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Sonic Bloom Permaculture Academy: a pre-festival Permaculture Action Course
June 16, 2019 @ 3:00 pm - June 19, 2019 @ 9:00 pm
$366The Permaculture Academy
before Sonic Bloom Festival
June 16th (afternoon arrival) – June 19th, 2019
For the third year, Permaculture Action Network and Sonic Bloom invite you to spend the days before the festival learning practical skills for regenerating ecosystems and building community. Permaculture design mimics the patterns and principles at work in natural systems to create systems for living in symbiotic relationship with the earth and its ecosystems while cultivating food, shelter, medicine, clean water, biodiversity, energy, and community.
“The Sonic Bloom Permaculture Academy allowed me to take time to observe our surroundings and notice patterns of interconnectedness. The course was informational about the ethics of stewardship and how we can reclaim our role as conscious co-creators.” – Sunshine Rose
Visit the Sonic Bloom Website to register in advance.
Learn the Concepts of Permaculture
- Permaculture design processes and principles
- Rainwater harvesting and earthworks
- Permaculture landscape design and food forestry
- Natural building and appropriate technology
- Social transformation and community organizing methods
- Practical tools and techniques for regenerating ecology
$366 enrollment fee
Academy students can look forward to lots of perks with their enrollment fee including…
- 21+ hours of world class educational experience
- 2 healthy, organic meals per day (brunch and dinner)
- Yoga class every morning
- Connections with like minded people
- Be among the first people on site
- First priority shaded and creekside camping
- Free time in pristine Colorado nature
- Festival car camping included
- Academy/Festival combo tickets available
About the Facilitators
Ryan Rising is a community organizer and permaculture educator based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, and co-founder of the Permaculture Action Network. After a decade of local organizing around direct action, food justice, ecological design, and community living, Ryan organized the Permaculture Action Tour with music producer The Polish Ambassador in the fall of 2014. Ryan has since co-organized over 90 Permaculture Action Days throughout 26 US states, bringing hundreds of people at a time to take hands-on action building greenhouses, rainwater catchment systems, gardens, and regenerative systems at 80 different local community projects including public food forests, urban farms, and ecovillages. Ryan co-founded the Gill Tract Community Farm, which produces tons of organic food annually that is distributed for free all around the Bay Area, and the Omni Commons, an urban commons and community center.
Mike Wird
Michael White aka Mike Wird is an advanced permaculture designer/consultant/teacher, artist educator, natural builder (as a certified Earthship Biotect) and is an educated real estate investor, promoting environmental stewardship and financial literacy. His campaign ‘Build Your Own Dreams’ is designed to help people actively reach for their goals while having fun.
Mike shares his dedication to social and environmental justice through cultural arts and regenerative practices and has been actively cultivating community for over a decade as an Emcee, Deejay & Hiphop Cultural Arts Ambassador, raising awareness about social, economic and ecological issues and their solutions.
Mike teaches courses in Eco-Social Design with Permaculture Action Network and offers advanced sessions in Colorado and New Mexico with his business Regenerative Adventures. Mike teaches Permaculture Design certificate courses with Family Tree Permaculture on the nature island of Dominica in the eastern Caribbean and on the festive island of Ibiza in the Mediterranean. For more info, email mikewird@gmail.com
Stephanie Syson
Stephanie, Co-Founder Biodynamic Botanicals, has spent the past decade with her hands and heart in the dirt growing and using the powerful herbs that create vitality and wellness. Stephanie Syson has over 15 years of experience in the herbal product industry as well as having over 18 years researching and practicing various forms of sustainable farming across the United States and Latin America. She is a Certified Permaculture Designer and educator in the fields of Greenhouse Management, Seed Saving and Herbalism. Stephanie lectures across the United States on topics such as Public Food Forests, Seed Saving Libraries and Culinary and Medicinal Herb Growing. She has presented at conferences such as the Boulder Bioneers and the North American Permaculture Convergence. Stephanie also works with groups of all ages to further their knowledge of these topics through regular public workshops held at the Basalt Regional Library, a childhood education series held at the Basalt Middle School as well as teaching Permaculture Design Courses at Colorado Mountain College, The Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute and the Denver Permaculture Guild. She lectures for the Colorado Extension Service and co-hosts the Living Permaculture Show, a monthly radio show on public radio KDNK. Stephanie is committed to community service through education and demonstration of herbal self-care and sustainable farming practices. She manages a public food forest in Basalt called the Basalt Food Park.
Sign up at https://sonicbloomfestival.com/academy/permaculture/
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