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2008, Living Mandala
creative services by: 360 Degrees

Topics Include:

SITE ANALYSIS

SITE DESIGN

KEYLINE THEORY AND PRACTICE

MULCHED SWALES

EARTHEN PONDS

LOW-TECH CARTOGRAPHY

LOW-MEDIUM TECH SURVEY EQUIPMENT

CLEAR-CUT REMEDIATION

EARTH WORKS

AGRO-FORESTRY THEORY AND PRACTICE

BUD GRAFTING

HARVESTING

FOOD STORAGE

NATIVE ORCHARDS

PLANTING AND MULCHING FRUIT TREES

REHABILITATING OLD ORCHARD TREES

PICKING THE RIGHT ROOT STOCK

ANNUAL INTER-CROPPING

DESIGN SKILLS

DESIGN IMPLEMENTATION

ACTION-LEARNING

ADVANCED PERMACULTURE SKILLS

AND MORE!

In Association With

Nemawashi

Living Mandala

Eco-Village Training Center

Facilitators & Instructors

Rick Valley

Matthew English

Cliff Davis

Greg Landua

Course Description

Living Mandala in partnership with the Ecovillage Training Center and Nemawashi Venture Altruist Partnership are offering an Advanced Permaculture Practicum with a dual focus to provide a regenerative approach to creating food and water security to combat global warming. The course will consist of two weekends of Advanced Permaculture Design and Implementation in Earthworks for Food and Water, Forest Gardening for food, fuel and fodder, and an optional Hands-on Practicum in the week between.

The first weekend will be focused on broadscale permaculture design of earthworks for water catchment, erosion control, and clear cut remediation. The second weekend will focus on restoration of old orchards as well as forest gardening design and implementation. This course is designed for advanced permaculture students looking for hands-on application of permaculture principles. We will be implementing earthworks on a local clear cut for water catchment and erosion control as well as planting a forest garden, harvesting orchard crops, and restoring an old orchard.

The course can be broken in two sections which can be taken separately as individual courses over the weekends, or it be taken as a full 10 Day Practicum.

Location

We will be converging in the hills and hollows of middle Tennessee in and directly around The Farm, one of the largest and best known intentional communities in the U.S. Located on 5,000 wooded acres, it is home to approximately 200 persons today. Founded in 1971 with a spiritual commitment to simple living and self-reliance, The Farm has pioneered a wide range of social and physical technologies appropriate to low-cost, high satisfaction community living. The Farm community offers examples of solar building design, micro-enterprise, mushroom cultivation, large scale composting and food production, and regenerative hardwood forest management.

Housing

Participants will be housed in the Eco-hostel at the Farm's Ecovillage Training Center. The Eco-hostel is an old Farm house that has been recently renovated and expanded. It consists of a small shared kitchen, 2 bathrooms, dorm and private rooms, cozy studying area and library. The house was originally constructed by members of the Farm in the late 70's out of completely recycled materials. Our renovations have included three dormitories, two solar showers, rainwater collection, solar electricity, and wastewater recycling. We just added a 2-story greenhouse with a third story observation deck

Discount Package!

Advanced Permaculture Design Practicum

September 12-21

Special Rate! $600 - $900 sliding scale

Join us for both weekend courses plus a 4-day hands-on practicum in between at the Eco-Village Training Center and Solar Springs for a combined Advanced Permaculture Action-Learning Intensive.

Contact

For more information on the Advanced Permaculture Design Practicum e-mail: nemawashi@livingmandala.com

or call: 541-740-6121

Nemawashi & Living Mandala present

Advanced Permaculture Design Practicum
Eco-Village Training Center

September 12-21, 2008

Summertown, Tennessee

Join us for a 10-Day Practicum in

Advanced Permaculture Design and Implementation:

Earthworks for Water Catchment, Erosion Control & Clear Cut Remediation

& Forest Gardening & Orchard Remediation

Course Details & Registration

Join us this fall for 10 days of Hands-On Advanced Permaculture Education in action as we work to restore degraded landscapes, implement large scale earthworks on a piece of clear-cut property, restore an old orchard (during harvest season), and design and install a food forest garden! The course consists of two weekend workshops which can be taken separately, or it be taken as a full 10-Day Practicum.

These are hands-on courses. Learn by doing, with expert instruction!

