🌿Summer Permaculture Course in Western MA~ Early Bird Registration!

[Sowing Solutions]

🌿 Announcing The Summer Permaculture Design Certification Course with Sowing Solutions 

~ Join us for a stellar weekend series along the river in the artisan village of Shelburne Falls, in Western MA

We sure hope you can join us for this wonderful event ~ There will be tours to gardens, farms, homes, agroforestry projects, native plant and permaculture nurseries.  Extensive design training, networking, and skill sharing all await! 

The Sowing Solutions 2025 Summertime Course 

🌻 Registration Is Open!!! 

A Total of Two Long Weekends: July 10-14 and August 14-18

☀️  Early Bird Registration Savings:  Discount $100 off tuition if you register in full for the Summer Program before May 10th! 

We are delighted to be gathering with fellow permaculture designers, educators,and course participants for the 

Spring Permaculture Design Certification Course

This is a highlight of the year for us at Sowing Solutions, and an uplifting, inspiring, informative time together.

 * Offered in-person at The Permaculture Place in Shelburne Falls.

* An opportunity to learn permaculture design and visit demonstration sites during the growing season.

* Interactive sessions with a stellar team of guiding instructors, professional designers and educators.

* Connecting, networking, skill-sharing, designing with a group of ecologically conscious participants from around New England & the northeast.

You are invited to attend!  

✨Gather skills to design for abundance in your home and for resilience in our communities.

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Your registration in this course will provide you with: skill shares, discussions, design activities, experience in orchards and forest gardens, skills to create new gardens, natural building visits and hands-on activities, studies of local permaculture sites, immersion in community life, stories and presentations, mapping techniques, networking opportunities, and a certification in permaculture design.

• This course is offered by Sowing Solutions, who is celebrating our work of offering educational permaculture programs for over 19 years.
• A stellar team of professional designers and educators are the teaching team of this long standing permaculture certification program.
• Students of this PDC will learn first-hand about working with design clients and about conducting an ecological design. Participants will experience direct permaculture site design experience while being guided through the ecological design process by a team of professional designers and educators. We work together to design for village residents at local design sites, and for your home sites, while you 'learn by doing'.
• A study of permaculture with Sowing Solutions includes an inspiring study of numerous sites such as: Big River Chestnuts, Wing and a Prayer Pollinator Nursery, Humble Abode Nursery, etc. You can evaluate and learn from these leading northeastern permaculture demonstration sites that have been growing and evolving for many years now.
• Gaining your internationally recognized certification with Sowing Solutions is an experience of empowerment, support, inspiration and skill building.
• All that you learn in this course can be applied at your home.

Course Location:

We will be meeting in person at Sowing Solutions Community Permaculture Center at 'The Permaculture Place' at The Mill in the artisan Village of Shelburne Falls, MA.  There will be days during the course when we adventure out on field trips to visit a local land association, local permaculture gardens, nut farms and agroforestry projects, a local straw bale home, a native pollinator plant nursery, etc.  We are truly happy to be hosting the course in the village of Shelburne Falls where you will have an opportunity to practice ecological design in town and benefit local village residents.

The Registration Process:

1. Send us an email to say you can attend!

2. Fill out the Registration Form (attached here) and email back to us or send via postal mail.

3. Send in a $300 deposit to hold your seat (non-refundable) or a full tuition payment. You can send this as a check or money order written out to 'Sowing Solutions' at the same mailing address (Sowing Solutions, PO Box 478, Shelburne Falls, MA 01370) or Register on our course website at: www.PermacultureSeries.org

Fundraising Support:

There is funding available for you!  (In other words ~ do not let funding stand in your way of this training and certification program!!!)

 Strategies for fundraising that we have prepared for you are: BIPOC scholarships, partial discount work trade applications,  discounts for low income students, college students, front line workers, etc. We also have template letters for fundraising,  discounts when you bring a friend, payment plans, and fundraising techniques that we can set up for you.  Contact us to talk about many fundraising options and we will share many ideas and strategies with you.

Your Attendance:

We invite you to attend this inspiring and informative educational event. We will have a number of interesting design projects to work on together. The weekend series format of this course gives our staff a chance to correspond with you during the month between the class sessions, and provides students with ample time to integrate their learning of new course material.  The onsite sessions are opportune times for sharing skills, resources, inspiration, networking, and for forming new and lasting friendships.

If You Need to Miss a Day:

If for some reason you need to miss a day, don't worry because you will still be qualified to complete your certification. If you need to miss  more than a day, please let us know ahead of time, as we have ways for you to make up certain sessions and there can be alternate classes for you.

Accommodations & Meals:

We have reserved a spacious retreat house for our course participants, with sprawling gardens and patios, in downtown Shelburne Falls.  Overnight accommodations and meals will be arranged onsite for minimal additional fees. Special evening events will happen at this location. Email us to reserve your space!

Summertime Fun Around Shelburne Falls:

There will be a Porchfest of music throughout the village during our July weekend! There are beautiful wooded walks along the river at the mill, through our agroforestry park, and over to great swimming spots! A yoga studio is located on campus, as is a bookstore cafe. The artisan village of Shelburne Falls offers much to explore with its many shops, cafes, galleries, as well as the Salmon Falls waterfall and the Bridge of Flowers, river sports, and hiking trails.

More Info and How To Contact Us:

• Visit our website for more course details: www.PermacultureSeries.org
  
• Learn about the fundraising support that is available to you ~ send us an email to request the tuition support application form.
  
• Request our Detailed Course Information Packet and send any outstanding questions to us by email at: Permacult...@gmail.com

If you have any questions, we are delighted to talk with you by phone, or to correspond by email.

Sending cheer!

~Kay

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Kay Cafasso 
  Director of Sowing Solutions Permaculture Design & Education
  Certified Permaculture Designer & Instructor
- Ecological Planning & Garden Design Services

- Permaculture Design Certification Courses
www.PermacultureSeries.org
www.SowingSolutions.org 

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." -Rumi