NCP Permaculture Design Course

Many thanks, yet again, to the SEED Stafford Street community garden for hosting us this weekend.
Too cool not to share: the opening of the garden made the paper!

Stafford St. community garden will start today | The News Leader | newsleader.com STAUNTON Garden work and a class about mushrooms is scheduled for today at Stafford Street Community Garden. The garden, in its third year, will get under way at 8 a.m. with tilling and planning for planting. Forty students from Stuart Hall will help prepare the planting beds and perform other spr

What a great first weekend of the Permaculture Design Course!
See and share photos from the first PDC weekend on New Community Project - Harrisonburg, VA's page, with many thanks to Aaron H. Johnston Photography!

NCP's Permaculture Design Course in Harrisonburg was a great success. The first weekend was filled with lectures on soil, permaculture gardening and patterns. Participants also practiced structured and unstructured observation and experimented with guild designs.

The design course starts this Friday!
In the meantime, check our New Community Project - Harrisonburg, VA page to see photos of our local permaculture design projects in action.

Vine & Fig / NCP Harrisonburg Cultivating and celebrating works of compassion, social justice, and ecological health to build a society in which it's easier to be good.

Interested in meeting other permaculture practitioners in the region? Blue Ridge Permaculture Network is hosting a potluck on February 4th in Charlottesville to swap ideas, stories, and project updates. Then stay on for Dave Jacke's workshop on Gardening Like the Forest. Lots of fun!

BRPN - Courses and Education Stay tuned for more info on a spring 2011 Introduction to Permaculture weekend workshop. Details on Dave Jacke's weekend workshop on" Gardening Like the Forest" below.

2011 is starting fast, and we're getting excited for this spring's Permaculture Design Course!
Check out the link below to learn more about the ethics and design principles of permaculture.

Permaculture Principles Explore the ethics and design principles behind the diversity and creativity of permaculture