Preregistration Package

Permaculture Design Clinic

This document contains all basic information regarding the Elfin Permaculture Design Clinic Online. For your convenience, a table of contents follows. All information specific to our Online Design Clinic is contained in this preregistration package.

Last updated: 3/06/08

Contents:

Protocol
Clinic Reading Package and CD, order form
Reading Assignments by Week
Clinic Fees
Application

Protocol
for the Elfin Permaculture Online Design Clinic

The Elfin Permaculture Online Design Clinic serves people who wish to receive support in the permaculture design process for their own homes. The clinic runs as a moderated 'listserve' type discussion group with scheduled topics following the format of our Permaculture Design Course Online. Anyone can participate in this program by paying tuition and completing the registration form. The program runs about six months.

Advantages

The principal advantage to participating in the clinic is to obtain design support and consulting at a cost substantially less than comparable consulting by highly qualified permaculture designer.

Because the entire group of clinic participants can critique designs, provide information, and make suggestions, including access to a highly qualified permaculture teacher, a much broader range of views, information and resources is available for consideration in each design effort than would be available from a single consultant.

The opportunity for give and take discussion means that each ideal is potentially explored far more fully than otherwise likely.

Participants with permaculture certificates, in particular, gain opportunities for advanced work in supporting others in their personal designs.

The program is not a replacement for a full certificate course, but rather complements that program. The clinic offers more intensive design experience than possible in the certificate course.

Types of Participation

There are three options at different levels of participating in the clinic.

Targeted Support.

This is the most economical form of participation and has the fewest requirements for reading materials. Targeted Support participants submit portions of their designs, or design problems, in the appropriate module of the course. For example, layout of paths, drives, parking and so forth would be addressed in Week 17, when we take up 'Access.' Calculations to size roof catchment cisterns could be checked with the class in Week 8, Water. The Targeted Support participant enjoys all benefits of the program except the prerogative to submit a completed permaculture design for review by the moderator and/or the program designer.

Tuition. For tuition, see the separate Clinic Fee Table. A $300 non-refundable deposit guarantees a space in the program, until enrollment is saturated. Payment may be via PayPal, check, or money order. Books must be paid by PayPal, postal money order, or bank check to receive expedited shipping. See instructions for postal money orders.

Required reading includes the Elfin Permaculture Design Course CD (monitor version), Introduction To Permaculture (Mollison and Slay), Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape (Kourik), and, for designs requiring stored water, Water Storage (Ludwig). Ludwig may be substituted by Water for Every Farm (Yeomans), if the property is large enough for keyline development. Targeted support participants also have the option to buy either the discounted clinic reading list or the highly discounted monitor reading package, which includes all of the above. We strongly recommend at least the discounted clinic package, if not the full monitor package. We will not explain topics covered in the clinic package if you opt for the minimum reading. If you opt for the minimum reading, order from the Yankee Permaculture Order Form, downloadable from our web sit. Except as stated, substitutions are not allowed in discounted reading packages. Publications may be individually purchased from the Yankee Permaculture Order Form.

Enrollment limit is a maximum of 25 students in this category.

Class Design Support

At this level of participation, you submit drafts and a full design at scheduled intervals. These are reviewed with comments by the course moderator, Robert Waldrop, and discussed by the participants in the program. The Class Design participant also has all options of the Targeted Support level of participation.

Required reading is the special clinic reading package, see below, or the full moderator reading package (recommended).

Tuition. For tuition, see the separate Clinic Fee Table. A $300 non-refundable deposit guarantees a space in the program, until enrollment is saturated. Payment may be via PayPal, check, or money order. Books must be paid by PayPal, postal money order, or bank check to receive expedited shipping. See instructions for postal money orders.

Full Design Support

This is the same in all respects as the Class Design Support, except that course designer and instructor Dan Hemenway also provides an extensive review of your design. The design must comply with the organization and formatting requirements of post 05xx01 on the Course CD.

For all levels of support, the course moderator has the option to draw upon Dan Hemenway for backup information and input. The option to do this is entirely and solely the prerogative of the moderator and Hemenway, who may monitor sessions and comment at his discretion.

Tuition. For tuition, see the separate Clinic Fee Table. A $300 non-refundable deposit guarantees a space in the program, until enrollment is saturated. Payment may be via PayPal, check, or money order. Books must be paid by PayPal, postal money order, or bank check to receive expedited shipping. See instructions for postal money orders.

Assignments

Reading and report assignments are the same as for the online course. Where the readings are not included in the Clinic Reading Package (see below), they obviously are not required. However, if you purchased the Monitor Reading Package, we recommend that you read everything that was assigned if you possibly can. You may discuss only topics for which you have done all reading possible from the Clinic Reading List. The Moderator may opt to block mail that does no reflect exposure to the reading assignments.

The Moderator can and often will make assignments not on the schedule of the regular online course. These will serve to bring a greater focus on participant design projects.

Deadlines are absolute. Late submissions are inappropriate. Except for design drafts, early submissions are also inappropriate. If you miss a deadline, just move on to the next scheduled topic.

Review weeks provide an opportunity to review topics, catch up if you didn't get to some readings on time, etc. You can bring up any topic covered thus far in a review week.

Standing assignments listed for the full certificate course do not apply to the clinic. These include items such as the glossary assignment, FAQs, etc.

Focus on your design project. The purpose of this program is to support your design for your home. There is no merit in exploring the readings on islands, for example, if you live in the middle of a continent.

