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Welcome to Center for Bioregional Living
"Living well with the Earth"
Center for Bioregional Living courses educate and inform our students to create true health, wealth and regional self-sufficiency through cooperating with nature. We offer permaculture design courses and consultation services, educating over 400 graduates in the northeast and 140 in Manhattan, Brooklyn, With 20 years of experience in design for a wide range of clients, we are your source for permaculture design education and consultation.
Permaculture is an ecological design science based on the resilient patterns found in nature. It is a vision of what we would rather see in the world and how to achieve it in a step by step manner. The ethics, tools and techniques of Permaculture are focused on creating vibrant bioregional cultures and economies providing long term comfort and security for our families, communities and future generations.
Permaculture Training - Certification Courses and Workshops 2012
Center for BioRegional Living - Permaculture Design Consultation and Services
Andrew Faust offers the following services at your site. Meet your goals with ecological integrity; increase abundance and self-sufficiency by cooperating with nature. This includes an initial meeting, site visit a narrative/report Full site design concept rendering and detail drawings.
- Permaculture pre-purchase site assessment
- Master design plans and whole site design
- Installation and Implementation of Permaculture Designs
- Prospecting for land for self sufficient ecovillages and communities
- Biointensive and Biodynamic vegetable garden designs
Permaculture Information Resources and Articles
These are some of our favorite organizations, institutes and sources of information you may find useful in understanding Permaculture living
Permaculture Activist Magazine
The Ecologist Magazine
Earth Island Institute
The Weston A. Price Foundation
Adbusters Magazine and more
Speaking at the Sustainability Forum -
OWS Zucotti Park NY
Costa Boutsikaris Filmmaker
www.terravisus.com
Andrew Faust - Audio Interviews
Center for BioRegional Living
Learn more about permaculture and our celebrated Permaculture Design Certification course. Watch this video!
Study permaculture off the grid two hours from NYC on a fully designed site.
(4) 3 day Weekends
June 1- 3, June 8 - 10, June 15 - 17, June 22 - 24th.
The Omega Center
May 20 - 25, 2012
Rhinebeck, New York
Tuition: $315
Member Tuition: $285
New York Open Center,
22 E. 30th St., NY, NY 10016
212.219.2527
Permaculture Design Certification Course NYC
July 14, 21, 28
Aug 4, 5, 18 (field trip)
Sep 8 (field trip), 9, 15, 22, 29 Grand Room (graduation)
Permaculture Design Certification Course Ellenville NY
Introduction to Permaculture and Biodynamic Gardening
Come and join us at our one of a kind of Permaculture farm in Ellenville. The Center for Bioregional Living is an off grid market scale demonstration farm designed specifically, as our example to the regional food movement Offering opportunities and approaches for addressing our food needs with more of an integrated, ecological, permaculture approach.
In this workshop we will have hands-on activities taking you from seed starting to bed prepping and planting a organic market scale garden.
Make soil block for starting seeds
Mix up soil specifically for soil blocks
Discuss preferred seed sources
Explain the Biodynamic Calendar & how we use it
Prep and plant beds in our garden
Explain our rain water catching system
Discuss permaculture in the fruit & vegetable garden layout
Explain when we use the tractor and when we use hand tools
Show you amendments that we use in our garden and why
You will get a chance to plant seed and prep beds and learn experientially about some key biodynamic and permaculture gardening insights and approaches to take home to your family and farm.
Farm tour and Plant identification walk coming second weekend in May!
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