Location of Seedling Party, Permaculture Course, Planting Schedule
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Hello Again KW Urban Harvesters!
Just a few additional things:
Seedling Planting Party - For those attending the seedling planting party on April 6th (2-4 pm), please note that it is at 111 Greenbrier Drive, Waterloo. Map at http://mapq.st/X4pyg9 . (The last email didn't include that it was in Waterloo. )
Earth Mama Permaculture - Please find details below on an exciting Earth Mama Permaculture course being offered by Natalie Krueger this spring/summer. You don't have to be a mamma, but childcare will be provided. Starts Tuesday, April 2nd. Please contact Krueger at green...@gmail.com if you wish further details!
When: April 2nd, 2013 to June 18, 2013, Tuesday mornings 9:30-12:30am What: Be fluent in flowers, forests, fun, and family. Blending a full Permaculture Certification course, in two 12 week sessions (spring / fall). Permaculture for mothers * integrated child care provided Location: Home of the Guelph Outdoor
School and a tiny homestead on the SE side of Guelph. We inhabit a
yurt and a small cabin with an outdoor kitchen and gathering space. We
are off the grid with no running water except for the lovely running
eramosa river, steps from our home. There is a grand cedar forest and
lots of meadow space for wide open sky viewing as well. We also have a
variety of evolving permaculture based gardens . Kids play here! Which
means there is a sandbox, climbing wall, gardens and lots of fun things
to explore. You and your child will be naturally engaged. Personal Investment: $480 for 12 wks ($40/3 hr. Class) Registering: For more info and to Register contact: Natalie Krueger at green...@gmail.com *Further details will be passed along once registered for the course
What is Permaculture?
Permaculture is a complete design system, based on principles of
ecology and regeneration. It brings the necessary inspiration to create
resilient and productive landscapes, homes and communities. These are
visionary and practical solutions for personal and social change. This
course gives primary attention to group work, discussions, nature
observation, guided walks, hand-on projects, mentoring, individual
reflective work, and design exercises as learning methods. You will
find yourself immersed in an ecosystem for human collaboration - based
on natural principles and practices built upon regenerative living
systems and culture repair.
Course Topics Include:
Permaculture Foundations Permaculture Principles and Ethics Earth Care, People care, Fair Share, Return the Surplus
Structures, Patterns and Strategies for mutually beneficial relation Culture repair and cultivating our ecological identity
Land and Nature Stewardship Forest Gardening for Four Seasons Food ,Fodder, Farmacy, Forage, Fuel and Family for the Future
Urban and Rural Snack Trails; honing your wildcrafting skills Bioremediation, soil-building, sheet-mulching, hugelkultur, worm composting Regenerative design methodologies Reading the landscape & understanding elemental flows.
Nutritional and Herbal Health and Wholistic Lifestyles Wild Edibles and dietary inclusion Food Harvest and Storage, Wild Fermentation, Season Extension Cultivating Rhythms with Gaia and making our body a pleasurable place to be
Earth Wisdom, deep listening with the plants as our guides Cultivating ceremony and ritual within our lives and families
Appropriate Technology We are Nature Working, the wonder of bio-mimecry
Systems Approach to Water and Energy Cycles (greywater, solar, etc.)
Art, Agriculture, and Elemental Design
Education and Culture Weaving the Whole, storytelling and practical thrival skills Attributes of connection and personal/mutual empowerment Sensory Awareness and vision
Creating a culture of respect and gratitude
Building Design Call of the Wild and the Power of Place Building and designing your niche...a homestead and livelihood in alignment Bio-tecture (cob, straw, re-cycling, mud mash, no waste and trash...)
Reading the Landscape and re-inhabiting your bioregion
Nature's Economics Right Livelihood from global to local Ethical business, paying it forward, trading systems, alternative currencies
Applying self regulation and accepting feedback
Community Resilience Observation Skills and Celebrating Life and Creativity Mentoring Models and Circle Teachings a forest model of regeneration Inner Landscapes engaging our Ecological Identity
Ecosystem Dynamics and Embracing Diversity
Land arts and community activism.
...and so much more with the elements as our guide
The course meets all requirements for certification, upon completion of
both 12 week sessions. Participants who attend all sessions of this
class and complete the final design project will receive a Certificate
of Permaculture Design. The optional fall session will begin in late
August, dates to be announced. We will be increasing hands on
activities, and focus on design elements to deepen your understanding
and practice of permaculture.
About the Facilitator: Natalie Krueger is a
Certified Permaculture Designer /Educator, community organizer, earth
steward, wholistic herbalist healer, wild plant forager and activist.
She is guided by ongoing exploration within the nature of indigenous
traditions and awareness of regenerative practices. Natalie lives,
breathes, and eats permaculture principles in her off grid cob cabin in
the woods that she built within a recycled pallet frame. Integrating
and pursuing sacred relationships, she is dedicated to re-valuing her
environment and creating new regenerative patterns for her lifestyle and
those around her. From a young age Natalie developed a strong awareness
in the elements. Her prime teachers in life have been the plant
kin-dom, leading her to explore and deeply listen to patterns in many
collaboratory structures as she embarks upon her earth pilgrimage. Much
like the oak tree, Natalie is a generalist rather than a specialist and
looks to see the larger ecological vision, along with engaging the
re-connecting questions that will lead us to a thriving future.
While gathering and assimilating elemental rhythms in various parts of
the world including Spain, Brazil, Costa Rica, India, and the USA, she
has also built plenty of practical experience in Southern Ontario with
edible landscaping, herbal medicines, wild edibles, perennial
polyculture, market gardens, IPM, water harvesting, cold climate
greenhouses, vermiculture, composting, shitake mushrooms, urban
agriculture, natural building design, sustainable nutrition preparation,
emotional topography, transition towns, community gardens, the work
that reconnects, group facilitation, the art of play and honouring the
land.