Kootenay Permaculture Institute
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Schedule
2012
Toby
Hemenway
Evening talk in
Nelson, BC Wednesday
March 28 (7pm)
"Permaculture:
Solutions for Community Building and a Fear-Free Future" with Toby
Hemenway
Venue: Self-Design High
402 Victoria
Nelson, BC
Sliding scale $10 -$20 (pay at the door) No registration required. If
you are on Facebook please sign up on the event's page:
http://www.facebook.com/events/181434601961251/
"Permaculture:
Solutions for Community Building and a Fear-Free Future" with Toby
Hemenway
Join Toby Hemenway, author of the best-selling Gaia’s Garden:
A
Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, for an evening that will leave you
with a deeper understanding of the issues we face such as climate
change, food security, peak oil, economic uncertainty. The
ecological design approach known as permaculture offers both a way to
think about these issues constructively, and a set of solutions for
individuals, families and the places we live. This program will help us
develop a toolkit for a regenerative culture that offers specific
solutions and a positive program for our future and for the future of
our communities.
Full day workshop Thursday
March 29 (9am - 5pm)
"Permaculture
Design for the Home Landscape:
from the urban
backyard to the small acreage"
Venue: Selkirk College Silver King Campus
2001 Silver King Road
Nelson, BC
Fee: $100 plus tax if paid by March 20th
After March 20th the fee will be $120 plus tax.
You will need to register for the full day workshop. (space is limited)
Presented by Kootenay Permaculture
Email:
spiralfarm@yahoo.com
"Permaculture
Design for the Home Landscape: from the urban
backyard to the small acreage" with Toby Hemenway
In this workshop, you'll learn how to use permaculture to design home
landscapes that not only produce food and beauty for people, but also
shelter birds and beneficial insects, conserve water and energy,
improve soil health, and enhance biodiversity. We will cover 12
essential permaculture principles, a set of design methods to help turn
your yard into a rich, food-producing ecosystem, techniques for
efficient and pest-resistant garden layout, selecting plants that work
together to build soil and habitat, drought-proofing your yard, and
conserving energy through landscape planning that warms the home and
yard in winter yet keeps it cooler in summer. Permaculture gives us a
set of tools for sustainable solutions in the home landscape.
Bio:
Toby Hemenway
is the author of "Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale
Permaculture," which for the last 8 years has been the world's
best-selling book on the ecological-design approach known as
permaculture. The expanded 2nd edition of the book was named one the
top 10 gardening books of 2010 by the Washington Post, and it won the
2011 Nautilus Gold Medal Award. Toby has been on the faculty of
Portland State University and was a scholar-in-residence at Pacific
University, and teaches permaculture all over the world. He has
presented at conferences and universities across the continent, and
lives in Sebastopol, California, where he is tending a two-acre food
forest amid 7 acres of redwoods and bay laurels.
The Center for Pattern Literacy:
www.patternliteracy.com
March 31 & April 1st, 2012
in Nelson, BC
Dates: March 31
& April 1st (Sat-Sun) 9am -4pm
Venue: Selkirk College Silver
King Campus, Nelson, BC
Instructor: Gregoire
Lamoureux
Tuition
fee: $65 (for the
first day) or
$125 (for
both days)
April 16 - May 11, 2012 (4 weeks full time)
Permaculture Training Program
in Nelson & Winlaw, BC
Description: Learn the basic Permaculture
design principles and techniques and develop the practical skills to
design and
implements sustainable designs for ecological landscape and backyard.
This four
week intensive training program combines theory with practical hands-on
activities.
Course graduates will receive the Permaculture Design Course
Certificate.
Dates:
April 16 - May
11, 2012
(Monday - Friday) 9am
– 4:00pm
Venue: Selkirk College Silver
King Campus, Nelson & Spiral Farm Winlaw, BC
Instructor: Gregoire
Lamoureux & guests.
Gregoire Lamoureux
is a permaculture designer, consultant and teacher with 20 years of
experience with
permaculture systems across Canada. He has taught the Permaculture
Design Course for
the last 10 years with Selkirk College.
