[ok-sus] Permaculture Design Course in Ft. Worth

[Robert Waldrop]

The full 72 hour Permaculture Design Course will be taught in Ft. Worth coming up in March.  I will be giving a presentation during the course.

Robert Waldrop, OKC

“Green” Your Home, Office, Business and Life with Fort Worth’s First Permaculture Design Certification Course.

FORT WORTH, Texas (January 21th, 2009) 

Green, Sustainable, Renewable, Eco-Friendly …Permaculture? 

“‘Perma- what?’ is usually the response we get,” says Kirsten Huber, the host for Wayne Weiseman’s Permaculture Design Certification course being held in Cowtown on March 21st -29th, “but instructors have been around teaching Permaculture design skills since the 1970’s – way before it was popular.” This 72- hour intensive certification course attended by everyone from designers and city planners to academics, homeowners and farmers, is the culmination of decades of research and practical application of the eco-skills needed to create a sustainable future.   Since Weiseman, who is the director of the Permaculture Project in Carbondale, IL only teaches three or four courses a year in the U.S., Cowtown should count itself lucky over the prospect of a greener future.

“Permaculturists learn to: grow food just about anywhere, repair environmentally damaged lands, design lovely and long lasting green-buildings, produce the power they need, run successful, people-oriented businesses, doing work they love, and live meaningful and authentic lives while building genuine community.” Sites the Midwest Permaculture web site, where Weiseman is also an instructor.  So it’s a bit more than switching out your light bulbs or planting a garden.  Many of the “green” courses out there offer little more than instructions of how to use “green” technology.  The principles of Permaculture teach a variety of skills that can be applied across disciplines, trades, neighborhoods and entire cities.”  

The certification course, being held at the new Urban Race Street development in Fort Worth and local sites around the Metroplex is limited to 30 participants.  For more details and registration information go to www.dfwpermaculture.com or call 817.420.9562. 

If you would like to learn more, a Free Intro to Permaculture course will be given as a precursor to the March workshops on February 11, 2009 at 7:00 PM at Stage West in Fort Worth.  Refreshments from local food producers will be served.  

About the Instructor & Hosts
Wayne Weiseman is the instructor of this course and is certified by the originator of Permaculture, Bill Mollison and the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia.  He is also Director of The Permaculture Project, (Permacultureproject.com) a full-service, international consulting and educational business promoting the ideas of eco-agriculture, renewable energy resources and eco-construction methods. Wayne currently co-manages Dayempur Farm in Southern Illinois, a land-based, self-reliant community project combining organic crop/food production, ecologically-built shelter, renewable energy, appropriate technologies and educational programs.

Rachel Lueke, Director of North Texas Society for Sustainability, and (NTSOS.ORG) hosted Wayne in 2007 in McKinney and is co-hosting the Cowtown course.  “I came to Permaculture from an educational perspective. My interest was to further explore the implications of ‘how we think’, on ‘how we design’ to be regenerative, self sustaining, or unsustainable. Whether we are growing our own food, building green communities and/or businesses, we all engage in design, and will gain or lose… by our design. The Permaculture Design Certification Course offers the most comprehensive means for learning from nature how to think in terms of ‘systems’, and design for optimizing capacities that can function long term with the most efficient energy use, minimal material input, and little to no waste.

Kirsten Huber is a resident of the Meadowbrook area of Fort Worth, organizer of DFWPermaculture.com and owner of the local eco-consulting business, Burbsteading. (burbsteading.com)  “My impetus for inviting Wayne to Fort Worth was to address urban and suburban design for homeowners as well as create professional opportunities for businesses and EcoPrenuers, whether they are artisanal cheese makers, green builders or market gardeners.  Fort Worth is ready, as Austin was 10 years ago, to rediscover simpler ways of living and to broaden the scope of making a livelihood.

INTERVIEW: WAYNE WEISEMAN 
TELEPHONE:  618-713-0537
EMAIL:  permacultureproject at gmail.com 
WEBSITE: permacultureproject.com


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