[OKC] OKC Permaculture Workshop June 2006

[Robert Waldrop]

Introduction to Permaculture: Applying universal design principles to an urban home
Instructors: Dan and Cynthia Hemenway
Dates:    June 23, 24, 25, 2006
Place:    Oklahoma City
For more information, contact Robert Waldrop, 1524 NW 21st, Oklahoma City, OK 73106, 405-613-4688, robert at justpeace.org .

Join us for a weekend journey to explore the basics of the permaculture design process.  Participants will work on a permaculture design for a central Oklahoma City urban property. The group will be divided into teams, each of which will have a specific aspect of the design to prepare. The instructors will be Dan and Cynthia Hemenway, of Elfin Permaculture, a project of the Barking Frogs Permaculture Center in Florida. 

The workshop has 3 components:  (1) an introductory slide show which applies permaculture to many different areas, (2) Classroom work, with a broad spectrum of discussion, and (3) design work, which will be focused on an urban property.  Following the workshop, on Sunday afternoon, there will be a time for participants to ask questions about their own projects.  

Participants must submit a one page information sheet about themselves, and a one page description of their permaculture project.  This information will be shared with the other students in the workshop. Students are expected to attend all sessions of the weekend workshop; the Sunday late afternoon discussion of personal projects is optional. There is a list of required readings that must be completed before the workshop begins.  Although the design work will focus on an urban property, people with properties in rural and suburban areas will learn much that can be useful for their own design projects.

DAN HEMENWAY, founder of Elfin Permaculture, is recognized as one of the most innovative and effective teachers of permaculture. Since 1981, he has taught workshops, design courses and advanced programs from Mexico to Canada and in Europe, Asia, and the Pacific, and now offers an Internet Permaculture Design Course. Dan holds five diplomas in various aspects of permaculture from the International Permaculture Institute. 

CYNTHIA BAXTER HEMENWAY, CNM, is partner in Elfin Permaculture and Associate Editor of The International Permaculture Solutions Journal. A founding member and former director and officer of the Planetary Project Foundation (Kansas, USA), Cynthia is a certified Nurse Midwife and wholistic  health practitioner with particular emphasis in working with women during the childbearing year. She brings experience in leading workshops on health and spiritual matters to permaculture, She teaches Design for Health in the online course. This is also the name of her alternative therapies practice.

Tuition for the weekend event is $100, which includes dinner on Saturday  night prepared from foods produced in the region, provided by the Oklahoma Food Cooperative, and a $5 tree tax to fund the planting of trees to pay for the paper used in the workshop. There will be an optional dinner on Sunday night. A $30 deposit is required, the balance is due by June 1, 2006. Personal introductions are due June 1, 2006. The workshop is strictly limited to 25 students. Day care will be provided if requested. For students from out of the area, crash space is available, or we can suggest other local lodgings/campgrounds. Full or partial tuition scholarships are available based on need and vocation. This event is presented by the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House and Prairie Rose Permaculture.  Make deposit checks payable to Catholic Worker House, or send payment via Paypal to jpeaceokc at yahoo.com .
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