Permaculture For Small Farms

Starting May 25 2012, a Permaculture Design Certificate course with a
hands-on focus on Permaculture strategies for small organic farms. Hosted
by the Richmond Sharing Farm, a community farm and orchard project at the
beautiful Terra Nova heritage farm site, with ocean on one side and the
Fraser River on the other side, in West Richmond.

Permaculture is applying ecological principles to human challenges, meeting
our needs in ways that leave our environment and our communities healthier,
more abundant, and more resilient than we found them. With topics from
ecological gardening, Permaculture for small farms, and natural building to
community food sovereignty, urban retrofitting, and soil and water
conservation and remediation, this 72-hour course will combine classroom
instruction with hands-on practica and real life design challenges on a
working organic farm and community orchard.

12-Day Course: May 25 - 28 June 22-25 July 27-30
Tuition: $1000, scholarships and payment plans are available.

About the Instructor
Erin Innes is a Certifed Permaculture Designer based in Vancouver (Coast Salish Territory) and a recognized Permaculture Teacher with the Urban Permaculture Guild based in Berkeley, California. She has a long history in community activism and popular education. She has been deeply involved in grassroots food justice work, through the international Food Not Bombs movement and as a volunteer and worker on many organic farms and community-based farming and farming education projects.