Exploring Permaculture
from Principles to Practices:
Learn to Design and Create Sustainable
Permaculture Systems
in Your Yard and Home
Saturday,
May 21st to Monday, May 23rd, 2005
(Victoria Day Long Weekend)
New Life Retreat Centre for Wellness and Eco-Living
Lanark, Ontario
(50 minutes southwest of Ottawa, an hour from Kingston,
3.5 hours from Toronto, under three hours from Montreal)
SPECIAL EVENT
Slide Show of Sustainable
Living Projects from Around the World
Evening of Saturday,
May 21st (included
in the weekend workshop, but open to others)
6:30pm – 7:30pm: Organic,
raw & living foods dinner
8:00pm – 10:00pm: Slide show, dessert, and discussion
PLUS
Permaculture
Hands-On Learning Camp
Tuesday, May 24 - Friday, May 27, 2004
Stay on to build what we have begun to design over the
long weekend workshop
Putting Permaculture into Practice: Design Skills
for Your Yard and More!
Learn the fundamentals of permaculture and put this
information into practice by creating a design for a
100-acre organic farm, which is also home to a living
foods healing retreat centre (New Life Retreat Center).
Learn even more by doing hands-on projects to implement
the designs we created. Bring in the details of your
site, and get ideas about what you can do once you’re
back at home!
At the Weekend Workshop you will:
• Get an introduction to permaculture, with
a focus on how to bring it to life in your yard
• Develop your skills of observation, plant
identification, and landscape reading
• Perform a zone & sector analysis, and
a needs & yields assessment
• Have fun learning to create synergistic designs
through a wild design exercise
• Perform a site assessment, and learn to map
an area
• Learn how to build soils, create no-dig beds,
and compost properly
• Explore vertical growing, including multi-story
forest gardening
• Get an edible landscape started from scratch
by planting fruiting trees & bushes, and other
cultivable annuals and perennials!
• Explore the integration of greywater systems,
and ponds into the landscape
• Examine plans to add structure to the property:
solar shower, composting toilet, and a greenhouse
• Develop real-life designs for the New Life
Retreat Centre yard, and your yard as well!
SPECIAL EVENT
Slide Show of
Sustainable Living Projects from Around the World
Evening of Saturday,
May 21st (included
in the weekend workshop, but open to others)
6:30pm – 7:30pm: Organic,
raw & living foods dinner
8:00pm – 10:00pm: Slide show, dessert, and discussion
This slide show is a great opportunity to see images
of natural building, renewable energy, alternative waste
and water treatment, organic growing, ecovillages, cohousing,
and more!
PLUS
Permaculture
Hands-On Learning Camp
Tuesday, May 24 - Friday, May 27, 2004
Stay on to build what we have begun to design over the
long weekend workshop
The weekend provides sufficient time to get a grounding
in permaculture principles and aaplying them to reali-life
situations in design work and honds-on exercies. Staying
on into the following week will allow us a greater opportunitiy
to continue with the real work of designing for a site,
and bringing it to life by creating the projects that
we design. The focus projects will be:
• Forest garden
• Compost toilet
• Solar shower
• Greywater system
DETAILED WEEKEND WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Coming soon
LANGUAGE
The course will be offered in English.
WHO SHOULD TAKE THE COURSE?
Permaculture offers useful knowledge and creative
applications for almost everyone: Environmentalists,
Agriculturists, Farmers, Landscapers, Land Owners, Interested
citizens, Educators, Gardeners and Youth. This course
is suitable to both homeowners, and those who rent.
The material will focus on the area immediately around
the home centre; as such the teachings are applicable
to urban and suburban environments.
ABOUT JILLIAN HOVEY
Instructor Jillian Hovey is a seasoned international
permaculture teacher who is dedicated to inspiration
and education about healthy and sustainable living.
Jillian holds a B.Sc. in Agriculture from the University
of Guelph, and is waiting to sit her final exam for
a Masters in Environmental Studies in Sustainable Community
Planning and Design from York University in Toronto.
Jillian sustains herself financially through her teaching,
design, and facilitation work, which is focused on eco
development projects. She has worked across North America
and down into Central America, and has wonderful slide
shows of the eco projects and ecovillages that she has
visited and worked with. Jillian recently supported
a forming ecovillage projects in Quebec and Costa Rica,
and is presently helping to create a sustainable, off-gird
community with a Mohawk tribe in Ontario.
Born and raised in Quebec, Jillian is based in Toronto,
where she founded and runs the Sustainable Living Network
( www.sustainablelivingnetwork.org ). She also focalizes
the volunteer-run Sustainable Living Books project which
makes over 2,500 titles on sustainable and healthy living
available at special events and shows (the draft site
www.sustainablelivingbooks.com will be fully operational
in the fall of 2004). Her organization offers courses
and workshops on a wide range of aspects of permaculture,
and is extensively networked with other people and organizations
in Ontario, and around the world. There are opportunities
for apprentices and volunteers, as well as summer student
positions.
Jillian has a warm, present, and inclusive facilitation
style, which, coupled with the wealth of her experience,
and her passion and commitment to sustainable living,
helps to create a rich and supportive learning environment.
Feel free to approach her with your project ideas: if
she can't help you herself, she always knows someone
who can!
ASSISTANTS
Ulysse Voyer - Permaculturalist and
activist, dedicated to creating sustainable communities
in Quebec.
MEALS & ACCOMMODATION 
Organic living food meals prepared on site, and are
included in the price of the workshop.
Private or shared indoor accommodation; or camping
(differences in accommodation reflected in sliding scale
rates for workshop). Please see photos of the host location
here.
INVESTMENT
Weekend workshop: $225-450 per person
(sliding scale) for the 3-day weekend.
Slide Show Saturday, May 22 (included
in the weekend workshop, but open to others)
Organic, raw & living foods dinner 6:30 - 7:30 (includes
slide show) $25-50
Slide show, discussion, and dessert 8 p.m. - 10 p.m.
$15-25
Permaculture Hands-On Learning Camp:
Tuesday, May 24 - Friday, May 27, 2004
$45-150/day, arrangements made on an individual basis.
* We endeavor to make our workshops be accessible
to all those interested. There are a few partial and
full work trade options for people in need. The sliding
scale is intended to acknowledge people’s differing
abilities to pay, with the upper end being the normal
charge for the workshop, and the lower number representing
a price that the most financially challenged people
can pay. Before you approach us for a reduced rate and/or
a work trade, we ask that you reflect upon a balance
between your ability to pay, and honoring those who
make it their life’s work to offer these experiences.
Let us work together to have these workshops be accessible
and sustainable!
LOCATION & DIRECTIONS
453 Dobbie Rd., RR #4, Lanark, ON K0G 1K0
(50 minutes southwest of Ottawa, an hour from Kingston,
3.5 hours from Toronto, under three hours from Montreal)
Please see
this for directions.
REGISTRATION
Limit of 20 participants – please contact us
early to secure your spot!
Jillian Hovey
The Sustainable Living Network
78 Alberta Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6H 2R8
Phone: 416-410-7581
Fax: 416-654-8917
jillian@permaculture.net
www.sustainablelivingnetwork.org
Chas Dietrich
New Life Retreat Centre for Wellness and Eco-Living
453 Dobbie Rd., RR #4, Lanark, ON K0G 1K0
Phone: 613-259-3337
Fax: 613-259-3031
healing@newliferetreat.com
http://www.newliferetreat.com
Workshop
poster (Toronto)
Workshop
poster (Ottawa)
Images from
the workshop
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