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Including

COMMUNITY & ECOVILLAGE DESIGN

DESIGN TOOLS & PRINCIPLES

WATER HARVESTING TECHNOLOGIES

FOOD FOREST GARDENING

NATURE CONNECTION & INDIGENOUS WISDOM

ECO-BUILDING & APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS

SOCIAL JUSTICE & COMMUNITY ORGANIZING

URBAN PERMACULTURE & VILLAGE DESIGN

HANDS-ON EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

INNER ECOLOGY

& MUCH MORE

In Association With

Green Friends

M.A Center

Common Vision

Urban Permaculture Guild

Facilitators & Instructors

Kat Steele

Jay Ma

Max Meyers

Michael Presley

Sage Mata

Kevin Bayuk

John Valenzuela

Tim Forbes

Jeanette Acosta

Starhawk

Trathen Heckman

Additional Guest Instructors to be Announced Soon

(Average of 1 Guest Instructor per day!)

Course Inspiration

In response to many inquiries from individuals interested in taking a Permaculture Design Certification Course, but who are not able to take two-weeks off from their lives, jobs, and family responsibilities to attend a residential intensive course, we are excited to offer this weekend Permaculture Design Certification Course in conjunction with Green Friends at the beautiful site of the M.A. Center in the East San Francisco Bay Area - U.S. headquarters of international humanitarian & India Saint - Amma. The beautiful 180 acre grounds of the M.A. Center are becoming a demonstration & educational hub of leading permaculture, holistic management, and regenerative design practices.

Course Description

Permaculture is a holistic design philosophy described as the art and science of creating community ecosystems in which plants, animals, human beings, and all forms of ecological diversity interact to produce a prolific, ecologically-sound, and regenerative system that can support itself and life indefinitely. Learn the art and science of Permaculture based as we make our way through the curriculum over 7 weekends from March 26 - May 8th, taught and facilitated by a diversity of exceptional instructors from the Bay Area Permaculture Teachers Guild. In addition to the standard permaculture design course curriculum based on Mollison and Holmgren ideas published in The Permaculture Designer’s Manual, we recognize permaculture as an expanding, holistic design philosophy being applied to an ever-growing landscape of diverse fields and skill sets including business, government, economics, group process, social systems, inner work, and more. Accordingly, this permaculture design course will include & integrate additional content and activities such as nature awareness, indigenous wisdom, organizational design, financial permaculture, inner ecology, group process, natural building, hands-on activities, and more here at this amazing demonstration site for permaculture practices in the Bay Area. For a more more detailed description of course contents, dates, and instructors see below.

Course Dates & Details

The course will occur over a period of seven weekends on Sundays and select Saturdays from March 26 - May 8th. Participants can sign up for individual days or for the entire course. Participants who successfully complete the entire course will receive a Permaculture Design Certificate.

Day Schedule:

Classes will be held from 9:00 am to 6:00 p.m. Lunch will be provided by the M.A Center on Sundays, and a potluck lunch on Saturday afternoons.

Dates & General Day Topics: (subject to change)

Weekend 1: March 26- 27:

Day 1 – March 26: Permaculture Overview, Ethics & Principles

Day 2 – March 27: Observation, Nature Connection, & Patterns in Nature, Zones & Sectors

Weekend 2: April 2-3:

Day 3 – April 2: Reading the Landscape, Geology, Weather, Site Analysis, Mapping

- Special Guest: Michael Presley

Day 4 – April 3: Ecology, Plants, Trees, Forests, & Agroforestry

- Special Guest: John Valenzuela

Weekend 3: April 9-10:

Day 5 - April 9: Design Process, Group Facilitation, Health, Nutrition, & Permaculture in the Kitchen

- Special Guest: Jay Holocek

Day 6 – April 10: Water on the Landscape, Rainwater Catchment, Earthworks, Ponds, & Aquaculture

- Special Guest: Max Meyers

Weekend 4: April 16-17

Day 7 – April 16: Soil, Soil Food Web, Holistic Management, & Animals in the System

- Special Guest - Michael Flynn

Day 8 - April 17: Climate, Microclimate, Sacred Geometry, Built Structures, & Natural Building

- Special Guests: Tim Forbes & Jeanette Acosta

Weekend 5: April 23-24

Day 9 - April 23: Earth Day - Day-Off

Day 10 - April 24: Social Permaculture & Community Design

- Special Guest - Starhawk

Weekend 6: April 30 - May 1

Day 11 – April 30: Bioremediation, Appropriate Technology, Renewable Energy, Mushrooms & Mycoremediation

- Special Guest - Max Meyers

Day 12 – May 1: Invisible Structures, Financial Permaculture, & Urban Strategies

- Special Guest - Kevin Bayuk

Weekend 7: May 8th:

Day 13 – May 8 - Design Presentations, Certificates, & Celebration!

