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1L102C

Design Skills for Permaculture Living

November 15 - 17 & 15 - 19 options

LOCATION : TBA,

Nanaimo / Cedar,

Vancouver Island

Lead Instructor :

Christina Nikolic

COURSE SUMMARY

Welcome to Design Skills for Permaculture Living, in 3 or 5-day co-presenter intensives. In this summary we will outline online resources, classroom assignments and the material to be covered. This Design Skills workshop is offered in two different versions, one, Nov 15 - 17 and the other, Nov. 15 - 19, with class times and options that vary – between 9 am – 9:30 pm. Version Two is a FULL five days – 9 – 5, plus as many extra evenings as you can stand.

Challenge your perspective on gardening: it all boils down to soil! Ever-producing, self-managing and diversely abundant, return to the ecological Garden of Eden where snakes are good (and so is everything else). By learning to recognize and build on natural systems, you can live in your garden, not work in it. The empowerment you need to do it yourself! Learn low tech skills for designing and drafting the plan to meet your perfect food, garden and self-reliance needs.

The second version of this workshop provides the chance to emerge with a finished project, with two extra days of personal time and Mentor supervision for your education and home project designs... Translating those amazing ideas from your head into reality. If you are going to build it, first come and design it.

~ with Instructors: Christina Nikolic & Carol Wagner

CLASS COMPONENTS (session times)

Designing & Drafting Intro (Half-day Workshop)

10:00 am – 2:00 pm - Wednesday, Nov 15th – (See also 9am – Meet & Greet)

~ Instructor: Christina Nikolic (10:30 am- 1:30pm)

Permaconcepts (Half-day Workshop)

2 – 6 pm - Wednesday, Nov 15th

~ Instructor: Christina Nikolic (2 - 5 pm)

(Open potluck discussion: 5 - 6 pm)

Designing & Drafting: Hands-on (Half-day Workshop)

9:00 am – 12:00 pm – Thursday, Nov 16th

~ with Christina Nikolic (9 am - noon

Understanding Healthy Soils (Half-day Workshop)

1 - 4 pm - Thursday, Nov 16th

~ with Christina Nikolic

Student Potluck Dinner

4 – 6 pm - Thursday, Nov 16th

Design Your Own Permaculture Project (Evening Workshop)

6:30 – 9:30 pm – Thursday, Nov. 16th

~ Teaching Assistant Facilitator: TBA

Class Model for an Edible Landscape (Half-day Workshop)

9 am – 12:30 pm – Thursday, Nov. 16th

~ Teaching Assistant Facilitator: TBA

Smart Plants: Perma-Uses (Half-day Workshop)

1 – 5 pm - Friday, Nov. 17th

~ Students present their Model - 1 – 2 pm

~ Carol Wagner (2 – 5 pm)

Design Your Own Dream Garden - TBA (Evening Workshop)

6:30 – 9:30 pm - Friday, Nov. 17th

Includes Class presentation of student Model to the public

~ Carol Wagner

Display of Student Designs

9 am - 12 noon, Saturday, Nov. 18th

VERSION TWO:

Includes two days of Mentor time for working through student project designs:

Student Designs - Mentor Assistance (Two days)

2 - 5:30 pm - Saturday, November 16th

9 am - 12:30 pm & 1 - 5 pm - Sunday, November 17th

COST

Version One: $200

Version Two: $325

INCLUDED IN THIS WORKSHOP (Optional - available on WAIT LIST, until confirmed):

Tales from Off the Grid… Living the Life (Full-Day Workshop)

9 – 5 pm - Saturday, Nov 18th, Brown Bag Lunch!

~ Mandala Kowal, Carol Wagner, Jan Steinman & guests

(9:00 - Students Welcome – Intern Facilitator / Greeting)

10 – 11:30 – Jan Steinman – Lifestyle Examples & Options - Overview

11:30 – 1:00 - Carol Wagner – Living the Dream – Reasons & Reflections

1:30 – 5:00 – Mandala Kowal – Self-reliance in the Sierra Madre Mountains

RELATED CLASSES (that may interest you) - By Waiting List ONLY!

Backyard & Container Growing (Evening Workshop)

6:30 - 9:30 pm - Wednesday, Nov 15th

~ Christina Nikolik

Off the Grid Living (Six-day Intensive)

9 am – 9:30 pm - Saturday, Nov 18th – Friday, Nov 24th, varying session times

~ Mandala Kowal

OTHER DETAILS

Check back here for additional information that may be added later, like student posted hikes, discussion topics, design-team & study buddies, and teacher office hours or paid public consulting times here.

Outside Resources

To be announced