COURSES & WORKSHOPBelize: 12 day permaculture adventure! Feb 20th-March 2, 2012. With a rare opportunity - Albert Bates (lead teacher). 
Up river. Into the jungle! Maya Mountain Research Farm Magnificent Belize for an authentic hands-on experience! Instructors: Travel to a remote valley accessible by dugout canoe.  Study permaculture surrounded by a lush, productive forest of edibles, medicinals and tropical hardwoods. Organic food, sleep in dorms powered by renewable energy, bathe in sparkling pure rivers. Learn at Maya Mountain Research Farm, heart of the Mayan world, where the Crystal Skull was discovered. 
Tucked in the foothills of the Maya Mountains two miles upriver from the village of San Pedro Columbia in southern Belize, Maya Mountain Research Farm is a working demonstration farm and registered NGO promoting sustainable agriculture, appropriate technology and food security using applied biodiversity and permaculutre principles. CLICK MAP 
Twenty years of organic management has seen the property converted from an abandoned cattle and citrus farm to a polyculture and one of the oldest permaculture demonstration sites in the Americas.  Cost: USD $1,250. Belize $2,500. Includes all meals, course materials, expeditions, farm accommodation and, upon completion of the course, permaculture certification. For Details & Registration: Christopher Nesbitt -
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See YouTube video  ENSURE YOUR PLACE IN THIS CLASS NOW! 
Albert Bates, and Maria Rosa at Maya Mt. Research Farm 2010. More info on Maya Research Farm and Belize at: Worldwide Permaculture Moon Travel Guide (San Pedro and Belize)
ALSO ADVANCED PERMACULTURE TEACHER'S COURSE FOLLOWS THIS PDC COURSE AT BELIZE MAYA MOUNTAIN RESEARCH FARM. March 4-10. For holders of permaculture design certificates. Instructors: Jono Neiger, Eric Toensmeier with Christopher Nesbitt. $700 all inclusive.
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HANCOCK PERMACULTURE CENTER NEWS! 
Hancock Permaculture Center - Attached Greenhouse. JOIN US FOR OUR FALL COURSE - BEGINS AUGUST 4, 2012 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.
There are guest instructors and field visits. Email
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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 WORKSHOP 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
Email:
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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.
OTHER WORKSHOPS TO BE ANNOUNCED. 
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
MANDALA GARDEN & HERB SPIRAL WORKSHOP Links and pics at Sky Dog Farm, 2009.
http://www.skydogprojects.com/content/\ 
 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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