Advanced Permaculture Program

Advanced Permaculture Diploma Program

This is a low impact, flexible and flowing transformative course in
education. We meet up for a full day every 3 months over 10 seasons.
This advanced course in learning will offer support, inspiration and
content for you to complete a two year Permaculture Diploma through
one of the Permaculture Institutes. Open to all residents of British
Columbia.

This is a social permaculture vehicle for carrying us across the 2012
divide, offering a dynamic learning pathway which will evolve your
ability to teach, design and consult using the permaculture toolkit.
Its unclear what is happening next for our world or our civilization.
In this unknown future you may be called to step forward into a
guiding or leadership role in your community. This course helps to
support your process of growing awareness while strengthening your
confidence and presence in the world.

This class includes

low impact two year mapping and design project at your home
support for four season harvest gardening
advanced design games
permaculture videos
community resilience assessment
disaster scenario preparedness
media development
teaching practice
round table discussions
diploma check in's

locations
Heart Gardens (Roberts Creek)
Rolling Earth (Roberts Creek)
Sustainable Living Arts School (Roberts Creek)
UBC Farm (Vancouver)
Strathcona / Cottonwood Gardens (Vancouver)

Cost : $555 in advance ($655 with extended payment plan)
Register now to secure your space and join our learning ring.

maximum class size : 13

March 2011 - June 2013

Full day meetings in
March, June, September and December

Delvin has a PDC, Diploma and Masters Degree through Bill Mollison. He
has done advanced courses and teacher trainings with Rosemary Morrow,
David Holmgren, Robyn Francis, Geoff Lawton, Robin Clayfield, Tom
Ward, Jude Hobbs and the Bullock Brothers. Currently he is working on
a second Diploma through the Permaculture Institute USA.

contact : delvin@cosm.org for more details

www.gaiacraft.com

www.permacultureglobal.com/users/707-delvin-solkinson

Mayne Island Permaculture Course, August 27-28

Saturday to Sunday August 27-28
Red Spectral Serpent, White Crystal Worldbridger, Blue Cosmic Eagle
Fairview Farm, Mayne Island bc

Out on the Land, Permaculture Basics for a Small Farm

led by

Jill Whitelaw of Cascadia North Permaculture, and

Erin Innes of Passionate Permaculture

Step into natural time on Mayne Island... we will be observing the land and the area as it is in the Islands Trust, and working in a gentle manner. We will talk about somethings, get our hands dirty with others, take some walks and maybe go on a field trip to see a great pond and garden. Land observation and intuitional surveying; keyline dam discussion and exploration; no dig gardens; using wood and organic matter to create a sponge to hold water, eliminating the need for watering; orchard care and maintenance; primitive systems; aligning structures for maximum heat gain; and the mulch pit tree system. kids welcome.

Course fee: $75 + 50 for food, includes camping. Other accomodation is available on the island. http://www.mayneislandchamber.ca/

This course is appropriate for Permaculture graduates and non graduates also. The techniques in this workshop can be used anywhere in urban backyards or community gardens, and are mostly small designs by their natures.  

To register please contact Jill at greentempledesign@gmail.com

Urban Permaculture Design Course

Urban Permaculture Design Course

With Erin Innes and Grant Watson 

Dates: Sep 9 - Oct 28, 2011 (Wednesdays 10 to 5:30 plus a weekend retreat Sep 30-Oct 2)
Registration: call Langara College at 604 323 5322 - course # 70849

Creating abundant urban communities that don't just sustain themselves, but heal the ecology around them and the people who live in them, is the frontline of sustainability activism; Permaculture gives us the tools to do it. Through 72 hours of experiential learning, earn your internationally recognized Permaculture Designer Certificate and learn what sustainable living really looks like in both urban and rural settings, as well as how they interact and support each other. Growing food in the city, ecological restoration and remediation, green building, community leadership, and sustainable settlement design are just some of the skills you'll learn in this demanding and inspiring course which will take you from urban farms and community gardens to the Fraser Valley, Sunshine Coast, and your own backyard.

In the field: A portion of course material will be delivered onsite at the following locations and will include hands-on activities:

• Langara Community Garden
• Farmers on 57^th, George Pearson Hospital, Vancouver
• Glen Valley Organic Farm, Abbotsford
• Rolling Earth Farm, Roberts Creek
• Deer Crossing at the Art Farm, Gibsons
• Other venues may be added

For more information contact Leslie Kemp at Langara College: 604 323 5981

Course fee: $1100 (additional cost for weekend field trip, approximately $150). Some scholarships may be available; Langara college credits applicable.

