Permaculture Design Course
July 16 – 29, 2017
at Whole Village Ecovillage & Farm
in Caledon, Ontario
This 13 day intensive course is the basic Permaculture Design Course covering the principles & techniques of permaculture design. The course includes lectures, discussions, hands-on, slide shows, field trips & design projects.
Topics:
| Permaculture principles & techniques Pattern understanding Soils Water Microclimate Organic Gardening Plant diversity Forest Garden Fruit & Nut trees Animals Plant Propagation |
Agroforestry Forests Earthworks Building Design Alternative Energy Waste treatment Tools Urban Permaculture Alternative economics & more. |
Instructor:
Grégoire Lamoureux:
Gregoire is the director of the Kootenay Permaculture Institute. He is a permaculture designer, consultant and teacher. He has worked with permaculture systems for over 20 years and taught courses in many parts of the country. Gregoire taught the Permaculture Design Course as a Summer Session at the University of Manitoba in 2005. He has been teaching the Permaculture Design Course in Ontario since 2001. He has served on the Board of Directors of Slocan River Streamkeepers and on the Board of Directors of Seeds of Diversity Canada for seven years. He is a founding member of Kootenay Organic Growers Society and was on the Certifying Committee for three years.
Gregoire Lamoureux holds a Permaculture Diploma in Education, Design, Site Development and Community Service from the Permaculture Institute USA.
He is the Program Manager for the Slocan River Riparian Restoration Program with the Slocan River Streamkeepers
His work experience includes market gardening, greenhouse production, orcharding, ecological land restoration using bio-engineering techniques, small-scale nursery management, landscaping, aquaculture and forestry work. He has written articles for Natural Life and Eco Farm & Garden magazines, a contributor in The Organic Companion, Gleanings from Canadian Organic Growers published in 2005. Gregoire has also studied alternative building and worked on straw-bale and cob house buildings. He has been a guest lecturer at many conferences including the BC Organic Agriculture Conference and the Guelph Organic Agriculture Conference.
http://kootenayconservation.ca/faces-places-gregoire-lamoureux/
Co-teacher and host:
Brenda Dolling
Brenda is a retired teacher who co-created Whole Village Ecovillage with a community of 10 members. She has gardened organically for forty years and has been applying permaculture principles to the development of the Whole Village project, in particular landscaping, poultry care, fruit and nut production and the creation of windbreaks and shelterbelts.
Guest speaker:
Jane Hayes
For more infos or to register:
Brenda Dolling
bdolling@wholevillage.org
Whole Village: http://www.wholevillage.org/
For more information about the course content, etc. you can contact the instructor:
Gregoire Lamoureux : spiralfarm@yahoo.com
Many Parts Make a Whole Village. Caledon’s first ecovillage celebrates 10 years of sustainable living.
http://www.inthehills.ca/2016/06/current/many-parts-make-whole-village/
Shaws Creek CSA Farm at Whole Village:
https://thegoodlocal.ca/2016/06/20/shaws-creek-csa/
Photos from our Permaculture Design Courses at Whole Village
Permaculture Design Course at Whole Village, Caledon, ON August 2016
Permaculture Design Course at Whole Village, Caledon’ ON August 2015
Hands-on activities during the Permaculture Design Course at Whole Village August 2012. Building and planting the hugelkultur.
Jane Hayes (Garden Jane) talking about the soil food web during the permaculture design course at Whole Village August 2014
Permaculture Design Course at Whole Village in Caledon, ON August 2014
Permaculture Design Course at Spiral Farm in Winlaw, BC with Kootenay Permaculture August 2013
Permaculture Design Course at Whole Village, Caledon, ON. August 2012
Forest Garden at Whole Village, Caledon, ON.
July 2013
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