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Effective Term:
Fall 2014 through Winter 2016

Course Number:
HOR 285
Course Title:
Permaculture Design
Credit Hours:
7
Lecture Hours:
40
Lecture/Lab Hours:
60
Lab Hours:
0

Course Description

Covers principles of permaculture for both urban & rural applications and sustainable human settlements. Covers: landscape analysis, including ecological planning & design methods, organic food production and food security, natural soil improvement, integrated animal systems, water harvesting, conservation, and management, and forest gardening, techniques and design strategies. Intensive course combining theory with practical hands on learning. Includes lectures, discussions, hands-on labs, slide shows, field trips and design projects. Students who successfully complete this course will be awarded a Permaculture Design Certificate through the Cascadia Permaculture Institute. Audit available.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

- practice permaculture as a Permaculture Design Certificate holder as granted by the Cascadia Permaculture Institute

- discuss the basic history and fundamental principles of Permaculture

- identify and evaluate Permaculture landscapes and features

- suggest Permaculture solutions to common landscape design challenges

- design with Permaculture principles

- draw/diagram and construct basic Permaculture features

Course Activities and Design

lectures, discussions, hands-on labs and projects, slide shows, field trips and design projects.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

This class is project based.  Outcomes will be evaluated on a number of projects, including a group design project and presentation.

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

-Permaculture Principles, Regional Awareness,

-Patterns in Permaculture, Site Analysis, Mapping techniques, Reading the Landscape

-Climate & Microclimate, Design Methodologies, Ecology

 -Soils, Soil Building Strategies, Compost, Mycology

- Forestry, Agroforestry

-Climatic Profiles,  Plant Profile

- Water,  Earthworks, Wetlands

-Cultivated Ecology, Zone 1 Gardens, Seeds & Nurseries, Propagation

-Food Forests & Orchards, Guilds, Multifunctional Plants,

-Animals, Holistic Resource Management, Forage Systems

- Forest Gardening, Permaculture through the Zones, Sheet mulch

-Water Harvesting, Rainwater Catchment, Greywater, Nutrient Cycling

-Natural Building

- Energy, Appropriate Technology, Design for Catastrophe

-Urban Permaculture,

- Invisible Structures, Community, Villages

- Wildlife, Land Access

-Economics & Right Livlihood (Permaculture Business)