Permaculture Design and the Ecological Mind:
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Permaculture teaches us to work with natural patterns and systems to create resilient and regenerative lives, landscapes and communities while providing our food, shelter, energy and the necessary resources to be happy, healthy and whole. Students will learn the skills to plan, design and create ecosystems from permaculture design ethics and principles within their home, landscapes, work and personal lives that are abundant, diverse, and thriving. Students will have the opportunity to practice what they learn by using the land at the New Hampshire North Country Boys and Girls Club as a demonstration of what is possible when integrating best ecological practices with children’s imaginations, passions and needs. You will leave this course feeling restored and renewed with a sense of belonging and purpose to contribute to the healing of the planet, our communities, and even yourself. |
This course will include:
- An Introduction to Permaculture Ethics, Principles and Guiding Philosophies
- Skills in the art of Permaculture Design with seasoned artists and designers
- Field Trips to permaculture homes and farms
- Exploration of plant guilds, pollinators, and biodiversity within a permaculture landscape
- Patterns and Sacred Spaces in Nature
- Integrating and valuing our animal friends into our design
- Traditional and Natural Building Practices
- Expansion of our food cultivation
- Advocating for food and social justice
- Self-care and permaculture embodiment practices
- Contemplation, exploration, play and deep dialogue with nature
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TEACHERS: Stacey Doll (Lead Teacher) - Stacey Doll is a permaculture educator, planner and designer from Littleton, NH. Stacey has over 20 years of experience in land use, community, and sustainability planning work. She is a member of the American Planners Association as has been a certified planner with the American Institute of Certified Planners since 2004. Stacey has her Permaculture Design Certification, several advanced Permaculture Design Diplomas, and has taught Permaculture courses and workshops throughout the region for the past four years. She is currently an adjunct professor at Green Mountain College and a guest teacher at Colby Sawyer College teaching a variety of permaculture courses. Stacey is the founder of Root to Rise, a nonprofit organization providing permaculture education and empowerment programs through hands-on learning and experiential education. Stacey also ran a successful yoga studio for over four years and still teaches yoga classes and mindfulness workshops there today. Liz Kelly - Liz Kelly is an ecological designer and permaculture educator living in Holderness, NH. Professionally, Liz works with communities, organizations, and other entities to develop future visions, landscape designs, and plans grounded in participatory design processes, community resilience, and land stewardship throughout NH. She currently serves as a Project Planner for Resilience Planning & Design LLC. a small firm based in Plymouth, NH and is an adjunct teacher at Plymouth State University. She is passionate about making permaculture accessible to broad audiences, empowering individuals to strengthen their relationship with the natural world as active land regenerators, and encouraging others to become listeners of the ecosystems that surround us. In her free time, Liz practices permaculture at her local community garden, where she spends countless hours throughout the growing season producing as much as food as she can in her 15x30' plot while focusing on building soil fertility and making efficient and wise use of energy and resources. She is also an avid yoga practitioner, cook, writer, and rock climber. Bret Ingold - Bret Ingold is a sculpture, natural builder, community organizer, and social entrepreneur. He received his PDC at Maya Mountain Farm, his teaching certificate at DAcres and is still learning daily from stewarding his family’s farm in Warner, NH. As co-founder and director of RISE Now, an international service organization, he works to organize grassroots building projects and international development projects around the world, primarily with indigenous communities in rural Mexico. A long time member of the NH Permaculture Guild he enjoys working with others to organize the annual NH Permaculture Day. Most recently he became a co-founder of the Warner Public Market, a workers cooperative, local food store on Main Street in Warner. When he can he likes to fit in time to make bronze sculptures, cook for others, hike with his dog, tinker on his truck and spin records on his turntables. Isaac Vars - Isaac Vars began his life as an herbalist when he was a kid, gathering pineapple weed and yarrow flowers to make tea to force upon his unsuspecting mother. After graduating from Sterling College, where he received his Permaculture Design Certification and a degree in Resource Management, he moved on to study alternative health modalities. He became a certified herbalist in 2010 via an apprenticeship with a local herbalist, but continued his herbal education by working with whatever different herbalists would put up with him. He currently co-owns his own store and wellness studio, Deep Earth Arts, where he continues to work with people to find a self empowered sense of holistic health. Martin Castriotta (bio coming soon) |
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LOCATION:
The Root to Rise Permaculture Design and the Ecological Mind certification course will be held at the Boys and Girls Club of the North Country, 2572 Route 302, Lisbon, NH 03585 - Located Behind Evergreen Sports Center
DATES:
March 8th - 6:00pm-8:00pm
March 9th – 10th, 9:00am – 4:30pm (Movie Event Saturday night from 6:00-8:00pm)
March 23rd – 24th, 9:00am-4:30pm
April 6th – 7th, 9:00am – 4:30pm
April 26th - 10am – 5:00pm
April 27th – 28th, 9am – 4:30pm
May 4th – 5th, 9:00am – 4:30pm
May 18th – 19th, 9:00am – 4:30pm
REGISTRATION & COSTS:
In an effort to make our Permaculture Design Certification (PDC) Course as accessible as possible, registration is on a self-identified, sliding scale from $1,100 - $750. As you register, we are asking you to reflect on what is within your means for participating and receiving your PDC. The “true" per-person cost of this training is $1,100. The true cost is what it takes for us to provide for our faculty and guest teachers, facility guests and design resources and supplies. If you're able, we encourage you to pay at or above that level. Choose the amount that makes the most sense for your ability and needs. Please read the descriptions of the other registration levels as a guide.
