A permaculture instructor from Mingo County, West Virginia is launching an in-person design course focused on reclaiming strip-mined Appalachian land. He's worked on thousands of acres of former mine sites and brought in Geoff Lawton and Sam Parker Davies as guest instructors. The course promises a 20-to-100-fold return in personal and environmental impact.
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I've been teaching permaculture for 6 years now. It's been a life-changing experience and a great pleasure to be able to pour into other people what I've learned. I remember when I first saw this YouTube video of this crazy Australian turning the desert green. Not only was I hooked from that video, but there was purpose that was planted in me. I'm from a coal miner's town in Mingo County, West Virginia, so I was surrounded by a landscape that looked like it couldn't be used again. And I always wondered why I lived here. I love the people, I love the small town feel, but as a young person, like many, I was looking for purpose. What permaculture did for me was it planted purpose. Not only could I really fall in love with my hometown, that I could be influential in putting it back together. Now we're hosting our first in-person PDC. It's a permaculture design course. This course will teach you how to implement permaculture systems and philosophy on small-scale spaces to very large spaces. What makes this course different from all the others that you can take We focus on reclamation. We focus on harsh landscape. I've been a part of designing, reclaiming, and implementing systems on, on thousands of acres of strip mine land in Appalachia. I know a thing or two. Being a part of our first cohort is a special opportunity. If you want to learn how to design, if you want to learn how to consult, If you want to learn how to reclaim, learning these reclamation skills, I guarantee this investment that you're going to make in this course, it's going to change your life. It's going to bring back a return 20, 30, 100-fold of what you can accomplish. I am honored to be joined by many friends that will help teach this course, including some that you know from the homesteading community. As well as Geoff Lawton and Sam Parker Davies having a special Zoom session all the way from Australia. So what are you waiting for? Sign up! Spaces are limited.