*Flexible Dates: Take one or both courses with an option for the full 10 day Practicum consisting of both courses.
*Low Cost: Only $200-400 dollars per weekend (including food and lodging), $600 - 900 for the entire 10-day practicum. We want to empower YOU!
*Expert instructors: See our list of amazing instructors.
*Hands-On! Gain practical experience as we will be implementing large scale earthworks on a piece of clear cut property, working on an old orchard (during harvest season), and planting a new forest garden
*Community: Experience a stay at the Ecovillage-Training Center at The Farm, - one of the largest and best known intentional communities in the U.S.
*Great Food!: All courses include gourmet vegetarian meals and lodging at the Ecovillage Training Center.

Weekend 1: September 12-14, 2008

Earthworks for Water Catchment, Erosion Control & Clear Cut Remediation

* Follow the entire permaculture process from survey to design and implementation

*Learn how to create lush green forest out of a clear-cut wasteland
*Includes gourmet vegetarian meals and lodging at the Ecovillage Training Center

Topics: Site Analysis

Site Design

Keyline Theory and Practice

Mulched Swales

Earthen Ponds

Low-Tech Cartography

Low-Medium Tech Survey Equipment

And More!

$200 - $400 sliding scale

For more information click here or e-mail nemawashi@livingmandala.com

Weekend 2: September 19-21, 2008

Forest Gardening & Orchard Remediation

*Deepen your understanding of food forest gardening
*Help restore a neglected orchard
*Provide food, fuel, and fodder for future generations
*Learn from knowledgeable local guest instructors
*Includes gourmet vegetarian meals and lodging at the Ecovillage Training Center

Topics: Agro-Forestry Theory and Practice

Bud Grafting

Harvesting

Food Storage

Native Orchards

Planting and Mulching Fruit Trees

Rehabilitating Old Orchard Trees

Picking the Right Root Stock

Annual Inter-Cropping

And More!

$200 - $400 sliding scale

For more information click here or e-mail nemawashi@livingmandala.com

Instructor Biographies

Rick Valley

Rick Valley is a veteran permaculture designer and teacher who has been designing and building ponds and water harvesting earthworks since 1987. He is a permaculture instructor and the land steward at Lost Valley Educational Center in Dexter Oregon and holds a diploma of Permaculture design in teaching and site implementation from the Pc Institute in Australia. Rick has been practicing Forest Gardening and sustainable forestry in the foothills of the Cascades for more than 15 years and carries the expertise of a master nurseryman form one of his previous incarnations as the owner of a nursery business.

Cliff Davis

Cliff Davis's reverence for the Earth has led him to work as an arborist, ediblenative landscaper, natural builder, and permaculturalis. His deepening passion for sacred ecology fuels his current projects including an orchard restoration project, a permaculture program for The Farm school and co-founding Flowering Earth Permaculture Gardens/Nursery. Cliff currently works as the sustainable land steward of the Ecovillage Training Center on The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee and is a Permaculture teacher, designer, and consultant.

Matthew English

Matthew English Is actively working to regenerate a clear cut piece of property that he and his partner bought as the site for their off the grid homestead and educational center, Solar Springs. Matthew earns his living as a bamboo artisan and farmer. He has spent the last 12 years studying bamboo cultivation and utilization (from crafts to construction), natural building, Permaculture and other ecological land-use systems. He is establishing a small-scale bamboo plantation and agroforestry system and offers consulting and workshops in the multitude of appropriate technologies represented at Solar Springs. He has been teaching professionally for seven years.

Greg Landua

Greg Landua has studied marine and terrestrial ecology and evolutionary biology in the Galapagos Islands, translated for Amazonian rainforest guides, fought wildfires in the wilderness of Alaska, and studied the nuances of ecology and ethics. Greg has B.S. in Environmental Science and Ethics from Oregon State University, and a post graduate diploma in Organizing Learning for Ecosocial Regeneration from Gaia University International. He is currently the Program Coordinator for the Ecovillage Training Center on The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee. He is an active permaculture and ecovillage design educator, founding partner of the Nemawashi Partnership, and core member of the Living Mandala Design Collective. Along with teaching and practicing permaculture, Greg is an active bioregional organizer and NextGEN fellow helping to craft avenues and pathways for intergenerational dialog and collaboration in the shared enterprise of earth regeneration.

For more information on the Advanced Permaculture Design Practicum e-mail: nemawashi@livingmandala.com

or call: 541-740-6121