Hands on Permaculture Courses in Ellenville, NY 2024
INSTALLING RAIN TANKS FOR FARMS AND FAMILIES
Rain Water Abundance!
Hands-on Workshop
At the Center For Bioregional Living in Ellenville NY
May 11th 10am-3pm
Sliding scale $60 to $100 a person
Come and learn how to capture hold and store pure high quality rain water. A free and bounteous gift to capitalize on especially in a place that gets 49 inches of rain fall a year! You can catch .6 gallons per inch of rainfall, for each square foot of roof area you connect to a tank. From a 2000 square foot roof in one year you will harvest 52,000 gallons of water.
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We will show you how to:
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Size your tank
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The plumbing parts you need
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How to hook it up
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Connect your overflow or downspouts
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Create a series of dynamic diverse flowering rain gardens, havens of biodiversity and beauty!
Celebrate the abundant gift of rain water and solve water problems on your land with one action.
Learn to create gravity fed rain water supplied irrigation systems for gardens and livestock
You will learn how to connect a big rain tank to your house and how to properly plumb it to use for watering needs on your land and for fun!
Upcoming Online Permaculture Certification Courses Fall 2024
Exceptional course, low cost, incredible teachers, every session recorded to replay at your convenience with a reduced price, 10% off for all of our PDC graduates in any of our hands-on courses. Our Permaculture design certification course imparts a positive and empowering vision for social and ecological transformation.
Hands-on Permaculture Classes - Summer 2024 Ellenville. NY
Come on up to Ellenville!
These are the workshops that many of you have been waiting for! They will be relaxed, very informative, fun and a great way to have an immersion educational experience on our permaculture campus.
Andrew Faust and Adriana Magaña at our Center for Bioregional Living are proud to present a series of advanced permaculture and ecological design courses this spring/summer 2024.
We have thoughtfully crafted each of these offerings to extend your fundamental Permaculture design skills and advance them strongly, with these hands on trainings taking you forward on the wings of true experience!
Our themes this season are:
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Biodynamic Gardening
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Whole site Design
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Forest Gardens/Tree Crops
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Natural Building
All the courses in this series function as stand alone teachings and they build off of each other when taken together. Come participate in the co-evolution of our Center for Bioregional Living while learning to live well with how the earth works. Everything that we will be working on here will be used and enjoyed by future visitors and students for many years to come. Camping is encouraged, in designated areas on our land, and taking in the natural beauty of the area at one of the many nearby hiking areas (Lake Minnewaska State Park, Sam's Point, Peter's Kill to name a few...) All classes 10am and go till 3pm
Forest Gardens and Tree Crops
Saturday May 18th Sliding scale $60-$100
This course will focus on planting trees and gardening with nature through the creation of edible forest gardens:
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Design and management of multi-functional woodlots.
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Planting and management of woodlots for selective harvesting of fuel and building materials.
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Understory value-added crops like shitake, ginseng, goldenseal and wild garlic
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Techniques for increasing the quality and productivity of wild edibles.
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Hands-on activities: Planting Forest Garden Tree Crops!
Introduction to Permaculture and Biodynamic Gardening
Saturday May 25th- Sliding scale $60-$100
Come and join us at our one of a kind of Permaculture farm in Ellenville. The Center for Bioregional Living is an off grid market scale demonstration farm designed specifically, as our example to the regional food movement Offering opportunities and approaches for addressing our food needs with more of an integrated, ecological, permaculture approach.
In this workshop we will have hands-on activities taking you from seed starting to bed prepping and planting a organic market scale garden.
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Discuss preferred seed sources
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Explain the Biodynamic Calendar & how we use it
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Prep and plant beds in our garden
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Explain our rain water catching system
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Discuss permaculture in the fruit & vegetable garden layout
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Explain when we use the tractor and when we use hand tools
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Show you amendments that we use in our garden and why
You will get a chance to plant seed and prep beds and learn experientially about some key biodynamic and permaculture gardening insights and approaches to take home to your family and farm.
Advanced Permaculture Design for Whole Site Development
June 8 and 9 - $200
(Ideal for PDC graduates)
This course will focus on laying the groundwork for an entire land development project such as establishing ecological businesses, community farms, eco-villages, co-housing and homesteads.
Topics covered:
*Reading the landscape, making use of Topography and hydrology, reading biological indicators.
*Whole site analysis, mapping techniques,
*Siting buildings and integrating the entire project through a solid phase plan.
Hands-on activities: siting buildings and infrastructure, laying out and establishing earthworks and infrastructure. We have thoughtfully crafted each of these offerings to function as stand alone teachings or to build off of each other when taken as the whole series. Come participate in the evolution of The Center for Bioregional Living’s Educational campus where teach the essentials of living abundantly by following nature’s patterns.
Building A Summer Kitchen
Saturday June 10 and 11 - $300
Healthy Buildings = Healthy People
Natural, local and bioregional buildings contribute to ecologically sound local economies and create beautiful, healthy homes and villages to live our lives in.
You will learn to apply the permaculture principles throughout the building process.
This hands on workshop will teach you about creating buildings with trees cut from the land, maximizing on-site and local raw materials and framing with rough cut local lumber.
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Passive solar design
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Phased and integrated site development and building techniques.
