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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
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 [...]
Barbara, Dan, and Kendall are featured on KUAT Public TV
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
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 [...]
Spring 2009 Permaculture Design Course Graduates
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, [...]
‘Talk Permaculture To Me’ bumper and bike stickers are here
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 [...]
Brad’s New Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond – Voume 2 is out
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
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 [...]