Contribute to other designs by asking questions, making suggestions, and so forth. Develop information exchanges. Develop information and brainstorming exchanges with other willing participants. The contact with others concerned with permaculture design is a valuable side-benefit of this program. We recommend that you form your own discussion groups.

Submit design drafts regularly. There are three junctures when design drafts are considered: week 6 or 7, week 15, and week 19 or 20. We recommend that you submit drafts a week or so before the deadline. This gives others a chance to read your design before the discussion week, which immediately follows the deadline. Late design submissions will be regarded as submitted for the following deadline. Be sure to read the special instructions in post 05xx01 for submitting drafts to the instructor, as drafts are not considered received until he has received a CD and hard copy in his US Postal Service mail.

The moderator may specify additional times for partial design submissions at his discretion.

Schedule. Subject to adaptations by the Moderation, the schedule will follow the schedule for the online permaculture design course. Accordingly, 'flex' weeks may be inserted at the discretion of the instructor.

We very strongly recommend that you pace your design work to utilize the schedule of topics and of opportunities to submit drafts. Again, late submissions are missed opportunities. If you miss a deadline, you are best served by working to get your work ready to submit early for the next round of discussions.

Registration

Registration may be only through sending a properly signed registration form via US mail to the above address. The registration form is the final document in this preregistration package.

Mailing Funds and Forms Send mail only to the Elfin Permaculture Post Office box. Mail sent to our physical address by other carriers is likely to be incinerated. If you send mail requiring a signature, delivery could be delayed by weeks. Mail is not regarded as received until it is in our hands. From USA addresses, delivery confirmation is available for under a dollar at any US Postal Service window.

Posting Protocol

The posting protocol is specified in the Before We Start folder and the Week 1 folder of the Course CD. Off topic posts will be accepted to a limited extent, at the discretion of the moderator, but the moderator and instructor will only address comments and questions within the scheduled topic sequence. Participants have the option of discussing off topic subjects to an unlimited extent outside of the clinic setting, of course. Permaculture-related topics not covered by the course outline may be addressed as questions or requests for comment in the Week 21 module.

Because the clinic follows the schedule of the online course, some weeks will have little or no clinic-related content. The Moderator may opt discuss specific topics during such weeks. We strongly advise you to use weeks with few assignments to work on your design report and to discuss your design with other participants.

Certification

The clinic does not offer certification. Participants who have successfully completed the Full Level of support may take the next scheduled Permaculture Design Course online with a discount, specified in the Course Fee Table, downloadable from our web site and also included in the course preregistration package. Transfers are responsible also to exchange their CD for an upgrade at the fee listed in the current Course Fee Table.

Otherwise, the program does not lead to a certificate, but compliments our certificate courses.

Upgrading Clinic Status

We assess an administrative fee for upgrading to the next level of participation: Targeted Support to Class Design Support, or Class Design Support to Full Design Support. Upgrades are at the discretion of the clinic leaders. See the Clinic Fee Table below.

Enrollment Limits

Enrollment maxima will be as follows:

Targeted Support - 25 participants

Class Design Support - moderator's discretion

Full Design Support - 5 participants.

The clinic leaders may opt to hold enrollment to lower levels, depending on enrollment in our online certificate course and other workloads.

Advanced Participation

At present, the clinic is restricted to designs of personal residence, one design per participant. Based on our experience with this program, we may offer advanced design support in future cycles.

People living in the same residence may work on the same design at a discount. An exception to the residential requirement allows a team to design a single residence, providing that at least one member of the team is a bona fide resident there. See the Clinic Fee Table for discounts couples and teams.

Advanced design training is available through Cycle 1 of this clinic only for enrollees in the Full Design Support program designing their own residences. People wishing advanced design mentoring for third-party clients may receive support in our certification program, the Elfin Permaculture Design Course Online, which can also issue advanced diplomas.

Permaculture Online Design Clinic

Basic Reading Package

CDs, Books, papers, etc.

May be supplied on CD at our discretion.

* This discounted package price available only to clinic registrants.

Online Permaculture Course CD--

Non-Student Version

The following publications are included in the course CD sent to anyone not registered as a full student in one of our online course cycles. The course CD is included in the permaculture clinic reading package (above).

Yankee Permaculture
PO Box 69
Sparr FL 32192-0069 USA

Order Forms

Online Course Reading List
The Permaculture Design Course CD

(Use the regular YPC order form for items not listed below or to order publications separately.)

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+ If you buy a Manual at the same time as you buy the rest of the reading package add $75 to the price of the package. This saves you US$9.00 + additional postage and handling.

Payment in US dollars only. Send bank check or postal money order for expedited shipment. Prices subject to change. Reading list contents subject to change. See further instructions below.

* The course package is shipped Priority Mail to USA addresses, cheapest method to outside the US. If you want air shipment outside the US, double the price and we will remit any balance or bill any added cost. Shipment outside the USA is at your own risk.

** For current P&H rates, see the Yankee Permaculture Order Form.

We ask that you register before or at the same time that you order your books. The clinic package is restricted to registered participants. All others may order the publications and CDs individually from the Yankee Permaculture Order Form or purchase the somewhat larger Monitor Reading Package.

NOTE: Because of exorbitant bank fees to exchange non-U.S. Currency into US dollars, WE CAN ONLY ACCEPT PAYMENT BY CHECK DRAWN ON A US BANK OR BY INTERNATIONAL POSTAL MONEY ORDER IN US DOLLARS. IMPORTANT.

