Sonoran Permaculture

Sonoran Permaculture Launches Fall and Spring Classes

dand — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:34:43 +0000

The Sonoran Permaculture Guild launches its Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 classes and workshops. Click the link to the left – ‘courses and workshops’ to view all of our scheduled classes and workshops.

2010 Permaculture Design Course participants graduate on Spring Equinox

dand — Wed, 19 May 2010 00:50:50 +0000

Eighteen participants in our 2010 Permaculture Design class held a graduation and local foods potluck on March 21st to celebrate the successful completion of the five weekend course. Here are some pictures from two of the weekends…

Day five – Natural Building and Passive Solar Design Day…

Dan and Brit use a song to introduce a systems mapping exercise. Song, dance, and story telling are an important part of our courses when it comes to learning how to pattern a landscape.

Day three of the course – Integrated water harvesting design and earthworks construction…

Barbara, Dan, and Kendall are featured on KUAT Public TV

dand — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:21 +0000

Dan was featured on September 28th, 2009 discussing the work of the Sonoran Permaculture Guild. View the video at

http://ondemand.azpm.org/videoshorts/watch/2009/9/28/kuat-permaculture/

Barbara and Kendall were featured on October 10th, 2009 discussing Permaculture alternatives to the current wastewater treatment process. Veiw the video at

http://ondemand/azpm.org/videoshorts/watch/2009/10/7/kuat-wastewater/

Sonoran Permaculture Guild Starts the Fall Season of Classes – Click on the courses and workshops link to the left

dand — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:34:34 +0000

The Sonoran Permaculture Guild starts its 2009 Fall classes on September 13th with an Introduction to Bee Keeping class, followed by Introduction to Permaculture, Natural Building, Water Harvesting, Gardening, and Native Foods.

Our popular five weekend Permaculture Design Certification course is open for registration also. 2010 will be our fifteenth year to offer this exciting course.

Contact the registrar person listed under the descriptionof each course or workshop for more information.

Spring 2009 Permaculture Design Course Graduates

dand — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:50:33 +0000

Eighteen new Permaculturists graduated from our 14th Annual Permaculture Design Course in March. after 72 hours of participation in hands on project work, classroom exercises, and other design/pattern based learning exercises.

Shown back row left to right - Bill, Marti, Rodin, Leona, Carly, Damian, Ian, Robert, Justin.

Shown front row left to right – Stefanie, Jan, Carol, Amy, Heather, Kris, Rodney

Not in picture – Richard, Rani

‘Talk Permaculture To Me’ bumper and bike stickers are here

dand — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:25:43 +0000

3″ x 11″ bumper sticker

1.5″ x 5″ bike sticker

Cost…

For 1x-10x green bumper stickers the cost is $2.00 each. After the first 10x they are $1.50 each.

For 1x-10x black bike stickers the cost is $.75 each. After the first 10x they are $.50 each.

Then Please add a shipping and handling charge of…

Your total amount for stickers Add this amount for shipping and handling

$5.00 or under $1.00

$5.01 – $15.00 $2.50

$15.01 – $30.00 $5.00

$30.01 – $50.01 $8.00

over $50 please e-mail first for shipping charge

send orders to Dan Dorsey 221 E. Linden Tucson, AZ 85705 any questions on ordering or on your order please e-mail dorsey@dakotacom.net

We accept:

1. checks or money orders made out to Dan Dorsey

2. cash $5 or under

3. Credit card via PayPal for orders over $25. Please send an inquiry to the above e-mail for use of PayPal

Please enclose your shipping address and your contact info - phone and/or e-mail with your order.

thank you.

Brad’s New Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond – Voume 2 is out

dand — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:40:26 +0000

Brad’s second volume of his three volume set on Rainwater Harvesting is in bookstores and available from his website. This second volume is all about how to set up water harvesting earthworks.

Dan and Barbara are featured in Tucson Green Magazine

dand — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:58:59 +0000

In the April 2008 issue of Tucson’s Green Magazine, Barbara and Dan (and their sites) are featured in an article on Permaculture. They describe how Permaculture is about observing and duplicating nature’s patterns, so we can design and build places that take care of people and take care of the environment.

From the article… ‘ A fine local example (of Permaculture) is Dan Dorsey’s place in central Tucson. Known today as the Mesquite Tree Permaculture Site, a decade ago his yard was devoid of practically everything except packed down dirt.

“It was a totally barren site, hardly a blade of grass growing”, he said. “In fact, this used to be the neighborhood parking lot.” Today Dorsey’s lot is a thriving site in the middle of Tucson that bears fruit, attracts wildlife, and uses naturally collected water.’

Mesquite Tree Before and After Pictures

‘Barbara Rose, sitting on a rock filled cage that slows overland water flow at her own site, stresses another important point in Permaculture: “Get a buddy, find even one person in your neighborhood (already) doing Permaculture”. She added that resources to learn from are also widely available on line, in books, and through Permaculture teachers in the Tucson area.’

Barbara’s Garden Gourd Trellis