Hands-on Permaculture Classes - Summer 2024 Ellenville. NY
Come join us at the Center for Bioregional Living in Ellenville, NY - All classes 10am and go till 3pm!
These are the workshops that many of you have been waiting for! They will be relaxed, very informative, fun and a great way to have an immersion educational experience on our permaculture campus.
We have thoughtfully crafted each of these offerings to extend your fundamental Permaculture design skills and advance them strongly, with these hands on trainings taking you forward on the wings of true experience!
Our themes this season are:
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Biodynamic Gardening
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Whole site Design
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Forest Gardens/Tree Crops
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Natural Building
Forest Gardens and Tree Crops
Saturday May 19th Sliding scale $60-$100
This course will focus on planting trees and gardening with nature through the creation of edible forest gardens:
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Design and management of multi-functional woodlots.
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Planting and management of woodlots for selective harvesting of fuel and building materials.
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Understory value-added crops like shitake, ginseng, goldenseal and wild garlic
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Techniques for increasing the quality and productivity of wild edibles.
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Hands-on activities: Planting Forest Garden Tree Crops!
Permaculture and Biodynamic Gardening
Saturday May 25th- Sliding scale $60-$100
In this workshop we will have hands-on activities taking you from seed starting to bed prepping and planting a organic market scale garden.
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Discuss preferred seed sources
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Explain the Biodynamic Calendar & how we use it
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Prep and plant beds in our garden
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Explain our rain water catching system
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Discuss permaculture in the fruit & vegetable garden layout
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Explain when we use the tractor and when we use hand tools
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Show you amendments that we use in our garden and why
Permaculture Property Design
Saturday, June 29 and 30 - $200
This course will focus on laying the groundwork for an entire land development project such as establishing ecological businesses, community farms, eco-villages, co-housing and homesteads. (Ideal for PDC graduates)
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Reading the landscape
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Topography and hydrology
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Reading biological indicators
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Whole site analysis
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Mapping techniques
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Siting buildings
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Phase plan
Learn to build a cob oven for sourdough pizzas, homemade bread and more! Learn basic carpentry and framing building an outdoor cooking area, which will cover the cob oven and create an exquisite cooking space in a natural setting.
We will be doing flat work and teach you how to set stone for patios too.
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Cob Oven Construction
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Basic Carpentry
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Framing with rough cut local lumber
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Setting patio pavers and flatwork
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Natural finishes and plasters
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Creating outdoor cooking area
Cob Oven Outdoor Kitchen
Saturday June 22 and 23 - $300
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.
Andrew created his own Permaculture PHD 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 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.
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FREE ONLINE PERMACULTURE COURSES
INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE
Tuesday May 21st @ 7pm
Permaculture addresses the major issues of our day with a whole systems approach. It is a worldwide movement that is helping to regenerate local ecologies and economies.
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History of Permaculture
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Designing Your Home, Farm & Business
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Regenerative Farming, Biodynamics and Climate Resiliency
What is Permaculture?
Permaculture is a design process and a worldwide movement that is helping to regenerate local ecologies and economies by addressing our social justice and environmental issues.
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
JOIN OUR ON LINE MONTHLY PERMACULTURE MEETUP
May 17th
Permaculture Agroforestry
A Diversified food forest for the future, today!... is what we are talking about that is owned by the community and cooperatively maintained.
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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