Make checks payable to Yankee Permaculture. However make postal money orders payable exactly as follows: "Dan or Cynthia Hemenway." NOT "Dan and Cynthia Hemenway". The US post office may refuse to cash postal money orders made to Yankee Permaculture! You may also order the Clinic Reading Package via PayPal, by contacting Prairie Rose Permaculture, bwaldrop@cox.net Prices will be 10% higher.

EXPEDITED SHIPMENT requires payment by bank check or money order. See instructions below. Personal or business checks are fine, but shipment will take place about two weeks after receipt of your check. Use no delivery service but the US Post Office. We are reclusive and do not want delivery vehicles coming to our home! I reserve the right to refuse to register anyone who disregards our preference in this matter. I will incinerate such orders including instruments of payment.

Sending payment by a means that requires our signature can substantially delay your order. We strongly recommend against mailing cash.

Prices subject to change. There can be no substitutions if ordering from this list. Offers subject to availability of texts from publishers. If you feel obliged to ask for substitutions or deletions anyway, please take your permaculture training from someone else! If you have a lot of these publications, you can fill in at retail prices using the Yankee Permaculture Order Form.

About the Monitor CD

The monitor CD includes almost all the "standard instructors' posts" from our Online Course, numerous reading resources and many other references. Contents of the Permaculture Design Course CD (monitor version) are listed in our course preregistration package. We strongly recommend that you compute the total costs before ordering materials retail, because even with some duplications the reading package is usually cheaper. We will not compute these matters for you. You may donate duplicates, through us, to scholarship students, give them as gifts, or contribute them to a suitable library.

MOVING ITEMS FROM THE HARD COPY LIST TO THE CD LIST

We aim to convert a number of hard-copy documents to digital formats. As we do this, we will add these to the CD list and remove them from the hard copy list. This will be done without notice, with updates to this document on our web page normally once or twice a year. You will get all the reading materials in one form or another if you purchase the reading package.

As in all permaculture design decisions, we have several reasons for converting as much as possible to CD. 1) We save paper and therefore trees. 2) We save money in printing and in shipping. 3) Savings enable us to reduce the price of the total reading package for students. We hope to continue to reduce the price of the reading package as we develop the CD resource. However, as new books come out, and prices from other publishers rise, this goal becomes difficult to achieve.

Future Developments

The course CD will, over time, become richer in images and large files of various kinds. This is a substantial advantage because many of our students use free ISPs for their email service, which allow only fairly small files to be received as attachments.

Besides enriching the course CD, we may decide to develop and produce other kinds of permaculture CDs. Our substantial series of permaculture slide-shows may be converted for individual use. We recently purchased a high-quality slide scanner for this project. And we are considering CDs consisting of permaculture designs, and of standard designs."

ALTERNATE OPTION -

TOTAL YANKEE PERMACULTURE LIBRARY

You may buy everything on the current Yankee Permaculture Order form at total price less 20%. Shipping worldwide is $35. If you have some of these publications, give the duplicates as gifts or contribute them to our book fund for scholarship students.

PLEASE INDICATE THE KIND OF COMPUTER SYSTEM YOU USE AND THE NAMES OF YOUR WORD PROCESSING AND DATABASE PROGRAMS. WE MAY SUPPLY SOME MATERIALS ON CD at our discretion only.

Give a Permaculture Library or Course Reading List to a group in an economically oppressed country. We have more requests for such literature than we can fill. We will tell recipients the names of donors unless you ask us not to. Ask about making the contribution tax deductible in the US. You may specify a recipient for drop shipment. Otherwise, we will send materials to a suitable group selected at our discretion.

Be sure that you have a copy of the current full Yankee Permaculture Price List. Any order for the individual publications, not the full package, must be on our regular order form. You can download it at www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org

All our price lists bear dates. Copies of our price list transmitted by email are valid at least six months from date of transmission unless updated in a later transmission. Exception: other publishers usually give us no warning when they raise prices. If they raise their price to us, we must raise our price to you. All offers are subject to availability.

We are not responsible for out-of-date prices listed by third parties. Our only official price list online is at www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org

To learn of additional publications relating to permaculture, check the book review sections our serial publications.

We particularly recommend the following books, although Yankee Permaculture does not carry them at this time.

The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
Freshwater Aquaculture by Bill McLarney
Dwellers in the Land by Kirkpatrick Sale
How to Grow More Food… by John Jeavons
Seed to Seed by Suzanne Ashworth
Garden Seed Inventory by Kent Whealy
Fruit, Berry and Nut Inventory by Kent Whealy
The Power of Duck by Takao Furuno, Tagari Press.
How to Live Free, At Last, by Pat ffyske Howden, Back Yard Tech Enterprises, Cone St., Macleay Island QLD 4184.
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, by Brad Lancaster. 3 volumes. A useful primer, but with some errors. Disregard the description of Keyline in particular.
Gardening When it Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times, by Steve Solomon. An excellent book that disputes much of what we say about gardening in the course. If you read this, try to finish before Week 10 so we can discuss any of your questions in class!
Roots Demystified by Robert Kourik. Available in Spring, 2008.

The publications on this reading list apply to broad aspects of permaculture. Information pertaining specific circumstances is listed in many other publications on our regular order form.

Reading Assignments

Below we reproduce the reading assignments from the full permaculture design course. Some items, notably the Course Handbook and the Client Survey, are available only to students registered in the certificate course.

Required readings for the clinic do not include all materials required in the online certificate course. In general, you are expected to have read all assigned items provided in the Clinic Reading Package before discussing a given topic.

