Farmers
Land Restoration
Gardening Strategies & Patterns
Composting & Planting
Community Gardens
Native Agriculture
Seed Saving
Open Pollination
Genetic Diversity
Water Harvesting
Solar Energy & Climate
Sustainable Economics
Nutrition
Recycling
Pedal Power
Bio-Diesel
Certificate Training
The Cosmovision (Permaculture) Certificate Training involves 80 hours of class and field work. Classes are typically held over the course of a month: two nights during the week from 6–9 pm, and Saturdays and Sundays from 9 am–3 pm. Course materials will be provided and lunches are potluck.
To receive certification you must attend all class meetings and participate in a final group project. Please come prepared to do three to eight hours of work outside of class each week.
The final project is a two year commitment utilizing the teachings of Indigenous Permaculture within the community. A group presentation is required at the end of the course to discuss the final project.
- To understand, respect, and follow the natural laws given to us by the Creator.
- To understand natural energy flows.
- To understand impacts on the natural environment and indigenous communities when unsustainable choices are made
- To be conscious and responsible in our use of natural resources.
- To establish microclimates for natural habitats that will promote a favorable environment for all living beings.
- To create diversity for beneficial symbiotic plant and animal relationships.
- To develop a cooperative existence with human kind and the natural world.
- To utilize the designs, patterns and rhythms of nature.
Classes
Learn the difference between Mono-Agriculture and Traditional (Sustainable Agriculture). Focus on how can we rejuvenate areas that have been damaged by monoagriculture or by urban impact. Learn how you can increase local biodiversity and how you can create micro- climate conditions for the future health of the local ecosystem and the community.
Understand the importance of using traditional techniques of practice and observation on traditional agriculture.
Explore
tools and techniques to design a garden in your community, including
preparing garden beds, composting techniques, traditional fertilizers and pesticides, and seed-saving.
Explore
key questions: How can you improve and restore the soil that has been
abused by pesticides or others chemicals? How important it is to
preserve the diversity of trees, enhance native plants, and incorporate fruit trees into the agroecology? Community food security example will include low-income communities.
Review methods to catch and store water. Understand the importance of compost toilets and groundwater quality, including technology demonstration and management. Participants will form groups and design a project around the information learned in the workshop.