NCP Permaculture Design Course

MORE updates from PDC students post-graduation! Check out this photo album for a workparty involving PDC graduates and the family they completed a permaculture design for. GREAT JOB PDCers! What a beautiful site.

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Wondering what PDC students are doing post-graduation? Check out these amazing pictures of a strawbale housebuilding workshop that PDC student Aaron Johnston hosted on his new site.

"It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are." -- Wendell Berry.

Many thanks to the graduating class of the NCP Permaculture Design Course 2011! We learned as much from you as we hoped to teach. Congratulations, and many more wonderful projects to come!

Local permaculturists Gerri Carrillo and Holly Parker make the paper, profiling "Homesteading Goes to Town." Awesome!
Also, check out Staunton Recreation Parks' urban homesteading courses called Urban and Rural Survival, coming this summer.

Homesteading goes to town | The News Leader | newsleader.com When Michael Reeps and his wife, Heather Smith-Reeps, broke ground on a garden at the Staunton home they moved into five years ago, their intentions were simple enough they wanted to enjoy some fresh salad greens in the summer.

Many thanks, yet again, to the SEED Stafford Street community garden for hosting us this weekend.
Too cool not to share: the opening of the garden made the paper!

Stafford St. community garden will start today | The News Leader | newsleader.com STAUNTON Garden work and a class about mushrooms is scheduled for today at Stafford Street Community Garden. The garden, in its third year, will get under way at 8 a.m. with tilling and planning for planting. Forty students from Stuart Hall will help prepare the planting beds and perform other spr

Unbelievably thankful for our amazing hosts this weekend -- Stafford Street Community Garden in Staunton Virginia and Stone Soup Books in Waynesboro. What inspiring communities to be invited into.
Thank you!

What a great first weekend of the Permaculture Design Course!
See and share photos from the first PDC weekend on New Community Project - Harrisonburg, VA's page, with many thanks to Aaron H. Johnston Photography!

NCP's Permaculture Design Course in Harrisonburg was a great success. The first weekend was filled with lectures on soil, permaculture gardening and patterns. Participants also practiced structured and unstructured observation and experimented with guild designs.

The design course starts this Friday!
In the meantime, check our New Community Project - Harrisonburg, VA page to see photos of our local permaculture design projects in action.

Vine & Fig / NCP Harrisonburg Cultivating and celebrating works of compassion, social justice, and ecological health to build a society in which it's easier to be good.

Shenandoah Valley folks -- don't forget! Registration for the Permaculture Design Course opens to non-Valley residents on February 1, and the non-local waitlist is growing. Don't wait to send in registration forms -- we'd love to hear from you this week!

Interested in meeting other permaculture practitioners in the region? Blue Ridge Permaculture Network is hosting a potluck on February 4th in Charlottesville to swap ideas, stories, and project updates. Then stay on for Dave Jacke's workshop on Gardening Like the Forest. Lots of fun!

BRPN - Courses and Education Stay tuned for more info on a spring 2011 Introduction to Permaculture weekend workshop. Details on Dave Jacke's weekend workshop on" Gardening Like the Forest" below.

2011 is starting fast, and we're getting excited for this spring's Permaculture Design Course!
Check out the link below to learn more about the ethics and design principles of permaculture.

Permaculture Principles Explore the ethics and design principles behind the diversity and creativity of permaculture

Permaculture: "It's not just about growing food in a sustainable ways, but also about building sustainable communities," says Adam Campbell.

Many thanks to the Staunton Virginia News Leader, New Community Project, and the Staunton Creative Community Fund for even more great press coverage of this spring's Permaculture Design Course!

Permaculture course to offer ideas on natural design | newsleader.com | The News Leader Harrisonburg's New Community Project will host the Permaculture Design Certification class in February, which will include the head of the Staunton Creative Community Fund among its instructors.