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Smoky Mountain Permaculture Design Course in Eastern Tennessee
June 1, 2016 @ 3:00 pm - June 14, 2016 @ 3:00 pm
Learn more and register at http://www.thekulacollective.com/smoky-mountain-pdc.html
June 1st – 14th at Seven Springs Retreat Center in Sweet Hollow, East Tennessee
The Smoky Mountain Permaculture Design Course led by Cliff Davis & Jennifer Albanese of Spiral Ridge Permaculture & Ryan Rising of Permaculture Action Network will explore innovative strategies for harmonious land use, combining traditional wisdom with cutting edge techniques to build thriving communities.
There will also be ancestral arts, community building, and daily yoga and meditation facilitated by Cliff Davis, Zachary Towne-Smith, and Jessi Luna
This PDC will be focused on the harmonious transition of this picturesque hollow from a private residence to a thriving hub for holistic health, earth care, and community building. Strategies for increasing food production and promoting native species and medicinal herbs will be combined with non-invasive and ecological construction techniques to build a solid foundation and the capacity to host a variety of transformational experiences. Special attention will be paid to the traditional Cherokee and Lakota practices of this land in collaboration with experienced tribal leaders.
Highlights…
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Course Content:
- Introduction to Permaculture – Definition, History and Ethics
- The Permaculture Principles
- Professional Ecological Design Process
- Strategies and Techniques for Sustainable Settlements, Communities, and Gardens
- Regenerative Earthworks Including Keyline® – Design, Survey, Layout, Strategies and Techniques
- Natural Building – Techniques and Theory
- Animal Systems – BeeKeeping, Goats, Poultry, Rabbits, Pigs and Vermiculture
- Design Strategies for Housing and Landscape Design
- Temperate Climate Strategies – Housing and Landscape Design
- Drylands Design Strategies – Housing and Landscape Design
- Social Permaculture
- Collaborative Economies & Financial Permaculture
- Climate Factors
- Pattern Understanding – Patterns in Nature, Patterns in Design, and Pattern Language
- Food Fermentation and Preservation
- Water Design Solutions – Catchment, Conservation, Grey Water Solutions, Swales, and Ponds
- Soils – Composition, Biology, Food Web, Remineralization, Fertility, and Human Health
- Aquaculture – Food Webs, Techniques and Fish Production
Practicums:
- Design Projects: You will perform a (thorough client interview, site analysis and assessment of the land, and develop a permaculture design and presentation for a project in a small team, through which you will received feedback from course instructors
- Designing Intensive Annual Systems and Guilds: this module will include seed saving, germination and plant grouping for annual vegetable systems
- Designing and Implementing a Forest Garden: this module will include propagation and planting techniques; and design for perennial polycultures.
- Compost Making and Soil Building
- Sheet Mulching
- Plant Identification
- Natural Building using Earthen Building Techniques
- Water Design Solutions
- Community Permaculture Action
- Primitive Arts
- Homesteading & Harvesting
Get more info and register at http://www.thekulacollective.com/smoky-mountain-pdc.html
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