[SustainableTompkins] Advanced PDC, Ithaca, NY 6/13 - 6/23

[Steve Gabriel]

FINGER LAKES PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE
www.fingerlakespermaculture.org

announces

2007 ADVANCED DESIGN COURSE
*June 13 - 23*
with Dave Jacke, Jono Neiger, and Darren Doherty
$850 + food (you can also sign up for classes individually)
Ithaca, NY

The Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute (FLPCI) invites all permaculture 
design course graduates to an exciting and unique Advanced Design Course 
this summer in Ithaca, NY. You can help develop a 5-year plan to turn 
the dormant Cayuga Nature Center farm (www.cayuganaturecenter.org) into 
a permaculture demonstration site and learn advanced keyline design and 
practice! We encourage permaculture graduates who want to improve their 
design literacy to come spend ten days honing their skills in a 
cooperative, engaging, demanding, and fun atmosphere.

You can take the two sections of the Advanced Design Course singly or 
together. Long-time permaculture designers and teachers Dave Jacke and 
Jono Neiger will first facilitate a five-day intensive Design Charrette 
for the farm property. Australian permaculture designer Darren Doherty 
will then lead a Keyline Design Workshop there. The Design Charrette 
will develop a comprehensive set of overall farm design schemes and 
detailed design proposals. The Keyline Workshop will deepen your 
knowledge of soils, soil fertility, and broadscale keyline design and 
implementation strategies and techniques. FLPCI will issue Advanced 
Design Certificates signed by the instructors to students attending the 
entire two-part course.

The Cayuga Nature Center (CNC) purchased the adjacent farm property in 
1991. The site has since briefly hosted horse stables, a goat nursery, 
and a large-scale composting facility, though the farm now lies 
quiescent. In early 2006, CNC sought proposals for farm uses, and ended 
up partnering with FLPCI to redesign the entire 130 acre nature center. 
Our initial farm assessment indicated there were a number of issues that 
would inhibit sustainable use of the property. Many years of dairying 
compacted the soils, resulting in runoff and drainage problems, created 
heavy erosion, damaged buildings, and silted three ponds. Your mission, 
should you choose to accept it, is to turn these problems into 
opportunities in true permaculture style. How can we improve soil 
fertility and productivity, create economically-viable farm businesses 
and long-term ecosystem health, and generate multiple educational 
experiences? Come help answer these questions for ten days in the 
beautiful Finger Lakes region of New York this June. We look forward to 
working with you!

June 13 – 17
* PERMACULTURE FARM DESIGN CHARRETTE*
with
DAVE JACKE of Dynamics Ecological Design, educator, designer and author 
of Edible Forest Gardens (http://www.edibleforestgardens.com) and
JONO NEIGER of Regenerative Design, ecologist, land steward, teacher and 
designer.

TUITION: Sliding Scale $350 - $450 ($850 including Keyline Design
Workshop) + food
PREREQUISITE: Permaculture Design Certificate

Challenge yourself and deepen your understanding of ecological design 
processes and how to use them! In this intensive, focused, time-limited 
design experience (aka a “charrette”), we will develop a master plan for 
the Cayuga Nature Center farm that articulates and integrates landform, 
water, access and circulation, plantings, buildings, and zones of use. 
The problem is the solution, and we will use practical, methodical, and 
intuitive means to discover synergies and solutions inherent in the land 
that embody whole systems thinking. You will work in teams, develop 
drafting and mapping skills, complete site analysis exercises, 
brainstorm and evaluate design schemes, work out design details where 
needed, and present your results to the Cayuga Nature Center staff and 
the public. We will focus on the design process and how the goals, site 
assessment, and design phases connect to each other. How might the 
design reflect and integrate the complex needs of the site and its 
people? We will design the entire farm site, including earthworks, 
aquaculture, animal forage, tree crops, coppice, and food production 
systems.

Design Charrette Goals:

1. Deeply engage with a concrete, and organized ecological design 
process, including goals articulation, site analysis and assessment, 
design concepts, and schematic, detailed, and patch design.
2. Develop greater skill and confidence in your inherent design process 
by making it more explicit, effective, and efficient.
3. Engage in a cooperative design charrette that develop at least one 
workable Permaculture Site Design for the FLPCI Farm that regenerates 
the landscape while meeting human needs.
4. Experience permaculture as an integrative, whole systems, ecological 
design process—where the verb of permaculture is design.


June 18 – 23
* SOIL & WATER FOR EVERY FARM: KEYLINE DESIGN *
with
DARREN DOHERTY, permaculture teacher, designer, developer, and manager 
with extensive international experience in keyline design.
http://www.permaculture.biz

TUITION: $600 ($850 with Advanced Design Seminar) + food
PREREQUISITE: None

Build soil and store water in the land during an intensive blend of 
technical & practical sessions targeted at professional land managers, 
consultants, earthmovers, designers, farmers & others seeking in 
practical & cost-effective landscape restoration strategies.

We hope to enable local and regional Permaculture Designers to broaden 
and strengthen their business opportunities by adding rural design and 
development services. This is also an opportunity for commercial farmers 
and land owners to discover new methods and ideas to increase 
productivity, build soil, and solve water issues.

Participants attending the workshop will gain the following outcomes:

1. Basic understanding of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) 
applications in developing Permaculture/Keyline Designs
2. Provision of Microsoft Excel-based Worksheet package for Client & 
Project Management, Development and Management processes (see attached 
.pdf file)
3. Base understanding of design and development principles involved with 
Broadacre Permaculture & Keyline Design applications including:
- Whole Farm Planning/Property Management Planning
- Land Component identification and classification
- Earthworks & Soil Renovation techniques and machinery applications
- Use and development of land system-based standard designs
- Farm Forestry & Tree Crop ground preparation, management & processing 
techniques
- Water Harvesting & Drought-proofing methods and applications

FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.fingerlakespermaculture.org