*Root to Rise reserves the right to cancel the course or ask for additional support from students requesting adjusted registration fees if grants and other donations do not provide adequate support to cover full course of the course. It is appreciated that participants seeking adjusted costs volunteer at Root to Rise workshops, donating their time to implement permaculture projects, in lieu of the true cost course fees.
It is critical to the mission of Root to Rise to practice the ethics of permaculture, not only in the work that we accomplish but also, in the administrative structures we create. To be genuine to this, Root to Rise is seeking sponsors and scholarship to assist those that are unable to accommodate the full costs of the course. We encourage anyone that is interested in taking this course to inquire with Stacey Doll about opportunities to ‘Pay it Forward’ in exchange for discounted fees for this course. Root to Rise supports the eight forms of capital and will creatively work with any persons who have interest in this course, while still meeting its obligations to offer this learning experience.
The Root to Rise Permaculture Design and the Ecological Mind certification course will be held at the Boys and Girls Club of the North Country, 2572 Route 302, Lisbon, NH 03585 - Located Behind Evergreen Sports Center
DATES:
March 8th - 6:00pm-8:00pm
March 9th – 10th, 9:00am – 4:30pm (Movie Event Saturday night from 6:00-8:00pm)
March 23rd – 24th, 9:00am-4:30pm
April 6th – 7th, 9:00am – 4:30pm
April 26th - 10am – 5:00pm
April 27th – 28th, 9am – 4:30pm
May 4th – 5th, 9:00am – 4:30pm
May 18th – 19th, 9:00am – 4:30pm
REGISTRATION & COSTS:
In an effort to make our Permaculture Design Certification (PDC) Course as accessible as possible, registration is on a self-identified, sliding scale from $1,100 - $750. As you register, we are asking you to reflect on what is within your means for participating and receiving your PDC. The “true" per-person cost of this training is $1,100. The true cost is what it takes for us to provide for our faculty and guest teachers, facility guests and design resources and supplies. If you're able, we encourage you to pay at or above that level. Choose the amount that makes the most sense for your ability and needs. Please read the descriptions of the other registration levels as a guide.
- True Cost - $1,100 – the true cost per student to cover full expenses related to the course including faculty fees, guest teachers, facility costs, and design resources and supplies.
- Fair Cost - $950 – cost per student to cover most expenses related to the course for faculty, facility and materials. Fair Cost is also offered for partners taking the course together. To honor the commitment of the entire household, we offer this Fair Cost per person to partners.
- Adjusted Cost - $750 – cost per student does not full cover expenses incurred by Root to Rise and must be subsidized by other support*
- Payment Plan – Root to Rise can work with a registrant on a payment plan option to suit their financial needs so long as the organization and the registrant enter into a signed agreement of the Payment Plan and registrant agrees to pay all costs associated with the course before obtaining a Permaculture Design Certification. Contact Stacey Doll to arrange a payment plan - stacey.roottorise@gmail.com
*Root to Rise reserves the right to cancel the course or ask for additional support from students requesting adjusted registration fees if grants and other donations do not provide adequate support to cover full course of the course. It is appreciated that participants seeking adjusted costs volunteer at Root to Rise workshops, donating their time to implement permaculture projects, in lieu of the true cost course fees.
It is critical to the mission of Root to Rise to practice the ethics of permaculture, not only in the work that we accomplish but also, in the administrative structures we create. To be genuine to this, Root to Rise is seeking sponsors and scholarship to assist those that are unable to accommodate the full costs of the course. We encourage anyone that is interested in taking this course to inquire with Stacey Doll about opportunities to ‘Pay it Forward’ in exchange for discounted fees for this course. Root to Rise supports the eight forms of capital and will creatively work with any persons who have interest in this course, while still meeting its obligations to offer this learning experience.