The moderator may add reading assignments at his convenience.

The usual course reading assignment schedule follows on the next page.

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ELFIN PERMACULTURE

ANNUAL PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE ONLINE

Reading Assignments
and Report Deadlines

Also used for the Elfin Permaculture Online Design Clinic

Reading assignments shown here may be superseded by specific assignments issued before and during the course. This schedule represents the default assignments for each, week. Read in advance; readings are due on the first day of the specified week so that we may discuss them. Items marked with an asterisk are included in required reading list. All items on the course reading list must be read, whether or not they match specific weekly reading assignments. We strongly recommend reading through this entire document at the beginning of the course and frequently thereafter, so that you do not miss deadlines. We urge students to begin reading as soon as possible. Keeping up with reading assignments while you work on your design practicum is exceptionally difficult.

NOTE: ADDITIONAL ASSIGNMENTS are made in the Weekly Posts on the Course CD-ROM. Read all posts for each weekly unit before it begins. We do not include a list of weekly posts in this document as they are thoroughly explained on the CD, which includes a table of contents for each week. In order to participate, you should read the weekly posts well before the specified week, so that you have time to complete on time any assignments located there. Readings in the HortIdeas CD-ROM are mainly assigned in the weekly posts or by email during the course.

Discussing the Readings

In sending email about the course content, please put the course week and topic in the subject field plus the specific theme of your comments. For example, if you have a comment about our emphasis on teaching rather than consulting in our courses, you could address it as follows in the Subject Field:

Week 1: Style, schedule, intent ..., Consulting by Design Course Graduates -Dan

In that way, we can file your comments exactly where they belong. Do not expect anyone to memorize your email address. Generally, you should not send comments or questions as an attachment.

Always label posts with your NAME. You may not get credit for assignments submitted if your name is not in the title or subject field. If you must submit an assignment as an attachment, be sure to label the attachment with your name and the topic, too. Attachments that do not carry clear identification as to contents and the student's name may never be read at all!

Copyright

Your comments to the course are automatically copyrighted by US copyright law and probably by the laws of other pertinent countries. (There has been strong movement toward uniformity of these laws in recent decades.) The registration form that you signed grants us the limited right to use your comments and other submissions in our teaching of permaculture. We will not ask for any further waiver of copyright unless we wish to publish your comments in some other way. All other rights belong to you. If you wish to use material submitted by another student, contact that student directly for permission. It is not permissible to forward course posts to people not enrolled in the course, including "list-serve" type discussion groups. This pertains to posts from other students as well as from instructors, etc. Violation of copyright rules can result in dismissal from the course without refund. Likewise, do not transmit to the class the work of anyone outside the course without express permission of the author. We feel strongly about any violation of copyright. All written and electronic materials are copyrighted unless the AUTHOR has expressly put them in public domain. Ask in class if you have questions about this.

Schedule

We number the course weeks for convenience. We may extend such a "week" to 14 days if we decide to continue a discussion or make allowance of some sort. There are extra weeks in the course schedule to allow for this. Basically, the designation Week 1, Week 2, etc., allows us to use the same outlines in each course cycle without changing a batch of dates. Originally, each week corresponded to one day in our live certificate course. It has been convenient to keep this method of identifying the teaching units.

Assignment Deadlines

Assignments are due on he Sunday or Monday of the week for which they are assigned. Since holidays vary with nationality and religion, we do not acknowledge any holiday. If your assignment is late because it is due on a day you observe, you have not met the deadline. You can avoid this problem by requesting permission to submit the assignment early, with an explanation.* Work submitted late may not be credited for certification. * Except for design drafts, you should not submit assignments before the deadline unless you have no other option for meeting the deadline. Obtain permission from the instructor before submitting early or late assignments.

Discussion Deadlines

Comments and questions about course materials may pertain to reading assignments, instructors' posts, student reports and any other topic scheduled for the week. You may initiate discussion on any such topic during the week that it is due to be read or reported. The class may continue such a discussion into the following week, at the discretion of the lead instructor. However, you can only begin a discussion thread in the week in which the material is scheduled. You may assume that threads initiated after Wednesday usually will not be continued.

Please do not discuss in class student reports, comments, or other assignments submitted after the deadline. You may discuss any portion of the course at any time in your assigned study group, of course. The schedule includes three weeks widely spaced, in which review of previous work is appropriate, so no pertinent question or observation need go unexpressed.

Feedback

Provide feedback on the course structure, pace, teaching, and so forth at any time. Unless you are reporting a personal problem that uniquely affects your participation, all feedback should go to the entire class, but not to monitors. The instructors will deal with private matters privately, of course. You are assigned to complete a course evaluation at the end of the course cycle. Please make notes on any matter that you want to mention in your evaluation. Evaluations that are highly specific help us most in improving the course.

About Reading Assignments in the Handbook, and the HortIdeas CD.

The Handbook is located on your course CD. Since we have had several versions, there could be errors in assigned page numbers, though I think we have caught them all. Please report any inconsistencies. HortIdeas Online retrospective is on a separate CD-ROM included with your reading package. Subscriptions to the current volume of Hortideas through Yankee Permaculture is a course requirement and included in the reading package fee. Readings may be assigned in current issues.

About How to Live Free… by Howden

We have discontinued required readings in this text for reasons unrelated to its merits. The author allows free distribution of the unedited text of this book with credit, etc. We continue to recommend reading this material. You may also order it directly from the author. Contact information is included after the order form on the Course Reading List. You will find the former reading assignments for this publication moved to the optional section of weekly readings. Chapter numbers have probably changed.

