COURSE IS FULL. With approximately 72 hours of classroom and hands-on instruction, this course, spread out over week-ends through Winter and Spring will provide you with a tool box of skills that will allow you to design and implement living environments that are both regenerative and sustainable, in both rural and urban settings.
Become the smartest person you know when it comes to soil, compost and compost tea! We are thrilled to be hosting international expert Doug Weatherbee (The Soil Doctor) for the 2nd year in a row.
Is Four Days of Dirty Tricks and Dirty Secrets not enough? Well you’re in luck! This just in, Doug Weatherbee, international soil expert and Soil Foodweb Advisor, will be offering an additional day of advanced mentorship for those students looking to take their soil knowledge a step further.
Join us in Edmonton on June 8th to hear how over the last three years we have converted our Calgary inner-city home into a thriving permaculture project complete with a front yard food forest, water-harvesting features, abundant food production, compost-making, a solar greenhouse, low-maintenance veggie gardens, natural building material demonstrations, and even energy retrofits on the house.
COURSE IS FULL. With approximately 72 hours of classroom and hands-on instruction, this course, spread out over week-ends through Winter and Spring will provide you with a tool box of skills that will allow you to design and implement living environments that are both regenerative and sustainable, in both rural and urban settings.
Rocket mass heaters (RMHs) are a great DIY option for creating cheap and super efficient heat for a variety of situations. In this hands-on 2 1/2 day workshop, we'll construct a full scale and fully operable RMH for heating a green house. Extend your growing season to the max with the addition of a RMH in your greenhouse design!
Roll back the limits of your growing season and expand your crop options when you learn to design and build your own greenhouse powered only by the heat of the sun! Join Jerome Osentowski for a four day course on designing, building and caring for your very own all-seasons greenhouse.
Roll back the limits of your growing season and expand your crop options when you learn to design and build your own greenhouse powered only by the heat of the sun! Join Jerome Osentowski for a four day course on designing, building and caring for your very own all-seasons greenhouse.
Southern Alberta boasts hundreds of wild edible and medicinal plants right outside our front door that we all take for granted. Join us and Blaine Andrusek for a two day herb walk this July where he will teach you about wild plants, their uses and the folklore stories behind them.
With approximately 72 hours of classroom and hands-on instruction, this part time course, spread out over weekends through the Fall will provide you with a tool box of skills that will allow you to design and implement living environments that are both regenerative and sustainable, in both rural and urban settings.