Topics to Include:

Certification Applicability

Participants who successfully complete the course will receive a Permaculture Design Certificate. Design Certification is applicable towards Gaia University Degree Programs.

7 Weekend Permaculture Design Certification Course

Whole Systems Sustainability for Creating Human Habitats in Harmony with Nature

March 26 - May 8, 2011

Saturdays & Sundays

M.A. Center - Castro Valley, California

Tuition & Registration

Course Tuition is $1008 U.S. dollars, which includes instruction, as well as a delicious lunch provided by the M.A Center on Saturdays and a potluck lunch on Sundays. Participants who successfully complete the course will receive a Permaculture Design Certificate.

Promotional Specials

Attend the first weekend of the course: Introduction to Permaculture Weekend Workshop for only $75!

Special “Scraping By” price for full Design Course - $875.

Scholarships & Worktrade

Limited Scholarships and worktrade opportunities are available. For more information please email: education@livingmandala.com

Introduction to Permaculture Weekend Workshop - March 26-27

Join us for the first weekend of this course - open to the general public as an Introduction to Permaculture Weekend Workshop. Topics & Activities include Permaculture Overview, Ethics, Design Principles, Nature Connection, Observation, Patterns in Nature, Core Routines, Bird Language, Site Analysis, & More. Tuition for the Introduction to Permaculture Weekend Workshop is $95, which includes lunch. Fees can be applied towards tuition for the entire design course, should you choose to continue. For more information about the Introduction to Permaculture Weekend Workshop click here.

Select Weekends & Day Workshops

For a tentative schedule of select day workshops, see the schedule on the right hand column below.

Meals

Lunch will be provided by the M.A. Center on Saturdays. Potluck lunch on Sundays.

Lodging & Transportation

Participants are responsible for their lodging and travel arrangements. Lodging is not available at the M.A Center except to members of the ashram community with limited space availability. Room costs in San Ramon or Castro Valley range form $40/night to $120/night. We will send you a list of local hotels and online hotel booking options upon request. We will also assist in coordinating carpools with participants coming from different parts of the S.F. Bay Area.

Refund Policy

Cancellations up to 2 weeks before the course on will be refunded, minus a $75 processing fee. No refunds will be given after March 12th.

Site Details - M.A. Center

M.A. Center is the U.S. headquarters of international humanitarian & India Saint - Amma. www.embracingtheworld.org. The beautiful 180 acre grounds of the M.A. Center are becoming a demonstration & educational hub of leading permaculture, holistic management, and regenerative design practices.

Site Projects Include

•1,000 tree holistic food forest
•Dynamic watershed restoration
•Broadacre land contouring & water infiltration
•Keyline patterning & ploughing
•Native reforestation & agroforestry
•Holistically managed grazing
•Soil food web management
•Solar energy
•Community garden & orchards
•Sustainability & spirituality programs

Keyline Plowing in the M.A Center Orchard

Keyline design is a collection of design principles, techniques and systems for developing urban and rural landscapes. The orchard expansion project recently started using keyline plowing methods as part of its array of cultivation techniques. Keyline plowing is a method that strives to connect points of equal elevation to prevent water erosion. Keyline design is a technique used to optimize the beneficial use of water resources in a parcel of land and refers to the specific topographic features of a particular parcel of land as related to water flow. Keyline plowing can help reduce costs and amount of labor required.

