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Family Opportunities If you have a family, consider making this a family trip! While you are in class, your partner and kids can take advantage of tons of activites in the area: The Great Lakes Visitor Center, Apostle Islands cruises, Bayfield fruit farms, the Children’s Museum in Duluth, and more! Contact Clare Hintz for more details. Why a Permaculture Course for Women Only? Gender power dynamics are entrenched in dominant culture, and sometimes it’s very hard to experience different possibilities! Research shows that groups that are at least a third women have different conversational dynamics and broader creativity. With this course we intend to create a space where all women are comfortable speaking, learning new skills, trying out new ideas, and playing. This will be a rigorous and fun design course! Of only 3,000 Icelandic chickens in the world, the farm has 50. What is Permaculture? Permaculture Design: • is a way of mimicking ecosystems for food production. • integrates human habitation and the surrounding land. • can be used to organize urban neighborhoods, towns, and cities. • is about sustainable living and sustainable livelihoods. • can help create thriving local economies. • helps us take positive action on climate change and biodiversity loss. • helps us become more self- reliant. Elsewhere Farm Clare Hintz [email protected] 16550 Nicoletti Herbster, WI 54844 (715) 774-3153 www.elsewherefarm.com Women’s Permaculture Design Certification Course Herbster Wisconsin August 1 through August 10, 2015
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Family Opportunities
If you have a family, consider making this a family trip! While you are in class, your partner and kids can take advantage of tons of activites in the area: The Great Lakes Visitor Center, Apostle Islands cruises, Bayfield fruit farms, the Children’s Museum in Duluth, and more! Contact Clare Hintz for more details.
Why a Permaculture Course for Women Only?
Gender power dynamics are entrenched in dominant culture, and sometimes it’s very hard to experience different possibilities! Research shows that groups that are at least a third women have different conversational dynamics and broader creativity. With this course we intend to create a space where all women are comfortable speaking, learning new skills, trying out new ideas, and playing. This will be a rigorous and fun design course!
Of only 3,000 Icelandic chickens in the world, the farm has 50.
What is Permaculture? Permaculture Design: • is a way of mimicking ecosystems
for food production. • integrates human habitation and
the surrounding land. • can be used to organize urban
neighborhoods, towns, and cities. • is about sustainable living and
sustainable livelihoods. • can help create thriving local
economies. • helps us take positive action on
climate change and biodiversity loss.
• helps us become more self-reliant.
Elsewhere Farm
Clare Hintz [email protected]
16550 Nicoletti Herbster, WI 54844
(715) 774-3153 www.elsewherefarm.com
Women’s
Permaculture Design Certification Course
Herbster Wisconsin
August 1 through August 10, 2015
Join Us This Summer!
To reserve your spot in the course,
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What You’ll Learn
This course emphasizes inquiry-based and hands-on learning. You’ll listen, talk, shovel, drill, stretch, draw, think, breathe, and eat good food!
We will survey systems of soil and water management, food and gardening, green building, renewable energy, and community development by focusing on the values and design principles that bring them all together. You’ll apply permaculture principles and systems thinking to a group design that will be finished by the end of the course and leave with a thorough understanding of how to apply Permaculture design in your own setting, whether that is a large landscape, a small urban lot, or a community or school garden. Local field trips of working elements will be included.
Where You Will Be
Elsewhere Farm is a 40-acre production Permaculture Farm on the South Shore of Lake Superior
(growing Zone 4). The farm boasts 700 fruit and nut trees, rare-breed chickens, hoophouses, a greenhouse, and market gardens for a winter and summer CSA.
How You’ll Be Nourished Breakfasts and lunches emphasizing local and organic ingredients are included in the course (omnivore, vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options). Dinners are on your own; cook on-site using camp stoves provided or eat at some of the fabulous local restaurants featuring local food. You can camp on site for a nominal fee (solar showers and composting toilets provided) or lodge locally.
About the Main Instructors Clare Hintz, co-instructor: runs Elsewhere Farm. She has a Ph.D. in Sustainability Education with an emphasis in Regenerative Agriculture. Clare is part of the teacher's guild of the Permaculture Research Institute in Minneapolis. Clare grew up in Chicago and left just before the urban ag. revival really took off! Marian Farrior, co-instructor: coordinates volunteer ecological restorations at UW-Madison Arboretum. She has taught workshops and classes in permaculture, forest gardening, patterns in nature, and biomimicry. She also works as a consultant and facilitator for a variety of environmental and social change organizations, and as an edible landscape gardener and teacher.
