May 5-week PDC in Community May 21 – June 22 How the Lost Valley ‘PDC in Community’ course is different Most Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) courses are two weeks in length, or a series of weekends that equates to the same length. These courses cover all of the areas of permaculture that Bill Mollison says are required in a certificate course, but typically in an academic setting and without extensive exploration beyond the standard elements. Lost...

Garden Exploration Course May 21 – June 22 (5 weeks) This course is designed to give you a hands-on introduction to permaculture gardening and land stewardship. You will work alongside the Lost Valley Land and Garden Crew, participating in their daily activities of growing food and managing the ecological health of our site. This is not an ‘academic’ course in that it does not follow a predetermined curriculum, but rather the needs of the land and the development...

Pond Building & Earthworks Workshop, June 22-24 Fresh water comprises less than three percent of the planet’s total water supply — and it’s always in motion – flowing and transforming through the landscape, percolating down into deep aquifers and up into wispy cloud vapors, and rolling relentlessly to the sea.  In fact, even our own bodies are mostly water.  So when the precious rains come down, we have to learn to catch them!  Depending on how we relate to them, the...