Center for BioRegional Living
DESIGN • EDUCATION • CONSULTATION
FREE! Hands-On Natural Building Class - Summer 2025
Ellenville, New York
Come and Learn how to capture, hold and store pure high quality rain water. A free gift in a place that gets 49 inches of rainfall a year! You can catch .6 gallons per inch of rainfall, for each square foot of roof area you connect to a tank.
Topics:
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Calculate your water harvest
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Install a rain tank system
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Use Gravity for water pressure
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Off grid sinks and showers
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Connect your overflow or downspouts
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Design a series of dynamic diverse, flowering rain gardens
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Create havens of biodiversity and beauty fed by rain tanks!
Celebrate the abundant gift of rain water and solve water problems on your land with one action. Learn to create gravity fed rainwater 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!
FREE! Hands-On Natural Building Class
Saturday at Center For Bioregional Living
253 Briggs Hwy, Ellenville NY 12428
TBA
1-2- Lunch
2-5pm - Finish setting posts put up banding beams top and bottom runs and begin framing
Help us begin Framing our outdoor Summer Kitchen and learn how to build with local, rough cut lumber, and to create long lasting, beautiful, artisanal structures with traditional framing methods and local natural materials.
Curious about our upcoming our Permaculture Design Certification course beginning next Saturday at Tilda's Kitchen in Kingston come by for this event and check us out!
We will be setting posts and framing the main frame of the space and prepping the floor for a gravel and stone slab finish.
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We will be Framing A Post & Beam Single Slope, Shed Roof
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Beginning with Brief Tour
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Orientation to the site.
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Siting and orienting and squaring up Natural multifunctional buildings with Permaculture in mind.
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Begin setting posts and foundation work.
A Permaculture Oasis in Ellenville
Most people think of home as four walls and a roof. For Andrew Faust and Adriana Magana, that myopic view is the problem. Permaculture educators and consultants, the two have dedicated their livelihoods—and their 14-acre property—to modeling a more expansive concept of home. They founded and designed their Center for Bioregional Living in Warwarsing, which is part residence and part classroom, to unapologetically challenge how we think about shelter and what it means to live well.
Going over plans - Permaculture Training with Andrew Faust - Ellenville NY Steve Pagan Photography 2018
Going over plans - Permaculture Training with Andrew Faust - Ellenville NY Steve Pagan Photography 2018
Going over plans - Permaculture Training with Andrew Faust - Ellenville NY Steve Pagan Photography 2018
Going over plans - Permaculture Training with Andrew Faust - Ellenville NY Steve Pagan Photography 2018
Come on up to our Permaculture educational campus in Ellenville,NY!
Join us in the co-evolution of our Center for Bioregional Living where we teach the essentials of high quality ways of living well with how the earth works. Everything that we will be working on here will be used and enjoyed by future visitors and students for many years to come. Camping is encouraged on our land and taking in the sights at one of the many nearby gorgeous hiking areas (Lake Minnewaska, Sam's Point, Peter's Kill to name a few...)
Center for Bioregional Living is a seminal destination for permaculture education. Andrew Faust and Adriana Magaña have been applying permaculture design for more than 20 years and in 7 years they have graduated over 500 students in NYC. They have developed advanced permaculture design courses and workshops on there 14 acre property in Ellenville, New York They are turning their dreams into reality by developing hubs of permaculture design in New York, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx and the Tri-State area.
One of our main objectives is to offer an immersion learning environment for Permaculture design certification graduates. A place that is a Permaculture farm run, off grid growing market scale vegetables, nuts and berries using biodynamic and permaculture techniques. From using rain water gravity showers, cooking and eating from on site to drinking fresh springwater. With the help of our apprentices, advanced courses and volunteers we have created a beautiful rain catch humanure outhouse with urine separation, a gravity fed shower, a temporary kitchen which we will finish this fall and grew a bunch of food that we eat stored in our interim root cellar and sold to Saltie and Roebling Tea Room in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Extensive berry & orchard plantings, a chestnut coppicing woodlot and more. Natural building techniques and materials are displayed in all of the structures An extensive series of ponds add diversity, beauty and many growing opportunities such as chinampas and rice paddies. Highlights include a wide variety of fruit trees, medicinal herbs and berries planted close to their home making use of micro-climates, no-till and hugel culture garden beds, a pond plumbed for watering and their team of rotationally grazing chickens.