PERMACULTURE DESIGN Certificate COURSE

Curriculum Overview and Schedule

Saturdays from June 14 - August 16

10:00 am – 6:00 pm, with a 1-hour break for lunch.

• June 14th – Ethics, Principles, Pattern’s in Nature

• June 21st – Keyline Scale of Permanence, Understanding Climate, & Design Process

• June 28th – Water: Cycle, Harvesting, Retention; site mapping

• July 5th – Decolonizing Permaculture, Design for Invisible Structures

• July 12th – Plants, Cultivated Ecologies, Earthworks, Soils & Microbiology

• July 19th – Waste and Bioremediation, Design for catastrophe, Integrated Pest Management

• July 20th – Optional Sunday Field Trip: Animal integration in permaculture food systems with Kara Huntermoon at Heart-culture Farm

• July 26th – Trees and Forest Ecology, Social forestry

• August 2nd – Natural Building, Healthy Homes

• August 9th – Working with Clients, Urban Permaculture

• August 16th – Design Presentations, Certification, Community Celebration

• TBD – Optional Field Trip: How to start a permaculture farm

Guest Instructors

The majority of our class time will be in-person, outside, and in the field with instruction from Brian and Kara, and we will also be bringing in some of the most skilled and experienced teachers nationally and internationally! This year the guest instructors of the Lost Valley PDC will include:

• David Holmgren * – Best known as the co-originator with Bill Mollison of the permaculture concept following the publication of Permaculture One in 1978. Since then, he has developed three permaculture properties, consulted and supervised in urban and rural projects, and presented lectures, workshops and courses at a wide variety of events and venues in Australia and around the world. Author of Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability.

• Andrew Millison * – Andrew has been studying, teaching and practicing Permaculture since he took his first design course in 1996. He started teaching Permaculture at the college level in 2001, and has been an instructor at OSU in the Horticulture Department since 2009. Andrew’s popular permaculture videos have several million views and are highly recommended.

• Hazel Ward — Hazel is a long time resident of the Southern Oregon/Mount Shasta bioregion first settling there in the early 70’s, and has been advising farms, stewarding forests, and teaching Environmental Sciences for more than fifty years. Their focus for this 21st century has been Social Forestry, restoring Oak/Pine Savannah in Little Wolf Gulch near Ruch, OR, demonstrating natural building, fuel hazard materials utilization, multiple products woods-crafting, wildlife support and desert forest water management. This work has culminated in the 2023 book, Social Forestry, by Tomi Hazel Vaarde (Hazel’s pen name).

• Dan Wahpepah – Dan teaches from the Indigenous perspective, focusing on decolonization, healthy thinking, and “returning to being a human being.” He grew up immersed in American Indian Movement (AIM) culture and his traditional ways. His father is a spiritual leader and his uncle founded West Coast AIM.

• Abel Kloster – Abel is the co-owner of Resilience Permaculture Design, a whole systems design and installation firm specializing in farm and forestry planning and ecological restoration. Abel is a consulting forester with the Oregon Department of Forestry, a Technical Service Provider with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, and writes comprehensive stewardship plans for landowners seeking to develop and regenerate their properties.

• Nathaniel Nordin-Tuininga - A long-time environmental educator, Nathaniel spent much of his childhood learning directly from 1200 acres of meadows and forests and from the elders who helped him cultivate a deep reverence for the more-than-human world. His life has been an ongoing exploration of alternative educational models, including indigenous practices still used in many “developing” nations, which rely heavily on the interaction between children and the natural world.

• Monica Ibacache * – New York based community organizer, sustainability educator, and ecological designer committed to social and environmental justice. Monica has dedicated her life to working with diverse and marginalized communities in education and local development in the U.S. and abroad.

* Will appear over Zoom