In Hohenwald, Tennessee
What you will learn:
Tour different forest ecoregions in Tennessee; Learn about:
- Principles of bioregion repair to restore water and soil sheds for productivity (water storage, conservation, and soil food web);
- Alternative energy, natural home building, energy conservation and landscape design;
- Gardening, mulching, companion planting and composting;
- Orchards, forest gardens, propagation, aquaculture, bamboo, mushrooms and domestic animals;
- Business 101, financial ecosystems, and strategies for earning a living;
- Urban design, village scale, ecovillages, transition towns, green ways, bioregionalism and carbon farming; Tools for site analysis (including zones and sectors), mapping exercises and conducting client interviews.
The Permaculture Certificate is recognized internationally, once completed you will be a Certified Permaculture Designer.
Here are the tentative dates (Fridays-Sundays) for the Summer Series:
June 26-28
July 10-12
July 17-19
July 31-August 2
(Please note that the original dates were changed from 11 Saturdays to 4 weekends)
72 hour certificate training – spread over 4 weekends
Fridays – 1 pm – 6 pm
Saturdays – 7:30 am – 5 pm (1.5 hr. lunch break)
Sundays – 7:30 am – 12:30 pm
COST of SERIES
$150 Lewis County Students
$250 Lewis County Residents or Chamber Members
$500-full series or $75/day for Non-Residents
(Note that the usual cost for this certificate in the USA is $700-$1500)
Please make checks payable to:
Sonnenschein Permaculture Series
Mail to:
Sonnenschein Permaculture Series
P.O. Box 451
Hohenwald, TN 38462
Event Location – Downtown Discovery Center, Hohenwald, TN
Call 931-796-4874 or 888-878-2434 x 2 for details
See Whole Ecosystems Design blog
Permaculture was originally conceived and performed in the US after the dustbowl of the 1930’s. It’s a tragedy that we as a nation strayed into corporate farming.
daniel that doesn’t sound too far off from the stuff i’ve read, nor what my instructors and other PCists have found. depending on the fungi, they can gobble up those hydrocarbons. excellent means of bioremediation, esp in urban soils.
Mycologist Paul Stamets did a TedTalks presentation about mycelium/mushrooms that I thought you’d be interested in. At about the 8 to 9:30 mark of the youtube video he mentions how they used mushrooms to treat soil contaminated with diesel and reduced the aromatic hydrocarbons from 10,000 ppm to under 200 in 8 weeks. I think it’s a little exaggerated because of the likelihood that insects and birds spread the contamination around significantly, but still, it looks encouraging. I’m not sure if I saw the video first on your site, but ah well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI5frPV58tY
Dear Catherine
on water an excerpt…
Before we go though, just one last thing to mention and that is when Jesus had succumbed to death upon the cross a soldier pierced His side and what poured forth from Him? Well we are told it was blood mixed with water. Blood mixed with water and why would that be of any importance? Well because of these words of Christ:
“He said to me, ‘It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life.” {Revelation 20:16}
And:
“The Spirit and the bride say, Come! And let him who hears say, Come! Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let them take the free gift of the water of life.” {Revelation 22:17}
It appears that the fountain of youth from Greek Mythology does indeed exist!!! Water, people, water! It’s as simple and straightforward as that! Accordingly consider this then…
JESUS! A TWO THOUSAND YEAR OLD THIRTY THREE YEAR OLD!
WOW!!! Although of course He no doubt is a great deal older given his deity, ageless in fact being of the same substance with the Eternal Father. So those fishermen were right about climate change…
“EL NINO” ——THE CHRIST CHILD—— YES!!!!!!!!!
Cheers
Jerry Lesac
awesome stuff, catherine. as a design certificate graduate myself and, (as I wrote in another post) just getting back from a Design course in Paoli, IN with Peter Bane and Keith Johnson (not to mention the amazing Andy Mahler and everyone else at the Lazy Black Bear)…i can tell you that few things in all my worldly travels and experiences can match my experience taking a permaculture class (especially an intensive consecutive class).
let me know if any of you has any questions (or to see other classes around the country, in case you cannot make it in TN, go to http://www.permacultureactivist.net and check out the calendar).
Beautiful to see this on the page catherine!
hugs!