A two-week residential course in Permaculture Design will be offered at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center beginning on March 10.

Whether you currently own property or dream of it, this two-week intensive course will immerse you in information, ideas and inspiration for how to design sustainable, regenerative systems in balance with your home ecosystem. You will learn the ethics, principles and practice of “permanent culture,” by exploring topics such as organic gardening, mulching, natural building techniques, forest farming, water retention and regeneration, erosion control, community processes, and much more. Using a combination of lecture, discussion, and hands-on activities at OAEC’s 80-acre site, visits to other local permaculture sites and a group design project, you will have the chance to integrate and apply the concepts of permaculture during almost 100 hours of course time. Upon completion of the course, participants receive a Certificate of Permaculture Design.In 2012, OAEC enters its eighteenth year as a permaculture school, the most established and longest continually operating school of its kind in California. We celebrate having offered over 40 courses to well over 600 students and consistently hear feedback from graduates that OAEC's design course is a “life-changing” experience.

The primary instructors are Brock Dolman and Kendall Dunnigan with approximately a dozen guest instructors.

The course fee of $1,650 ($1,550 if registered at least three weeks in advance) includes meals, lodging and use of all facilities. The deposit to register is $300.

Please see: www.oaec.org/MarchPDC for more information or call (707) 874-1557 x.101.

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