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Learn how to live in a sustainable way in harmony with nature.
GEM Permaculture Design Certificate Course
GEM is offering a Permaculture Design
Certificate Course Aug. 10-21, 2009.
The venue will be the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Saukville Field Station.
Lodging is available at the site for $5 per night (See course overview page for more information).
This is a hands-on course in which participants join in interactive learning activities. You'll make super compost quickly, build soils and analyze sites for greening opportunities. Field trips will take students to sites that illustrate Permaculture practices.
See the course overview page for more information.
What is Permaculture?
Permaculture is the design and use of sustainable-living systems using principles drawn from natural ecosystems. The term was coined in the 1970s by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, originally as a contraction of "permanent agriculture." The term's meaning has evolved and broadened somewhat. For more detail see the GEM course overview here, and check these external links to Permaculture Magazine and Wikipedia.
Free-range laying hens thrive in this suburban yard and provide fresh eggs daily for the family living here. Permaculture knowledge and practices can be applied in almost any setting.
Who should attend the GEM Permaculture course?
Anyone with an interest in improving our world through the adoption of sustainable practices, including small-acreage residents and rural landowners who want to conserve and improve their land; urban and suburban residents who would like to learn how to create productive growing systems in a small space; and farmers, landscape professionals and others who work on the land and have an interest in sustainable practices.
 
Students in the 2007 GEM Permaculture Design Certificate Course build an herb spiral in May, above left. By mid-summer, above right, the spirals hold lush growth of nutritious and flavorful plants in small spaces.
Upon successful completion of the course you will be awarded the Permaculture Design Certificate.
Course tuition is $1,000 ($950 if registering before June 30) and includes the required course textbook (Mollison's "Permaculture: A Designer's Hanbook" -- a $194+tax value), and lunch and morning and afternoon coffee/tea breaks each day.
A $100 deposit is required to reserve a place in this course (see online registration form). No refunds will be made after June 30. The balance is due on the first day of class.
Click here for on-line registration form.
Questions about the course? Email gem@uwsp.edu
You are free to post the flyer or forward it to others who may be interested in the Permaculture Design Certificate Course
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Hosted by the Global Environmental Management Education Center
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University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point |
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Course Venue: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Field Station near Saukville
Map of Saukville Field Station area. |
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Mai Phillips, Ph.D., is Conservation and Environmental Services Program Manager at UW-Milwaukee. Mai has a doctorate in horticulture and extensive experience in Permaculture practices. She is a registered PDC instructor with Bill Mollison's Permaculture Institute of Australia. Prior to her work at UW-Milwaukee, Mai served as GEM Senior Scientist at UW-Stevens Point; her projects included one in which she trained HIV/AIDS communities in Kenya on small garden systems to augment nutrition for HIV/AIDS patient undergoing Anti-Retroviral Treatment.
Victor Phillips, Ph.D., is Director of the Global Environmental Management Education Center and a practicing Permaculturist. He has a Ph.D. in plant ecology, and extensive experience in renewable energy. He has supervised and mentored GEM graduate students in projects on indigenous knowledge for sustainability, capacity building for communities in creating healthy watersheds and sustainable communities, and evaluating sustainable community practices in Kenya and India. Victor is a registered PDC instructor with Bill Mollison's Permaculture Institute of Australia.
John Sheffy is the manager of GEM's Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry Program and a Ph.D. candidate at UW-Madison. He holds a Permaculture Design Certificate and has co-taught this course previously. John has worked on GEM sustainable agriculture and forestry projects in Kenya and Mexico, and in Wisconsin co-founded Central Rivers Farmshed, a nonprofit group whose aim is to build and strengthen relationships between local farms, restaurants, retailers, and consumers. He has instituted Permaculture practices at his home and his family's rural acreage in southwestern Wisconsin.
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Course tuition: $1,000 ($950 if registered by June 30) Tuition includes the required course textbook (a $194+tax value) and lunch and morning and afternoon tea breaks each day. Please complete the online registration and mail your $100 deposit (check or money order payable to "University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point") to: |
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GEM Education Center
College of Natural Resources
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
800 Reserve Street, Stevens Point, WI 54481
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Map of Saukville Field Station area |
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Register on-line now to reserve your space in this course.
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Important textbook notes |
The required textbook:
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Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual, by Bill Mollison (Tagari Publications, Reprint edition August 1, 1997, 576 pages, ISBN: 0908228015). This book (value approximately $194 hardcover) is included in your course registration fee and will be provided to you on the first day of class. |
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Optional — not required — textbooks are:
An Introduction to Permaculture, by Bill Mollison and Reny Mia Slay (Permaculture Resources (publisher), Tyalgum, Australia. June 1, 1991, 198 pages, ISBN: 0908228058-paperback).
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability, by David Holmgren (Holmgren Design Services (publisher), December 1, 2002, 286 pages, ISBN: 0646418440-paperback).
Water For Every Farm: Yeomans Keyline Plan, by P.A. Yeomans (Eco-logic Books/Worldly Goods (publisher), 2002, 378 pages, ISBN: 0646129546-paperback). |
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KeylineTM Design
An intensive two-day workshop was offered Sept. 24-25, 2007
Course venue: Moondance Meadows, a community supported agriculture farm. (Map to Moondance Meadows) The workshop is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. Lunch will be provided on-site.
This course included demonstration of the Yeomans plow.
Watch a five-minute video of the Yeomans Keyline Plow at work.
Course fee: $250.
Download a course flyer.
Learn more about instructor Darren Doherty.
Questions? email gem@uwsp.edu
Read an article on Keyline design at www.yeomansplow.com.au/basis-of-keyline.htm
  
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Last update on: June 11, 2009 |
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