COURSES & WORKSHOPS
Starting in August Catskill Delaware Permaculture will conduct the 72 hour Permaculture Design Course in Sullivan County, New York. Permaculture Design Students who need to complete hours for Certification may take this course and anyone who paid and missed classes at Hancock Permaculture in 2010-2011 may contact us. Catskill Delaware Permaculture   THE NEW APPROACH TO ORGANIC GARDENING
SPONSORED BY NOFA-NY (THE NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION)
WORK WITH NATURE TO NURTURE YOUR GARDEN INTO BECOMING PRODUCTIVE AND BEAUTIFUL BY USING ORGANIC METHODS AND PERMACULTURE DESIGN TECHNIQUES. FOUR SESSIONS TAKE YOU STEP BY STEP TO START A PERMANENT, LOW MAINTENANCE SYSTEM OF PRODUCTION FOR FOOD, FLOWERS AND TREES BASED ON THE NATURAL SYSTEM OF THE FOREST. THIS WILL BE A HANDS ON COURSE WITH EMPHASIS ON INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION. SUNDAYS 1-3:30P.M. MARCH 18 Design Designing the garden based on contour, climate and orientation to the sun. Soil and water, access and other elements of design will be discussed for your site. Soil testing. Bring a rough sketch, photos and/or a survey of your property if possible. APRIL 15 Propagation Botany for gardeners. Learn about the physiology of plants and how they function and the morphology of the reproductive structures of plants. Start seeds in our greenhouse. Materials provided. Bring your own seeds to start. Seedlings will be grown in the greenhouse and will be taken home at the end of the course. MAY 6 Soil Build soil and maintain fertility based on nature. Learn about soil, compost, cover-crops, composting techniques and application. Work hands on in the garden. Wear work clothes. Tools provided. Soil testing. Bring a soil sample from your garden to be evaluated and tested. JUNE 3 Maintain and Enjoy! Planting and maintenance of annuals and perennials. Learn to address problems of “weeds”, insects, disease with natural controls. Transplant seedlings, direct seed, and propagate by division of perennials. Hands on. Wear work clothes. Registration is limited, so sign up now! Fee -- $125.00 for the course $100.00 for NOFA-NY members Domesticities and the Cutting Garden 4055 State Rte 52 Youngsville, NY 12791 845/482-3333 email Maria at :
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or call: 845- 482-4164 for more information. Maria Grimaldi is a member of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York. 
NOFA NY, Inc is an organization of consumers, gardeners, and farmers working together to create a sustainable regional food system which is ecologically sound and economically viable. Through demonstration and educational opportunities, we promote land stewardship, organic food production, and local marketing. NOFA NY brings consumers and farmers closer together to make high quality food available to all people CLICK here for details. And HERE
The Upper Delaware Chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation and Slow Food UpDeRiva Present a Series Traditional Cooking Classes Join us for re-skilling of nourishing, traditional cooking methods and help build community through potluck meetings and celebrations using local, fresh food. Information will include: · Transitioning to a truly healthy and delicious diet (introduction and theory) based on traditional cooking and food preparation methods. · Hands-on preparation methods that maximize the nutritional value of local, fresh meat, vegetables, milk and eggs. · Shopping wisely and stocking your pantry with appropriate ingredients on a limited budget using locally produced ingredients wherever possible. · Take home samples and recipes made in classes. Classes: 5 part series: APRIL 22 1) Choosing the right fats and preparing delicious and nutritious soups, broths and stews using traditional methods. Using grass fed meats from local farms. May 20 2) Properly-prepared whole grains, nuts, and legumes using organic, local whenever possible. June 24 3) Cultured dairy (yogurt, kefir, buttermilk) using local, licensed raw milk sources of cow and goat milk. July 29 4) Lactic fermentation and homemade beverages (including Kombucha) You will be surprised at what you can make at home! No bottles to return! August 19 5) Healthy quick lunches and snacks that children and adults will love. (Two children may accompany each adult to this one!) Sundays 12:30-3:30 p.m. Includes a light lunch (potlucks are always welcome to share!) Place: United Methodist Church Hall 9290 Route 97 Callicoon, New York 12733 INSTRUCTORS: Lucia Ruedenberg-Wright, Maria Grimaldi (Weston A. Price Foundation Upper Delaware Chapter) Jennifer McGlashen, Sally Anne Parsons, Slow Food UpDeRiva Cost: $150.00 for the course. $30.00 per session Payable 10 days in advance Membership discount for NOFA-NY members, PASA, Weston A. Price Members and Slow Food members. $125. For the course $25.00 a session. http://upperdelaware-wapf.org/ Credit cards accepted through PayPal on the Upper Delaware Chapter of The Weston A. Price Foundation website.
HANCOCK PERMACULTURE CENTER NEWS! 
Hancock Permaculture Center - Attached Greenhouse. PLEASE CONTACT REGARDING OUR COURSES Email:
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Our classes are held at Hancock Permaculture Center. Our current on-going design projects are held at Fork Mountain Farm . 
