Western to Offer Permaculture Design Certificate Course This Summer
Western Washington University Extended Education is offering a Permaculture Design Certificate course to faculty, staff, students and the community this summer.
Participants will learn skills, strategies and methods for sustainably working and inhabiting land, gardens or other natural systems at their homes or in their communities.
The non-credit course is broken into two weeklong sessions, and lasts from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The first, titled, 鈥淓cological Systems Design Intensive: PCD1鈥 takes place from July 6-11, 2015. The second week, titled 鈥淧ermaculture Design Process: PDC2鈥 takes place from July 13-18, 2015. Both weeks must be completed in order to receive the certificate.
Week one of courses will introduce basic elements and strategies of design, highlighting topics related to pattern literacy, watershed, aquaculture, soil conditions and the basics of how ecosystems function. Week two will feature studies on the roles of trees, functions of shelter, energy usage, how to design around varying climates and landscapes and economics.
This enrichment course is led under the instruction of certified permaculture designers and teachers Bruce Horowitz and Brian Kerkvliet, co-stewards at the regionally recognized Inspiration Farm. All classes will take place at the farm, located at 619 Laurel Road in Bellingham.