Trafalgar School Garden Work Party

What: Trafalgar School Garden Work Party part 2
When: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:00 PM

Where: Trafalgar Elementary School
4170 Trafalgar Street
Vancouver, BC V5K 0A1

C ome and help the teachers, parents and other volunteers at Trafalgar Elementary School to implement the second phase of their permaculture school garden.  We will be sheet mulching and planting a cover crop around the 11 subirrigated planters that were built during the first work party (the green and pink areas in the diagram).  These areas will eventually become fertility beds (green) and host a wide diversity of nectary plants to attract and keep beneficial insects in the garden (pink).

The sheet mulch will be used as a soil remediation technique (the garden is being planted on a gravel field) in combination with soil loosening and ground cover planting.

The work party will be from 1pm to 5pm at the school.  Stay as long or short as you like.

We are also looking for the following tools and materials to build the sheet mulch and condition the soil.  If you have a tool or materials from the list below and would like to come help out, please bring it along!

Tools/Materials we need to build the sheet mulch:

- cardboard (especially from large boxes)

- newspaper

- utility knives

- garden forks

- work gloves 

Going Beyond Green: A Permaculture Primer

Going Beyond Green: A Permaculture Primer will happen on Wednesday, July 6, 2011
When: Where:  
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
7:00 PM lower level, side door
Longhouse
Vancouver, BC

Permaculturalists around the world are making a bold statement about our collective future: Sustainability is not enough. Our habitat is threatened by climate change, oil spills, nuclear accidents. Our consumer culture alienates us from each other, and creates oppression and violence around the world as wealth is transferred from the global majority to a rich few. We need to go beyond sustainability and work to meet the needs of everyone on the planet with strategies that don't just do no harm to our environment and the people we share it with, but that actually regenerate our planet's ability to support us, and our ability to support each other. Permaculture design can show us how.
Come join Permaculture designers and educators Erin Innes and Jill Whitelaw to hear about some of the ways we can meet our needs with systems that also heal our climate, our water, our soil, and ourselves.
Presented by Jill Whitelaw/ Cascadia Permaculture and Erin Innes/ Passionate Permaculture
http://www.passionatepermaculture.ca/

Permaculture Tea Meetup- Compost Tea Party

Announcing a new Meetup for The Vancouver Permaculture Meetup Group!
What: Learn to brew aerated compost tea while sipping herbal tea
When: Thursday, June 30, 2011 11:00 AM
Where: Strathcona Community Garden - Garden House
Hawks @ Prior
Vancouver, BC
Garden Brews Learn to brew aerated compost tea for your garden while you sip fresh herbal teas you harvested yourself. Suggested Donation $12 More info, including other great workshops: http://www.eya.ca/urban-ease.html
Check it out!

Urban Permaculture Design Course

Wed's 7-Sep to 2-Nov 2011 with a weekend retreat on the Sunshine Coast 30-Sep to 2-Oct.

Registration

at Langara College, call 604-323-5322, course # 70849
Cost: $1100. plus travel and accomodations on Sunshine Coast retreat (approx. $150.)
Scholarship available.

Instructors

This course is co-taught by Rin Innes and Grant Watson.

Overview

Permaculture is a design science for creating sustainable human communities by re-structuring how we relate to the ecosystems we live in, and the people we share them with. Through 72 hours of dynamic experiential learning and a team design project, you will receive your internationally recognized Permaculture Designer Certificate. Experience real world examples of permaculture principles in action in both urban and rural environments.

A portion of course material will be delivered onsite at the following locations and will include hands-on activities:

• Langara Community Garden
• Farmers on 57^th, George Pearson Hospital, Vancouver
• Glen Valley Organic Farm, Abbotsford
• Rolling Earth Farm, Roberts Creek
• Deer Crossing at the Art Farm, Gibsons
• Other venues may be added

Course Outline

Unit 1: Design Fundamentals

• Ethics, Principles, Importance of Design.
• Design Concepts and Themes, Design Methodologies
• Pattern Understanding

Unit 2: Site analysis and Landscape-scale Design

• Climate and Microclimate
• Water in the climate and the landscape
• Rainwater, graywater, earthworks
• Trees, Forests in the landscape, Forest Gardening, Botany
• Soil, Home Gardens, Mushrooms,

Unit 3: System – Specific Design Applications

Sunshine Coast field trip: 30-Sep – 2-Oct. Staying two nights at Rolling Earth Farm, Roberts Creek.

• Permaculture for Structures and the Built Environment
• Natural Building
• Climate-specific considerations – Tropical, Drylands, Temperate Cool, Cold
• Designing for Climate Change and Resilient Communities
• Animal Systems, urban livestock
• Aquaculture, Aquaponics

For more info, email grant@gourmetgardens.ca

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rin innes
www.passionatepermaculture.ca

Grant Watson
778 869 4060
www.gourmetgardens.ca