Hands on Permaculture Courses in Ellenville, NY 2024
INSTALLING RAIN TANKS FOR FARMS AND FAMILIES
Rain Water Abundance!
Hands-on Workshop
At the Center For Bioregional Living in Ellenville NY
May 11th 10am-3pm
Sliding scale $60 to $100 a person
Come and learn how to capture hold and store pure high quality rain water. A free and bounteous gift to capitalize on especially in a place that gets 49 inches of rain fall a year! You can catch .6 gallons per inch of rainfall, for each square foot of roof area you connect to a tank. From a 2000 square foot roof in one year you will harvest 52,000 gallons of water.
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We will show you how to:
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Size your tank
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The plumbing parts you need
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How to hook it up
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Connect your overflow or downspouts
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Create a series of dynamic diverse flowering rain gardens, havens of biodiversity and beauty!
Celebrate the abundant gift of rain water and solve water problems on your land with one action.
Learn to create gravity fed rain water supplied irrigation systems for gardens and livestock
You will learn how to connect a big rain tank to your house and how to properly plumb it to use for watering needs on your land and for fun!
Upcoming Online Permaculture Certification Courses Fall 2024
Exceptional course, low cost, incredible teachers, every session recorded to replay at your convenience with a reduced price, 10% off for all of our PDC graduates in any of our hands-on courses. Our Permaculture design certification course imparts a positive and empowering vision for social and ecological transformation.
Andrew Faust - Founder | Director
One of the premier Permaculture teachers and designers in North America with over two decades of experience in the field. His passionate and mind expanding talks and curriculum have motivated teachers, students since his decade long career as a H.S. teacher at Upattina's, a open community free school in Glenmoore, PA.
View Faust's TED X lecture
Andrew created his own Permaculture Ph'd project, in 1999, a fully off grid, Straw Bale educational center in Pocahontas County W.V. He moved to Brooklyn in 2007 and has been applying his knowledge to the urban landscape.Faust has been inspiring film makers with the message of Permaculture culminating in the film: Inhabit, and a life changing Permaculture Design Certification course, with thousands of graduates. Faust received a dual diploma in Design and Education from Permaculture Institute of North America in 2016. Andrew and Adriana Magaña with their daughter Juniper run the Center for Bioregional Living in Ellenville, NY., a hands-on educational campus for students and clients.
Andrew Faust, a visionary permaculture and bioregional educator taps into the rich synergy between permaculture and biodynamic agriculture which he has been studying with a focus on orchards since he completed his permaculture design training in 1996. Some of our design clients include: Click to View
Andrew is a certified Alternative School Teacher, focusing on Bioregional Education; he instructed at Upattina's Open Community High School from 1992-2001. Faust holds a B.A. in comparative religions from Guilford College.
FREE ONLINE COURSES
INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE
Tuesday May 7th @ 7pm
Permaculture Center for BioRegional Living - Farm Tour
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See a working Permaculture Educational Farm
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Learn how to grow more of your own food
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Learn how to set up big rain tanks for water security
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See our straw bale cabin, outhouses and natural classroom
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See how create ponds and to find and develop springs
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Visit our Dwarf Nigerian Goats, heritage chickens, nut trees natural buildings Biodigestor and more.
Available by appointment only - $100.00
Please call - 917.584.4588
Permaculture Consultation Services
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Real Estate Appraisals
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Energy Consulting
"If it was not for Andrew I would have completely bought the wrong piece of Land and wasted tens of thousands of dollars. After sharing my goals, Andrew patiently took months of narrowing down properties I sent him from online listings. Then he went to visit the best and final online selections in person, selecting the best of the best within my budget. Hiring his services was well worth every dollar. I would highly recommend leveraging his experience to anyone serious about buying land. " - Property Analysis Client
Permaculture Gardens and Landscapes
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Gardens
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Agroforestry
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Native Pollinator
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Orchards
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Biodynamic
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Meadows and Landscape
- Design, build and maintain diversified, beautiful, edible and native landscapes for our clients using permaculture design principles. We fully utilize southern exposure for rare and delicate fruits and cooler areas for rare woodland medicinals and other appropriate plantings. We will disperse detrimental energies like wind and sun and increase privacy and the diversity of use by the strategic placement of the plantings we create on-site.
Permaculture Consultation - Natural Building Services
We combine our experience in natural building and landscape construction to create healthy homes for healthy people. We will site buildings to be well located in regards to water drainage around them and maximize the natural benefits of being oriented to the sun for winter homes and towards the north for passive cooling and root cellars.
Humanity is more than ever threatened by its own actions; we hear a lot about the need to minimize footprints and to reduce our impact. But what if our footprints were beneficial? What if we could meet human needs while increasing the health and well-being of our planet?
"INHABIT - IS QUITE SIMPLY THE BEST FILM EVER MADE ABOUT PERMACULTURE" - Permaculture Magazine
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WHAT WE DO:
Educational Initiatives
Permaculture Design Consultation
Water Quality & Regional Planning
Herbalism, Food & Healing
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