Early Registration Deadline is March
19, 2012.
Permaculture Design Courses in Canada
June 3 - 16, 2012 in Winlaw, BC
Early registration deadline: May 4th 2012.
July 22 - August 4th 2012 in
Caledon, Ontario
August 19 - September 1st, 2012 in Winlaw, BC
Early registration deadline:
July 20th 2012
Description: This intensive 13 day course
combines theory with practical hands-on learning & design
exercises.
The participants who complete the course will receive the Permaculture
Design Course Certificate.
Topics includes: permaculture design
techniques & principles, site analysis, soil fertility, organic
gardening techniques, herbs & medicinal plants, fruit &
nut trees, water uses, ecological buildings & urban
permaculture.
Instructors: Gregoire Lamoureux &
guests
For more information or to register contact:
Kootenay Permaculture
S12, C2, RR#1
Winlaw, BC
V0G 2J0
Email: spiralfarm@yahoo.com
http://www3.telus.net/permaculture
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Introduction
to Permaculture Design
March 31 & April
1st, 2012
in Nelson, BC
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Permaculture
is the design & implementation of sustainable &
ecological human
habitats. It is based on the observation of natural system and uses
ecological
principles to increase diversity and productivity of local human
ecosystems. It
can be used both in urban and rural areas. The participants will learn
the
basic principles & techniques of permaculture design and will
be able to use
some of those ideas in their own backyard or on their land.
The topics
include permaculture design principles & techniques, site
analysis, soil
fertility, organic gardening techniques, growing berries &
fruit trees,
water uses and more.
THE
INSTRUCTOR:
Grégoire
Lamoureux has twenty years of experience as a permaculture designer,
consultant
and teacher and has taught in many parts of the country. His work experience includes market
gardening, greenhouse production, orcharding, ecological land
restoration,
small-scale nursery management, landscaping, aquaculture and forestry
work.
Dates: March 31
& April 1st, 2012, (Sat-Sun) 9am -4pm
Venue: Selkirk College Silver
King Campus, Nelson, BC
Tuition fee: $65 (for first
day) or $125 (for
both days)
Abundant Food in the City:
An Urban
Permaculture Workshop
(Date
& venue to be confirmed)
We can grow abundant food
in the city: it's the 0 mile diet! Come
explore how permaculture design principles and techniques can transform
our backyards and our public spaces into lush edible landscapes. We'll
explore soil fertility, microclimates, guilds, do some hands-on
activities and share community strategies for change.
Instructor:
Gregoire Lamoureux
To register or for more information:
spiralfarm@yahoo.com
Forest
Gardening
with Gregoire
Lamoureux
Learn How-to Design an
Edible Forest Garden (or Food Forest) Using Permaculture Principles
(Date
& venue to be confirmed)
A forest garden is an integrated system of inter-planted, mutually
beneficial trees, shrubs, perennial & annual plants that
produces
food, medicine, fibre and more. Come learn how to develop a practical
strategy for creating more abundance (for yourself, your family, your
neighbours and beneficial insects and birds) in any backyard - be it
lawn, bush or even damaged land.
A class for all levels. The concepts learned can be adapted to a small
urban backyard or to a larger rural acreage. The Forest Garden is
carefully designed by using Permaculture principles.
Instructor:
Gregoire Lamoureux
Permaculture
Design Course
June 3 - 16, 2012
August 19 -
September 1st, 2012
at Spiral Farm
in Winlaw, British Columbia
This 13 day intensive course is the basic Permaculture Design
Course covering the
principles & techniques of permaculture design. The course
includes lectures, discussions, hands-on, slide shows, field trips
& design projects.
This course is presented in cooperation with
Selkirk College in Nelson, BC
Topics:
Permaculture principles &
techniques
Pattern understanding
Soils
Water
Microclimate
Organic Gardening
Plant diversity
Forest Garden
Fruit & Nut trees
Animals
Plant Propagation
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Agroforestry
Forests
Earthworks
Building Design
Alternative Energy
Waste treatment
Tools
Urban Permaculture
Alternative economics
& more.
