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Urban Permaculture Design Course
Moccasin Lake Nature Park
2759 Park Trail Lane,Clearwater, Florida
Seven Weekends from February 18 through 15 April 2012
9 AM – 5 PM
February 18-19, 2012
Learn to design your life to live more sustainably and regeneratively. This course is a comprehensive look at all aspects of sustainable living. Students who successfully complete the course receive a certificate of completion.
Moccasin Lake Nature Park is 50 acres of wilderness in the middle of one of the most densely populated areas on the east coast. This city park is a budding demonstration site for sustainable living and practices with solar power, compost toilets and a windmill water pump and filter. This class will be designing a permaculture food system and other permaculture systems for this park – a historic opportunity to be a part of creating a permaculture public space for this area!
Based on feedback from students we’ve expanded the course to seven weekends to allow more time for field trips and hands on activities. Planned activities include cob building, hands on gardening, water catchment, design tools, and more. We’ve added many new hand outs, some dynamic new expert instructors, and assistants who can help ensure you get your questions answered.
Instructors:
Koreen Brennan
Ken Benway
Guest instructors:
Jungle Jay (appropriate technology inventor)
Robert Kurzon, PhD (soils scientist)
Bryan Roberts (green builder)
Amy Kedron (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies)
Marie Nelson, PhD (time bank, financial permaculture)
More to be announced
Sliding scale, work study, senior and student rates and payment plans available, please contact us for details.
Weekend One: Permaculture principles and design
Learn to work with nature, instead of against her. You’ll learn how to think with natural design in any setting or circumstance.
You will be able to immediately apply this to your life to increase abundance in your life and quality of life.
The first morning of this course is FREE!
Learn what permaculture is and can do for your life and your community.
February 25-26, 2012 Tampa Bay Area
Weekend Two: Secrets of the natural world – energy patterns of trees, water, land
How to bring the magic of nature into every aspect of an urban environment through conscious design
March 3-4, 2012 Tampa Bay Area
Weekend Three: Growing food sustainably and abundantly
Work with nature instead of against her to create abundant gardens and “food forests” that need little work to keep up.
Includes gardening in apartments, aquaculture, community gardening, urban farming, making a living through growing food.
March 17-18, 2012 Tampa Bay Area
Weekend Four: Optional – Field Trips and Hands On Activities
Time to give your mind a rest and get your hands busy. See what is going on locally that will impact our future and define careers and purpose.
Gain the ability to see the real deal and why you have chosen to learn more about Permaculture from one of the best.
March 24-25, 2012 Tampa Bay Area
Weekend Five: The built environment and appropriate technology
Learn to retrofit your built environment to reduce costs and help the environment; learn about cutting edge “green building” and how to solve problems of the built environment yourself, with creative, low cost or no cost solutions.
March 31- April1, 2012 Tampa Bay Area
Weekend Six: Culture and education, finance & economics as people care
Economies should serve people, not the other way around. We will share specific successful actions that can be replicated in our community.
Create right livelihood using the laws of nature.
April 14-15, 2012 Tampa Bay Area
Weekend Seven: The power of community
Creating community is rewarding and efficient. Learn simple techniques to create or participate in intentional community, co-housing, community gardening, and positive activism.
You can sign up for any single weekend for $190, $175
early bird (before Jan 25). We cover many specifics that you can take home and apply immediately.
(see Paypal button below to pay)
Course is $1050, $950 early bird rate if paid by Feb 1, 2012
Student and senior rates, sliding scale and work study rates available. Payment plans also available. Includes materials, field trip fees, etc.
You can pay via PayPal (you don’t need a PayPal account) below or contact us.
For more information and to register, please contact:
■Bob Lawrason at rlawrason@aol.com or 727-831-5832
■Cory Brennan at cory@permacultureguild.us or 818-731-4706
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To pay on line, please use PayPal, and your registration form will be sent to you:
Mocassin Lake
We are excited to be partnering with Moccasin Lake Nature Park, a 50 acre wild reserve in the heart of the most populated county on the East Coast – Pinellas – for our early 2012 series of courses and workshops. The park offers many opportunities to learn from the natural world as well as some exciting permaculture design potential. We couldn’t ask for a better place to facilitate permaculture education.
