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MARCH 6 Dennis 7 Dee's Nursery, 6025 SE Powell Blvd., Portland, OR 97206 Edible Landscapes Fair: 10am-4pm ***FREE EVENT*** with Carla Bankston and Deston Denniston of the Portland Permaculture Guild 2-3pm: Plants that Give You MORE Bang for the Buck(et) w/ Carla Bankston How to select and maintain productive, low maintenance plants for containers and small spaces. This module will help you to produce herbs and vegetables on your patios, stoops and so on. 3-4pm: Farm Hands Without Hands: Animals in the Garden w/ Deston Denniston Create opportunities for both domestic animals and wildlife to thrive while benefiting garden aesthetic and production. From 'domestic' insects to wild boars, Deston has farmed and worked along side of a good many critters. Includes slideshow and QnA session. MARCH 20, 21, 27, 28 Dennis 7 Dee's Nursery, 6025 SE Powell Blvd., Portland, OR 97206 The Ecological Design of Forest Gardens: Permaculture Approaches to Yard Scale Urban Food Production with Carla Bankston and Deston Denniston of the Portland Permaculture Guild Time: TBA $25 per day or $90 for series March 20: Permaculture 101: Ethics, Principles and Practice March 21: Soil from the Ground Up: The History, Origins and Production of Organic Soils March 27: Guild Design for the Urban Yard: Diverse Products from Limited Space March 28: Building the Guild: Installation of a Yard Scale Food Forest APRIL 3 Dennis 7 Dee's Nursery, 6025 SE Powell Blvd., Portland, OR 97206 Do it Yourself: Consultancy Workshops! $40; Attendants of 2 or more of the previous workshops will receive an additional $10 discount. By Registration Only. Time: 1-3pm Do it Yourself: Consultancy Workshops! Bring your questions, pictures, sketches of your site and we will help you define and advance your design process. Permaculturists Carla Bankston and Deston Denniston will team up with Dennis 7 Dee's PLANSCAPER PROS to roundtable your dreams and visions. APRIL 10 & 11 Vashon Permaculture Design Course This course will be held on Vashon Island, Weekends: April 3/4, 10/11, 24/25, May 15/16, 22/23 & June 5/6. Lead teachers: Emet Degirmenci, Kelda Miller. Follow above link for more information. JULY 12 - 25 Skalitude Permaculture Design Course Two-week Permaculture Design Course with Michael Pilarski and Friends Permaculture principles and design methodology, once learned, can be applied and adapted to any site. The course covers the traditional Mollison permaculture curriculum as well as lots of local knowledge. The species and techniques will be aimed at the interior Pacific Northwest which includes North-central Washington, Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon, Idaho, Western Montana and southern Interior British Columbia. Only $850 if registered by April 1. AUGUST 6-10 Sharing primary skills, for the feral at heart. Temporary shelters, tracking, bird languages, wilderness tools, coppicing, tool making and maintenance, homesteading skills, animal husbandry, natural building, and more. This will be a easy going workshop collaborative. $150, workshops = worktrade. TBA between: August 10-September 3 This course will cover advanced topics for prior PDC graduates. Details coming soon. Dates tentative: September 3-12 Join us for a few days or a week; A camp for Natural Builders, based on the skill share model, exploring application of Living Building Challenge(tm) qualifiers to the work we undertake. We will have several focus projects with an overall goal of meeting the challenge's highest standards. Build barn walls, a clay rocket mass heater, a hot box cooker, a zeer cooler, and more! From wattle and daub, light Straw clay and our old friend, cob, to raku, corbels and sculpture, we'll explore new and innovative ways to build and play with clay. $80 a day, $450 for the whole 9 days, includes 5 full days of workshops (Sept 4&5, 9-11)and meals; 'food and/or work' trades available. The Washington State Permaculture Annual Conference Typically September; DATES TBA If you are interested in scheduling an educational event or workshop on ecological design, permaculture, appropriate technolgies or other topics, please see our contact page in the menu bar to the right. For a history of our presentations and weekend offerings, please see the Archives Thanks! Permaculture Calendar: Jocelyn's Events |