Winter: November 30 – December 13 Summer: June 18 – August 10, 2007 Fall: TBA, 2007
In addition to a full permaculture design certificate course, this dynamic residential program provides a holistic introduction to social permaculture, ecovillage design and implementation, and community living. Most Universities offer students upper division credit, through program participation.
Subjects include:
Organic Agriculture: Understanding soil composition, watersheds, swales, water catchment, and conservation, biological control agents, native plant guilds, annual, biennial, and perennial cycles, and other natural rhythms, patterns and biological relationships.
Natural Building: Looking at international design and selecting appropriate models to suit a given climate, we work with cob, straw bale, earthships, living roofs, passive solar and other techniques.
Appropriate Technology and Renewable Energy: Designing to maximize efficiency through energy conservation and retention. We explore passive and active solar, micro-hydro, wind, bio-diesel, rainwater catchment, and grey water systems.
Eco forestry: Harvesting food, energy, and medicine, while restoring damaged forest lands and monocrop tree plantations to diverse and productive systems.
Site Analysis & Design: Working with raw, developed, and semi-developed land to create home, garden, and village infrastructures, in harmony with the surrounding environment. Overview of zoning, permits and land-use laws.
Social Permaculture: Learning through dynamic personal growth workshops, communication skills, consensus and other decision making processes.
Community Living: Exploring Ecovillage economics, employment, education, self-government, health and wellbeing, and many other aspects of day-to-day life in community.
Instructors and Presenters include***:
*David Holmgren, Ecologist, writer and co-originator of the permaculture concept.
*Diana Leafe Christian, Author, ecovillage formation instructor, editor of Communities Magazine.
*Rick Valley, International permaculture instructor, nursery operator, Lost Valley Land Steward.
*Tree Bressen, Group facilitator, consensus trainer, founding member of Eugene’s Walnut St. Coop.
*Mark Lakeman, Founder of City Repair, Co-Organizer of Portland’s Village Builder Convergence.
*Toby Hemenway, Author Gaia’s Garden, former editor of Permaculture Activist.
*Rob Bolman, Founder of Maitreya Ecovillage, Co-Organizer of NW Permaculture Gathering.
*Marc Tobin, Masters in Community and Regional Planning, Lost Valley EPCP coordinator.
*Jude Hobbs, Associate with Agro-Ecology, landscape designer, small farm consultant.
*Joshua Smith, Ecological landscape designer, eco-forester, author of Botanical Treasures of the West.
*Marisha Auerbach, Certified herbalist, ethnobotanist, permaculture & edible landscape designer.
***Instructors vary course to course. Held at Lost Valley Educational Center, an intentional community, non-profit educational center, and nature sanctuary dedicated to learning, living, and teaching sustainable, ecologically-based culture located outside Eugene, Oregon.
See: http://www.lostvalley.org/epcp for details!
Nathaniel N-T
Outreach Coordinator
epcp@lostvalley.org
(541) 937-3351 * 119
> Hello Eugene friends,
>
> I’ll be in Eugene next week talking about my new
> book, The Revolution
> Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America’s Underground
> Food Movements,
> along with Eugene activist Heather C.Flores, author
> of Food Not
> Lawns: How to Turn Your Lawn into a Garden and Your
> Neighborhod into
> a Community. This will be a
> food-share/skill- share/seed- swap/food
> activist networking event. If you can, bring
> ferments or other food
> creations, seeds, and/or skills to share. Please
> forward this notice
> to people you know who might be interested. Thanks.
> Hope to see you!
>
> Sandor
>
>
> When: Wednesday, November 29, 6-9 pm
> Where: World Cafe, 4th & Blair, Eugene
> FREE!
> Contact: sandorkraut@ wildfermentation .com
>
>
> Sandor Ellix Katz aka sandorkraut
> www.wildfermentatio n.com
> Author of The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved:
> Inside America’s
> Underground Food Movements (2006) and
> Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft
> of Live-Culture
> Foods (2003)
FOOD NOT LAWNS: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community! 6:00 – 9:00pm. $0-50. Walnut Room @ the EMU (UO-13th & University). Sponsored by the Survival Center. Book signing and workshop by Heather C. Flores, author of Food Not Lawns, How to Turn Your…. This interactive presentation will explore the possibilities for self-sufficiency, and community with limited resources. Topics will include: Free the land / free yourself, soil fertility, water stewardship, plant polycultures, seeds, ecological design, community organizing, & gardening w/ children. There will be books available for sale.
ICE Director, Tobias Policha is a gardener, botanist, herbalist, and writer. He co-founded the educational nonprofit Cascadia Food Not Lawns in 1999, and has been studying our local flora for over five years, including assisting the botany programs at L.C.C. and the UO, and graduating from the Columbines School of Botanical Studies. He is currently working on a B.S. in Biology at the U of O.
Contact:
Tobias at 541-513–8263, or
contemporaryethnobotany@yahoo.com
www.foodnotlawns.com
November 18, 2006
Heiko Koester and Jude Hobbs
Join us for this interactive and comprehensive workshop that will offer a clear understanding of Water Harvesting, Storage, Conservation and Usage.
There will be lecture, discussion, slides and hands-on participatory learning.
Times: 10:00 - 4:00
Cost: $40-50 sliding scale
Location: Dharmalya Center, Eugene
Rain or Shine
Topics to be covered:
- Site assessment
- Small-Scale Mapping/Surveying
- Swale Design and installation
- Appropriate Plant Selection
- Roof Water Catchments
- Grey Water Systems
For more information
541- 485-7245
hobbsj@efn.org
Class is space is limited so sign up early!
PLANTS FOR THE PEOPLE – A Local Materia Medica. 6:00 – 9:00 pm. BY DONATION. Upstairs at the Growers Market, 454 Willamette St. With Nome McBride (Under The Yew Botanicals) & Tobias Policha. This informal presentation will introduce basic herbal actions as well as locally adapted plants that have medicinal value. Learn when, how and why to use pervasive weeds, native plants, and common garden herbs for health and nutrition. There will be room for questions. No herbal experience required.
Call/email for more info. Also: Plant Walks, Botanical ID Workshops, Field Trips, Ethical Wildcrafting, and more!!! ICE Director, Tobias Policha is a gardener, botanist, herbalist, and writer. He co-founded the educational nonprofit Cascadia Food Not Lawns in 1999, and has been studying our local flora for over five years, including assisting the botany programs at L.C.C. and the UO, and graduating from the Columbines School of Botanical Studies.
He is currently working on a B.S. in Biology at the U of O.
Contact: Tobias at 541- 513 – 8263, or contemporaryethnobotany@yahoo.com
www.foodnotlawns.com
