With Scott Pittman (lead instructor)
Mayto, Mexico (2 hours South of Puerto Vallarta)

Mexico/ Permaculture Design Certification + Farm and Ranch Practicum
 

Rancho Sol y Mar is extremely pleased to announce its first formal Permaculture Design Certification course taught by the Permaculture Institute http://www.permaculture.org/. Take a sunny get-away this winter and learn hands-on skills to change the world! Join a renowned team of designers and teachers this February for a Permaculture Design Certification course at Rancho Sol y Mar on the warm  Pacific coast of Mexico. 


This Permaculture Design Certification Course builds on the standard 72-hour PDC curriculum with special attention on the design process, site assessment skills and personal sustainability.

Studying permaculture at Rancho Sol y Mar offers you the opportunity to learn from and interact with existing regenerative living systems AND help design and build new systems using permaculture strategies and techniques.


The practicum of this course will include design of a Perennial Food Forest and a ranch-wide review of systems and best practices.  Working with a design team, you will:

- Gain design experience to apply in any climate zone for your own permaculture site.

-  Log extensive design time mentored by leading ecological designers.

- Learn mapping tools, working with light and water

- Work with renewable energy systems and natural building

- Build and improve soil through multiple regenerative techniques

- Experience food preservation, fermentation, cheese making, etc

- Gather earthworks & planting techniques for installing a perennial food forest

- Participate in animal husbandry (goats & chickens)

-Practice personal sustainable living skills to renew and replenish the earth

Located located just minutes away from the Mayto Beach, two hours south from Puerto Vallarta on the Pacific Coast of Mexico,  Rancho Sol Y Mar is a working organic dairy farm, off-grid ranch and solar campground.

Rancho Sol y Mar is powered by solar energy to create electricity, heat, pump and recycle water, run electric fencing, as well as for cooking and dehydrating the organic foods grown on site. Participants join a medley of farm animals (chickens, horses, a mischievous burro, an equally mischievous dog, and a frolicking herd of happy goats). Ranch produces its own artisan cheeses. There are adobe, compressed earth block, stone, and other natural, locally sourced building materials produced and used on site. Students participate in permaculture-based work at the ranch with dairying,composting, solar system observation, adobe and cob demonstration, gardening support and watershed restoration. This class is particularly recommended for environmental students and educators, homesteaders, small scale farmers, design professionals, and people involved with small scale diverse agricultural settings as well as anyone wishing to apply permaculture principles to their own lifestyle. Participants receive an internationally recognized certificate in Permaculture Design.

 

LOCATION: This course is offered at the Rancho Sol Y Mar Sustainability Education Center that is located 2 hours south of Puerto Vallarta, near town of Mayto. The area has seen almost no commercial development but that is rapidly changing. Five minutes from Mayto (population approximately 200) the town of Tehuamixtle, a beautiful fishing village of about 100 people, tucked into a rocky headland, and with a calm, swimmable beach. Rancho Sol Y Mar offers a wonderfully tranquil opportunity to learn sustainability in action, gain practical skills and enjoy tropics.  Participants have options of renting spaces at the low-impact Sol Y  Mar Solar Campground – with their own RVs, or tent camping with access to all facilities.

 
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
http://www.sbpermaculture.org

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