Quail Springs Learning Oasis
True Nature
Intensive in Permaculture, Nature Awareness and Community
At Quail Springs Learning Oasis and Permaculture Farm
July 7th to July 31st, 2008
Join us for an
exciting learning adventure into sustainable living and the seeding of culture.
Students will be involved in hands-on building projects, resource
training, applied permaculture, community dynamics and nature immersion.
Our co-founder, Warren Brush, will be
leading the instruction team to offer you, the participant, a
vital and unique experience that will inform how you walk on the earth for the
rest of your life. We have a very limited capacity for this
intensive three-week program...please register today to ensure your place in
this dynamic journey.
Permaculture is the conscious design
and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems that have the
diversity, resilience, and stability of natural ecosystems. It is the
harmonious integration of landscape with humans in providing shelter, water,
food, energy and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable manner.
The True Nature Intensive
gives the participant a practical understanding of the diverse wefts and weaves
of the Permaculture and community living basket through experiential learning
opportunities, workshops, facilitated nature awareness, and immersion in a
supportive community. This course will be supported by Quail Springs' diverse
teaching team, as well as guest teachers.
Be a part of the healing change that is rooting itself in the earth....
The intensive curriculum is delivered in a balance of hands-on
application and supportive presentation and includes:
Natural
Building - Basic understandings of design, site
selection and resource identification. Building with cob,
strawbale, waddle and daub, and timber. Build a cob oven.
Sustainable
Food Systems - Soil health and regeneration. Nutrition farming and gardening. Food
Forestry. Dryland cropping. Perennial gardening. Planting, tending, seed saving, harvesting, and storing of crops.
Water
Health and Reticulation in a Drylands Environment - Grey water systems. Rainwater
harvesting. Building Gabions. Bio-Swale systems both in macro and micro scale.
Closing
the Waste Cycle - Thermophyllic
Compost toilet construction and safe use. Composting basics
Energy Systems - Introduction to solar energy systems: PV,
cooking, passive cooling and heating. Energy storage.
Build a small thermophyllic energy plant.
Watershed Restoration - Determining the health of a watershed. Riparian regeneration design and application. Water testing.
Permaculture
Design - Methods of Design. Basic introduction to all chapters of the
Permaculture Designer's Manual including: PC philosophy, Concepts and Themes in
Design, Methods of Design, Pattern Understanding, Climate, Trees, Water, Soils,
Earthwork, Tropics, Drylands, Temperate, Aquaculture,
and Strategies of an alternative global nation. Landscape
tracking and observation. Permaculture design
application.
Nature Awareness - Awareness awakening exercises. Tracking. Landscape observation and
journaling.
Personal Growth - Solo sit spot routine. Solo
Fire - Fast option. Community support.
Weaves
and Wefts of Growing Community -
Council. Weaving Synergy.
Gratitude as a foundation. Supporting the many while
tending oneself. Be a working member of a growing
community.
Sharing Your Gifts - A multitude of opportunities to share your
gifts for the community to learn from and appreciate.
Cost,
includes tuition, meals and camping: $1,000-$2,500
sliding scale. A deposit of $400 holds
your space, with the balance due by July 1, 2008. We have very limited space
for this unique opportunity.
Contact to apply: info@quailsprings.org
or 805-886-7239, or download the application at www.quailsprings.org/programs
Ongoing Offerings ...
Integrative
Service Learning Journeys
Learn permaculture, natural building and more through
service and immersion in day to day community life at Quail Springs'
demonstration site!
Welcoming
you this spring, summer or fall! Visit www.quailsprings.org/programs
to learn more.
Updates...
PDC is full, we are offering a waiting list and working on creating
more space
Permaculture
Design Certification course with Geoff Lawton (August 2008)
Visit
www.quailsprings.org/events
for more info or contact Kolmi at info@quailsprings.org.