Permaculture Classes SPRING/SUMMER 2026 - Andrew Faust - Center for Bioregional Living Newsletter
- Andrew Faust
- Mar 27
- 4 min read
Updated: Apr 3
Andrew Faust the land whisperer, expert designer and home builder, your unbiased guide to good property purchasing.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR NEW APPRENTICES!
Looking to apprentice 3-4 days a week on epic Permaculture projects?
Contact us for an interview 917-584-4588 or contact@homebiome.com
PERMACULTURE EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Come on up to Ellenville for an immersion educational experience on our internationally revered 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!
When you sign up for our classes you are invited to:
Use our biogas powered stoves,
Take gravity fed, rainwater supplied, wood fired, hot showers
Enjoy our straw bale cabin, outdoor classroom and our other natural buildings
Immerse yourself in our walking meditation, ten acre trail system
Listen to the silence, the wind and the amazing chorus of songbirds
Walk though our nut grove and gardens
Hang out with our goats and enjoy our Permaculture lifestyle in action.
Our Class Topics will be:
Forest Gardens, Orchards & Tree Crops - Saturday - April 25 - $60
Introduction To Permaculture & Biodynamic Gardening - Saturday May 9 - $60
Whole Site Permaculture Design - Two day classes - May 23 & 24 - $400
Natural Bioregional Building - Two day classes - Saturday June 6 & 7 - $400
All the courses in this series function as stand alone teachings and they build off of each other when taken together. Come participate in the co-evolution of our Center for Bioregional Living while learning to live well with how our sacred 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.
Spaces are Limited - First come first serve - Reserve your space today
Forest Gardens, Orchards and Tree Crops
Saturday April 25 - $60
This course will teach you how to: successfully cultivate high value trees and the skills of gardening with nature through the well informed creation of edible, forest gardens ecologies, orchards and woodlots, topics and activities include:
Design and management of multi-functional tree plantings.
Planting and management of orchards & woodlots for selective harvesting fruits, nuts & berries, and for fuelwood and building materials.
Understory value-added crops like shitake, ginseng, goldenseal and wild garlic
Techniques for increasing the quality and productivity of wild edibles.
Hands-on activities: Planting Forest Garden Tree Crops!
Introduction to Permaculture &
Biodynamic Gardening
Saturday May 9 - $60
Come and join us at our one of a kind of Permaculture farm in Ellenville. The Center for Bioregional Living is an off grid market scale demonstration farm designed specifically, as our example to the regional food movement Offering opportunities and approaches for addressing our food needs with more of an integrated, ecological, permaculture approach. In this workshop we will have hands-on activities taking you from seed starting to bed prepping and planting a organic market scale garden.
Discuss preferred seed sources
Explain the Biodynamic Calendar & how we use it
Prep and plant beds in our garden
Explain our rain water catching system
Discuss permaculture in the fruit & vegetable garden layout
Explain when we use the tractor and when we use hand tools
Show you amendments that we use in our garden and why
You will get a chance to plant seed and prep beds and learn experientially about some key biodynamic and permaculture gardening insights and approaches to take home to your family and farm.
Whole Site Permaculture Design - Ecological Planning For Homesteads, Farms & Communities
Two day classes - May 23 & 24 - $400
(Includes Organic Locally sourced Lunch and Supper)
This course will teach you how to apply Permaculture principles for sited design and to lay the groundwork for an entire land development projects; such as establishing socially just cooperative business enterprises, community farms, eco-villages, co-housing and homesteads.
Topics covered:
Reading the landscape, making use of Topography and hydrology, reading biological indicators.
Whole site analysis, mapping techniques,
Siting buildings and integrating the entire project through a solid phase plan.
Off Grid Energy and Water Systems
Natural Building
Agro-tourism & Events spaces
Agro-ecology and Agroforestry plantings
Hands-on activities: siting buildings and infrastructure, mapping, laying out and establishing earthworks and off grid and winterized infrastructure.
Bioregional Natural Buildings - Creating a Summer Kitchen
Two day classes - Saturday June 6 & 7 - $400
(Organic Locally sourced Lunch, supper & breakfast included)
HealthyBuildings = Healthy People
Natural, local and bioregional buildings contribute to ecologically sound local economies and create beautiful, healthy homes and villages to live our lives in.
You will learn to apply the permaculture principles throughout the building process.
This hands-on workshop will teach you about creating buildings with trees cut from the land, maximizing on-site and local raw materials and framing with rough cut local lumber.
Passive solar design
Phased and integrated site development and building techniques.
Building structures and sacred sites with good feng shui and natural energy.
Insulating naturally, using rainwater for domestic needs and greywater for gardens.
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PERMACULTURE CONSULTATION SERVICES
Creating Abundant Permaculture Gardens & Landscapes. Investing in Climate Resilience & Regional Security with forests, farms and local economies
Agroforestry & Nut Trees
Helping you find the right property
Real Estate Appraisals
Energy Consulting
Regenerative Agriculture
Ponds & Water Systems
Cabins & Glamping
Property Analysis & Master Planning
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