and ethics
* Reading
the landscape
*
Pattern and pattern application
*
Water harvesting
* Swale
building
*
Zone and sector analysis
* Climate
and micro climate
*
Mapping
*
Urban permaculture
* Land
access
*
Community building
* Plant
guilds
* Food
forests and agroforestry
*
The design process, principles, strategies and techniques
* Bird
language and nature awareness
* Soil
building and sheet mulching
* Pond
management and ecology
*
Earthworks and natural building
*
Grey water systems
*
Bioremediation
*
Renewable energy systems
* Forest
management
* Watershed
management
* Group
work on a conceptual design project
