This course will be an informative and stimulating experience that will change the way you think about your forests and challenge you to reevaluate your participation in their regenerative restoration. With a 200 ft range in elevation, variety of slope aspects and coastal range bioregional location, the 80 acre OAEC site is blessed with a diversity of native forest communities. OAEC forest types include maturing ridgeline stands of Douglas fir to moist lowland redwood groves with both conifer species forming dynamic mosaic assemblages with mixed hardwood tree species like coast live oak, interior live oak, black oak, Oregon oak, tan oak, Pacific madrone, bay laurel, Scouler's willow and big leaf maple. Long-term ecologically and economically viable human settlement depends on conscious community awareness of appropriate behavior within each individual watershed. This training is specifically designed to recruit teams of 3 - 4 residents, each representing a local watershed.
Enrollment is limited and subject to an application process intended to select committed teams.
Call Brock Dolman at OAEC for details. This introductory weekend course is for those who want to begin integrating permacultural ideas into their lives. The fundamentals of permaculture design and ethics will be explored through lectures, discussion, and hands-on practice. We will actively engage basic concepts of pattern observation, water catchment and infiltration, erosion control, forest farming, polycultural food diversity, micro-climate analysis, natural building and much more. This course is designed to help you actualize that dream.