Ojai Permaculture Design Certification- Water Management!
Learn permaculture design at East End Eden & receive an internationally recognized certificate in a immersive, fun and practical 14 day experience!
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MAY 23RD – JUNE 5TH, 2016. OJAI, CALIFORNIA.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
East End Eden invites you to immerse yourself in a 14-day, practical and fun journey of becoming a Certified Permaculture Designer. Deepen your knowledge and application of whole systems design on a highly functioning demonstration farm in Ojai, California. Become a facilitator in the resilience and regeneration of food systems, habitats, water systems and social systems in your own community. A focus of this PDC will be on Water Management to learn how to sink, slow, catch, harvest and decentralize the movement of rainwater across any landscape. One of the largest contributors to drought is the mismanagement of rainwater and small shifts in the landscape could mean rivers and streams flowing year round. The East End Eden Permaculture Design Course (PDC) includes the 72-hr Permaculture Certification.
TOPICS OF LEARNING:
- Water Harvesting
- Greywater Systems
- Composting Toilet Systems
- Natural Building
- Earthworks
- Watershed Restoration
- Appropriate Technology
- Alternative Economics
- Livestock Care
- Saving the Harvest
- Community Building
- Nature Awareness
- And much more!
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- Understand existing global patterns of agriculture, economics, development, etc and how permaculture design creates a paradigm shift toward new patterns.
- Gain an understanding of ecology and its process, specifically focused on soil, water, plants, animals, and microorganisms.
- Learn and practice how to approach design problems through site analysis, client interviews, mapping, drafting, etc.
- Learn how to identify broad landscape patterns and details and how they relate (scale, order, etc) and create a context for design work.
- Learn and practice design methodologies and processes such as observation, pattern recognition and application, the scale of permanence, etc.
- Be able to analyze landscapes across climates for successful human settlements.
- Have clear next steps and connections into networks and resources provided by the instructors.
- Be inspired about the ability to create change where you live.
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