Join us Starting Monday April 6-8th Before Lucidity Festival for a 3-Day Permaculture Design Intensive
followed by a Permaculture Action Day on April 9th with The Polish Ambassador, and stay to celebrate your up-leveled earth stewardship at the festival.
NEW VENUE TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON
See the Course Syllabus here!
Upon completion, you will receive a certification of Introduction to Permaculture and certificate of completion for the Permaculture Action Course signed by a Permaculture Research Institute certified instructor.
The course will include three days of full-on permaculture education and community building, including:
- permaculture design process
- rainwater harvesting and earthworks (w/ Art Ludwig!)
- introduction to permaculture
- natural building and appropriate technology
- regenerative tools and techniques
- permaculture gardening and food forestry
- applying ecological principles
- social permaculture
- community organizing methods
- soils and composting
Course Instructors:
Erik Hjermstad
Erik Hjermstad is an ecological designer and permaculture practitioner from San Diego. His longtime experience in media and manufacturing now serves his passion for regenerative agriculture here in southern California. He is the creator of Cobfest, a barn-raising turned micro-festival that now serves as a prototype for open-source gathering platforms to effectively regenerate the world around us while having healthy fun with our friends.
Erik understands that to solve the ecological challenges facing our culture, we must cultivate powerful social collaborations to effectively aggregate our human resources into regenerative solutions.
Ryan Rising
Ryan Rising is a community organizer and permaculture educator based out of the San Francisco Bay Area who most recently organized and facilitated the Permaculture Action Tour with music producer The Polish Ambassador in the fall of 2014. Ryan focuses on creating community access to land for local food growing and regenerative living - connecting people to take action and transition to a resilient way of life.
Ryan has taught numerous courses and workshops, including the Elemental Alchemy Permaculture Intensive before Symbiosis Gathering in 2013 and a month-long Gaia Education certified Eco-Village Design training this past winter in Nicaragua. A certified permaculture designer with a degree in Peace and Social Justice Studies, he also co-founded a regenerative, productive urban farm in the east bay and now organizes with the Omni Commons - a community organizing space and education center in Oakland, CA.
Ray Cirino
Ray Cirino is a natural builder and permaculture artisan who was awarded in 2012 with the City of Los Angeles Certificate of Commendation for his creative contributions and community organizations. Especially interested in the patterns of nature and architecture, he holds an architectural degree at Miami-Dade Architecture school and a diploma from the North American School of Natural Building.
Ray founded two Water Woman festivals based on permaculture techniques and sustainable art and has been studying and practicing permaculture for 15 years. His 20’ Water Woman sculpture was featured in Smithsonian Magazine in 1999. He continues as a top innovator in energy, agriculture, water, and shelter systems, turning the great challenges we now face as a species into opportunities for Ecological, Psychological, and Spiritual Sustainability.
Loren Luyendyk
Loren Luyendyk is a Certified Teacher of Permaculture, with over 15 years of practical experience in Permaculture Design, ecological farming, sustainability, and horticulture. He has a degree in Botany from UC Santa Barbara, and is a Certified Arborist and Master Gardener. He has experience with Keyline Design, Holistic Management, Natural Building, Biodynamic Farming, and The Soil Foodweb. His teaching has taken him across the globe, where he has spent extensive amounts of time sharing and learning with local cultures in the United States, Central America, New Zealand, and Australia.
He is the owner of Santa Barbara Organics (www.sborganics.com), a permaculture design and land management business through which he designs and installs permaculture systems for residential and farm lands. Loren, also started the Global Permaculture Design Group (www.globalpermaculture.com), and is the founder of the non-profit organization Surfers Without Borders (www.surferswithoutborders.org). Loren is inspired by nature, and works to regenerate the earth while providing for our needs and creating community.
Art Ludwig
Art Ludwig is the author of Water Storage and Create an Oasis with Greywater, two books that can be found on most any permaculture designer’s bookshelf. Art Ludwig is an ecological systems designer with 28 years full-time experience in water, wastewater systems, energy, shelter and human powered transport. His specialty is complex, integrated “systems of systems.” Art has studied and worked in 22 different countries, consulted for the states of New York and New Mexico on water reuse policy, and given dozens of lectures and workshops.
He designed his own education in Ecological Systems Design, graduating from UC Berkeley. At Berkeley, he developed the first cleaners specifically designed to be biocompatible with plants and soil, and founded a successful business to manufacture and distribute them.
Art currently lives with his family near Santa Barbara, surrounded by over 20 different kinds of fruit trees.
Guest Speaker: Gerard Minakawa
Gerard Minakawa was born in New York City to Argentinian and Bolivian-Japanese immigrants and studied industrial design at the Rhode Island School of Design. He worked for several design studios on both coasts as a product designer, started a bamboo-laminate furniture company and later relocated entirely to Bolivia, where he spent 3 years developing a sustainable handicraft economy with indigenous artisans in partnership with Aid to Artisans, a U.S.-based nonprofit. He is the artist and founder behind Bamboo DNA, a design/build company specializing in the creation and installation of architectural spaces inspired by the world’s most gigantic grass: Bamboo!
Minakawa was named one of the Top 20 Innovative U.S. designers by I.D. Magazine and has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and the University of California. His works have been featured in numerous international books and publications including the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Metropolis and the New York Times.
Package Deal!
Attendance is limited to 35 students! Secure your ticket today!
OPTION 1 ) Ticket includes:
- A three day permaculture intensive course followed by a Permaculture Action Day in the community of Santa Barbara
- Festival Early Arrival Access (with first choice of camping for the whole week)
- Lucidity Festival Ticket
- Three organic meals per day Monday through Thursday with option to opt in for Friday-Sunday (additional $75 for fri-sun meals)
- On-site camping
$624 Package Price
Limited tickets available
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OPTION 2 )
If you already have a ticket to Lucidity Festival, the rest of the package including course, meals, early entry, and on-site camping is $366. All course participants must have a Lucidity Festival ticket.
Limited Tickets Available
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We have met our capacity with low income tickets! Thank you for your interest!
We do have diversity scholarships available. We are working in partnership with the Black Permaculture Network. If you are interested in applying, email [email protected] with the Subject: Permaculture Action Course Diversity Scholarship.
Please send any other inquiries related to this course to [email protected]
The Permaculture Action Course Combines an Introduction to Permaculture Design with Practical Tools
YThe Permaculture Action Course is a comprehensive program that will take you through the permaculture design process; touching on soils, water, forest gardening, appropriate technology, and several other aspects of whole systems design. With a focus on catalyzing social transformation, you will learn techniques for regenerating ecology, as well as explore community building through action-
With experts in their respective fields teaching Natural Building, Rainwater Harvesting, Earthworks and more, this course will leave you with the practical tools to actually start building the world you want to live in. Taking inspiration from The Polish Ambassador’s Permaculture Action Tour, and leading into a full-on permaculture networking and educational hub at the festival, this course takes a special focus on getting people together to act.
