Winter 2016 opportunity to join a Permaculture Design Course in NW/MI

[penny krebiehl]

Hello good people of the North-lands, mostly and all else wherever you may be!

Putting out the call/invitation for a PDC(still planning, so this is a serious announcement of intention) AND sharing a fine article about "succession" by permaculture educator Alan Booker:

Consider joining a Permaculture Design Course in North West Michigan beginning this winter---a 6-month, weekend modular course.  Winter is a perfect time for knowledge sharing and gaining deeper understandings
/development of new skills.  A Permacutlure Design Course is specifically designed to assist us in honing and improving our abilities to evaluate landscape and redesign it for a robust and resilient future!

You may not get your hands dirty, until our spring sessions, but those "bootcamp" skills follow a Permaculture Design Course (PDC) and will occupy you for the rest of your lives!

Instead in this course, you will learn to see, consider, anaylze and design productive landscapes from balconies to large farms and towns.  Permaculture uses low technology and high science and the PDC remains solidly based in those tangibles.  Course sections:  Introductions and a Vision of Permaculture in Succession; Beginning Permaculture; Ecological Themes; Designing productive landscapes; Increasing resilience; Social permaculture.

"Central to permaculture are the three ethics; earth care, people care and fair shares.  They form the foundation for permaculture design and are also found in most traditional societies.  Ethics are culturally evolved mechanisms that regulate self-interest, giving us a better understanding of good and bad outcomes.  The greater power of humans, the more critical ethics become for long-term cultural and biological survival.  Permaculture ethics are distilled from research into community ethics, learning from cultures that have existed in relative balance with their environment for much longer than more recent civilizations.  This does not mean that we should ignore the great teachings of modern times, but in the transition to a sustainable future,we need to consider values and concepts outside the current social norm." 

~ David Holmgren on permacutlure ethics.

This 72-hour course will be taught by professional, certified permaculture educators and permaculture designers, giving students the international qualification presently known as Permaculture Consultant's Design Course certificate.

Interested and wish to know more about this 6-month modular course offering in NW MI in 2016? 

Contact: 
penny....@gmail.com

231-922-2014, leave a message please

ALSO attached is an article from a recent issue of Permaculture Design Magazine Fall 2015/#97, shared w. me by the author, Alan Booker, who please asked: "that nobody post this online for public access. I will eventually post a version of this online, but will wait for a while out of respect for the fact that it is in the current edition of Permaculture Design Magazine."