The park has already implemented a number of aspects of sustainability with off grid capacity, including solar panels, compost toilets and a windmill to pump water from well.
There is a lot of future potential, as well with plans for food production, including a food forest, aquaculture, native edibles, and more. An immediate neighbor is a watershed to the bay, providing a beautiful place to enjoy lunch while observing water systems. The classroom is climate controlled and includes a refrigerator and microwave; there is a learning center and museum that illustrates the local ecosystems and wildlife. We feel the rich and diverse environment of Moccasin Lake Nature Park is the perfect place to learn permaculture.
1 & 1/4 mile of natural and board walked trails
3-acre watershed restoration area
3 natural gas grills
5-acre lake
51-acre nature preserve
ADA-accessible facility
Administrative office on-site
Bird walks, bird-watching tours and workshops
Captive, permanently injured, non-releasable wildlife
Children’s nature camps
Composting and conventional restroom facilities
Environmental agency meeting site for:
Clearwater Audubon
Suncoast Herpatological Society
Suncoast Sierra Club
Environmental programs and classes
Fabrication workshop
Fireside concert series
Free recycled mulch and wood chips
Gift counter
Guided tours and group hikes
Interactive educational displays
Live wildlife exhibits including:
Aquatic wildlife
Birds of prey
Butterfly garden
Plants, native plants, and poisonous plants displays
Reptiles & amphibians
Bob named this guy Willie
Song bird aviary
Multi-use classroom and meeting hall
Native wildlife, fauna, and flora along the trails, including American Alligators, Great Egrets, Green Anoles, Ospreys and butterflies
Nature interpretive center
Night hikes
On-site and off-site presentations
Photo voltaic and alternative energy displays and exhibits
Picnic pavilion / shelters
Renewable energy systems
Rental facilities
Scouting badge workshops
Scouting Eagle and Gold projects welcome
Static displays
Volunteer opportunities and training
Water fountains
Drink vending machine on site
Wildlife, plant and energy exhibits
MUCH MORE!
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Edible Landscaping and Urban Farming
Moccasin Lake Nature Park
2759 Park Trail Lane,Clearwater, Florida
21-22 January 2012
9 AM – 6 PM both days.
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Learn the techniques used by masters of urban farming and edible landscaping from around the globe, and creating your own food supply in your own backyard.
This weekend workshop will cover a number of the most successful sustainable urban food growing techniques from the US and elsewhere.
This series will include hands-on learning and written materials to refer to and will incorporate several guest speakers.
This is an information packed weekend that will offer valuable information to everyone, whether you are experienced or inexperienced.
This course has limited enrollment and is expected to fill, so please register early.
The first morning of this course is FREE!
Registration $190
We do have work study and payment plans so please inquire. We try not to turn away anyone who wants this
knowledge for lack of funds, but we do have limited space so inquire early.
For more information and to register, please contact:
• Bob Lawrason at rlawrason@aol.com or 727-831-5832
• Cory Brennan at cory@permacultureguild.us or 818-731-4706
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Introduction To Permaculture
Moccasin Lake Nature Park
2759 Park Trail Lane,Clearwater, Florida
January 14-15, 2012.
Use permaculture to improve your life.
This weekend workshop is packed full of information, hands on learning and experience.
In depth answers on how to increase abundance sustainably.
Make gardening easier and more productive.
Tools for transitioning your home and your neighborhood
How to create a stable local economy
Start an urban eco-villages in your neighborhood
You will walk away with specific tools that you can start using right away to live more healthy, abundantly, and
sustainably. Learn to work with nature, not against her, to increase abundance for all living things.
The Intro weekend will cover major areas of permaculture, giving you useful and in depth tools you can immediately
put to use. It can be credited to the full Urban Permaculture Certificate Design Course that will be offered starting
February 18, 2012 in Tampa Bay, and registration fee will be credited to the tuition for that course, as well.
The first morning of this course is FREE!
Single Day Rate:
Early Bird Rate: $75
Regular Rate: $90
Full weekend rate:
Early bird registration: $125, before Dec 30
Registration: $150
For more information and to register, please contact:
■Bob Lawrason at rlawrason@aol.com or 727-831-5832
■Cristy Abbott at cabbott7@hotmail.com or 727-520-5303
■Cory Brennan at cory@permacultureguild.us or 818-731-4706
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