The Permaculture Project LLC

The Three Epochs Course at Stelle, Illinois

Today we are starting our 12-Day Three Epochs Course at Stelle. We begin with hunter-gatherer skills, followed by pastoralism (working with animals), settlement and agriculture, suburban and urban. The entire Permaculture Design Certificate course is embedded in the 12 days. Here is Milton practicing his bow drill (friction) fire yesterday, and Shawn whittling a spindle [...]

Going to War Against Grasshoppers

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/us/10grasshopper.html

Quote from Peter Kroptkin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDNzrj3X7dQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&]

“That a new community, instead of imitating the example of our forefathers, and starting with extensive agriculture, with all its hardships, accidents, drawbacks, and amount of hard work required, very often superior to the forces of the colonists, ought to open new ways of production as it opens new ways of consumption. It must, it [...]

Sound Science is Killing Us

Read this today and feel that it needs repeating more than once: http://www.westonaprice.org/Sound-Science-is-Killing-Us.html

Agricultural Chemicals

http://eap.mcgill.ca/publications/eap1.htm

  • Wayne Weiseman's 2012 Course Schedule

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    February 12-19, 2012

    PDC Heartland Gardens Fort Meyers, FL

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    March 10-11 Introduction to Permaculture Accokeek, MD

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    March 18-25 Solid Ground Farm - PDC Athens, OH

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    May 5-12 Natural Building Koinoia Community Americus, GA

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    May 19-26 Advanced Design Training Stelle, IL

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    May 29-June 6 PDC Lawrence, KS

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    June 7-14 UWRF PDC River Falls, WI 

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    June 15-17

    MREA Lecture Series Custer, WI

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    June 24-July 1 PDC Crazy Rooster Farm, WI

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    July 7-13 Natural Building Buffalo County, WI

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    July 19-22 and August 9-12 PDC at Duke Farms NJ

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    August 5-11 Teacher Training Stelle, IL

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     August 14-19 Hunter Gatherer Skills Madison, WI

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    August 21-26 Natural Building Mineral Point, WI

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    September 18-25 Green Building Institute PDC Jessup, MD

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    September 28 Keynote Agricultural Speaker

    70 Year Celebration Koinonia Community Americus, GA

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    October 13-20 PDC Ft. Worth, TX

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    November PDC Guatemala

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