About GreenFriends

GreenFriends is a global grassroots environmental movement that promotes environmental awareness and participation at the individual and community levels in activities aimed at preserving our precious environment. GreenFriends’ baseline philosophy is that we should strive to preserve and protect our environment because not only does nature provide us with resources we need to sustain ourselves, but she also sustains all life forms on earth. GreenFriends advocates that each one of us strives to reawaken our awareness of unity with all of creation, and cultivate an attitude of love and reverence towards nature. Developing love for nature will lead to a change in our attitudes, helping us work together towards restoring the harmony between humanity and nature that has existed throughout the ages. For More information visit: http://greenfriends.org

GreenFriends: A Global Environmental Movement

In the United States, GreenFriends’ main activities include tree planting, organic food production using organic farming techniques, a plastics project, solar energy and beekeeping. GreenFriends is a satellite project of the humanitarian organization Embracing the World (ETW). ETW is a member organization of the United Nations Billion Tree Campaign. Since its inception in 2001, GreenFriends has become a global environmental movement with thousands of members of all ages in the United States, Europe, Australia and Japan working together to preserve the environment through local participation in GreenFriends projects.

GreenFriends Projects

Since its inception, GreenFriends has made a tremendous impact on the environment by planting more than 1 million trees globally since 2001. Other GreenFriends projects found around the world include permaculture, building eco-friendly dwellings, promoting the use of Efficient Micro-organisms (EM), preserving land and water ecosystems, and recycling/reducing waste. To reconnect people with nature, GreenFriends also conducts workshops, nature retreats and group meditation in forests and other natural settings.

What is Permaculture?

Contact

For questions and more information regarding the course

e-mail: education@livingmandala.com or

call: (707) 634-1461

To Register Click Here.

Permaculture Overview

Ethics & Design Principles

Learning Affirmations

Observation

Nature Connection

Core Routines

Patterns in Nature

Bird Language

Site Analysis

Maps & Mapping

Zones &Sectors

Water on the Landscape

Regenerative Earthworks

Swales & Ponds

Keyline Design

Carbon Farming

Rainwater Catchment

Dryland Strategies

Aquaculture

Aquaponics

Design Process

Group Facilitation

Design Methods

Urban Strategies

Open Space Technology

Village Design

Alternative Economics

Green Business

Holocracy

Cultural Mentoring

Eco-Social Activism

Invisible Structures

Urban Permaculture

Hands-On Activities

Inner Ecology

Instructors & Facilitators

Kat Steele

Kat Steele is a permaculture activist, designer, educator and founder of the Urban Permaculture Guild in Oakland, CA. She facilitates workshops on ecological design, sustainability and permaculture as well as publicly speaks about eco-social design, city repair and the power of placemaking. Trained in Ecovillage Design with the Findhorn Foundation of Scotland, Natural Building with Kleiwerks International, and Permaculture Design with the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, she also holds an MA in Creative Arts from San Francisco State University. She presently serves on the board of a Bay Area nonprofit organization devoted to peace, justice and sustainablity, the NorCal Chapter of Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR). In 2006 she became one of a 1,000 Climate Project trainees empowered to present a version of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth slide presentation. Kat recently moved to Big Sur, CA to lead sustainability initiatives at the Esalen Institute. She is devoted to localization and community resiliency, believing it to be a key strategy towards sustainability and "thriveability.”

Lead Instructor & Facilitator

Jay Ma

Jay Ma is a permaculture designer, facilitator, natural builder, and community organizer committed to cultural healing through Peacemaker Principles. He received his first permaculture design certification through Naropa University in 2001, a B.A. through New College of California in Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community with a concentration in Eco-Dwelling & Natural Building. Jay is a graduate of the pioneering two-year training intensive in Regenerative Design & Nature Awareness. Jay has facilitated educational programs, retreats, workshops, and events as well as community land development projects with organizations including the Regenerative Design Institute, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Gaia University, Omega Institute, Harmony Festival, and others. Jay is co-founder and director of programs of Living Mandala, and works with other regenerative educators and institutions organizing educational courses, workshops, and events for ecological and social regeneration in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. He is currently an associate with Gaia University in Organized Learning for Eco-Social Regeneration. Jay is also a certified Permaculture Teacher, a Fire Walk Instructor through Sundoor International, and is passionate about renewing Rites of Passage experiential programs for people of all ages.

