Community Training in Ecological Design
Are you a homeowner, farmer or gardener?
Do you want a more sustainable and abundant life?
Learn a land use design method to improve home scale food and forest production, to conserve resources, and save money.
Study basic ecological principles and methods and use them to solve problems on your own home and landscape.
We will meet over a weekend and then once a week to discuss the principles and techniques of permaculture and ecology that help us make better choices for our land, families, and communities.
Class work will include a self-selected design project. You can design your own backyard, garden space, vacant lot, field, forest, or even an entire neighborhood. Examples and applications will be presented in both an urban and rural context.
We are offering two courses beginning February 2nd, 2013
Chenango County (Norwich, NY)
Presented over six Saturday workshops:
February 9 & 16, March 9 and 16, April 6 and 13
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Onondaga County (Syracuse, NY)
Presented over a full-weekend of workshops and nine Thursday evenings:
February 2 and 3, 7, 21 & 28, March 7, 13 & 21 and April 4, 11 & 18
Gracious thanks to this year’s sponsors:
The CNY Community Foundation
King & King Architects.
Westcott Community Center
SUNY Educational Opportunity Center
Gifford Foundation
Rahma Health Clinic
Home Headquarters
A small number of scholarships are available. Application deadline is Sunday at midnight, January 27, 2013.
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Presented by:
Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute, the Alchemical Nursery, and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chenango County (EPO/EEO)
Instructors:
Michael Burns and Steve Gabriel with guest teachers
Tuition:
$200 – $400 (based on what you can afford.) Scholarships are not currently available. However, we are seeking scholarship sponsors. Please visit this page soon to see if we can begin accepting scholarship applications.
NOTE: This is not a Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course. However, your tuition to this series of classes can be applied to our PDC course.
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