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Learn ‘How to Live Green’on a 7-day Travel&Learn™

Caribbean Vacation

The Tubagua Plantation Eco Village commands a spectacular panoramic view of the north coast of the Dominican Republic

Here’s a chance to enjoy a Caribbean vacation while

learning about the fast-growing permaculture movement.

You’ll go home knowing how to transform your balcony or backyard into the latest

landscaping fashion - a beautifully sculpted, oganic food

garden!

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This weeklong course is a cost- and time-efficient way to plug into the globally current and critical issues of sustainability and of ʻliving green.ʼ In addition to addressing the theories, this course carries real and practical applications that anyone can use, be they a homeowner (who wants to do more than sort the household garbage) or a career professional—teacher, city councilor, town planner—who needs to quickly acquire practical knowledge and applications relevant to the current issues of caring for our planet.

As we learn about global issues, we spend hands-on practical time applying whatʼs learned to the actual planning, designing and creation of organic food gardens. The tools you acquire can be put to use anywhere... on your high-rise balcony, front lawn or on your back-nine acres, providing you not only with practical knowledge but the promise of the perrenial pleasure and personal satisfaction that comes from seeing a garden—one you

What is Permaculture?

Permaculture is a movement that started in Australia in the 1970ʼs, that is gaining importance and popularity as peopleʼs concern grows over the health of our planet. Permaculture takes root with the following core values:

• Earthcare – recognizing that Earth is the source of all life, that Earth is our valuable home, and that we are a part of it, not apart from it.• Peoplecare – supporting and helping each other to change to ways of living that do not harm ourselves or the planet, and to develop healthy societies.• Fairshare (or assessing consumption) - ensuring that Earthʼs limited resources are used in ways that are equitable and wise.

Do you feel small and helpless in the

face of Big Business and Big Government? The intent of the permaculture movement is to enable, by rapidly training individuals in a core set of principles, to be able design their own environments and build increasingly self-sufficient human settlements — ones that reduce societyʼs reliance on industrial systems of production and distribution that threaten to destroy Earthʼs ecosystems.

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can eat and then it grows back—come to fruition. This second part of the course is designed for apartment dwellers, home-owners and landowners living in either an urban or suburban setting, who want to transform their immediate environment into something beautiful, productive, energy-lean and functional.

Topics covered include:

• Foundations of permaculture design• Harvesting the surrounding

abundance• Raising & preserving much of oneʼs

food• Gardening on concrete, on roofs &

in apartments• Techniques for dramatically

reducing energy use• Generating income from your home

or lot• Effective methods for harvesting

rainwater • Beautiful, functional and edible

landscape design• Garden designs that increase

production while reducing labor• Simple neighborhood re-works that

promote community• What is at the heart of creating a

ʻpermanent-cultureʼ About 65% of the course time will

be spent in the classroom covering the permaculture design principles and sharing example after example of how these are applied. There will be some time spent outside exploring patterns and features of the landscape as well as some actual permaculture design work. Each student will be involved in the brainstorming of several permaculture designs as well as working on a project of their own.

The goal of this training is for students to come away with a new pair of permaculture eyes. A pair of eyes that can see an abundance of opportunities in any urban or suburban landscape.

Permaculture Design Certification

This is not a Permaculture Design Certification Course (PDC). However it does carry credit for those who might later want to acquire full permaculture design accreditation. If you are intereste in this please say so in your inquiry email.

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Training PreparationShortly after registering for a training,

students receive a welcome email while they are awaiting their textbook. Included in the email are some pre-training study materials and further details about the specific training and site.

Lead InstructorBill WilsonBill holds two PDC Certifications as well as completing Advanced Permaculture Training.

He is Co-Founder of Midwest Permaculture with his wife Rebecca. They have lived the last 31 years in a sustainably oriented community, being intimately involved in itʼs daily life and various transitions.

Additional TrainersJoining Bill will be at least 6 other,

very experienced permaculturists and teachers. Two or more of the teachers will be in the classroom in person sharing of their experience and knowledge. But with the use of the internet, several other teachers will join in live from other parts of the country.

It is important to Bill and Midwest Permaculture that you speak directly to the people who have done the work and who are walking the talk.

This training textbook is mailed directly to

students upon registering.

Training Textbook Gaia’s Gardenby Toby Hemenway

In this second edition of Gaia’s Garden, author Toby Hemenway has expanded

the section on urban landscape. Gaia’s Garden goes into great detail on specific permaculture techniques, such as: organizing your garden in to zones,

creating and maintaining your fertile soil, and explanations about companion planting and permaculture plant guilds. The book also contains many helpful

charts and illustrations.

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Schedule Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 87:00

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Breakfast8:30 Classroom Classroom Classroom ssroom Classroom Classroom12:30 Lunch2:00 Beach

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Field Work Field Workor Trip

BeachShuttle3:30 Field Work

6:00 Personal Time7:30 Dinner Party!8:30 Movie Permaculture Discussion Personal

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