Intro to Practical Permaculture
March 29 and 30, 2008

Permaculture offers positive solutions to a planet in crisis. Learn to
use nature as your pattern for food production, housing, and
community. Discover solutions for your apartment, backyard or farm in
the areas of:

Edible Landscapes
Water Harvesting
Solar Kitchens & Solar Ovens
Saving Seeds
Before You Build…
Passive Solar Greenhouse
Using Greywater
Urban Permaculture
Green Buildings
Transportation
Local Financial Abundance
Food Preservation
Soil and Creek Bio-Restoration
Community
And more …

This course will introduce you to the basic principles and
applications of Permaculture through beautiful multi sensory
presentations, hands-on projects and handouts.

Hands-on activities include:

* Making seedballs for hard to plant areas
* Designing water storage in swales
* Using A Frame levels to determine contour lines
* Digging swales
* Innoculating cover crops and spreading them
* Sheet Mulching
* Growing mushrooms
* Fruit trees for small spaces
* Chickens and best feed practices
* Life in Community

Instructor: Cathe' Fish (and friends) www.practicalpermaculture.com

· 20 yrs – experienced Certified Permaculture Designer and Teacher

· 28 yrs - Passive Solar Instructor

· 19 yrs - Master Gardener

· 7 yrs - College instructor

· Member of Sierra Permaculture Guild

Course fee, includes nutrient dense lunch both days

Fee postmarked or Paypal by March 15: $150

Fee postmarked or Paypal by March 22: $165
Fee postmarked by
March 27: $170
Fee walk in on day of class: $180.

· To register, please call Cathe' at 530-478-1852 or email
practicalpermaculture@...

· Info Needed: e-mail address, mailing address, phone number,
vegetarian or non-vegetarian.

· Mail check to: Cathe' Fish 503 Redbud Way, Nevada City, CA 95959

· To pay with Paypal, e-mail Cathe' with the e-mail address you use
for Paypal. Send e-mail to practicalpermaculture@...


Time: Saturday 9am to 5pm and Sunday 9am to 3pm

Location: Nevada City Cohousing. We will send you location info and
what to bring one week before the class. Out-of-towners : call or
e-mail if you need suggestions for where to stay

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"Great experience! Non stop and high energy. All the info I hoped for
and so much more. Very well organized and held my attention at all
times. Very thorough coverage of the many connected aspects of
Permaculture and our place in the big picture - local and global. I am
infinitely more optimistic about the future." HG, architect Port
Angeles, WA

"Excellent Workshop. On one hand I want to take any future workshops
you do; on the other hand, this workshop was so informative, I feel I
now know everything. Surpassed expectation."

"Thanks for such a wonderfully informative and inspiring weekend! I'm
ordering solar cookers today." J.G. author Strawberries in November

"It's like someone turned on a light bulb. I couldn't stop talking
about the workshop. It was amazing! An excellent blend of facts,
general info, details, concepts. It was the shot in the arm/kick in
the pants I needed, and so many wonderful people to work with. I look
forward so much to what will emerge from these seeds that were planted
in the last few days."
M. McNeal, San Francisco

"Eye opening, mind expanding. Well diversified info that is practical
and useable. Integration of many systems that makes sense. Thanks for
sharing your life experiences and your light." P.R. Auburn

"Great class with intensive practical tips and ideas, lots of info
tightly packed in."

"Excellent class! It is so useful to have this abundance of
information synthesized by someone so knowledgeable. It has give me a
starting point to tackling something that has seemed so overwhelming."

"Terrific workshop. 12 out of 10."

" Incredibly inspiring and informational. It was a ton of great
information and very inspirational. The hands-on element really made
it all come together. I'm excited to do more and be better prepared
for the future - and more connected with others in the community,"

"I learned so many new things, such exciting and practical ideas for
recovery of the old ways for a healthier earth and healthier people."

"I enjoyed your workshop so much. It was such a nice combo of down
home sustainable living ideas, and practical gardening tips, and so
warm and wonderful with the addition of the food and ideas around
that..and your personality. Very hopeful feeling, that this can still
be done in our days, and how crucial it is, and that we can spread it
more and more."


Please visit http://www.PracticalPermaculture.com !