You Want to Learn Permaculture? Read THIS.

nicolefaires:

May 6th is International Permaculture Day, and I want to celebrate.  Most people who want to learn Permaculture do so by earning a Permaculture Design Certificate.  This piece of paper is really great, but also really expensive ($1500 to $3000). Guess what?  You don’t need a PDC to learn permaculture and implement the principles into your own life.  So we’re going to have…

a VIRTUAL PERMACULTURE STUDY GROUP. For FREE.  It’s as cool as the study group on Community, except that we won’t build pillow forts.  Or we could…hmm.

The No PDC Needed Study Group will start May 1st and last through the whole month of May.  It’s informal, but it does have homework.  As part of this study group, you will:

1. Talk to others who are interested in permaculture via comments on this site as well as on Facebook.  

2. Learn the basic principles of permaculture and how to begin analyzing your own living space to make it sustainable and self-sufficient.

3.  Complete one permaculture project which you will share with the group. 

I will facilitate this group, but learning will be in a true permaculture-style: student led and flowing with the natural discussions that come up.  

To be part of this, you will need to have access to a camera.  Your project will be shared and discussed here, and we will need to see pictures of its progress.  There is also some recommended reading which will be posted at the start.  

You will also need to like my Facebook page in order to be part of a lively discussion.  

What we will do is talk about the permaculture principles and how they apply to specific projects that we can build into our lifestyle.  To do this we’ll share pictures here and talk about them.  We can ask questions on how to do something, or how to do it better.

This is going to be a low-key, super-convenient way to get into permaculture, and I swear you’ll be addicted.  

My project is going to be a duck garden.  What’s yours?  If you don’t have any ideas, don’t worry!  I’ll be posting a list of great, easy projects to help inspire you.

Don’t forget to share this with your friends. The more the merrier.