Burbsteading Workshop
Suburban Homesteading to Rebuild a Victory Garden Lifestyle
There are over 43 million acres of lawn in North America. Combined, our lawns are the fourth-largest agricultural land holding after ranching, corn and wheat. Even though we are facing a supply crisis without any skills to put food on our table besides shopping for it, our backyards are resource rich and we only have to step outside to tap into that abundance. During the Great Depression 40% of our food came from farms and gardens within the United States. Today sadly, less than 4% of our food is grown by Americans.
So whether you live in a subdivision with an HOA, in an apartment, or have a bit of acreage, you can learn the basic ethics and principles of permaculture design to design your own suburban homestead. Permaculture is a design science that is rooted in observation of natural systems and offers a toolkit to meet and exceed our needs just outside our your own back door. In this intensive, 12-hour workshop you will learn step-by-step the basic principles of permaculture design, market gardening and natural farming to design your suburban homestead. Learn how to transform your yard into a productive Victory Garden that is integrated to catch water, capture and release energy, build fertile and healthy soil, raise animals, cycle wastes, and create abundant, beautiful and productive gardens. Whether you live in an HOA, apartment or have a larger lot, at the end of the workshop you will have a site design of your space, complete with plant lists, and a plan to implement it and make your design a reality.
To host a workshop please contact Kirsten@goodtilthfarm.com
So whether you live in a subdivision with an HOA, in an apartment, or have a bit of acreage, you can learn the basic ethics and principles of permaculture design to design your own suburban homestead. Permaculture is a design science that is rooted in observation of natural systems and offers a toolkit to meet and exceed our needs just outside our your own back door. In this intensive, 12-hour workshop you will learn step-by-step the basic principles of permaculture design, market gardening and natural farming to design your suburban homestead. Learn how to transform your yard into a productive Victory Garden that is integrated to catch water, capture and release energy, build fertile and healthy soil, raise animals, cycle wastes, and create abundant, beautiful and productive gardens. Whether you live in an HOA, apartment or have a larger lot, at the end of the workshop you will have a site design of your space, complete with plant lists, and a plan to implement it and make your design a reality.
To host a workshop please contact Kirsten@goodtilthfarm.com
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Date: TBD
Time: TBD Day 1: Webinar 7pm-9pm Days 2&3: 8:30am - 1:30pm Cost: Suggested Donation $175 ~ Continental breakfast will be served on days 2 & 3 ~Brown Bag Lunch ~Each student will receive a class workbook ~Bartering and payment arrangements are welcomed. ~Contact kirsten@goodtilthfarm.com for more information. IF YOU HAVE CONFIRMED A DATE FOR THE WORKSHOP PLEASE REGISTER BELOW. IF WOULD LIKE TO BOOK THIS WORKSHOP EMAIL KIRSTEN@GOODTILTHFARM.COM FOR INSTRUCTIONS. :) |
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Day 1 (Online):
- 1. Sense of place & Observation & Asset Inventory: Get to know your bio-region and discover your sense of place within it. Take an inventory of what you have and note what the limitations are so you can create a framework for your design.
- 2. Permaculture 101: Learn the basic design principles and systems approach to plan for production and abundance on your property.
- 3. Soils: Overview of natural farming and KNF. Learn about cleaning soils with phytoremediation, mycoremediation installations and bioremediation. Learn inexpensive ways to build soil, keep it clean and cycle waste with different composting methods.
- 4. Water: Learn the many ways to “plant water” within the landscape matrix with trees and plants, ponds, swales, rain gardens and cisterns as well as how to purify water. Build a simple design tool to survey and map out the contours of your property.
- 5. Sun & Weather: Growing Food in Harsh Climates. How to work with our crazy seasons and plant for a four season harvest.
- 6. Perennial Food Forests & Adaptive Plants: How to design food forests and guilds for succession harvesting with a combination of wild plants, calorie crops, nutrient dense foods, fruits, herbs and perennial vegetables.
- 7. Market Gardens: How to plan and grow for your own needs and expand to sell or trade surplus.
- 8. Urban Animal Husbandry: Decide which animals you should raise, their shelter needs, fodder plants and feed recipes. We will cover backyard poultry, aquaponics, beekeeping, keeping mini goats and how to work within city zoning laws.