ASSIGNMENTS BY WEEK

WEEK 1 Introduction/Bad News

# Introductions--Send your personal statement to everyone. We will provide you with a list of email addresses to use.

# Style, schedule, intent, and content of course

# Overview of permaculture

Bad News -

Water

Soil

Air

Climate

Forests

Good News -

Permaculture

# Feedback and questions

Reading for Week 1:

Required:

*"The Fate of Our Forests, A Time to Choose" by Dan Hemenway, TIPSY #4.

*"Permaculture Design: A Warning, a Vision, a Gift" by Dan Hemenway, TIPSY #3.

*"Solar Age or Ice Age?" by Don Weaver, TIPSY #4.

*"A Green World Instead of the Green House" by James Duke, TIPSY #3.

*"Climate & Ozone: The Stratospheric Link" by John Gribbin, TIPS I, 3.

*"Politics and Genetic Resources," by Cary Fowler, TIPSY #3.

*Permaculture Design Course Pamphlet I by Bill Mollison

* Permaculture Design Course Handbook (Section 1, p. 1)

Also recommended:

State of the World (Current & past editions), WorldWatch Inst. web site: http://www.worldwatch.org

gopher site: gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org:70/11/orgs/worldwatchemail

Global 2000 Report

Robin (Volumes IV-XI)

Survival of Civilization, by John Hamaker & Don Weaver

*Farm Debt" by Wes Jackson TIPSY #4.

* Rights to Our Genetic Resources by Sahabat Alam Malaysia.

The Man Who Planted Hope and Grew Happiness (A mythical account.) by Jean Giono.

Note: We have received comments from some students that week 1 readings are 'out of date' because they were written a while back. Facts are facts. You will find an 'update' on your CD in the Week 1 posts that confirms and enlarges on the readings.

DEADLINE for students, monitors and instructors to submit their introductions.

Late introductions accepted only by students who join the course in progress.

WEEK 2 Basic Principles

# Feedback and questions

# Entropy

# Principles of natural design

# Mollison's design principles

# Succession

Reading for Week 2:

Required

*"Living Lovingly on the Earth" by Dan Hemenway, found in the 'Unrestricted' folder, inside the Papers, Articles, Etc., folder in the Mac version of the CD, freestanding in the Windows version. (Read this version, which is updated over the one in TIPSY 2.)

* Permaculture Designer's Manual by Bill Mollison (Chapters 1 and 2)

* "Forests: Green Gifts from Gaia" by Bill Mollison. TIPSY #3 (pg. 22 ff.)

* "Traditional Practices of Farmers," Sahabat Alam Malaysia, TIPS I, 1.

* Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison (Chapt. 1-3)

* Permaculture Design Course Handbook, Approaches to Design. pp. 2-5..

Also Recommended

Entropy by Jeremy Rifkin (Viking Press)

DEADLINE to arrange your personal report topic and set a date to present it.

WEEK 3 Permaculture Design Basics

# Feedback and questions

ASSIGNMENT: Generate a list of questions to ask your client (even if the client is yourself) for your design project. Alternately, select a section of our client survey, and generate at least three new questions to ask. See CD for details. Due: Week 4.

# Permaculture design

+ Design examples (instructor's option)

Reading for Week 3:

Required

*Permaculture Design Course Pamphlet VIII

*Permaculture Designers' Manual (Chapter 3)

* Permaculture Design Course Handbook, Approaches to Design. pp. 2-5.

Also Recommended

Ocean Arks and City Farms, John Todd

WEEK 4: Idealized Landscapes

# Feedback and questions

# Humid landscapes

Keyline

Arid landscapes

Other landscapes

Reading for Week 4

Required

* Permaculture Design Course Handbook Section 4. Classical Landscape Profiles. pp. 7-13.

*Water for Every Farm by P.A. Yeomans

*Permaculture Design Course Pamphlets II, III, IV, V, and VI

*Permaculture Designers' Manual (Chapters 10-12)

* YPC Pamphlet #11, Arid Lands Water Harvesting by John Farghar

* YPC Pamphlet #10, Erosion: Principles & Management by John Farghar

WEEK 5. Patterning/Edges/The Permaculture Design Report

SPECIAL: The course CD contains examples of student designs with review comments, etc. These are not examples to emulate, necessarily, but indicate the sort of expectations that I have as instructor. I strongly recommend that you read through the designs on the CD, though they are not assigned for any particular time. I will assume that you will have read them before submitting a draft. Since every report included predates the latest version of the instructions for preparing a design report, they are NOT an example of proper style and content. Refer to the post (05xx01) in the Week 5 folder of your CD for that information. The latest version may also be downloaded from our web site.

DEADLINE--You should have posted to the class a description of your intended design project if you are registered for the full course or the design practicum. SUMMARIZE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE ON YOUR DESIGN SO FAR IN LESS THAN 500 WORDS, INCLUDING QUESTIONS, PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED, ETC.

# Feedback and questions

# Edges, edge effects, edge harmonics

# Client Interviews

# Overview: The permaculture design report

# Practical Tips for Your Permaculture Design Project

Reading for Week 5:

Required:

*Permaculture Design Course Pamphlets VII and IX

*Permaculture Designers' Manual (Chapter 4)

*Patterning - * * Permaculture Design Course Handbook Section 3. Pattern in Design. pp. 5-6.

* Report Writing, PDC Handbook, p. 37.