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Instructor:
Grégoire Lamoureux:
Gregoire Lamoureux is a permaculture designer, consultant and
teacher. He is one of the most experience permaculture teacher
& consultant in Canada.
Gregoire has been actively working with permaculture systems
for over 20 years and teaching permaculture courses in many parts of
the country since 1991. He taught the first Permaculture Design Course
in French in Québec in 1995. He taught the Permaculture
Design Course as a Summer Session at the University of Manitoba in
2005. He has been teaching the Permaculture Design Course in Ontario
since 2001 and with Selkirk College in Nelson, BC since 2002.
He has served on the Board of Directors of Slocan River Streamkeepers
and on the Board of Directors of Seeds of Diversity Canada for seven
years. He is a founding member of Kootenay Organic Growers Society and
was on the Certifying Committee for three years.
His work experience includes market gardening, greenhouse production,
orcharding, ecological land restoration, small-scale nursery
management, landscaping, aquaculture, forestry work & carpentry
work.
He has written articles for Natural Life and Eco Farm & Garden
magazines, a contributor in The Organic Companion, Gleanings from
Canadian Organic Growers published in 2005.
Gregoire
has studied ecological & green building and worked on
straw-bale,
cob house buildings & Mandala Homes (locally built round
houses).
He has been a guest lecturer at many conferences including the BC
Organic Agriculture Conference and the Guelph Organic Agriculture
Conference.
Guest Speakers:
Shanoon Bennett:
Shanoon Bennett is an environmental educator and founder of
Huckleberry Adventures (since 1989), which is a program
dedicated to instilling appreciation for the wonders found in the wilds
of our backyards. This school program has literally warmed the hearts
of thousands of youth throughout the Kootenays. This program includes
adventure snowshoe treks into local forests and marshes, pond ecology,
high alpine hikes, and extensive wild botanical
studies. Along with 7 years of park naturalist experience in both
Alberta and BC, she has a BSc in Earth Sciences from the University of
Calgary as well as extensive wilderness First Aid training for Leaders.
She has a love of children and the great outdoors and her
greatest passion is bringing the two together naturally. She is also an
avid wildcrafter and loves to share her knowledge and experience of the
botanical treasures found from valley bottom to mountain top.
Rabi'a:
Rabi'a has over 20 years of experience homesteading in
Northwest BC. She also has 5 years of experience in permaculture design
and implementation on 37 acres of land on Maui growing a diversity of
tropical & subtropical fruits, veggies & other useful
plants. This project was followed by a one-year stay on a farm in
Australia where she was using permaculture principles to grow some
commercial crops of organic medicinal Echinacea.
Rabi'a is now using permaculture principles in the Kootenays.
She grows many fruits, berries, veggies and a diversity of trees, using
mulching & composting methods to restore and reforest a 5 acre
piece of land in the Slocan Valley. Rabi'a has also created some
beautiful strawbale buildings on her land. She loves to integrate
functional art in her small-scale permaculture. Her recent activities
include sand sculpture, snow sculpture & metal sculpture.
Other Guest Speakers to be confirmed.
Guest Speakers in the past have included:
Don Gayton:
Don Gayton is an ecologist with a wide background in grassland and dry
forest ecosystems. He obtained his B.Sc. in Agronomy from
Washington State University and an M.Sc. in Plant Ecology from the
University of Saskatchewan. Don has travelled and worked
extensively in Western North America. He and his family live in Nelson,
British Columbia, where he works as an Ecosystem Management Specialist
for the Forest Research Extension Partnership (FORREX).
Gayton’s writing includes award-winning books of
popular non-fiction (Kokanee, Landscapes of the Interior and The
Wheatgrass Mechanism). His recent FORREX technical publications include
Ground Work: Basic Concepts in Ecological Restoration, and British
Columbia Grasslands: Monitoring Vegetation Change. Gayton has a decade
of involvement with fire-maintained ecoystem restoration issues in
British Columbia’s southern interior.
