Permaculture Mapping and Design: June 5th 6:00pm-8:00pm, June 6th-7th 9:00am-5:00pm, $190-$250 (sliding scale*), 3 meals/day for June 6th & 7th
*payment on the scale is determined by your own assessment of your ability to pay
A three-day workshop focused on designing Zones 1 and 2 with professional Permaculture Designer and Educator, Gordon Hiebert.
Rough Schedule – subject to change
Day 1:
Intro to Permaculture Principles – 2.0 hrs
Day 2:
Morning: Holistic Goal Planning (property visioning) – 2.0 hrs
Review Zones/Sectors Assessment Tools and Zone 1 & 2 Strategies – 1.0 hr
Afternoon: Site Review/Onsite Assessment – 1.5 hrs
Mapping and Data Overlay for creating Base Maps – 1.5 hrs
Evening: Idea Extraction and Elements in the design – 1.0 hr
Day 3:
Morning: Needs and Yields for Elements in Design – 1.0 hr
Designing Zone 1 – 1.0 hr
Designing Zone 2 – 1.0 hr
Afternoon: Design Presentations – 1.0 hr
Moving Forward : Budgeting, Materials and Implementation – 2.0 hrs
Gord Hiebert was introduced to Permaculture while working for an Energy Efficient Housing 
Research and Development Company in 2008 via a mechanical engineer Rob Avis (now Verge Permaculture). He took an Introduction to Permaculture course in Calgary, AB, Canada in 2009 and was “terminal”. He travelled to Costa Rica, New Zealand and Australia in 2009-2010 to learn more about sustainable living and take his PDC with his partner Jana at the Permaculture Research Institute Australia with Geoff Lawton in April 2010. Since then he and Jana have started an Ecological Design company Element Eco-Design, in the beautiful Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada. They design edible landscapes and teach Permaculture principles to anyone interested.
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