In Hohenwald, Tennessee
What you will learn:
Tour different forest ecoregions in Tennessee; Learn about:
- Principles of bioregion repair to restore water and soil sheds for productivity (water storage, conservation, and soil food web);
- Alternative energy, natural home building, energy conservation and landscape design;
- Gardening, mulching, companion planting and composting;
- Orchards, forest gardens, propagation, aquaculture, bamboo, mushrooms and domestic animals;
- Business 101, financial ecosystems, and strategies for earning a living;
- Urban design, village scale, ecovillages, transition towns, green ways, bioregionalism and carbon farming; Tools for site analysis (including zones and sectors), mapping exercises and conducting client interviews.
The Permaculture Certificate is recognized internationally, once completed you will be a Certified Permaculture Designer.
Here are the tentative dates (Fridays-Sundays) for the Summer Series:
June 26-28
July 10-12
July 17-19
July 31-August 2
(Please note that the original dates were changed from 11 Saturdays to 4 weekends)
72 hour certificate training – spread over 4 weekends
Fridays – 1 pm – 6 pm
Saturdays – 7:30 am – 5 pm (1.5 hr. lunch break)
Sundays – 7:30 am – 12:30 pm
COST of SERIES
$150 Lewis County Students
$250 Lewis County Residents or Chamber Members
$500-full series or $75/day for Non-Residents
(Note that the usual cost for this certificate in the USA is $700-$1500)
Please make checks payable to:
Sonnenschein Permaculture Series
Mail to:
Sonnenschein Permaculture Series
P.O. Box 451
Hohenwald, TN 38462
Event Location – Downtown Discovery Center, Hohenwald, TN
Call 931-796-4874 or 888-878-2434 x 2 for details
See Whole Ecosystems Design blog