Join our hands-on Permaculture Design Course! Our 14-day intensive Permaculture Design Certification offers practical experience as well as theoretical knowledge in natural farming, sustainable technologies, natural building and fostering a healthy community. You will learn to design and apply natural principles to create stable and resilient systems that provide food, water, shelter and energy needs while regenerating ecology, community and economy.
Permaculture Design Certification (PDC) is a world-wide recognized course, training you to become a competent Permaculture designer of sustainable living environments & bountiful food systems.
Our experiential workshop designed to introduce you to the world of plants and their medicine. We will share the lore of the Wise Woman Tradition, focusing of a few plants that can be found in your garden, back yard and the nearby environment, and cultivating a relationship with the plants in order to benefit from their healing properties.
Participants will learn ethical and proper plant harvesting techniques, and go home with a healing salve as well as a medicinal tincture using natural, organic materials such as apple-cider vinegar, olive oil and bees wax.
The Wilderness Survival Basics is much more than a 'basic' course: You will be learning the fundamentals of outdoor camping and hiking, practice wilderness self-reliance and gain competence in your ability to go 'out there' and be comfortable in the wild.
Lessons include: Fire-making in difficult conditions; proper shelter construction & placement (including emergency shelters); mapping & aidless navigation; knife safety and usage; back-country hygiene; thermoregulation of the human body; positive impact camping & ethical material harvesting, night hiking, and much more.
This course is designed to increase your skill level and expand your comfort zone in the wilderness while enjoying the beautiful canyonlands of southern Utah.