The farm is close by - 50 acres with chickens, goats, cattle owned by Lucia Rudenberg and Randy Wright. Lucia practices the Western Price tradition of diet and food preparation. She offers counseling, support, workshops, and products based on the work of Weston A. Price. Counseling services specialize in child nutrition and First Foods to help mothers develop a robust, healthy palette in the first two years of their children’s lives. PERMACULUTRE INSTRUCTORS:  Andrew Leslie Phillips reinvigorated permaculture in the north-east in 2005 when he co-convened a permaculture course with Green Phoenix Permaculture, bringing Geoff Lawton and Andrew Jones together at Epworh Methodist Camp and Ithaca Eco-village. He is a journalist and filmmaker and studied permaculture with Bill Mollison, Geoff Lawton and Andrew Jones.  Maria Grimaldi has many years experience in organic garden practice, food preparation, medicinal herbs, urban gardening and community development. She is a Hancock Permaculture Center graduate and member of Northeast Organic Farmer's Association (NOFA). She is on the steering committee of Sullivan County Transition Town movement and active in local green politics.
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AMAZON WORKSHOPS & COURSES  A message from Cynthia Robinson, one of our alumni:
Dearest fellow earth warriors,
The Paititi Institute holdis ongoing workshops which I would love to share with you - Shamanic Permaculture and other workships with visiting teachers. Cynthia also teaches with Hancock Permaculture Center- refer to her on our Course page. CLICK FOR MORE INFO:
PAST WORKSHOPS MUSHROOM IN A SWALE WORKSHOP - THREE WEEKENDS - July 9-10; August 6-7; October 1-2, 2011. At Fork Mountain Farm. Lucia & Randy Wright
91 Percy's Rd
Equinunk, PA 18417
570-224-4653
212-254-3551 $25 - $75 - sliding scale
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Fork Mountain Farm This 3 part workshop will take place on three weekends, from July to October 2011. We will learn contouring for water harvesting, forest management, and mushroom farming. We will fell some trees, dig a gentle grade transfer swale, seed the berm, and fill the trench with wood chips and logs inoculated with oysters, king stropharia, maitake, and reishi. We will also inoculate some logs with shitake. Co-leaders: David Edelstein for contouring, Chris Diamond for water harvesting and swale construction, Ian Hayes for forest management, Frank Addeo for mushroom inoculation.(see bios below).
Part I: July 9,10 - we will prep the site: learn contouring, dig the swale, seed the berm, install some culverts and inoculate some logs with dowel spawn.
Part II: September (call for details - 570-224-4653 or 212-254-3551) - Forest management: thinning, tagging, fellng several trees to be plugged, and chainsaw safety. We will chip brush and put some into the swale and prepare the rest to be inoculated. We might also do a biochar burn. Part III: October (call for details - 570-224-4653 or 212-254-3551) - we will inoculate the chips and logs with oysters, king stropharia, maitake, and reishi. In addition, fall workshop participants will take home an inoculated shitake log.
When: July 9-10, Aug 6-7, October 1-2, 2011. Where: Fork Mountain Farm
Fee: $25 to $75/day, sliding scale. All meal provided. Vegetarian and other. This workshop is co-sponsored by the Hancock Permaculture Center and the Weston A. Price Upper Delaware Chapter. Camping available onsite. Participants are encouraged to bring musical instruments for jam sessions in the evening. Schedule: Breakfast 8 Saturday and Sunday. Instructors:
Dave Edelstein has an MS in soil physics from the University of Massachusetts. While earning his degree, he worked as a volunteer with the Soil Conservation Service (now Natural Resources Conservation Service) in Hadley, MA. After graduating, he joined the Peace Corps, working with farmers on soil and water conservation projects in Costa Rica, where he learned simple land-leveling and contouring techniques. Since then, Dave has worked for the EPA, Fish and Wildlife Service, and spent thirteen years as a high school science teacher. Most recently, Dave earned a Permaculture Design Certificate from the Hancock Permaculture Center, where he gave a guest lecture on soil science and conservation. Christopher Diamond has been involved in environmental and agricultural consulting for five years. He is a certified Permaculture Designer and Water Harvesting Practitioner. His passion is to see landscapes and people healed and restored and to pass on the tools and skills to do that to everyone who wants them. He intends to help create a world we can all be proud to leave to our children. Christopher lives in Kingston, NY with his wife, Clara, their two children, Elizabeth and Leonidas, a cat, a bunny, and many interesting plants. Frank Addeo Though gardening has been consistently present in my life it's only been the last few that I have begun to acknowledge it's centrality to my existence. Practices suitable to the urban terrain have been my focus. I am one of three people forming the Brooklyn Permaculture project, which will be a site for practicing and skill-sharing many of the techniques pertinent to city food producing. Mushroom cultivation can be done in closets, under beds, in our shady yards. Furthermore, they are vital to the processes of soil remediation and building which are desperately needed in our community gardens in Brooklyn. This weekend we will learn how to inoculate logs with dowel spawn. CLICK FOR DESCRIPTION OF FIRST WORKSHOP 
Written by David Edelstein Photos from folks including Meghan Myers.
MANDALA GARDEN & HERB SPIRAL WORKSHOP Links and pics at Sky Dog Farm, 2009.
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 Into the woods at Mountain Dell Farm  
Hancock Permaculture 2010 gathering. 
Hancock Permaculture teachers, Andrew Jones (l), Albert Bates (center) Andrew Phillips (r). On Catskills tour. 
Final presentations Cadosia School House, Spring 2011
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