CENTER FOR BIOREGIONAL LIVING
FREE PERMACULTURE ONLINE COURSES

Severe weather, economic instability, flooding, widespread pollution, nuclear waste and forever chemicals are all pointing to a need for an articulate and comprehensive alternative. 

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Permaculture is an ecological design science for creating fruitful economies & resilient communities.

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.
 

You will learn how to design your life and your livelihood to be a part of creating a better and healthier world for all
 

• Applying Permaculture Design to retrofit the Northeastern Corridor to be a healthier and happier place.

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• You will learn permaculture principles and applications and how to create mutually beneficial city to country economic connections.

 

• We will explore the foundations of this design discipline and give many examples of how it translates into successful gardening and growing

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• Permaculture design yields many benefits when applied to our lives, landscapes and our careers

 

• We will explore a diversity of unique, important and under championed renewable energy solutions and approaches at home, farm and regional scales 

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• Retrofitting our homes, economies and infrastructure ,to be more self reliant and to provide a healthier environment for us all to live in. 

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• Cleaning indoor air with plants. 

• Ways to clean up contaminated sites.

• Creating beautiful natural areas to connect people with healthy ecosystems in the midst of the city. 

• Gardening with Permaculture design. 

 

Site analysis and design techniques for Regenerative farms, gardens and business models.  Working with goats, cattle, chickens and other livestock in a range of settings.

 

• The History & Origins of Permaculture

• Choosing The Best Places To Live & Thrive

• Off Grid, Energy Independence

• Ecological Water Solutions

• Closed Loop Waste Systems

• Agroforestry & selecting high value trees

• Bio-intensive, Organic & Regenerative Farming

Andrew Faust lived completely off the grid in the mountains of West Virginia for ten years, creating his Permaculture PHD.; Building a passive solar Straw-bale home, using as much on site material as possible, he developed spring fed water systems and ponds, establishing his regenerative farm thus selling produce he grew to restaurants and farmers markets. Faust moved to Brooklyn in 2007 and continued consulting, teaching and selling organic produce from his farm in Ellenville, NY. to restaurants While applying his knowledge to the urban landscape and the Hudson river valley creating a unique curriculum for their Permaculture Design Certification course, which is PINA endorsed.

 

Faust released Earth Is Our Home in 2024 a Bioregional Permaculture Design Book. Andrew Co-Founded Permaculture Land Trust in 2022.

 

After more then a decade of courses in the NYC region with thousands of graduates, Andrew is presently Co-Founder & Director of the Center for Bioregional Living on 14 acres in Ellenville, NY with his partner Adriana Magaña. The Center is a Permaculture demonstration, education and training campus for their students, and clients and their daughter Juniper.