* "A Look at Permaculture Design..." by Robert Kourik (paper supplied on course CD)

WEEK 6: Feedback, Catch-up, Review, Field Work

DEADLINE: Report on your client interview and preliminary field visit to your design site.

# Feedback and questions

# Principles of transformation, presentation by instructor of a study in progress.

# Principles of transformation, discussion by class

WEEK 7 Work on your design.

DEADLINE You must have completed tests of program compatibility with other students. You do this by sending attached test documents to everyone in the class. You should check compatibility with new students as soon as they are introduced. You have an opportunity to submit your design work to date at the beginning of this week.

# Feedback and questions

# Pursue student questions or themes special to this course.

# Students do more field work and research for their design report.

Reading for Week 7:

Required

Re-read course protocol.

YOU HAVE NOW COMPLETED THE FIRST SEGMENT OF THE COURSE.

This has been an introduction to natural design principles and considerations. IN THE NEXT SEGMENT OF THE COURSE WE WILL LOOK AT TECHNIQUES, STRATEGIES, AND THEMES that may be included in a Permaculture Design. A major purpose of the following segment of the course is to exemplify the applicability of the design principles. Another purpose is to make you aware that bodies of information exist that you can study in detail when appropriate for a given design.

WEEK 8 - Energy

# Feedback and questions

# Conservation and edge: Solar and conservation vocabulary and concepts.

# Biomass

# Wind power, wind breaks, natural cooling, & water power

Reading for Week 8:

(The field of energy has a good many useful books. We list just a few resources here.)

Required

*Energy Paper #1, by Bill Mollison (YPC Paper 13 - North America edition)

*Energy Paper #2, by Bill Mollison (YPC Paper 14)

*Permaculture Designers' Manual (Chapter 5)

Also Recommended

How to Live... Chapt 5.2-5.9, Chapt 5.12-5.13(appropriate technologies), Chapts. 8 & 9, (transport); Chapt 11 (solar/electric);

Permaculture I (pg. 41 ff. - Windbreaks)

Methane Generation from Human, Animal and Agricultural Wastes (NAS)

Energy for Rural Development & Supplement (NAS)

The Methods of Jean Pain (Difficult to read)

The Solar Greenhouse Book (McCullagh)

The Passive Soar Energy Book (Mazria)

Low Cost Passive Solar Greenhouses by National Center for Appropriate Technology [alas, out of print]

WEEK 9 Nutrient Cycles-A-Soils

# Feedback and questions

# Soils

# Soil treatments

# Soil shaping

# Shaping time as a dimension of soil

# Hybrid systems - Fukuoka

# Keyline cultivation

Reading for Week 9:

Required

*TIPS I, 3. Special soils issue. Very important.

*Water for Every Farm and the Keyline Method

*Designers Manual (Chapters 5 & 6)

*Erosion: Principles and Management, Yankee PC Paper 10, by John Fargher.

*Circle Gardens, by Richard Webb & Dan Hemenway. Yankee PC Paper 20.

*Introduction to Permaculture, Chapt. 5.

*Handbook Section 5, Soils. p. 13

Also Recommended

How to Grow More Food Than You Thought Possible... by John Jeavons

The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka

Any of Ruth Stout's books from Rodale

Worms Eat My Garbage, by Mary Applehof

*"Information for Using Gesteinsmehl" translated by Christian Campe, TIPS I, 1.

Guidelines for Development Agents on Soil Conservation in Ethiopia, Ethiopian Soil Conservation Research Project. [Excellent! The main tools required are a line level and a lot of good string.]

Gardening Articles, Yankee PC Paper 16, reprints, Dan Hemenway

Articles about Soil, Yankee PC Paper 30, reprints, Dan Hemenway

WEEK 10: Nutrient Cycles - B- Microclimate/Composting Toilets/Seed Saving/Biological Pest Control

# Feedback and questions

# Microclimate; Phenology

# Perennial gardening, self-sowing, tree crops, food parks

# Composting toilets

# Livestock

# Seed saving, food storage

# Biological pest control

Reading for Week 10:

Required:

*PDC Handbook Section 11.(pp. 22-27)

*"The Massachusetts Fruition Program," by Judy Heiman and "Proposed Criteria for Evaluating Plants Suitable for Fruition Projects" by Dan Hemenway, both in TIPSY #1.

*"A Fruition Guide to Design," TIPSY #2.

*"A Plea for Phenology," by James Duke, TIPS I, 1.

*Composting Human Wastes, by Dan Hemenway & David Stephens, Yankee PC Paper 17.

*"Diversity among Plants," by Dan Hemenway, TIPSY #1.

*Rights to Our Genetic Resources by Sahabat Alam Malaysia.

*"Humanity at the Crossroads of Biotechnology" by Asia-Pacific People's Network, TIPS I, 2.

*"Standards vs. Hybrids," by Rob Johnston, TIPS I, 2.

*"An Integrated Pest Control System for a Rice Paddy," by Lonna Nachtigal & Dan Hemenway, TIPS I, 1.

Also Recommended

How to Live…, Chapt. 5.6, 5.20, 5.22,.

Seed to Seed by Susan Ashworth (Seed Savers Exchange). (See also SSE reference volumes on available varieties of garden seed, fruit and nut plants, etc.)

For reference: Cornucopia II: A Source Book of Edible Plants by Stephen Facciola. Highly recommended!

