Permaculture Design Course graduates will find the Intensives excellent opportunities to incorporate and apply what they learned in the Course. Take one session or any combination. Spring Intensive Permaculture principles and design methods, tree crops, orchard care, pruning and grafting, nursery care and propagation, forest management, coppice techniques, hedgerows, forest gardening, tree planting, tool care and maintenance, mulching and soils. Summer Intensive Permaculture principles and design methods, irrigation design and setup, greenhouse operation, Spring garden preparation, native seed collection, exotics removal, patterns, beekeeping, chicken tractoring, small scale no-till grain production, swales and ponds. Fall Intensive Harvesting and processing of fruit, berries, and vegetables, seed collection and saving, cottage businesses for urban and rural permaculturists, irrigation methods, beekeeping and honey extraction, grain processing, compost toilet design and use, edible landscaping, water catchment and greywater.
Tuition includes meals, lodging, access to Lost Valley facilities, and a full instructional program.
Indoor dormitory lodging will be provided for all Intensive participants. During summer months, you may also choose to camp in our beautiful meadow. We are unable to accommodate pets. He has continued the development of the site as a demonstration of Permaculture in action, working with the forest, orchard, chickens, bees, permaculture plantings, forest garden, and assisting with stream restoration. As a primary organizer of the local watershed group, Jono is developing our neighbor relations as we try to improve the watershed health.