A Project of Vermont Wilderness School

Brattleboro, VT Weekend Series – Summer 2011

Permaculture is a design system for beyond-sustainable human inhabitation of the Earth.  The Permaculture Design Certification course provides ecological literacy, regenerative landscape design training, and planning, problem-solving, and project management skills.  We empower students to envision and create regeneration for themselves, their community, and their ecosystem.

Where: Location TBA in greater Brattleboro, VT area.

When: 72-hour certification course over 5 weekends:                                           June 10-11-12 • June 25-26 • July 16-17 • Aug 6-7 • Aug 19-20-21

To Register: Download registration form, print, and mail with $200 deposit.

Curriculum:

• Work with nature and apply systems thinking and ecological design skills to any project

• Design, plant, and manage highly diverse, productive perennial forest gardens on a home and small farm scale

• Catch and store water in the landscape using simple earthworks for irrigation and aquaculture

• Incorporate natural building (cob, strawbale, and more) into new and existing homes and other structures

• Regenerate highly disturbed ecosystems using low-cost, low-tech methods

• Build resilient local community to prepare for times of economic change and resource depletion

• Connect more deeply with yourself, your neighbors, your community, and the earth!

Meet our team of instructors here.

Cost: $800 with registration by May 11; $900 thereafter.  Scholarships available. Contact calaurel@sover.net for scholarship application forms.

We look forward to seeing you at the course this summer!