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2008, Living Mandala
creative services by: 360 Degrees

Topics Include:

AGRO-FORESTRY THEORY AND PRACTICE

BUD GRAFTING

HARVESTING

FOOD STORAGE

NATIVE ORCHARDS

PLANTING AND MULCHING FRUIT TREES

REHABILITATING OLD ORCHARD TREES

PICKING THE RIGHT ROOT STOCK

ANNUAL INTER-CROPPING

ACTION-LEARNING

DESIGN SKILLS

DESIGN IMPLEMENTATION

ADVANCED PERMACULTURE SKILLS

AND MORE!

In Association With

Nemawashi

Living Mandala

Eco-Village Training Center

Facilitators & Instructors

Rick Valley

Matthew English

Cliff Davis

Greg Landua

Course Description

Forest Gardening and orchard remediation will give us a chance to delve into food forestry: a retirement plan for seven generations. Forest gardening and restoring orchards into productive multi-yield oasis can provide food, fuel and fodder for a sustainable future. Check out this video on one of the original temperate forest gardens.

This weekend course will focus on restoration of old orchards as well as forest gardening design and implementation. This course is designed for advanced permaculture students looking for hands-on application of permaculture principles. We will be planting a food forest, harvesting apples and doing rehab on an old orchard.

The course can be taken individually or as part of a full 10-Day Practicum in Advanced Permaculture Design and Implementation.

Contact

For more information on the Advanced Permaculture Design Practicum e-mail: nemawashi@livingmandala.com

or call: 541-740-6121

Course Details & Registration

Pricing & Registration: $200 - $400 sliding scale

*Deepen your understanding of food forest gardening
*Help restore a neglected orchard
*Provide food, fuel, and fodder for future generations
*Learn from knowledgeable local guest instructors
*Experience a stay at the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm - one of the largest and best known intentional communities in the U.S.
*Course includes gourmet vegetarian meals and lodging at the Ecovillage Training Center.

Discount Package

Advanced Permaculture Design Practicum

September 12-21

Special Rate! $600 - $900 sliding scale

Save and join us for the full spectrum 10-day Advanced Permaculture Intensive including both weekend courses plus a 4-day hands-on practicum inbetween at the Eco-Village Training Center and Solar Springs.

Location

We will be converging in the hills and hollows of middle Tennessee in and directly around The Farm, one of the largest and best known intentional communities in the U.S. Located on 5,000 wooded acres, it is home to approximately 200 persons today. Founded in 1971 with a spiritual commitment to simple living and self-reliance, The Farm has pioneered a wide range of social and physical technologies appropriate to low-cost, high satisfaction community living. The Farm community offers examples of solar building design, micro-enterprise, mushroom cultivation, large scale composting and food production, and regenerative hardwood forest management.

Housing

Participants will be housed in the Eco-hostel at the Farm's Ecovillage Training Center. The Eco-hostel is an old Farm house that has been recently renovated and expanded. It consists of a small shared kitchen, 2 bathrooms, dorm and private rooms, cozy studying area and library. The house was originally constructed by members of the Farm in the late 70's out of completely recycled materials. Our renovations have included three dormitories, two solar showers, rainwater collection, solar electricity, and wastewater recycling. We just added a 2-story greenhouse with a third story observation deck

Instructor Biographies

Rick Valley

Rick Valley is a Permaculture designer and teacher who has been designing and building ponds and water harvesting earthworks since 1987. He is a permaculture instructor and the land steward at Lost Valley Educational Center in Dexter Oregon and holds a diploma of Permaculture design in teaching and site implementation from the Pc Institute in Australia. Rick has been practicing Forest Gardening and sustainable forestry in the foothills of the Cascades for more than 15 years and carries the expertise of a master nurseryman form one of his previous incarnations as the owner of a nursery business.

Cliff Davis

Cliff Davis's reverence for the Earth has led him to work as an arborist, ediblenative landscaper, natural builder, and permaculturalis. His deepening passion for sacred ecology fuels his current projects including an orchard restoration project, a permaculture program for The Farm school and co-founding Flowering Earth Permaculture Gardens/Nursery. Cliff currently works as the sustainable land steward of the Ecovillage Training Center on The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee and is a Permaculture teacher, designer, and consultant.

Matthew English

Matthew English Is actively working to regenerate a clear cut piece of property that he and his partner bought as the site for their off the grid homestead and educational center, Solar Springs. Matthew earns his living as a bamboo artisan and farmer. He has spent the last 12 years studying bamboo cultivation and utilization (from crafts to construction), natural building, Permaculture and other ecological land-use systems. He is establishing a small-scale bamboo plantation and agroforestry system and offers consulting and workshops in the multitude of appropriate technologies represented at Solar Springs. He has been teaching professionally for seven years.

Greg Landua

Greg Landua has studied marine and terrestrial ecology and evolutionary biology in the Galapagos Islands, translated for Amazonian rainforest guides, fought wildfires in the wilderness of Alaska, and studied the nuances of ecology and ethics. Greg has B.S. in Environmental Science and Ethics from Oregon State University, and is receiving a graduate diploma in Organizing Learning for Ecosocial Regeneration from Gaia University International. He is currently the Program Coordinator for the Ecovillage Training Center on The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee. He is an active permaculture and ecovillage design educator, founding partner of the Nemawashi Partnership, and core member of the Living Mandala Design Collective. Along with teaching and practicing permaculture, Greg is an active bioregional organizer and NextGEN fellow helping to craft avenues and pathways for intergenerational dialog and collaboration in the shared enterprise of earth regeneration. Greg is also a member of the coordination team for the 10th Continental Bioregional Congress, and author of the blog Gaia Emerging which explores regenerative solutions for the well being of our planet.

For more information on the Advanced Permaculture Design Practicum e-mail: nemawashi@livingmandala.com

or call: 541-740-6121

2008, Living Mandala
creative services by: 360 Degrees

Forest Gardening & Orchard Remediation
Advanced Permaculture Design - Weekend 2

Weekend Two: September 19th-21st

Eco-Village Training Center, Summertown, Tennessee