- 9. Appropriate Technology: Learn low-tech and no-tech ways to meet some of our needs to keep costs down or in case of a power failure.
- 10. Seed Saving, Preserving Harvests: Learn when to save seeds and how to store them for the next season as well as how to preserve harvests in the ground as well as dehydrate, can, freeze and ferment.
- 11. Propagation: How to make “free” plants by seed, division, stem cuttings, grafting or layering.
- 12) Putting it all together: Using Google Maps, your plant/animal lists, your understanding of rainfall, winds, sun patterns, priorities and limitations, begin your design and learn how to keep good records to plan for each season.
BURBSTEADING: Designing your Urban Permaculture Homestead (Intensive 3-Day Course)
$175.00
What: Learn the basics of permaculture design to create your backyard homestead
Where: TBD
When: Day 1: Webinar 7pm-9pm (Or recording sent)
Days 2&3: 8:30am - 1:30pm (Lunch break from 12:00 PM - 1:00PM)
Cost: Suggested Donation $175
- Continental breakfast served in the morning on days 2 & 3. Please pack a brown bag lunch, bring plenty of water and be prepared for warm weather.
- Each student will receive a workbook.
There are over 43 million acres of lawn in North America. That's 42,758,000 MORE acres than the largest private farmland owner. Together, our combined lawns could be considered the fourth largest agricultural land holding in the United States!
This 12-hour course helps you transform your property into your own private homestead in the city. You will learn basic permaculture, natural farming, horticultural and market gardening principles that will help you design, develop a plan to turn your property into a beautiful, functioning homestead, tailored to your specific needs and wants.
These principles can be scaled up or down. So whether you live in an apartment, HOA or have acreage, by the end of the workshop you will have a peer and instructor reviewed site design of your property, complete with plant, animal lists, and a plan to implement your design and make it a reality!
BURBSTEADING CURRICULUM
Day 1 (Online):
- 1. Sense of place & Observation & Asset Inventory: Get to know your bio-region and discover your sense of place within it. Take an inventory of what you have and note what the limitations are so you can create a framework for your design.
- 2. Permaculture 101: Learn the basic design principles and systems approach to plan for production and abundance on your property.
Day 2 (In Person)
- 3. Soils: Overview of natural farming and KNF. Learn about cleaning soils with phytoremediation, mycoremediation installations and bioremediation. Learn inexpensive ways to build soil, keep it clean and cycle waste with different composting methods.
- 4. Water: Learn the many ways to “plant water” within the landscape matrix with trees and plants, ponds, swales, rain gardens and cisterns as well as how to purify water. Build a simple design tool to survey and map out the contours of your property.
- 5. Sun & Weather: Growing Food in Harsh Climates. How to work with our crazy seasons and plant for a four season harvest.
- 6. Perennial Food Forests & Adaptive Plants: How to design food forests and guilds for succession harvesting with a combination of wild plants, calorie crops, nutrient dense foods, fruits, herbs and perennial vegetables.
- 7. Market Gardens: How to plan and grow for your own needs and expand to sell or trade surplus.
Day 3 (In Person)
- 8. Urban Animal Husbandry: Decide which animals you should raise, their shelter needs, fodder plants and feed recipes. We will cover backyard poultry, aquaponics, beekeeping, keeping mini goats and how to work within city zoning laws.
- 9. Appropriate Technology: Learn low-tech and no-tech ways to meet some of our needs to keep costs down or in case of a power failure.
- 10. Seed Saving, Preserving Harvests: Learn when to save seeds and how to store them for the next season as well as how to preserve harvests in the ground as well as dehydrate, can, freeze and ferment.
- 11. Propagation: How to make “free” plants by seed, division, stem cuttings, grafting or layering.
- 12) Putting it all together: Using Google Maps, your plant/animal lists, your understanding of rainfall, winds, sun patterns, priorities and limitations, begin your design and learn how to keep good records to plan for each season.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Kirsten is the owner of Good Tilth Farm and Nursery and Lorica Tea. She is a certified permaculture designer from the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia and has and been working in the urban agriculture industry, as a market gardener, nurseryman and designer since 2009.