www.sustainableways.org
2010 Westcliffe Permaculture Design CourseJuly 26 - August 7, 2010 Registration Deadline, July 15** As of July 1 there were an insufficient number of registered students to allow the course to be held. Please make a concerted effort to register or get other potential students to register. If we don't have the minimum by the end of the day, July 15, we will have to cancel this unusual opportunity to have this training opportunity in the Wet Mountain Valley. For more information, contact Becky Elder, Pikes Peak Permaculture,
719-685-0290, 
or Sue Pitman 719-371-3685 or
Sustainable
Ways, a Colorado
non-profit dedicated to educating, advocating and demonstrating sustainable
ways of living, invites you to join us in Westcliffe for a two week
PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE • JULY 26 – AUGUST 7, 2010
Registration Deadline July 15,
2010
www.westcliffepermaculturepdc.webs.com
Facebook: WESTCLIFFE PERMACULTURE
COURSE TOPICS include
Permaculture Ethics &
Principles
Ecosystem Patterning
Organic Food Production
Alternative Economics
Microclimates
Forest Gardens
Appropriate Technologies
Medicinal Herbs
Full Loop
Waste Systems
Alternative Building
Aquaculture
Soil Building
Site Analysis
Creating Integrated Systems
Animals in Small Systems
Cold Season Growing
Earthworks for Water
Management
WHAT IS PERMACULTURE?
Permaculture is an ethical design system that observes and follows
the patterns of nature to provide for human needs while protecting the earth so
that it can keep on giving. It teaches
us how to work with nature rather than against it.
Permaculture design techniques encourage land use that integrates principles
of ecology and applies lessons from nature. It teaches us to create settings
and construct ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and the
resilience of natural ecosystems.
MAIN INSTRUCTORS
Marco Chung-Shu Lam · Becky Elder
Sandy Cruz · Jerome Osentowski
Bryan Bowen & Guests
.
WHY WESTCLIFFE?
Situated on the
eastern base of the magestic Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Colorado, Westcliffe is a welcoming vacation
destination. The friendly small town
environment offers a special opportunity to envision a sustainable future. Early settlers and miners built successful
lives in this isolated valley, giving current residents confidence that they
could too – if they only could remember the old ways. Bringing a Permaculture
education to our community will help Custer
County become sustainable
again, while giving non-residents the opportunity to experience our beautiful
valley, including hiking in the Sangres, while they learn how to take
sustainability and local resiliency to their own communities.
In addition to the
combination of education from awesome teachers who live by their principles and hands-on experience, students
will actively participate in planning and designing Permaculture sites,
including the new Cliffs
Park Community
Garden. (see http://cliffsparkgarden.ning.com ) Upon successful completion of the Course,
students will receive a Permaculture Design Certificate which will allow them
to sell their new design services to others using the name “Permaculture.”
The Course will be
centered from the grounds of an off-grid home to which the principles of Permaculture
have been gradually applied since the owner completed a similar Course in 2007.
COST
$1250
Fees include: On-site camping · Field trips
Curriculum material · Vegetarian meals
CONTACT & REGISTRATION
Becky Elder, Pikes Peak
Permaculture
PO Box 861, Manitou Springs, CO 80829
719-685-0290
rselder@comcast.net
Registration Deadline July
15, 2010
Come learn with us!
SPONSORED BY PIKES PEAK
PERMACULTURE • SUSTAINABLE WAYS • BLUE PLANET EARTHSCAPES