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Vancouver Permaculture Network and
the Circle of Life Education Society present
Permaculture Design Course
Edenvale Organic Farm & Retreat Centre
Aldergrove, BC
Aug 14-26, 2006
A certified* 72 hour intensive course taken over a two week time period, from Monday to Saturday. The participants will learn permaculture design principles theory through lectures, discussions, slide shows, & field trips, combined with practical hands-on techniques& design projects. The Permaculture Certificate course provides a holistic overview of Permaculture systems through the following topics and themes:
*Permaculture techniques & principles
*Observation Skills
*Pattern understanding
*Site analysis
*Soil fertility & microbiology
*Gardening techniques
*Permaculture design
*Herbs & medicinal plants
*Greenhouse production
*Nursery & propagation
*Edible landscaping
*Fruit & nut trees
*Forest garden
*Agroforestry
*Forest ecosystem
*Water uses
*Biological pest control
*Wildcrafting
*Composting
*Cover crops & green manures
*Grain production
*Microclimates
*Seed propagation, seed sources, seed production.
*Harvesting &storage
*Marketing & value-added
*And much, much, more.
LOCATION
Edenvale Organic Farm is located on Bradner Road, just west of the 264th St. exit from Hwy #1 in the Fraser Valley. Its about a 50 min. drive from Vancouver (much more in rush hour). Its a 120 acre farm and intentional community, which has welcomed us with a special rate on meals and accomodations in their first class facility, as well as access to the whole property. Edenvale is home to a commercial organic farm operation, forested areas with walking trails, private gardens of community members, nut orchard, swimming pool, sauna and beautiful meeting facilities.
Included in the course fee are three meals and a snack featuring organic ingredients grown on site. All meals have vegetarian options.
You may commute to the course if you have a place near by to stay at. We recommend staying on site, as the accomodations are full service for an additional $50/day. Around here a basic campsite is $20+.
COST
$1800 including 3 meals per day, non residential
$2400 all inclusive, meals and full service accommodation,
INSTRUCTORS
Grégoire Lamoureux: is the director of the Kootenay Permaculture Institute. He has over twelve years of experience as a permaculture designer, consultant and teacher and has taught courses in many parts of the country. He is on the Board of Directors of Seeds of Diversity Canada and a founding member of Kootenay Organic Growers Society where he sat on the Certifying Committee for three years.
His work experience includes market gardening, greenhouse production, orcharding, land restoration (bio-engineering), small-scale nursery management, landscaping, aquaculture and forestry work. He has written articles for Natural Life and Eco Farm & Garden magazines and has also studied alternative building and worked on straw-bale and cob house building. He has been a guest lecturer at many conferences including the BC Organic Agriculture Conference and the Guelph Organic Agriculture Conference. He is a mentor for the permaculture apprenticeship program.
Diane Falvey: is an agroecologist (UBC BAgSc, Vancouver BC 2001) and a certified permaculture instructor (Portland, Oregon 2003).
She has assisted in solar greenhouse construction workshops (Ottawa, 1979-80), Permaculture integrated livestock care (Fambidzanai, Zimbabwe 1992-3), organized a LETS system (Harare, Zimbabwe1993), started an organic box delivery system (Nairobi, Kenya 1993), drafted a land use plan for a 20 acre training centre and 160 acre farmer’s allotment (Colony Farm, Coquitlam, BC 2002-4), assisted in the plan and implimentation of the food garden (UBC Food Co-op demo garden, 2000) designed native hedgerows (UBC Farm and Totem Field, 2001) and managed the nursery and trial production schedule at West Coast Seeds (Delta, BC, 2003)
She has taught and assisted at permaculture workshops in the Vancouver area since 1994 and assisted at the 2005 two week intensive Permaculture Design Course at The Kootenay Permaculture Institute.
Other qualified instructors will present during the course.
For more information, contact
Grant 604-872-4060
grant@nowbc.ca
www.alternatives.com/vpn
*Course Certification - what does it mean?
The course is based on the basic permaculture design course curriculum "Permaculture " is a copyrighted word (Bill Mollison). Upon satisfactory completion of the Permaculture Design Certificate course the graduate is certified by the Kootenay Permaculture Institute, with an internationally recognized "Certificate of Permaculture Design" issued. Graduates can then use the word Permaculture in their promotion of design and landscaping. To gain teacher status, participation in a two week intensive course as teacher’s assistant is essential. After two years of applied permaculture work, application for a Diploma of Permaculture Design is possible through the International Permaculture Institute in Australia.
and http://www.permaculture-hawaii.com/intern.html
There are lots of options if I stay.
