Permaculture Design Certification Course

Learn Sustainable Living Skills to Transform Your Life, Landscape and Community:

• Ecological Ethics, Design Principles & Strategies
• Micro-Climate Analysis & Systems Thinking
• Food Forests & Companion Planting
• Organic Gardening & Compost Methodologies
• Building with Natural Materials
• Animal Husbandry and Urban PC
• Bioremediation & Mushroom Propagation
• Rainwater Harvesting & Waste Water Management
• Sustainable Resources & Alternative Energy
• Passive & Active Solar Systems
• Earthworks & Aquaculture
• Plant Propagation, Pruning, & Grafting
• Soil Building & Sheet Mulching
• Emergency Preparedness and Building Local Economies
• Social Permaculture and Effective Activism

Facilitated by Bruce Horowitz, with Chris Wolf and Guest Instructors. Bruce is a certified Permaculture Teacher, Composting and ‘Green’ Gardening Educator, and has an M.A. in Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community. Chris Wolf is a certified Permaculture Designer and the Farm Manager at Growing Veterans.

This intensive course meets from 9 am – 5 pm (with optional saturday eve potluck and PC videos), Saturday and Sunday, the second weekend of the month starting October 12 and 13 in the awesome, centrally located Sunnyland Neighborhood. of It will change your life! (Course dates are Oct. 12/13, Nov. 9/10, Dec. 7/8, Jan. 11/12, Feb. 8/9, and March 8/9.)

Skills Investment: $850, if signed up by September 15; ($900 thereafter): Includes Expert Instruction, Field Trips, all Materials and your Permaculture Design Consultant Diploma.

Registration starting in August at www.whatcomfolkschool.org

and More Information at

www.rawpermaculture.org

Sponsored by TRANSITION WHATCOM