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Permaculture Design Course
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Earth Learning in partnership with Miami Earth 'n Us Farm invites you to:
Permaculture Design Course
Six consecutive weekends of intensive urban permaculture solutions in the heart of Miami beginning January 9th
Learn skills to live a regenerative, sustainable, joyful life in the city.
Receive a professional permaculture design certificate.
Gain invaluable hands-on experience.
Permaculture is the science and art of conscious, sustainable design of human and natural systems; it allows people to increase abundance in their lives while protecting and regenerating Earth.
The Course offers a wide range of tools for sustainable, abundant living in the city, including how to create local economies, create urban homesteads and get off the grid, revitalize communities and common areas and live abundantly.
Professional certification is offered to graduates of the course.
In this course, you will learn to:
- Grow an edible forest garden in your yard
- Raise food animals in an urban environment
- Small scale independence (apartment gardening, aquaponics)
- Create right livelihood and sustainable economies
- Use the waste stream to create abundance
- Create community and successful synergies
- Retrofit the urban environment for sustainability
- Implement alternative energy strategies
- Active Water conservation
- Composting and Vermiculture
- Beekeeping
- Plan for changing climates and disasters
- Integrate arts in a sustainable culture
- Educate for a sustainable society
- Design consciously from backyard to entire city
- And much, much more
This is an opportunity to learn skills to live more sustainably in a unique and beautiful urban setting – a percentage of course proceeds will fund the ongoing Miami Earth N Us community work. For more information on course, see:
| Course Overview | Schedule & Curriculum | About Instructor |
Earth ‘n Us Farm is an exotic edible jungle with star fruit, cacao, jaboticaba, mango and much more surrounds a tree house and other aesthetic structures. This inner city farm hosts apprentices who want to learn to care for plants and animals, tours children through the farm and sets an example of what sustainable, self-sufficient living can be like no matter where you are. (7630 NE 1st Ave, Miami, FL 33138)
Join us on a one square block sustainable site in the heart of urban Miami
where together we can learn to transform what cities can be!
You can still register for certification and make up missed days..or for only a specific day or weekend...
Call Marcus at (954) 856-3775.
| Last updated ( Saturday, 16 January 2010 ) | |