Design Your Land: Applied Design Course

Introduction to Permaculture Module - September 13 & 14

Design Your Land Module - September 27, October 25 & November 8

• Would you like your land to provide bountiful food, fuel and other products, while taking care of the soil, water and air?
• Do you want your land to be able to withstand natural disasters, such as drought, flooding and intense storms?
• Are you interested in (re)designing your land to work more with nature?
• Do you live in Eastern Canada and want to learn techniques appropriate to our cold climate?
• Are you interested in learning permaculture applied to your land and being mentored by designers?

We invite you to join our "Design Your Land: Applied Design Course", which includes:

• Permaculture principles, ethics, design process
• Zones and sectors, patterns in nature
• Trees and basics of food forests
• Soil, composting, eco-sanitation
• Animals and aquaculture
• Basic mapping
• Microclimates, season extension and greenhouses
• Designing with the sun and passive solar buildings
• Water and earthworks
• Design for catastrophe, extreme weather, windbreaks, fire-breaks
• Assessing your land
• Working with a design mentor

This course consists of the Introduction Module (one weekend), plus the Design Your Land Module (three Saturday's of hands-on design work and support from a mentor).

To register, please email info@eonpermaculture.ca

Facilitators & Design Mentors: Bonita Ford, Sebastien Bacharach and Douglas Barnes

Hosted at Aster Lane Edibles, in Kinburn, ON.