Horticultural Management of Solar Greenhouses, by Klin

For reference: Dictionary of Cultivated Plants & Their Regions of Diversity

For reference: Plant Propagation, by Hartmann & Kester

The Future is Abundant (TILTH, out of print, possibly available on the web)

The Onions, by Mollison (Yankee PC Paper 1)

"One Man's Search for Biological Control of Poison Ivy," by James Duke. TIPSY #3.

"Annuals and Perennials in the Permaculture Scenario," by James Duke, TIPS I, 2.

"Collecting Tree & Shrub Seed," by Michael Pilarski, TIPSY #2.

"Collecting Tree and Shrub Seed - Part II" by Michael Pilarski, TIPSY #3.

"Genetic Design for Permaculture Systems," by Eric van Lennep, TIPSY #2.

"Indecks Cards: An Effective Alternative to Computers for Permaculture Species Selection," by Earle Barnhart, TIPSY #2.

Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times. An excellent, rather iconoclastic book. If you can read this before this week, we will discuss your questions and concerns, as the author, Steve Solomon, takes a very different view of growing food than most of your readings. I would include this book in required readings if I could somehow hold down the cost of the reading list by cutting something else.

The Humanure Book by Joe Jenkins, 2^nd edition.

WEEK 11: Nutrient Cycles-C-Cultivated Systems/Forests

# Feedback and questions

# Cultivated systems including edible landscapes.

# Tropical reforestation/agroforestry

Reading for Week 11:

Required:

* Handbook Section 9, Forests and Trees, pp. 16-30

* PDC Pamphlets VII & X

*"Forests: Green Gifts from Gaia" by Bill Mollison, TIPSY #3.

*Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape Naturally, by Robert Kourik

*Designers Manual (Chapter 6)

Also Recommended

How to Live..., Chapt 6.

Tree Crops, by J. Russell Smith

The Book of Bamboo, by Farrelly

Plants for Use in Permaculture in the Tropics by Frank Martin, Yankee PC Paper 31.

The Grafter's Handbook by R. J. Garner. First published in 1947, multiple updating editions thereafter, this remains the unexcelled reference for grafting technique and principles. Oxford University Press.

See other articles in TIPS and TIPSY including materials on oaks, chestnut blight, and specific tree crops, particularly in TIPSY 3.

WEEK 12: Design for Health

[More assignments to come]

Recommended (not required):

How to Live…, Chapt.5, sections 18 & 19.; Chapt 6 (nutrient tables); Chapt 14 (Be Your Own Bush Doctor)

WEEK 13. Design for Catastrophe

# Feedback and questions

# Discuss individual design projects.

Reading for Week 13:

Required

* Handbook, Section 6, Design for Catastrophe. p. 14.

*Permaculture for Fire Control by Bill Mollison, PDC Pamphlet V

Also Recommended

How to Live..., Chapts 11 & 12.

* Design Client Survey (YPC Paper 21)

WEEK 14: Teaching Permaculture

# Feedback and questions

# Teaching permaculture, discuss experiences.

DEADLINE: STUDENTS EACH REPORT ON A TEACHING EXPERIENCE. See posts for assignment details.

WEEK 15 Discuss Design Project Progress.

DEADLINE. Submit one of the following:

a report of up to 1,000 words indicating your progress, problems, questions, and plans (Reports of 1001 words or more will not be read).

a complete outline of your design.

a draft of the design.

The design aspect of this course is now getting into high gear.

WEEK 16: Water

# Feedback and questions

# Water

- Aquaculture, Mariculture, etc.

- Discuss design project water treatments.

Reading for Week 16: -

Required:

* Handbook Water in Landscape, Section 10, pp. 20-22.

*PDC Pamphlet XI

*Water for Every Farm

*Permaculture Designers' Manual (Chapter 13)

*TIPSY #4 (Wet environments issue)

*"Chinampa Agriculture in the Valley of Mexico: Coevolution of Technology and Ecology," by Bill McLarney. TIPS I, 3.

* Water Storage: Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers & Ponds by Art Ludwig

Supplemental Reading:

Ponds--Planning, Design, Construction (SCS)

Rain Catchment and Water Supply in Rural Africa

More Water for Arid Lands (NAS)

The Freshwater Aquaculture Book by Bill McLarney.

Useful Plants of Wetlands by Bill Mollison, Yankee PC Paper #6.

"The Farmed Wetland Alternative: Crawfish and Bald Cypress" by Michael Miltner, TIPS I, 1.

"T. O. Warren on Mayhaws," TIPS I,3.

How to Live…, Chapt. 5.3.

Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands by Brad Lancaster (Very useful for other areas and for a simple, sometimes simplistic, treatment of other permaculture considerations. Disregard the Keyline description.)

WEEK 17: Shelter, Access

# Feedback and questions

# Student presentations on building experience

# Students present design questions and problems

Reading for Week 17:

Required:

. * Handbook, Buildings and Structures, Section 7. p. 15.

*Permaculture Technique, by Bill Mollison, PDC Pamphlet IX .

*Outlines for Permaculture Village Development, by Bill Mollison

*Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison, Chapt. 4.

Supplemental:

All of the Ken Kern books

Cordwood construction books by Rob Roy and/or Jack Henstridge

How to Live…, Chapt. 5, Section 12

YOU HAVE NOW COMPLETED THE SECOND SEGMENT OF THE COURSE. By now, you should have a clear idea of what constitutes a Permaculture Design and be well along on your own design project for the course.

WEEK 18: Review/Design Work

This week is set aside for reviewing any areas where students still feel weak and for discussing design issues in the student design projects

# Feedback and questions

Reading for Week 18:

Required

*PDC Pamphlets VIII and IX

DEADLINE--This is your last chance to discuss your design as a whole before submitting it. This is optional, but highly advisable. Both fast-track and deliberate-track students should use this opportunity.