Shemmaho:
"In 1970 I moved to the bush in the interior of Southern
British Columbia. I wanted to homestead and be as
self-sufficient as possible. My husband was a logger and
lived in camps, so I spent weeks on end with my goats, dogs, and horse
for company. When
we arrived the forest was an undifferentiated blur, and I began
the engrossing task of learning the names and characteristics of
the plants around me. My neighbors were very willing to share
what they knew about the uses of the herbs in our area, and I started
drying herbs for teas along with drying vegetables for winter
stews.
I spent many long days in the summer with no human contact, and soon
noticed that the plant life around me was asking for my
attention.
I entered the privileged realm of interspecies communication, and have
been learning to understand messages delivered without language ever
since."
"Having a child brought me
into a social context, and we moved into a village where I did
carpentry work for cash. By the end of the
eighty’s I had carpel tunnel, sciatica, and fibral myalgia
and
needed another livelihood. My knowledge and experience of
herbs had continued over the years, so it was a natural thing
for me to turn to herbalism as a business. In 1990 I went to
the Alpine Herbal College in Salmon Arm and became a certified
herbalist. I have developed a business based on the local
herbs, some which I grow, some I wildcraft. Along with
creating
herbal products, I give consultations to help people improve their
health, and teach aspects of herbalism to classes and individuals."
Phil Larstone: Phil has a wealth of
knowledge and experience in many aspects of alternative energy. He
lives in an off-the-grid home
powered by solar energy where he makes flutes and plays &
records music.
& other guests speakers will join us.
For more information please contact:
Kootenay
Permaculture Institute
S12, C2
RR#1
Winlaw, British Columbia,
Canada
V0G 2J0
spiralfarm@yahoo.com
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2012
Permaculture Design Course
July 22 - August 4th, 2012
at the Whole Village Ecovillage
in Caledon, Ontario
This 13 day intensive course is the basic Permaculture Design
Course covering the
principles & techniques of permaculture design. The course
includes lectures, discussions, hands-on, slide shows, field trips
& design projects.
Topics:
Permaculture principles &
techniques
Pattern understanding
Soils
Water
Microclimate
Organic Gardening
Plant diversity
Forest Garden
Fruit & Nut trees
Animals
Plant Propagation
|
Agroforestry
Forests
Earthworks
Building Design
Alternative Energy
Waste treatment
Tools
Urban Permaculture
Alternative economics
& more.
|
Instructor:
Grégoire Lamoureux:
Gregoire Lamoureux is the director of the Kootenay
Permaculture Institute. He is a permaculture designer, consultant and
teacher. He has worked with permaculture systems for over 20 years and
taught courses in many parts of the country. Gregoire taught the
Permaculture Design Course as a Summer Session at the University of
Manitoba in 2005. He has been teaching the Permaculture Design
Course in Ontario since 2001. He has served on
the Board of Directors of Slocan
River Streamkeepers and on
the Board of Directors of Seeds of Diversity Canada for seven years.
He is a founding member of Kootenay Organic Growers Society and was on
the Certifying Committee for three years.
His work experience includes market gardening, greenhouse
production, orcharding, ecological land restoration using
bio-engineering
techniques, small-scale nursery management, landscaping, aquaculture
and forestry work. He has written articles for Natural Life and Eco
Farm
& Garden magazines, a contributor in The Organic Companion,
Gleanings
from Canadian Organic Growers published in 2005. Gregoire has also
studied
alternative building and worked on straw-bale and cob house buildings.
He has been a guest lecturer at many conferences including the BC
Organic
Agriculture Conference and the Guelph Organic Agriculture Conference.
For more information please contact:
Kootenay Permaculture Institute
S12, C2
RR#1
Winlaw, British Columbia,
Canada
V0G 2J0
spiralfarm@yahoo.com
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