Lead Instructor & Facilitator

Max Meyers

Maximillian Meyers is an experienced Ecological Designer, Permaculture Teacher, Consultant, Commercial Aquaponic System Designer/Installer, Rainwater and Greywater System specialist, Farmer, and the Executive Director of NorCal Aquaponics & the Mendocino Ecological Learning Center - a nonprofit educational organization and ecological reserve offering green job training and sustainable living skills to the public. In addition to the work at MELC, Mr. Meyers provides Ecological design services to the public, organizations, and schools through his businesses Osiris Designs and NorCal Aquaponics. He is passionate about all things related to a more just and sustainable world. He has been studying, practicing and teaching Permaculture and Ecological Design for 12 years. Since graduating from College with a B.A. degree in Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Communities, Max has become a certified Permaculture designer/teacher, water systems specialist and working professional. He has been fortunate enough to study with people like Bill Mollison, Geoff Lawton, Sepp Holzer, Tom Ward, Jude Hobbs, John Valenzuela, Penny Livingston, Tim Mann and many others in places like the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and Hawaii. Some of his fields of study and practice include: Natural Building, Organic Farming, Integrated Rainwater Harvesting, Alternative Transportation, Mushroom Cultivation, Sustainable Forestry, Beekeeping, Animal Husbandry, Renewable Energy, Biogas Production and use, Greywater Systems design and installation, Vermiculture, seed saving and many other sustainable technologies, methods and skills. He has experience teaching Permaculture, Natural Building, Cob Construction, Renewable Energy, Organic Farming, Beekeeping and others. His work has been featured in the best selling book Gaia’s Garden, as well as on various radio and television programs.

Support Instructor

Kevin Bayuk

Kevin Bayuk started as an artist and filmmaker, explored an eight year meander as a technology entrepreneur (in an attempt to fund his films) and has now graduated into his life as an activated advocate for ecotopian living. Kevin is currently leveraging his skills and relationships to develop organizations and projects that regenerate healthy ecosystems and socially just environments. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Urban Alliance for Sustainability, and teaches with the Urban Permaculture Institute, Urban Permaculture Guild, and Earth Activist Training. Kevin facilitates permaculture trainings and shares his skills in organic gardening and composting in playshops and community workshops.

Guest Instructor

John Valenzuela

John Valenzuela is a horticulturist, consultant, and veteran permaculture educator with experience teaching and consulting a wide range of people including children, students, professionals, owners, renters, institutions, businesses, displaced sugar workers, and more. John has been a lead permaculture design course instructor at the Bullock Family Homestead in Orcas Island Washington for 11 years, and also has experience teaching in Costa Rica and throughout urban and rural California. Living in Hawai'i for 15 years, John has studied and practiced tropical permaculture and taught extensively in the Islands. His special interests are home gardens, plant propagation, rare fruit, food forests, agroforestry, ethnobotany, and native ecosystems. John is now based in his home state of California, where he maintains a small nursery, shares his passion for plants, and teaches at courses across the west coast of the Unites States and beyond.

Guest Instructor

Saga Mata

Sage Mata is a permaculture designer, educator, natural builder, and community organizer – inspired by the harmonious and regenerative patterns of healthy ecosystems. She began her studies and practices of organic gardening and Permaculture while receiving her BA in Ecopsychology at U.C. Santa Cruz. She received her Permaculture design certification in 2004 and completed a Permaculture Teacher’s Training Course at the Bullock’s Homestead, WA.

Sage has led natural building projects in Vancouver Island and various projects in CA – with her newest passion in building cob ovens! She worked as a natural building site leader at O.U.R Ecovillage (www.ourecovillage.org) and co-manager of the bountiful gardens at GingerHill farm/retreat center on the Big Island of Hawai’i (www.gingerhillfarm.com). Sage has worked for several organizations, such as the Homeless Garden Project (www.homelessgardenproject.org) and the Garden Path Project of Berkeley Youth Alternatives (www.byaonline.org/heat). Sage is also passionate about our inner ecology and about relationships in our communities – and is a practitioner and and facilitator of Compassionate Communication, World Cafes, Kriya Yoga, and Holistic Nutrition. Sage is a Programs Facilitator for Living Mandala and has been organizing, facilitating and teaching Permaculture design courses, natural building workshops, and food forest gardening workshops since 2004. Sage also currently does regenerative landscape and natural building consulting in Sonoma County, CA.

