Permaculture: Action Plan
The PDC is very flexible, especially as it is typically designed for a 2 week period, but here we have the luxury of a school year with many relevant inclusive elements already on the SJH schedule. The real plan has to be designed together with the other educators at SJH, the below is simply an outline of how the minimum requirements of the PDC can be taught according to the seasons. Ideally the other topics suggested on this web is integrated.
The standard PDC curriculum closely follows Bill Mollison’s text: Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual, but much may be added.
Early Autumn:
Introduction, What is Permaculture, History, Ethics and Principles.
~ Meta Systems ~
Chapter 2: Concepts and Themes in Design.
Chapter 3: Methods of Design. Ground Planning
Chapter 4: Pattern Understanding.
Urban/Suburban Permaculture. Design Client Relationship.
Later Autumn:
~ Natural Systems/Cultivated Systems ~
Chapter 6: Trees and Their Energy Transactions. Pruning and Grafting workshop.
Chapter 8: Soils.
Chapter 13: Aquaculture. Garden Cooking and Preserving the Harvest.
During winter:
~ Natural Systems/Cultivated Systems ~
Chapter 5: Climatic Factors.
Chapter 7: Water
Chapter 12: Humid Cool to Cold Climates.
Chapter 9: Earth Working and Earth Resources.
Chapter 10: The Humid Tropics;
Chapter 11: Drylands Strategies.
Chapter 14: The Strategies of an Alternative Global Nation.
Before gaining the PDC certificate the students have to make, present, and defend their own permaculture design; can be done in groups.
Design Presentations. Certificates.
The students are also coached through the process of making their individual 'Permaculture Pathway'.
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