Permaculture Design Two-Week Intensive - Sample Syllabus

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Daily Schedule:

Breakfast 7:30 - 8:30
AM Session 9:00 - 12:00
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30
PM Session 2:00 - 5:30
Dinner 6:00 - 7:00
Eve Session 7:30 - 9:30

DAY 1

PM Session - Arrival/Housing/Site Orientation
Eve Session - Intros./Video

DAY 2

AM Session - Check-in/Overview/Community Process/Ethics & Principles
PM Session - Zone & Sector/Reading the land tour
Eve Session - Slides: Permaculture Overview

DAY 3

AM Session - Pattern
PM Session - Design Process/Design Teams
Eve Session - Slides: Doug's : Veggie Biodiversity & Seed Saving

DAY 4

AM Session - Hands on: Organic Gardening w/ Doug & Michelle
PM Session - Agroforestry, Guilds, Perennial Polyculture, Food Forests
Eve Session - Brock’s : Basins of Relations

DAY 5

AM Session - Dryland Strategies, Water Harvesting, Keyline
PM Session - Invisible Structures/Group Process
Eve Session - Examples of Projects/Getting resources

DAY 6

AM Session - Participants as Resource
PM Session - Kate Lundquist : Hands on: Cob Bench
Eve Session - Chas Moore: Fermentation

DAY 7

AM Session - Matt Every: Active Solar, Alternative Energy
PM Session - Hands on: Layout & dig a swale, Sheet mulching
Eve Session - Video: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

DAY 8

AM Session - Day Off!!
PM Session - No Lunch or Dinner on Site!
Eve Session - Open Night

DAY 9

AM Session - Greywater, Constructed Wetlands
PM Session - Adam Wolpert : Group Process Facilitation, Power Dynamics
Eve Session - Janine Björnson: Intro. To Natural Building

DAY 10

AM Session - Michelle Vesser : Weeds & Plant Spirit, Hands on: Drip Irrigation
PM Session - Carol Nieukirk : Goats & Eco-Forestry
Eve Session - Dave Henson : Globalization vs. Localization

DAY 11

AM Session - Wildlife, Aquaculture, Domestic Animals
PM Session - Offsite Tour: Tour Local Permaculture Projects
Eve Session - Jim Coleman : Regenerative Restoration

DAY 12

AM Session - Erik Ohlsen’s Tour
PM Session - Design Time
Eve Session - Design Time

DAY 13

AM Session - Finish Design Projects
PM Session - Design Project Presentation
Eve Session - Passion Show

DAY 14

AM Session Evaluations, Where to From Here? Good-byes

Facilitators:
Brock Dolman, Kendall Dunnigan, Ben Fahrer, Doug Gosling, Michelle Vesser, Dave Henson, Adam Wolpert, Janine Bjornson, Kate Lundquist, Carol Nieukirk, Matt Every, Erik Ohlsen, Chas Moore, Jim Coleman