Over halfway through an inspirational two week Permaculture Design Course at Creation Flame and the energy is only mounting. The first week had us confronting challenging questions about our personal ethics and values, exploring solution based principles and conscientious design methodologies, exploring a multiverse of patterns, and flexing our observation and design skills.
We’ve also been learning and sharing our knowledge of forest garden design, water systems, earthworks, and soils. Our minds are expanding and our inspiration is growing. Learning how to understand our environment and rejuvenate our landscapes with modern and ancient techniques. Even more exciting, we are innovating and revolutionizing visions of regenerative communities.
Take a look at the fun!
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Connecting inputs with outputs
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What lights your passion?
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Aligning our visions
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Learning attentively!
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Erin shares her love of Vinn Diagrams
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Local awesome Thunderbird Bars supports permaculture design brains!
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Learning through doing
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This is kinesthetic learning!
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That’s a chicken
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Watch out for fires!
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What would you put near the house?
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Pete the purple alpaca!
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Who knew permaculture design had so much to do with modeling clay?
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Where would you put it?
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Always design for extremes
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Are those carrots organic?
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The class is fully engaged in the design process
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Groups assemble to design gardens around natural patterns
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Thinking critically about designing within natural patterns
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Wicking bed water delivery system using the branching pattern
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Jonathan shares some pattern design features
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Akira and John show off their patterns work
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Kyle points out some features of his groups design through the patter of time
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Adam and Sarah show off their pattern design work
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Beth presents her design work with patterns
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Awesome design team!
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Analyze & assess
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Intense design planning
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Intense note taking!
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Look at all those hard working permaculture designers!
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Working hard on their design scenario of a green space for the community in an industrial part of downtown Detroit.
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Beth point out some features of the water system in this design scenario
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Kyle, Beth, Shakti Present their design scenario for a residential lot in Austin.
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Erin, Jenna, John and Jonathan present their design work for a mini design project scenario of an Austin residential apartment lot.