WEEK 19: Invisible Structures

# Feedback and questions

# Urban Permaculture

# Bioregionalism

# Alternative Economics

DEADLINE TO REGISTER FOR A COURSE CERTIFICATE. If you do not have a form, please ask for one. If you miss this deadline, you do not get a certificate.

Reading for Week 19:

Required:

*Bioregional Organization, by Bill Mollison, Yankee PC Paper 8

*Introduction to Permaculture, Chapt. 8.

*Permaculture Designers' Manual Chapt 14.

*Permaculture for Urban Areas & Urban-Rural Linkages by Bill Mollison, PDC Pamphlet XII.

*The Permaculture Community by Bill Mollison, PDC Pamphlet XIII.

*The Permaculture Alternative by Bill Mollison, PDC Pamphlet XIV.

*Permaculture for Millionaires, by Bill Mollison, PDC Pamphlet XV.

*TIPSY #1 and TIPSY #2, Urban Permaculture Sections.

*"Ethics, Environment and Economics -- A Bioregional Perspective" by Dan Hemenway, TIPS I, 1.

*Kudzu Utilization Concept Paper, by Dan Hemenway, Yankee PC Paper 34.

SUPPLEMENTAL

YPC Pamphlet #15: Outlines for Permaculture Village Development by Bill Mollison.

Robin (Early issues.)

The Integral Urban House

How To Live..., Chapt. 3, Chapt. 4.

WEEK 20: Receive and Discuss Student Design Reports

DEADLINE. Fast-Track Students Deliver Their Permaculture Design Report . (Optional for deliberate track and 2-cycle students.)

[NOTE; Students may submit designs at any time prior to this. The course fee covers up to two readings of the design report by the instructor. After that a design fee may be required. A design is not considered submitted unless it has been received on disk with print out by conventional mail, in addition to email transmission. Do not submit hastily repaired reports. The instructors reserve the right not to read slipshod work or further reports by the offending student.]

# Feedback and questions

# Design reports

Reading for Week 19:

Required

*Designing for Permaculture by Bill Mollison, PDC Pamphlet VIII.

WEEK 21: What Next? Evaluation.

# Feedback

# Final questions

# Role of Permaculture Trainees

# Advanced training for commercial designers and/or teachers.

# Resources and networking for permaculture, worldwide.

# Students individually discuss commitments, networking, plans, etc. A statement by each student is a certification requirement.

# Evaluation A COURSE EVALUATION COMPLETED ON TIME IS A REQUIREMENT FOR CERTIFICATION. Please add comments on areas not covered by the evaluation as well. MONITORS ARE WELCOME TO SUBMIT EVALUATIONS. Evaluations are important stimuli to the evolution of the Elfin Permaculture Design Course.

DEADLINE SECOND REPORT ON PERMACULTURE TEACHING EXPERIENCE. (See posts for details.)

# Teaching permaculture-- Q & A

DEADLINE for submitting course evaluation.

DEADLINE for submitting plans on how you will use permaculture

DEADLINE for any comments or questions pertaining to the course (until the next course cycle).

Course cycle ends

Basic References to Use in the Months and Years Following the Course

TRIP-The Resources of International Permaculture, Dan & Cynthia Hemenway, Eds. (A directory of thousands of groups working on issues related to aspects of permaculture. Paper or disk.) TRIP is on the course CD.

The Permaculture Resource Directory, by Richard Webb. A comprehensive listing of reference material for teaching and practicing permaculture. For additional books, check the book review sections of TIPSYs and TIPS for descriptions of hundreds more useful publications. The Directory is included in your reading package. This publication is on the course CD.

Yankee Permaculture Paper #27, Special Order List, offers dozens of designs, reports, translations, offprints, etc., on a special order basis. #27 is on the course CD. Paper #27 is now available only to online course students and we will only reproduce materials in response to a pressing need as this has become too much extra work.

Permaculture journals and newsletters in various countries carry announcements of courses and sometimes offer lists of national or regional graduates. See TRIP for a list of these publications.

Elfin Permaculture Supplier List (PSL), hundreds of suppliers of seeds, plants, tools, shelter, water, alternative energy, energy conservation, and other products for living lightly and deliberately. Available on disk and as special order print out.

ASSIGNMENT: Students & monitors: Please post your favorite permaculture resources.

Elfin Permaculture

Barking Frogs Permaculture Center

P.O. Box 69

Sparr FL 32192-0069 USA

BarkingFrogsPC@aol.com

www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org

PERMACULTURE DESIGN CLINIC ONLINE

TUITION AND FEES

(take effect Sept. 1, 2008)

*** Add $100 each if paid after course cycle begins.

ENROLLMENT IN ANY LEVEL IS SUBJECT TO OUR APPROVAL

NOTE: Reading requirements often change between course cycles. Students participating in discussions are responsible to buy any reading materials that have been added since they began the course. Reading requirements changed during a course cycle are provided. Students may also need to upgrade their course CDs when participating in a second cycle.

Tuition Discounts -- Class Support or Full Support Only

Discounts are subtracted from the last payment due and apply to people prepaid and taking the full certificate course including the practicum. Amounts listed are subtracted from the current tuition fees.

* If more than one student from a workshop present the same design, they must submit one integrated design as a team and at the same time. Once I've finished with a design, I'm not going back to it because someone else wants a discount in a later cycle.--DH