Become a producer, as well as a consumer!
Learn how to meet more of your basic needs for food, water, and energy at home by applying Permaculture ethics, which originate from indigenous cultures, and the Permaculture Principles, which mimic nature.
In this workshop we’ll also examine examples of Permaculture Designs in a variety of settings - urban, suburban, rural, residential, agricultural and institutional.
This workshop will include an outdoor practicum and will cover the following topics:
What is Permaculture Design?
Indigenous Origins
Permaculture Ethics
Permaculture Principals - Team Exercise (outdoors)
Site-specific Design
Examples of Permaculture Designs
Climate Change response
When: Sunday, October 26 from 10.30am to 12.30pm
Where: Montgomery College, 7719 Chicago Avenue, Takoma Park, MD, 20912
Cost: $25 (we have a limited number of free spaces for those who can’t afford the workshop. Please email us at info@foodforestcollective.org to find out more).
This is a stand alone workshop designed to introduce participants to the basics of permaculture. But if you’d like to deepen your knowledge and/or learn more about how to design your own site, then we’re also running another permaculture workshop two weeks after this one, on November 9th.
We highly recommend attending both if you can but you don’t have to. For more details and to book a place on the next workshop, please click here.
Instructor Bio:
Patricia Ceglia has practiced and taught permaculture for decades. She is a retired architect who now teaches ecological stormwater management and native/edible landscape design, consulting for private clients, and the watershed conservancies. She has taught Permaculture Design and Natural Building at Wilson College and Goucher College, as well as various independent education programs.
Her students have redesigned a variety of sites, including a neighborhood block in Washington DC, a green alley in Baltimore, MD, a housing project in Pretoria, South Africa, a multi-family townhouse complex in Annapolis, MD, a historic family compound in southern France, public and private schools in Hershey, PA, Baltimore and Washington DC, a prototypical suburban house in Accra, Ghana, a “McMansion” in suburban Washington DC, a rural Montana homestead, a Colorado vineyard, and an organic CSA farm on the eastern shore, MD.