Tag Archives: Permaculture
Learn about International Development & Permaculture
Our guest presenter will be Lesley Byrne, an international permaculture teacher and trainer, will highlight the realities of working abroad. Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute, Ithaca College, Karryn Olson Ramanujan, Kenya, Permaculture, women
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Waiting List Begins for 2013 FLPCI Permaculture Course
The 11th Permaculture Design Certificate course scheduled to begin on July 26, 2013 appears to be sold out.
Potential students who still have a strong desire to take our course are encourage to sign up for the waiting list. Most years one or more students have been unable to attend and space becomes available to those on the waiting list. Continue reading
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Tagged Cayuta Sun, Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute, Karryn Olson Ramanujan, Michael Burns, PDC, Permaculture, Permaculture Design Certificate, Rafter Sass, Steve Gabriel
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Learn to Grow Shiitake Mushrooms…
As you may know, spring is an especially intense time for agriculture, including agroforestry production like mushrooms. Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute instructors Steve Gabriel and Michael Burns are exceptionally busy sowing and tending animals, plants, trees, and infrastructure at their respective permaculture projects. Your help is sought to get a large harvest of logs inoculated with shiitake in exchange for experience with inoculation skills and a couple take-home logs. Continue reading
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Tagged Agroforestry, Cayuta Sun, Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute, Michael Burns, Mushroom, Permaculture, Shiitake, Steve, work trade
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High School Teaches Permaculture with Michael Burns
New Roots High School is a public charter high school committed to social justice and ecological sustainability. Learning permaculture design is a natural fit for New Roots students who are accustomed to learning about many of the same struggles and solutions to meet human and ecological needs that permaculture designers address in their work. Continue reading
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Tagged Finger Lakes, high school, Ithaca, Michael Burns, New Roots, PDC, Permaculture, permaculture design, Permaculture Design Certificate, sustainable design
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Karryn Olson Ramanujan opens women’s leadership discussion
Who Is At the Table? An Invitation. The first day I heard the word “permaculture,” I was temping in a high-rise office building in downtown San Francisco. A coworker had asked me about my experience living and studying … Continue reading
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Tagged Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute, gender, Karryn Olson Ramanujan, oppresion, Permaculture, Permaculture Activist, race, scholarship, women
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Urban Permaculture Presentation with Jonathan Bates in Ithaca, May 13th
Jonathan Bates, contributing author of “Paradise Lot: Two plant geeks, one-tenth of an acre, and the making of an edible garden oasis in the city,” speaks about his 10-year-old edible forest garden in Holyoke, MA. Continue reading
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Tagged agroecology, Agroforestry, book, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Cornell Garden Based Learning, event, Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute, food forest, forest garden, Groundswell, Home Green Home, Ithaca Children's Garden, Jonathan Bates, perennial plants, Permaculture, Tompkins County
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2012 Alumni Describe Our Summer Permaculture Course (video)
Samantha Mason, a film student at Ithaca College has been helping the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute document its work over the past year. She interviewed many and the following video captures the excitement and words of our students as they reflect back on two weeks of immersion into a hands-on, intensive permaculture course. Continue reading
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FLPCI cofounder Steve Gabriel writing “Farming the Woods” book (video)
As long as Steve Gabriel has been learning, practicing, and teaching permaculture, he has been in the woods. His search for sustainable agricultural practices kept bringing him back to the temperate forests that cover the Finger Lakes and much … Continue reading
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Tagged Agroforestry, book, Cornell, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Cornell University, Finger Lakes, Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute, forest farm, forest farming, Ithaca, Ken Mudge, non-timber forest products, PDC, Permaculture, permaculture design, Permaculture Design Certificate, Steve Gabriel, video, woodlots
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