The Neighborhood Permaculture Design Course is Timely and Empowering.

Half of all Americans live in suburban neighborhoods. Transforming those neighborhoods, a sort of "suburban alchemy, " can help mitigate virtually every one of today's deepening social, economic, resource and environmental challenges. The NPDC will be an invaluable experience for you to "repurpose" - your home, your neighborhood, yourself - by learning how to identify and engage assets and opportunities, that have been there all along, for creating a more local, green and uplifted culture and economy.

Neighborhood Permaculture

The The Neighborhood PDC will take place in the River Road neighborhood of Eugene, Oregon, which is becoming known for its unusual density and variety of home scale permaculture projects. The course includes not only classic permaculture taught by skilled instructors but will also draw heavily from the combined experience of nearly a dozen nearby property transformation practitioners and their projects. Site tours and companion presentations will introduce participants to a remarkable set of actions and approaches - personal, on the ground and social, to transforming where they live.

>> Click here to see nearby property transformations!

The training will feature:

• visits to properties in transformation
• guest presenters
• social permaculture
• hands-on experience
• PDC certificate
• economic relocalization design
• applied permaculture in a neighborhood setting

Course dates
(meets one weekend a month)

Sept. 22, 23       Jan. 19, 20
Oct. 20, 21        Feb. 23, 24
Nov. 17, 18        Mar. 23, 24
Dec. 15, 16        Ends April 6

Registration

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To register, please call Michelle at 541-342-7621 or email her at ihsgeo@yahoo.com

trainers
Andrew Millison has been studying, designing, building, and teaching about permaculture systems since 1996. He currently teaches permaculture design in the Department of Horticulture at Oregon State University. He has also taught at Prescott Collete, Ecosa Institute, and the Cascadia Permaculture Institute. Andrew spent years running a design and build permaulcture landscape company, Millison Ecological Inc. www.beaverstatepermaculture.com

Heiko Koester is a permaculture designer and teacher and for 20 years has been applying unconventional gardening techniques to create lush jungles filled with food, medicine, and beneficial habitat. He's experimented with a huge diversity of useful plants, creating his own model for bioregional landscaping. Heiko's plant skills classes focus on edible, medicinal, and native plants, and offer comprehensive training on uses, cultivation, and wild crafting of useful plants.

>> Click here to see expanded bios for Andrew, Heiko and for our guest instructors!

NPDC Information

Course Syllabus 2012 (click to view, right-click to download)

Companion Presentations (click to view, right-click to download)

Registration, click here to see options

Slideshow tour of nearby properties

Who should take the NPDC?