[Ccpg] True Nature Intensive this July at Quail Springs

[Quail Springs]

Quail Springs Learning Oasis
 www.quailsprings.org
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 at 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 at quailsprings.org.  
 
 
 
 


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