The Heartland Permaculture Design Course with Sarah Wu and Ryan Rising is currently, until January 1st, at a super early bird discount price of $1,111. To put that into perspective, 18 days of gourmet organic masterfully prepared food, a full Permaculture course with a design certificate, additional of classes in Herbalism and Social Permaculture (community building and governance dynamics), and additional guest presenters including local indigenous Nisenan teachers, and surprise guest musicians… would normally about at least 2-3 times this price.

This amount offered for this low of a cost is honestly unheard of! And I’ve been in the Permaculture world for 8 years. And as far as I know, this is the only in-person Permaculture Design Course being offered in 2021! The whole course will be outdoors in the Spring with perfect weather, and we will be practicing COVID-safety health guidelines to ensure everyone at this PDC stays healthy, happy, and safe, so we can all stay focused on learning the depths and details of Permaculture! There has never been a more poignant time than now to learn how to put the fate of the future into our own hands and hearts.

I wish I had this opportunity when I was getting into Permaculture! So I hope that you will see the value of this unique opportunity, that may never be available for this price and in this particular configuration again!

We want to make this course accessible, because we want to help more people go out into the world and apply Permaculture Design principles into their lives.

The content of this course is applicable to anyone interested in building community, growing food on anything from a windowsill to front yard to large farm scale, making herbal medicine to stay healthy and immune, getting in touch with the Earth, activating your inner Earth guardian spirit, and get in touch with your connection to plants, planet, and people.

Join us next Spring for our 2021 Heartland PDC April 1-18th

This Permaculture Design Course at Heartland combines the full accredited curriculum for the world-renowned Permaculture Design Certification with a People Care Extension that includes a dozen specialized sessions on Social Permaculture & Herbalism.

To learn all about it visit our website: http://heartlandcollective.org/pdc/

Permaculture:

• Ethics
• Site Analysis and Assessment
• Principles
• Base Mapping
• Design Process
• Zones and Sectors
• Design Methods
• Urban/Suburban/Rural Permaculture Strategies

Horticulture and Regenerative Agriculture:

• Perennial Agriculture
• Polycultures and Plant Guilds
• Food Forests and Edible Forest Gardens
• Soils and Compost
• Propagation Techniques and Plant Care

Ecological Design:

• Rainwater Harvesting: Catchment and Storage
• Alternative Energy and Appropriate Technology
• Greywater and Aquaculture
• Climate Appropriate Design and Adaptive Strategies for Housing and Agriculture

Social Permaculture:

• Community Organizing & Logistics of Liberation
• Alternative Economies
• Community Land Trusts
• The Just Transition
• Mediation and Conflict Resolution
• Facilitation & Decision Making
• Restorative Justice and Accountability Processes
• Direct Action
• Land Access and Issues of Land Use
• Ecovillages & Community Design Process
• Neighborhood Design & Placemaking
• Collaborative Group Dynamics
• Bioregional Governance
• Approaches to Autonomy & Mutual Aid

Herbalism:

• Human-Earth Interrelationships
• Medicine Making: Tinctures, Salves, Teas
• Basics of Planetary Energetics
• Plants for Relief and Basic First Aid
• Medicinal Plants in the Landscape
• Home Apothecary
• Medicinal Plant Guilds

About The Teachers

Sarah Wu
With 25 and counting, 75+hour Permaculture Design Courses in her portfolio, Sarah teaches full length and specialized Permaculture courses and workshops tailored to community dynamics, event production and holistic health. Sarah is the friendly Village Witch, co-founder and producer of Envision Festival, where she curates the educational offerings and founded the unique Herbal First Aid Clinic Training.

Sarah Wu is a passionate educational curator, facilitator and mentor dedicated to adult learners of all backgrounds. A representative for Mother Nature as a writer and teacher of Deep Ecology, Therapeutic Ecology and whole systems design through the lens of Herbalism and Permaculture. Sarah Wu has 19 years studying the science, art and craft of Planetary Eclectic Herbal Medicine. Her foundation is in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Wise Woman Tradition, actively practicing clinical herbalism in the Neo-Tropics for 10 years.

