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Permaculture Homesteading

How To Live Off the Grid While Staying Connected

April 28, 2013 – May 03, 2013
Location:
Rhinebeck, NY
Course:
SM13- 0805-372
Teacher:
Andrew Faust
Tuition:
$320
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Description

We are no longer taking online registrations for this workshop.

The confluence of peak oil, loss of biodiversity, and widespread pollution from carbon-based industries points to the growing need for an alternative to our way of living.

Using natural, scientifically based approaches, the worldwide permaculture movement addresses these issues to develop a healthy, vibrant, more sustainable model we can all use—right at home. During this 5-day workshop, leading permaculture teacher Andrew Faust shows us how to live off the grid, while staying connected to our communities and the world. We learn to:

  • Turn our home, farm, or cabin into a self-sufficient, low-energy-use, off-the-grid dwelling
  • Use natural energy supplies like passive solar and gravity-fed water systems
  • Detox our home and clean indoor air with plants Develop organic, biodynamic, and biointensive home and rooftop gardening techniques
  • Turn wastes into resources with gray-water sumps, composting for home and garden, and eco-outhouses

We also explore permaculture in the kitchen, passive cooking, eating regionally and seasonally, and much more.

 

Schedule
Sunday
4:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.Check In (Rooms available after 5:00 p.m.)
8:00 p.m.–8:20 p.m.Omega Welcome (Orientation)
 
Monday
9:00 a.m.–NoonWorkshop
2:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.Workshop
 
Tuesday
9:00 a.m.–NoonWorkshop
2:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.Workshop
 
Wednesday
9:00 a.m.–NoonWorkshop
 
Thursday
9:00 a.m.–NoonWorkshop
2:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.Workshop
 
Friday
9:00 a.m.–NoonWorkshop
Noon–1:00 p.m.Check Out
Teachers
Andrew Faust
Andrew Faust

Andrew Faust has been teaching about permaculture for nearly two decades, in rural settings along the East Coast and in Brooklyn, where he adapted his ideas to urban living through the Center for Bioregional Living. He has lived off the grid for eight years in West Virginia, where he designed and built a permaculture-inspired homestead including a 1,600 square foot straw-bale house. homebiome.com