Permaculture Homestead Design and Drafting
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Design your landscape, draft your dreams & create productive abundance.
Your landscape is filled with possibilities. Locked in your property may be the means to sustain an abundant lifestyle for growing your food, collecting fresh rain water for drinking and increasing your independence.
Join ecological designer, instructor and professional Dan Halsey for this series to unlock the ecological capital that abounds within your yard, fields, or neighborhood that surrounds you. It will give you the skills and foresight needed to assess, concept and design your property into a perpetual harvest garden.
Learn ecological landscape design language and techniques while using the permaculture design process to create a ecologically balanced residence and abundant lifestyle.
Small intensive design classes are limited to 24 tables. Register early.
This Design Intensive will culminate with each participant completing a personal homestead design ready for implementation.
This is a hands on intensive series that requires full participation to deliver a quality ecological design. Those with limited time and large properties may wish to practice on a smaller site.
Each session will be followed by 4-8 hours of home design and study in order to keep pace with the design process during the series. Pre-series study in forest gardening, landscape design techniques, or other topics covered in the series will insure a life changing experience and enhanced skills for ecological design.
You will learn ecological landscape design language and technique while using the permaculture design principles and process to create an ecologically balanced residence, acreage, and abundant lifestyle. Your sustainable solutions will be specific to your site, practical and productive.
Nuts and Bolts of the Event
When:
March 2012
Friday 23 7 - 9pm Pre-Series Evening Event. Ecological Design: Natures Beauty and Abundance.
Saturday 24 8am-2pm Design I: Base Plan and Residential Site Assessment
Sunday 25 8am-5pm Design II: Permaculture Concepts for the Urban Homestead
Tuesday 27 6:30-9:30pm Design III: The Design Progression
Thursday 29 6:30-9:30pm Design IV: Draft Design Workshop - Spaces, Plants and Abundance
Saturday 31 8am-5pm Design V: Final Design and Supervised Work Session
Where:
Pacific Design Academy
1252 Wharf Street Victoria, BC V8W 3H9
Cost:
$350 +HST
Registration DEADLINE Saturday February 18th
Payment can be made in full using credit card. Click on the Register Now button below or contact us for alternative payment methods. There is non-refundable $100 fee for this course. Click here to learn more about our refund policy.
Course fee includes instruction and the Permaculture Sit e Assessment Workbook (3 4 pages) design process guide and property assessment plan with many resource lists and spaces for discovering the goals of the property.
Course fee does not include paper or drafting materials. A complete list of what is needed can be found at the bottom of this page.
Detailed Schedule
Classes 1- 4 are lecture and practice sessions with extensive homework assignments (4-8 hrs)
Class 5 is a final design workshop finishing the concepts with plants, materials, and final critique.
March 23 Friday 7pm � 9 pm
Ecological Design: Nature's Beauty and Abundance.
Pre-Series Evening Event. Open to the public, part of this design course.
March 24 Saturday 8am - 2 pm (Aprox.)
Permaculture Homestead Design I: Base Plan and Residential Site Assessment
(UD1)
The observation principle of permaculture at its extreme. Everything needs to be accounted for in good design planning.
AM Internet Resources for Ecological Site Assessment
PM Site Assessment Workbook, Tools of the Table, Paper Language
Overview �Base Maps, Bubble Maps, Concept, Draft, Final Draft, Final Design
Demonstration - Site Assessment and Base Mapping practice
Assignment � Go home and measure, take notes, find lines for Homestead Base Mapping Measurements. Download aerials, plant maps... Finish Basemap!
March 25 Sunday 8am - 5 pm
Permaculture Homestead Design II: Permaculture Concepts for the Homestead
(UD2)
Classroom Pencil Practice � Drawing Practice, Landscape Symbols, Complete Your Base Map, using Bum Wad, Mini-design charrette, students explanations for sites, Q&A,
Demonstration - Access and Water, Limitations and Design Drivers, Building Ecological Services, The Garden and Growing Fertility.
Assignment - Finish base map and start bubble maps
March 27 Tuesday - 6:30-9:30 pm
Permaculture Homestead Design III: The Design Progression
(UD3)
Classroom Pencil Practice - Refining the concepts, allowing natures energy flow to enhance soil fertility - Transfer bubble concepts to draft design.
Demonstration - Systems Thinking and Design
Assignment - Finish concept design, finish lines and functional spaces, place hardscapes and built environment
March 29 Thursday - 6:30-9:30 pm
Permaculture Homestead Design IV: Draft Design Workshop - Spaces, Plants and Abundance
(UD4)
Classroom Pencil Practice - Style Demo, Practice and Supervised Work Session.
Determining plant size and placement, polycultures, ecological functions and seasonal access.
Demonstration - Polyculture Design, Ecological Facilitation, Resource Partitioning
Assignment - Complete draft design, add plant spaces, plant width circles, groups, masses, crop types.
March 31 Saturday - 8am - 5pm
Permaculture Homestead Design V: Final Design and Supervised Work Session
(UD5)
Final Steps - Plant Selection, Ground Covers, Material Calculations, Implementation, Notes and Logistics
Demonstration - Plant Database Queries and Internet Resources
Materials
Design kits that include the required materials may be rented prior to or during the course for $35.There are only 10 kits available, please contact us to reserve your kit.
Materials needed are listed below:
T-square 36�, Drafting tape, Triangles: 45-90 degree & 30-60 degree, Scissors, Compass, Drafting pencils � HB, B, 2H, 4H, 8 Scale Ruler, Large and Small circle templates, Tube for carrying drawings, 8-scale graph paper: sheet size 24� x 36� (approx. 4 sheets), 24'x36' vellum paper, - 2 sheets Bum wad paper, Glue stick or double-stick tape, Eraser, Black ink pens � minimum of 3 tips: narrow, medium, bold
Come with an open mind to what the landscape can provide. Leave preconceived solutions at home. Unless nature has provided the patterns it won't show up in your design! We will study the land, be imprinted by the land, and allow the natural capital of each property to guide the discovery of truly sustainable agro-ecosystems.
Who will benefit from this course?
Proactive homeowners looking to make their property productive through professional drafting and design methods
Landscapers that want to add professional permaculture design and drafting to their services
Those considering a career in productive landscape design
Permaculture students who want to take their design and mapping skills to the next level
Motivated individuals who are ready to be part of a solution that makes landscapes practical and productive
A hard skill and a soft skill, drafting and design provides the interested home owner or renter or the seasoned professional with the ability to integrate permaculture and professional drafting into a product that clients seek and installers require. This is an opportunity to go beyond just putting in retaining walls, nice pathways or more ornamental plants... here's a chance to utilizing the expertise and experience from Dan Halsey to experience how permaculture works in a professional design method.
We look forward to seeing you in class, pencils ready!
| Cost: |
General: $350 |
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Everything Else Workshops |
| Location: |
Pacific Design Academy
1252 Wharf Street , Victoria |
This event is for Everyone | |
| More Info: |
Javan Kerby Bernakevitch [email protected] 250-709-7014 Event Website |
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