Permaculture Design Course in or near Cleveland for 2009?

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Permalink Reply by Brad Charles Melzer on December 17, 2008 at 10:53am

Hey Nick,

I'm interested. I did a Pc course with Peter Bane and others at the Ecology Retreat Centre in Orangeville, Ontario about almost a decade ago. I'm not sure how things are set up these days, but back then there were two parts to the certification process. The course I took was the first part and I never did the second to actually achieve certification.
http://www.ecologyretreatcentre.com/

If we can get some kind of grant, that would be great. With 2 children, I can't afford it.

Brad

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Permalink Reply by Peter McDermott on December 17, 2008 at 3:55pm

I'm also really interested but probably couldn't devote two entire weeks.

I realize it's an integrated design practice but might there be an opportunity for smaller workshops or intros to make the ideas accessible to more people who then might then enroll in an certification course?

I'd be totally up for that.

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Permalink Reply by Brad Masi on December 18, 2008 at 10:41pm

Hey there.

I've been in touch with Darren Doherty who taught our permaculture cert. earlier this year about hosting another permi-certi in the fall of '09. He's planning on being in North America from Sept-Dec, so we are going to see what might work out schedule wise.

Also, there's a group of students and community members in Oberlin who are organizing a permaculture winter term project this January who wanted to make their schedule available, so I can forward that along when it's done. Oberlin students pursue independent projects during the month of January, so this is a group project focused on permaculture.

We're also working out some possible short courses/workshops around permaculture topics next year. Would you be game for that while we work out plans for a design certification? What kinds of topics do you think would be good?

-Brad

-Brad

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Permalink Reply by Nick Swetye on December 19, 2008 at 12:10am

Great! Thanks for the update, Brad. I am really excited to hear that Darren might come back around. I hope to god that my day work schedule permits me to attend - as Earth Day Coalition's fall benefit is in mid November and it pretty much eats up all of my fall. I'd really hate to miss out again.

As for the workshops, I think you have a pretty blank canvas and plenty of interest if we can get the word out.

Would you be teaching them? I am game for pretty much anything to do with getting my hands in the dirt. What's the line - "all the world's problems can be solved in the garden."

So let's make something - a stone oven or an effective solar one maybe, a green roof, explore aquaculture or effective pond construction. Erosion control methods. Keyline plowing. Soil building. Forest Gardening is, of course, very special to my heart. I'd love to share guilds and success stories with other folks practicing these methods in the area.

Another course that would probably be of incredible value - as my networking for Green Triangle continually expands into new circles, and I'm meeting new people - is the business side of urban agriculture. The city and foundations have really high hopes for urban ag and want to pour money into it or find ways of pouring money there, but I think there is a disconnect. We hear figures like the one acre garden that made 60K in NYC doing close cropped specialty lettuce, and we hear other figures of all this money in urban ag - but it's not really that simple and straightforward. An honest, but not necessarily dire, appraisal of urban ag's future prospects would be a great course that I think you might know the right people to get going.

Anyway, thinking out loud here. Thanks for the great news!

-n

And of course, I'd be happy to help in any way.

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Permalink Reply by Beth and Al Mancuso on February 5, 2009 at 7:56pm

Could folks start sharing their experiences, experiments, and level of success with guilds in Cleveland? I am reading Gaia's Garden and I would love to build off of what someone else has already tried in this area.

Thanks!
Beth

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Permalink Reply by Brad Masi on January 18, 2009 at 10:58am

Hey there.
We're pretty close to confirmed for a permaculture design certification August 11 thru 24 of this summer with Darren Doherty from Australia. Picking up Peter's suggestion, I'm working on developing some shorter modules on peramculture that can provide more of an overview and introduction to some of the concepts. More details soon, but let me know how it sounds. It kind of rubs into the growing season, but at the same time, it will provide a lot more opportunities for hands-on learning than we had when we did it in January last year. I'm also looking to rotate the workshop between Oberlin, Cleveland, and possibly some other locations to provide a more regional flavor.
-Brad

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Permalink Reply by Bob Sonnenberg on January 20, 2009 at 10:34am

The Fingerlakes Permaculture Institute in Ithaca has been doing a series of weekend courses on Permaculture Fundamentals. You might want to contact them.http://www.fingerlakespermaculture.org/
Bob

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Permalink Reply by Nick Swetye on January 20, 2009 at 12:47am

Wow - that's fantastic news Brad. Thanks for keeping us all informed and be sure I'll attend come hell or even unreasonably high water!

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Permalink Reply by Peter McDermott on January 20, 2009 at 10:10am

Glad to hear it...

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Permalink Reply by R. Josh Herzer on March 30, 2009 at 10:13pm

I'm very interested in Permaculture Design and getting certified in this. Even a workshop on food forests would be amazing!

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Permalink Reply by Wayne Weiseman on March 31, 2009 at 12:43pm

Please check out www.midwestpermaculture.com for courses this year. We will be in Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois. I know these are not right in the Cleveland area, but they are in the Midwest. If this serves you that's great. Yours, Wayne Weiseman. Also check out my website at: www.permacultureproject.com.

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Permalink Reply by Trina Parrish on July 2, 2009 at 4:00pm

http://www.georgejonesfarm.org/workshops.php

They're doing one again! I wish I had two weeks and $1K (although they do offer financial assistance).

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