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Building structures and sacred sites with good feng shui and natural energy.
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Insulating naturally, using rainwater for domestic needs and greywater for gardens.
Come and learn how to create healthy, natural reasonably sized homes, outbuildings and communities .
We will teach you how to analyze building locations and materials to determine how ecologically safe and sound they are. How to use straw bales:
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Earthen Plasters, Light Clay straw
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Passive solar hot water systems for domestic heating
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Off grid Energy systems, Minimizing household sources of Electro-Magnetic Fields.
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Using gravity and low energy pumps and systems for indoor/outdoor plumbing systems.
When you complete this entire series you will know how to create a beautiful naturally built home and community, from the ground up, and how to set yourself up to be fully off the grid!
Most of our time will be spent outdoors and there will be plenty of hands-on work. Home cooked and locally sourced meals included! Lodging options include limited indoor common area as well as tent space on our beautiful 14 acres. Bring tents, sleeping pads, sleeping bags. Classes will start at 10am Saturday There is a bus from Port Authority to Ellenville where we could pick you up. Let us know if this is the best way for you to travel and we will save dinner for you! There is a Trailways Bus to New Paltz that we can pick up at too.
Anyone driving who has extra space in their car let us know so that we may organize carpooling.
For questions or to reserve a space email andrew@homebiome.com
Andrew Faust - Founder | Director
One of the premier Permaculture teachers and designers in North America with over two decades of experience in the field. His passionate and mind expanding talks and curriculum have motivated teachers, students since his decade long career as a H.S. teacher at Upattina's, a open community free school in Glenmoore, PA.
View Faust's TED X lecture
Andrew created his own Permaculture Ph'd project, in 1999, a fully off grid, Straw Bale educational center in Pocahontas County W.V. He moved to Brooklyn in 2007 and has been applying his knowledge to the urban landscape.Faust has been inspiring film makers with the message of Permaculture culminating in the film: Inhabit, and a life changing Permaculture Design Certification course, with thousands of graduates. Faust received a dual diploma in Design and Education from Permaculture Institute of North America in 2016. Andrew and Adriana Magaña with their daughter Juniper run the Center for Bioregional Living in Ellenville, NY., a hands-on educational campus for students and clients.
Andrew Faust, a visionary permaculture and bioregional educator taps into the rich synergy between permaculture and biodynamic agriculture which he has been studying with a focus on orchards since he completed his permaculture design training in 1996. Some of our design clients include: Click to View
Andrew is a certified Alternative School Teacher, focusing on Bioregional Education; he instructed at Upattina's Open Community High School from 1992-2001. Faust holds a B.A. in comparative religions from Guilford College.
FREE ONLINE COURSES
INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE
Tuesday May 7th @ 7pm
What is Permaculture?
Permaculture is a design process and a worldwide movement that is helping to regenerate local ecologies and economies by addressing our social justice and environmental issues.
Permaculture Center for BioRegional Living - Farm Tour
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See a working Permaculture Educational Farm
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Learn how to grow more of your own food
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Learn how to set up big rain tanks for water security
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See our straw bale cabin, outhouses and natural classroom
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See how create ponds and to find and develop springs
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Visit our Dwarf Nigerian Goats, heritage chickens, nut trees natural buildings Biodigestor and more.
Available by appointment only - $100.00
Please call - 917.584.4588
JOIN OUR ON LINE MONTHLY PERMACULTURE MEETUP
TBA
Permaculture Agroforestry
A Diversified food forest for the future, today!... is what we are talking about that is owned by the community and cooperatively maintained.
Permaculture Consultation Services
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Real Estate Appraisals
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Energy Consulting
"If it was not for Andrew I would have completely bought the wrong piece of Land and wasted tens of thousands of dollars. After sharing my goals, Andrew patiently took months of narrowing down properties I sent him from online listings. Then he went to visit the best and final online selections in person, selecting the best of the best within my budget. Hiring his services was well worth every dollar. I would highly recommend leveraging his experience to anyone serious about buying land. " - Property Analysis Client
Permaculture Gardens and Landscapes
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Gardens
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Agroforestry
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Native Pollinator
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Orchards
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Biodynamic
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Meadows and Landscape
- Design, build and maintain diversified, beautiful, edible and native landscapes for our clients using permaculture design principles. We fully utilize southern exposure for rare and delicate fruits and cooler areas for rare woodland medicinals and other appropriate plantings. We will disperse detrimental energies like wind and sun and increase privacy and the diversity of use by the strategic placement of the plantings we create on-site.
Permaculture Consultation - Natural Building Services
We combine our experience in natural building and landscape construction to create healthy homes for healthy people. We will site buildings to be well located in regards to water drainage around them and maximize the natural benefits of being oriented to the sun for winter homes and towards the north for passive cooling and root cellars.
Humanity is more than ever threatened by its own actions; we hear a lot about the need to minimize footprints and to reduce our impact. But what if our footprints were beneficial? What if we could meet human needs while increasing the health and well-being of our planet?
"INHABIT - IS QUITE SIMPLY THE BEST FILM EVER MADE ABOUT PERMACULTURE" - Permaculture Magazine
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WHAT WE DO:
Educational Initiatives
Permaculture Design Consultation
Water Quality & Regional Planning
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