Hancock Permaculture Center,
Hancock NY. 13783
www.hancockpermaculture.net
greenman124@yahoo.com
917-771-9382
MODULAR PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATE CURRICULUM.
The course is divided into five modules. This is a summary of topics. This course outline follows chapter headings from the official text, Bill Mollison’s: Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual. See our web sites for more information.
Course runs on Saturday, Sunday – 8:00am-5.30pm with evening session on Saturday.
MODULE 1.
CONTEXT, EVIDENCE AND DESIGN THEORY.
Paths of energy descent, civic/economic disruption. Adaptation. Creating nodes of permanence. Holmgren principles.
History of Permaculture.
The rise of permaculture has paralleled the rise in environmentalism going back to Rachel Carson in the late 1950’s. Type One errors, constants, directives and principles.
Prime Directives of Permaculture.
Permaculture is a design system based on ethics following scale and patterns found in nature. We introduce the ethical basis for permaculture and the fundamental principles and directives.. Live Intervention Principle/chaos theory. The Basic Laws of Thermodynamics and entropy.
Methods and Patterns of Design
Scale of permanence and organizing principles for landscape, homestead and bioregion. Sectors and zones, connections. Reading landscape. Water. Access. Structures. Soft energy systems . Water management. Mapping and organizing tools. Guilds in nature and design. Succession and evolution of systems.
Concepts and Themes of Design.
Practical design considerations. Niches, yields and cycles. Principles of disorder, stress, harmony and stability. Yield, surplus and abundance.
