Modular Permaculture Design Course Spring 2011

SPRING 2011 - February-June.

Five weekends, once monthly. 72 hours instruction for certification.

HANCOCK, NEW YORK: To be held at Hancock Permaculture Center with field visits to local farms and homesteads. Five weekends over five months. Graduates receive the official permaculture design certificate. We are located in western Catskills, three hours from NYC.

Permaculture offers a road map to softer energy descent and a more stable future. Applicable on all scales, it is systems thinking and something we share and apply to protect and redesign community.Learn sustainable living skills; obtain energy, food and shelter by following nature’s patterns. Soft energy alternatives, solar, greenhouses, grow food, harvest water, aquaculture, alternative economies, and transition towns. Apply permaculture design principles and turn waste into profit. Become part of the worldwide permaculture and Transition Town community.

LEAD INSTRUCTORS:

Andrew Leslie Phillips:Founder Hancock Permaculture Center, Permaculture Design Solutions http://www.permaculturedesignsolutions.com/, journalist, garden designer. Studied with Geoff Lawton and Bill Mollison.

Maria Grimaldi: Degree in Environmental Psychology and diversified background teaching gardening transition towns, farming, plant science, cooking with New York Botanical Gardens, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Cornell Cooperative Extension, NOFA-NY and Sullivan County CommunityCollege.

WHEN: Feb. 5,6. March 5,6. April 2,3. May. 7,8. June. 4,5.

COST:  $175 per module (includes all meals). Total cost - five units  (72 hours) $875.

WHERE: Hancock Permaculture Center – 372 West Front Street Hancock NY 13783.   
Local accommodation/camping available on request.

DEPOSIT:  $350 for first and second module payable in advance to ensure place in course:  To Hancock Permaculture Center, 372 West Front Street, Hancock NY 13783.  917-771-9382.