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Permaculture Design Certification in NYC
with Andrew Faust and Guests
11 Sessions - August 14 - October 10
Presented by The Center for Bioregional Living and Andrew Faust
This course is for you.
We need you and every conscientious and motivated person to learn the tools of Permaculture so that we may all begin to help move this world forward TODAY!
We believe it starts with having the skills and vision to re-imagine and re-design our landscape and society.
We are NOT waiting for government and big business to solve our problems.
The solutions are already all around us.
Join us for this life changing and paradigm shifting course that will provide you with inspiring career paths and abundant ways of living.
Our PDC will cover the core 72 hour Permaculture Design curriculum, including additional hours of in class and out of class activities to adapt this
course to our region and to contemporary ecological issues in the United States. You will learn how to apply Permaculture principles
to a diversity of settings and issues with an emphasis on urban and temperate environments.
We will provide you with a positive and empowering vision for social and ecological transformation.
Come be inspired by the possibilities of today and not by the fear of tomorrow!
Permaculture
- is an ecological design science that provides insights and practical techniques for living a fruitful and abundant life.
- is addressing the major issues of our day from a whole systems perspective.
- is a worldwide movement that is helping to regenerate local ecologies and economies.
- is a solution oriented ecological approach to retrofitting our societies.
This course is perfect for motivated individuals who wish to use the tools of Permaculture in urban and rural environs as well as for modeling sustainable and regenerative businesses.
Lectures, extensive and diverse handouts, field trips and hands-on activities:
Urban redesign and retrofit, passive solar and natural building,inner-city gardening techniques, indoor and apartment gardening, indoor mushroom cultivation, fermented foods, whole foods, Living Machines and natural waste water treatment, niche market and cooperatively owned business ideas, rain gardens, living roofs, rooftop gardens, how to clean polluted air with plants, biogas generators, Bioregionalism and regional self reliance, the economics of globalization, evolution of life on earth, history of agriculture, Biodynamics, natural history of Eastern woodlands, woodlot management, watershed health, the integration of animals into cultivated ecosystems, and so much more!
For more information or to register, email contact@homebiome.com
To receive a certificate students must attend all 11 classes and present a final Permaculture site design. Students will be given the option to present their final design individually which is a different approach than most PDCs. In our experience, and from what our growing number of students say, this contributes to a more practical, professional and intellectually stimulating learning experience. As a result a number of our student's final presentations have gone from paper (or electronic presentations) to actualized, real-world designs.
We love to talk to prospective students about what sets our PDC apart and makes it so life changing. Send us an email, give us a call! We look forward to speaking with the future designers of society!
View Syllabus
Dates:
August 14, 15, 21, 28, 29
September 4, 11, 12, 18
(September 11 & 12 are field trip days)
October 9, 10
All classes will be held on either Saturday or Sunday from 9am to 5pm and will be held at:
Sixth Street Community Center
Lower East Side Manhattan
638 E. 6th Street between Ave B and C
Andrew Faust is one of the premier Permaculture teachers and designers in North America with nearly two decades of experience in the field. His passionate and visionary presentation and curriculum has been inspiring and motivating students since his days as an alternative school teacher at Upattinas in Glenmoore, PA. Andrew lived off the grid in West Virginia for 8 years where he designed and built a Permaculture inspired homestead including a 1600 sq ft strawbale house. He moved to Brooklyn in 2007 and has been applying his knowledge to the urban landscape culminating in a Permaculture Design Certification course many consider life changing. He is developing The Center for Bioregional Living in Ellenville, NY with his partner Adriana Magana as a pilot campus for his students, clients and baby daughter Juniper.
Guest speakers will include:
Keith Morris has been applying his lifelong love of nature and culture and experience as an activist to permaculture and ecological design since 1996. Since 2000, he has worked professionally as a designer, builder, and grower of ecologically regenerative, socially just, and culturally appropriate whole-systems in cities and country sides around the world. He teaches at the University of Vermont, the Yestermorrow Design Build School, Sterling College, Paul Smiths College, and with other community organizations.
Lisa DePiano is a certified Permaculture designer and co-founder of the Montview Neighborhood Farm, a human-powered farm
and edible forest garden in the Connecticut River Valley. She has a Master's degree in Regional Planning from the University of
Massachusetts and likes to ride with the worker owned Pedal People in Northampton, MA.
Mark Krawczyk is a permaculture designer and educator, natural builder, traditional woodworker and ecological landscaper who resides in Burlington, VT. He has worked with leaders in these fields throughout North America and the UK and is a member of Seven Generations Natural Builders collective. In addition he owns and operates Keyline Vermont - a sustainable farm design consulting business, a small woodworking/chair making company -Riven Wood Crafts and is the co-founder of the local permaculture and sustainability-focused community group Burlington Permaculture.
Rafter Sass of
Liberation Ecology has facilitated workshops on social project design, Permaculture design, the economics of globalization, mycology,
and wild foods and medicines. In his own words, "I do this work because I want to be in conversation with people who are hungry
for change, and the tools for making it."
Bill Young of
Young Environmental LLC is a recognized leader in the environmental field with more than 25 years of experience as a project manager, designer, and wetland specialist. His expertise includes habitat restoration on disturbed lands, wetlands monitoring and construction, botanical inventory, wildlife assessment, streambank restoration; and erosion and sediment control.
Lars Chellberg of Water Resources Group builds and maintains low cost Rain Water Harvesting systems across the five boroughs and leads educational workshops on sustainable water practices. He will be leading a tour of one of the systems he designed for a community garden in the Lower East Side.
Paula Hewitt Amram is the founder of Open Road Park in the Lower East Side. She will be talking to us about the transformation of a former bus depot/brownfield into the thriving community garden Open Road park is today.
Together this teaching team brings a wealth of wisdom and a diversity of experience ranging from city to country, forests
to deserts and beyond. Come and learn from the premier practitioners of ecological design in the Northeast and be a part of the
growing community of cutting edge designers and community leaders!
Tuition $1000
Payment plans are available. Please inquire.
$100 paid in advance to reserve your spot
For more information or to register, email contact@homebiome.com
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