The 13Moon PDC is an opportunity to learn permaculture from the inside out, offering an approach to permaculture that privileges embodied knowledge and relationship, while imparting land-based skills for better living.
Covering all aspects of the traditional PDC curriculum, the 13MoonPDC also includes learning on self-care, somatic awareness and healing, art, earth-based astrology and dance/ movement as intrinsic to the cultural shift permaculture cultivates. This PDC will grow your land-based skills while cultivating your conscious connections to your place, your people and your offering in the world.
The four lead teachers of this PDC bring to this inquiry many years spent in gardens, kitchens, urban and rural landscapes; with children and community partners; cultivating connections and reawakening relationships between humans, one another, and the natural world. Taught exclusively by women from a feminist perspective, we believe this PDC brings a vital and missing ingredient to the already delicious permaculture stew.
ALL CLASSES SATURDAY FROM 9am to 6pm with a catered lunch included.
TO REGISTER, CLICK ON 'REGISTER' IN MENU BAR TO LEFT
Month I, 10/18/14: Invocation and Introduction. Introduction to permaculture from the inside out. Ethics, principles and group norms. We orient to the land and to one another.
Month 2, 11/15/14: Pattern Literacy. Co-creating with natural patterns. Elemental thinking. Reading the inner and outer landscape.
Month 3, 12/13/14: Zones, Sectors and Site Analysis. We learn the core model of design. We learn to design our lives within the context where we live. Seeing space as zones and sectors.
Month 4, 1/17/15: Air — Inner and Outer. From thought patterns to climactic changes, we learn about the element of the air that surrounds us.
Month 5, 2/14/15: Water — Inner and Outer. From our emotions and our lymph systems to deeper knowledge about our watersheds, we learn about the element of water that makes life possible.
Month 6, 3/14/15: Earth — Inner and Outer. From the micro-organisms in our gut to the micro-organisms of the soil, from the compost of earth to the compost of old patterns, we learn about the element of earth that nourishes us.
Month 7, 4/11/15: Fire — Inner and Outer. From the fire in the belly to the powerful energy of the sun, we learn about the fire that enlivens us.
Month 8, 5/09/15:Growing the Foodshed. Bringing the four elements together in our gardens and our foodsheds. Plant guilds, biomes, microclimates, listening to the land.
Month 9, 6/06/15: PlaceMaking. Where do we go to make our homes? How do we love? How do we befriend? Natural building, strategies for living in place, communal uses of land.
Month 10, 7/11/15: Appropriate Technology and Land Use. Urban homesteading, animals in the landscape, revisiting the elements within specific sites, small and large.
Month 11, 8/08/15: Sacred Economics. Handling our economy from an earth-based perspective. Bioregional planning, legal systems, sustainable settlements, urban systems that share the wealth.
Month 12, 9/05/15: Social Ecology. Community building and social permaculture. Communication, collaboration and community. Practicing our leadership in the Art of Invitation.
Month 13, 10/03/15: Dedication and Design Projects. We dedicate our work to a regenerative future. We witness one another’s design projects.
Covering all aspects of the traditional PDC curriculum, the 13MoonPDC also includes learning on self-care, somatic awareness and healing, art, earth-based astrology and dance/ movement as intrinsic to the cultural shift permaculture cultivates. This PDC will grow your land-based skills while cultivating your conscious connections to your place, your people and your offering in the world.
The four lead teachers of this PDC bring to this inquiry many years spent in gardens, kitchens, urban and rural landscapes; with children and community partners; cultivating connections and reawakening relationships between humans, one another, and the natural world. Taught exclusively by women from a feminist perspective, we believe this PDC brings a vital and missing ingredient to the already delicious permaculture stew.
ALL CLASSES SATURDAY FROM 9am to 6pm with a catered lunch included.
TO REGISTER, CLICK ON 'REGISTER' IN MENU BAR TO LEFT
Month I, 10/18/14: Invocation and Introduction. Introduction to permaculture from the inside out. Ethics, principles and group norms. We orient to the land and to one another.
Month 2, 11/15/14: Pattern Literacy. Co-creating with natural patterns. Elemental thinking. Reading the inner and outer landscape.
Month 3, 12/13/14: Zones, Sectors and Site Analysis. We learn the core model of design. We learn to design our lives within the context where we live. Seeing space as zones and sectors.
Month 4, 1/17/15: Air — Inner and Outer. From thought patterns to climactic changes, we learn about the element of the air that surrounds us.
Month 5, 2/14/15: Water — Inner and Outer. From our emotions and our lymph systems to deeper knowledge about our watersheds, we learn about the element of water that makes life possible.
Month 6, 3/14/15: Earth — Inner and Outer. From the micro-organisms in our gut to the micro-organisms of the soil, from the compost of earth to the compost of old patterns, we learn about the element of earth that nourishes us.
Month 7, 4/11/15: Fire — Inner and Outer. From the fire in the belly to the powerful energy of the sun, we learn about the fire that enlivens us.
Month 8, 5/09/15:Growing the Foodshed. Bringing the four elements together in our gardens and our foodsheds. Plant guilds, biomes, microclimates, listening to the land.
Month 9, 6/06/15: PlaceMaking. Where do we go to make our homes? How do we love? How do we befriend? Natural building, strategies for living in place, communal uses of land.
Month 10, 7/11/15: Appropriate Technology and Land Use. Urban homesteading, animals in the landscape, revisiting the elements within specific sites, small and large.
Month 11, 8/08/15: Sacred Economics. Handling our economy from an earth-based perspective. Bioregional planning, legal systems, sustainable settlements, urban systems that share the wealth.
Month 12, 9/05/15: Social Ecology. Community building and social permaculture. Communication, collaboration and community. Practicing our leadership in the Art of Invitation.
Month 13, 10/03/15: Dedication and Design Projects. We dedicate our work to a regenerative future. We witness one another’s design projects.