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Early Registration Discount ends August 15!
Edible Ecosystems Emerging: 
Food Forestry for the 21st Century
A 9-Day Forest Garden Design Intensive 
With Dave Jacke, Matthew English, Juliette Jones, Penryn Craig, and Cliff Davis.
September 23-October 2, 2011
At Spiral Ridge Permaculture Gardens
and The Farm, Summertown, Tennessee
 
Forest ecosystems exhibit many beneficial properties we humans would be wise to emulate in our culture, agriculture and horticulture: they maintain, renew, fertilize and propagate themselves without human inputs; they build, store, and conserve clean air, clean water, nutrients, soil quality, and biodiversity; and they exhibit stability, resilience, and adaptability.  These qualities emerge from the dynamics of the forest as a whole system, not from any one or more of the elements that comprise the forest alone.  To design productive edible ecosystems that express these same qualities, we must understand forest structures, functions, patterns, and processes and use this knowledge wisely.
In this nine-day intensive course, you will dive deeply into the vision, theory, and practice of designing wholesome, dynamic, and resilient edible ecosystems using temperate deciduous forests as models.  Dave Jacke and his teaching team will offer lectures, site walks, and experiential exercises to help you understand how the architecture, social structure, underground economics, and successional processes of natural forests apply in the design of edible ecosystems of all kinds.  You'll learn a variety of ecological design processes while designing a range of food-producing ecologies at our host farm.  We'll also engage with issues of garden management, economics, and the deep paradigmatic shifts required to succeed at cocreating “humanatural” landscapes and cultures.  You will leave inspired and empowered to design food forests at home for yourself, and your friends, neighbors, and clients. 

Register before August 15 and get $50 off!!  Sliding scale (covers tuition, food, and camping or dorm): $1,100-$1,400.  Amounts paid over $1,100 will go into the scholarship fund.  Partial scholarships will likely be available.  Contact the below for lodging information (some options on site, some off).
 
What people say about this course:
“This course has outdone any experience I have ever had . . . Thank you for catapulting me into a new realm of knowledge and inspiration. Thank you for the best time ever.”  M.T., New Jersey
 
“The Forest Gardens course was awesome, and I expect I'll be discovering the transformative affects of it on my consciousness again and again. Thank you for that gift.”  A.G., Pennsylvania
 
“I'm stoked coming off of the course . . . You can imagine how great it is to be familiar with permaculture design principles - I feel like I am going to be far, far out ahead of monoculture farmers . . .”  M.L., Hawaii
 
“You and the crew went beyond the call of duty to make it an incredible experience for us all.”  N.P., Pennsylvania
 
Sponsored by: Spiral Ridge Permaculture Gardens
Location: Spiral Ridge Permaculture Gardens and 
The Farm Community Center, Summertown, TN.
To register or for info: 931-964-2375
www.spiralridgepermaculture.com
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Dave Jacke
Dynamics Ecological Design
308 Main St. #2C • Greenfield, MA • 01301
603-831-1298 • [log in to unmask]

Visit www.edibleforestgardens.com for information on or to purchase my award-winning two-volume book, Edible Forest Gardens.

Mark Krawczyk and I are now writing a new book on Coppice Agroforestry!  Find out more and support our effort at 
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coppiceagroforestry/dave-and-mark-write-a-coppice-agroforestry-book.

   “Teach this triple truth to all: 
    a generous heart, 
    kind speech, 
    and a life of service and compassion
    are the things which renew humanity.”
         Buddha

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