Support & Guest Instructor

Starhawk

Starhawk is a committed global justice activist, organizer, speaker, teacher, and the author or coauthor of ten books. Starhawk is founder of Earth Activist Training, and travels internationally teaching permaculture, magic, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism for diverse groups, communities and audiences. Starhawk is perhaps best known as an articulate voice in the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion. Besides her inspiring, much-read books, she is a cofounder of Reclaiming, an activist branch of modern Pagan religion, and continues to work closely with the Reclaiming community. Her works include The Spiral Dance, long considered the essential text for the Neo-Pagan movement, and the now-classic ecotopian novel, The Fifth Sacred Thing. A favorite among activists is award-winning Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising. Starhawk's latest book is The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature. Starhawk's books have been translated into many languages, while her essays are reprinted across the world, and have been included in numerous anthologies. Her writing is influential and has been quoted by many hundreds of other authors, from magazines to trade and academic press. Her books are often used in college curriculums.

Starhawk is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, and is deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism. Her work in progressive movements spans over 30 years. She has organized, trained protesters, and been on the front lines of antinuclear actions at Diablo Canyon, Livermore Weapons Lab, Vandenberg Air Force Base, and the Nevada Test Site, among others. She traveled to Nicaragua with Witness for Peace in 1984 and made two trips to El Salvador to give ongoing support for sustainability programs. She continues to be a witness for peace on the front lines of the Palestine/Israel war, working with Palestinian and Israeli peace activists. A main focus for the last several years has been the global justice movement; Starhawk has taken part in many of the major actions, including those in Seattle, Washington DC, Quebec City, Genoa, New York City, Cancun, Mexico, and Miami. She co-founded RANT: Root Activists' Network of Trainers, and teaches non-violent direct action trainings for groups throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Palestine, and South America. She is active in the revived American peace movement, and works with Code Pink. Starhawk also works on countless environmental and land use issues, and is a founder and active member of the Cazadero Hills Land Use Council in western Sonoma County.

Starhawk consulted on and contributed to a trio of popular films, the Women's Spirituality series (directed by Donna Read).

Starhawk and Donna Read formed their own film company, Belili Productions. Their first release is "Signs Out of Time" (2004), a documentary on the life of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, the scholar whose discoveries sparked the Goddess movement. Watch Starhawk’s short videos on Permaculture - Tabor Tilth: Permaculture in the City, and Permaculture Principles at Work. Starhawk and Donna are at work on her next film, an Introduction to Permaculture.

Starhawk lives part-time San Francisco, in a collective house with her partner and friends, and part-time in a little hut in the woods in Cazadero, California, where she practices permaculture in her extensive gardens, and writes.

Trathen Heckman

Trathen Heckman is the founding executive director of Daily Acts Organization, president of the board for Transition US, publisher of Ripples - an award-winning journal, and a backyard farmer. He is the former executive director of Green Sangha Organization and currently on the board of directors. Seeking to inspire the engagement of hearts, minds and senses, Trathen educates and works with community, business and municipal leaders to create programs, policy and models which harness the power of nature and inspired action to restore the health of our lives and communities. Trathen has given oodles of local, national and international presentations on Sustainability, Ecological Design and the power of our daily actions to renew the world. He lives in the Petaluma River Watershed where he grows food, medicine and wonder while working to compost apathy and lack.

Guest Instructor

Jay Holecek

Growing up in a variety of settings around America exposed Jay to many traditional practices. But it wasn’t until he suffered illness and spent years neglecting his health while pursuing business success that he learned food has a direct impact on the health of our bodies, relationships, communities and the environment. Drawing on the wisdom of traditional cultures and current scientific studies his passion is to educate, inspire and nourish those in need. He views whole foods as preventative medicine, and he stays up to date on current food issues and health concerns in order to create safe, sustainable menus. Jay loves to create new recipes share them with hungry friends and speak excitably about food with anyone who asks. Currently he is providing a variety of services to individuals, organizations and institutions around the country while being based in the San Francisco Bay area. He combines his training, knowledge and passion into a service that has enabled him to work with various individuals, catering companies, restaurants, and other organizations to provide menu consulting, recipe development, nutritional and cooking demonstrations and classes, resources and encouragement. Jay’s culinary philosophy incorporates environmentally supportive cooking practices that focus on nourishing the body, mind and spirit, which emphasize the use of traditionally prepared primarily organic, plant-based whole foods and humanely raised and pastured animal products.

