2020 Elemental Permaculture Design Course
*Watch the video below for footage from our last course*
July20 - July 31st, 9:00am-5:00pm
Our Permaculture Design Certification course is an experience grounded in practice through hands-on interaction with the surrounding environment. We integrate site assessment and design, nutrition, herbalism, and social/ecological philosophy with the elemental energetic structures of fire, earth, air, and water.
In this 10 day immersive natural living experience, you will learn:
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Permaculture Design and site assessment
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Foraging, shelter building, and fire making
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Nutrition and herbalism
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Natural Building
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Food storage
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Mushroom cultivation
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Top Bar bee keeping
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Biodynamic gardening
We will also take time to visit local hot springs, visit other permaculture sites, and play in the Sangre de Cristo mountains. Join us for this fun and empowering event!
Notes:
- We will accept payment by check, Paypal or cash if we have an email confirmation of your registration. Please feel free to contact us regarding registration details by phone 575-613-6158 or email
- Single day classes do not include certification or course materials.
- Please use this link to find our location. https://goo.gl/maps/Zq397Bon6oR2. Plugging our address in Google maps will get you lost. Printed directions are also available here.
Info and Daily schedule:
With over a decade of practice since my PDC training we felt like we had something genuine and powerful to share and now here it is. Our PDC will be unique in that it will be an immersive practicum where the theoretical design principles will be grounded into an all aspects lifestyle incorporating gardening, building, beekeeping, herbalism, diet, fermentation, composting, foraging, self care, meditation and intention. Our intention is to engrain nature’s patterns, rhythms, and ways into daily life as well as to impart the design strategies of permaculture to heal and care for the land. We intend to provide our participants with a rich experience of the meaningfulness of natural living while providing real world skills for health, business, relationships, and self-empowerment. This is an 80 hour course aimed at providing a real world skill set. Each day begins at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 5:00 p.m. and will be held over 2 weeks.
Day 1, July 20th
Opening Blessing
Orientation/ farm tour
Wild and farm fresh lunch
Set up camp/ free time to socialize and connect
Permaculture overview
Day 2, July 21st
Permaculture Design class
Forage/ harvest/ lunch
Free time
Permaculture Design continued
Gardening practicum “Soil building techniques”
Day 3, July 22nd
Foraging and forest observation with wild lunch, fire making and shelter building
Day 4, July 23rd
Nutrition and herbalism: Ayurveda, Alchemy, TCM, Five flavors
Forage/Harvest/ Lunch
Herbal Medicine making, Spiritual nutrition, and Herbalism in garden design
Day 5, July 24th
Natural building class
Forage/harvest/ lunch
Practicum Cob building (cottage and/or rocket stove)
Weekend off
Day 6, July 27th
Dryland permaculture: techniques, plants, examples
Forage/ harvest/ lunch
Site visit
Rainwater harvesting techniques and watershed management
Day 7, July 28th
Food storage and Preparation: lacto-fermentation, solar drying, soaking and sprouting
Forage/harvest/ lunch
Mushroom cultivation techniques
Day 8, July 29th
Top bar Beekeeping
Compost tea application
Forage/ Harvest/ Lunch
Biodynamics: Rudolf Steiner and alchemical gardening
Day 9, July 30th
Permaculture Design project in teams
forage/harvest/ lunch
Permaculture design project continued
Day 10, July 31st
Design project presentations
Forage/harvest/ lunch
Closing ceremony and certificate presentation/ party
Tear down camp
Required Textbooks:
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An Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison & David Holmgren
Suggested textbooks:
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Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, vol.1 by Brad Lancaster,
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Botany in a Day by Thomas Elpel
Instructors:
Jesse and Johanna Boudreau
Jesse began learning about botany and foraging from a young age from his step-father Charles Keller. After studying anthropology, music, Buddhist philosophy, and ethnobotany at the University of New Mexico Jesse started a small mushroom growing business and market garden with his wife, her sister and brother in law. Jesse also attended Ecoversity, an expanded permaculture school where he learned permaculture design from Scott Pittman and Joel Glanzberg. After mentoring with various master gardeners he started a permaculture gardening business installing waterwise and native/edible foodscapes in the Santa Fe area for the period of about 11 years. After experiencing food allergies Jesse and his wife, Johanna, began a journey of study and healing through nutrition and herbalism.
Johanna grew up learning the plants used to dye wool for weaving, making paints, and home remedies. She has home-birthed, homeschooled and raised her children with homeopathy and herbalism. She and Jesse are both currently studying Astro-herbalism through Sajah Popham's School of Evolutionary Herbalism. They have been learning, working and teaching together for about 15 years and recently co-authored their first, book available here. They live in Chimayo where they practice permaculture, foraging, homesteading and homeschooling.