Vancouver Permaculture Network and
the Circle of Life Education Society present
Permaculture Design Course
Edenvale Organic Farm & Retreat Centre
Aldergrove, BC
Aug 14-26, 2006
A certified* 72 hour intensive course taken over a two week time period, from Monday to Saturday. The participants will learn permaculture design principles theory through lectures, discussions, slide shows, & field trips, combined with practical hands-on techniques& design projects. The Permaculture Certificate course provides a holistic overview of Permaculture systems through the following topics and themes:
*Permaculture techniques & principles
*Observation Skills
*Pattern understanding
*Site analysis
*Soil fertility & microbiology
*Gardening techniques
*Permaculture design
*Herbs & medicinal plants
*Greenhouse production
*Nursery & propagation
*Edible landscaping
*Fruit & nut trees
*Forest garden
*Agroforestry
*Forest ecosystem
*Water uses
*Biological pest control
*Wildcrafting
*Composting
*Cover crops & green manures
*Grain production
*Microclimates
*Seed propagation, seed sources, seed production.
*Harvesting &storage
*Marketing & value-added
*And much, much, more.
LOCATION
Edenvale Organic Farm is located on Bradner Road, just west of the 264th St. exit from Hwy #1 in the Fraser Valley. Its about a 50 min. drive from Vancouver (much more in rush hour). Its a 120 acre farm and intentional community, which has welcomed us with a special rate on meals and accomodations in their first class facility, as well as access to the whole property. Edenvale is home to a commercial organic farm operation, forested areas with walking trails, private gardens of community members, nut orchard, swimming pool, sauna and beautiful meeting facilities.
Included in the course fee are three meals and a snack featuring organic ingredients grown on site. All meals have vegetarian options.
You may commute to the course if you have a place near by to stay at. We recommend staying on site, as the accomodations are full service for an additional $50/day. Around here a basic campsite is $20+.
COST
$1800 including 3 meals per day, non residential
$2400 all inclusive, meals and full service accommodation,
INSTRUCTORS
Grégoire Lamoureux: is the director of the Kootenay Permaculture Institute. He has over twelve years of experience as a permaculture designer, consultant and teacher and has taught courses in many parts of the country. He is on the Board of Directors of Seeds of Diversity Canada and a founding member of Kootenay Organic Growers Society where he sat on the Certifying Committee for three years.
His work experience includes market gardening, greenhouse production, orcharding, land restoration (bio-engineering), small-scale nursery management, landscaping, aquaculture and forestry work. He has written articles for Natural Life and Eco Farm & Garden magazines and has also studied alternative building and worked on straw-bale and cob house building. He has been a guest lecturer at many conferences including the BC Organic Agriculture Conference and the Guelph Organic Agriculture Conference. He is a mentor for the permaculture apprenticeship program.
Diane Falvey: is an agroecologist (UBC BAgSc, Vancouver BC 2001) and a certified permaculture instructor (Portland, Oregon 2003).
She has assisted in solar greenhouse construction workshops (Ottawa, 1979-80), Permaculture integrated livestock care (Fambidzanai, Zimbabwe 1992-3), organized a LETS system (Harare, Zimbabwe1993), started an organic box delivery system (Nairobi, Kenya 1993), drafted a land use plan for a 20 acre training centre and 160 acre farmer’s allotment (Colony Farm, Coquitlam, BC 2002-4), assisted in the plan and implimentation of the food garden (UBC Food Co-op demo garden, 2000) designed native hedgerows (UBC Farm and Totem Field, 2001) and managed the nursery and trial production schedule at West Coast Seeds (Delta, BC, 2003)
She has taught and assisted at permaculture workshops in the Vancouver area since 1994 and assisted at the 2005 two week intensive Permaculture Design Course at The Kootenay Permaculture Institute.
Other qualified instructors will present during the course.
For more information, contact
Grant 604-872-4060
grant@nowbc.ca
www.alternatives.com/vpn
*Course Certification - what does it mean?
The course is based on the basic permaculture design course curriculum "Permaculture " is a copyrighted word (Bill Mollison). Upon satisfactory completion of the Permaculture Design Certificate course the graduate is certified by the Kootenay Permaculture Institute, with an internationally recognized "Certificate of Permaculture Design" issued. Graduates can then use the word Permaculture in their promotion of design and landscaping. To gain teacher status, participation in a two week intensive course as teacher’s assistant is essential. After two years of applied permaculture work, application for a Diploma of Permaculture Design is possible through the International Permaculture Institute in Australia.
and http://www.permaculture-hawaii.com/intern.html
There are lots of options if I stay.
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not anonymous
Date: 2005-12-18 11:56 pm (UTC)*drool*
I've looked at so many course offerings for permaculture and things like straw bale and cob structure workshops, and I'm always sooo disappointed when I see that the price of the course is way outside what I'm capable of considering.
Who are you currently working for, with the plants and such, and uh, are they hiring???
Hoping to see you next week for dinner!
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