She founded and produced Medicines from the Edge: A Tropical Herbal Convergence, dedicated to bridging the eclectic healing traditions of Latin America, produced the Permaculture Plaza and Village Witches at the Oregon Eclipse, is a regular faculty member at the Punta Mona Center for Regenerative Design & Botanical Studies and Atitlan Organics, is a faculty member of the Permaculture Women’s Guild and a regular contributor to organizations such as NuMundo and United Plant Savers. She has studied with numerous leaders in the Western Herbalism renaissance, such as David Winston, Rosemary Gladstar, Paul Bergner, and 7Song and has worked in relief efforts in Guatemala and at Natural Doctor’s International on the island of Omatepe, Nicaragua.

Ryan Rising
Ryan Rising brings more than a decade of permaculture design and implementation to his teaching. Learn from a facilitator who has organized more than 100 Permaculture Action Days in cities and land projects throughout the country. Ryan is a conduit of social permaculture and community building practices stretching from the relational to the economic with a specific eye toward practical organizing in the real world.

Ryan Rising is a community organizer and permaculture educator based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, and co-founder of the Permaculture Action Network.

After a decade working with various social movements around direct action, food justice, ecological design, and community living, Ryan organized the Permaculture Action Tour with music producer The Polish Ambassador in the fall of 2014. Over the last five years the Permaculture Action Network has partnered with touring artists and large cultural events like Rising Appalachia and Lightning in a Bottle to mobilize 15,000 people to days of action at community spaces and permaculture projects building regenerative systems such as natural buildings, medicinal gardens, & edible schoolyards.

Ryan has been integral in co-organizing these 100 Permaculture Action Days across the continent, bringing hundreds of people at a time to take hands-on action building greenhouses, rainwater catchment earthworks, perennial gardens, and a diversity of other regenerative systems at community spaces including public food forests, urban farms, and ecovillages.

Ryan also co-founded the Gill Tract Community Farm, which produces tons of organic food annually that is distributed for free all around the Bay Area, and the Omni Commons, an urban commons and community center; and continues to work on growing the movement for a just transition through facilitation of the Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory, the Non-Profit Democracy Network, and a variety of other organizing projects.

Permaculture Design Certification Details
There is an integral and reciprocal relationship between the health of the environment and human health. We cultivate our wellness simultaneously with the regeneration of the biological life systems that support our planet earth. Through the lens and practical application of herbalism as a modality for ecosystem and human regeneration we will expand our understanding of the core Permaculture ethic of People Care by laying a foundational review of the ways in which we can integrate holistic wellness into our land and community design.

Explore social permaculture to assist you in building strong relationships that will create the most solid foundation for your vision. Learn how to build a community that can co-create viable and regenerative organization models to bring your dream vision to life.

The Permaculture Design Course will be supplemented with guided movement and meditation practices, and will culminate in group permaculture design projects.

Dive into a lakeside PDC in the rolling oak-covered foothills of the California Sierra Nevadas. Enjoy profound lessons from teachers with over 30 years of collective permaculture hands-on experience. Make powerful connections, eat well, and enjoy amazing sunsets. We welcome you to Heartland!

Heartland Collective is an off-grid, solar-powered, 25 acre lakeside venue and regenerative business incubator. The Heartland Collective is excited to offer its first annual Permaculture Design Course. This is an opportunity to join Heartland’s nutrient-rich culture and be a part of a budding ecovillage.

Why say YES Now?

• Immune Health
• Practical Community Organizing Skills
• New Career
• Gain Knowledge of the Local Ecosystem
• Connection
• Land Restoration

Heartland Collective Bonus Gifts for Signup
Saying YES to the Heartland PDC offers you several FREE bonuses:

2 year Heartland Membership ($500 value) which includes 20% savings to Heartland glamping, Heartland products, and all Heartland events (*events hosted by other's at Heartland not included)
2 Free tickets to CoLab Campout ($440 value, one ticket per year for 2 years)
50% discount on a Heartland PDC redo during the next 5 years (Learn more and keep your skills in tip/top shape!)
We want you to say YES to this because we want you to be part of the Heartland Collective culture for life.

We want to make this invitation easy and stack all our functions into long term win-win-win creations.

We have diversity low-income tickets and diversity full-ride scholarships available on our website as well. I am also personally available to help you set up a crowdfunding campaign! You will be surprised how many people want to support you on your journey to become a Permaculture Designer!

Learn more and register at: http://heartlandcollective.org/pdc/
And join the facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/events/833491044130075

We're looking forward to learning and growing with you at Heartland! Please reach out with any questions! I’m available for a phone call any time!

Happy Holidays and have a beautiful New Year!

Robin Liepman (Bloom)