Guest Instructor

Tim Forbes

Tim is a builder, craftsman and Artist who has over 40 years of traditional and non-traditional building experience, ranging from Japanese joinery to timber framing and wooden boat building to fine cabinetry. His work has been experienced in sacred Buddhist temples in Japan, custom mountain cabins in Alaska, Pacific Nothwest homes, local forest ecology management projects and soil regenerating permaculture design. Tim strongly supports and advocates sustainable building practices, using recycled materials and the management of natural resources. When building, he allows for the natural character of his materials to dictate their expression and use. Used in this this way, the beauty inherent in natural materials can be emphasized and experienced instead of concealed. Tim's refined and artistic style of craftsmanship combined with his use of sacred geometry creates long lasting and soulful finished projects. In his own life, Tim experiments with living structures, meaning he creates and treats structures as a living system within the environment. His home is a living ecosystem. Its built of local materials, recycled materials and environmentally friendly "green" materials. He harnesses and uses wind and solar energy while reducing his dependency on nonrenewable energy. He captures, naturally purifies and stores water and keeps a living earth roof which blossoms in the springtime. He built a thermal trap for his home with vegetation by layering indigenous trees with fruit producing shrubs and trees. He maintains year-round organic gardens, uses natural pest control, reconditions soil with nutrient generating composts and ponds. He has produced a healthy living environment that attracts and provides food, shelter and water for local wildlife. To Tim, a life spent learning and sharing his findings creates opportunities for abundance and restoration. In some cases, the project is meant not to be easily distinguished from the natural environment or better, be so integrated into the natural environment, that human influence is barely noticed. More information about Tim can be found at: http://www.live-edge-building.com

Guest Instructor

Jeanette Acosta - Sat Siri Kaur

For all her life, Sat Siri Kaur and her family have applied their shared experience to create cultural preservation and teach sustainability and stewardship of the Earth. Together they develop and implement practical solutions for sustainable living while offering hands-on permaculture courses, workshops and more. Sat Siri’s courses lead us through the principle of Council, followed by an exploration of Indigenous teachings about sustainability passed on by her parents and Chumash Elders. Council is the practice of speaking and listening from the heart. Through compassionate, heartfelt expression and empathic, non-judgmental listening, Council inspires a non-hierarchical form of deep communication that reveals a group's vision and purpose. Council offers effective means of resolving conflicts and for discovering the deeper, often unexpressed needs of individuals and organizations. Council provides a comprehensive means for co-visioning and making decisions in a group context. Council is about our personal and collaborative story. Her workshop sessions introduce the abundance of materials, resources, knowledge, and ancestry that exists in our natural environment. (i.e., The practice of gathering and use of native plants.) Sat Siri provides expertise with cultural immersion specifically to Indigenous Maritime land use system as it relates to culture and ethno-ecological importance. She teaches to cultivate inner garden’s cycles, transitions, restoration, and revitalization process as it relates to the preservation and stewardship of Self, Earth & Spirit. Sat Siri was raised in a household visited by traditional Indigenous healers who imbued in her the respect of these sacred traditions. She is the Blesser for the Annual Blessing Ceremony for Peace at the 3HO Summer Solstice International Peace Prayer Day. She is also a certified Teacher Trainer of Kundalini Yoga & Meditation. Sat Siri Kaur is deeply connected with the earth and spirit, emotes love, compassion and connectedness and seeks to fill others with gratitude, consciousness and the sensation of being blessed.

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Soil Ecology & Soil Food Web

Soil Building Strategies Compost

Sheet Mulching

Compost Teas

Animals Systems

Carbon Sequestration

Plant Guilds

Gardens

Food Forests

Sustainable Forestry

Coppicing

Plant Propagation

Pruning

Climate

Microclimate

Passive Solar Design

Natural Building

Green Building

Tropical Permaculture

Appropriate Technology

Mushrooms & Mycoremediation

Bioremediation

Humanure

Greywater

Group Decision Making

Compassionate Communication

Cooperative Legal Structures

Finance Permaculture

Land Access

Eco-Villages

Indigenous Wisdom

Design Projects

Wildcrafting

Delicious Meals Included