Foundations of Permaculture Webinar Series
A Self-Study Program - Applies toward PDC  Certificate

Webinar Package Includes - 8 Recorded Video Webinars – On-line and/or on Computer DVD (11 Hours) - 5 New Teachers – Wonderful Diversity (scroll down) - 3 Additional Audio Webinars (5 hours) - PDC Course Textbook - Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture by Rosemary Morrow - 150 Study Questions - Over 2-Dozen Handouts from our Design Courses In Addition - Continue to Receive Updated and New Webinars – Indefinitely

To Order/Register Click Here  Registered Students Click here to Access the Webinar Series

All the above is accessible through this page shortly after we confirm a students registration.  The password will be sent to you directly and the textbook & the DVD are shipped promptly by snail-mail.

“I’ve LOVED these webinars.  Thank you so much for offering the webinar-only option. I plan to take a certification class within the next couple of years, but these webinars allowed me to really bring together the self-study and in-the-dirt projects I’ve been working on. THANKS!”   Leigh W. (left) – Arkansas  http://ozarksalive.org/larrapin/   “I took the online part of the Midwest Permaculture PDC last spring.  Even if I never get out there for the hands-on week, the online webinar was well worth the time and money.”   Dave M. – Colorado

 

Note: The full price of this webinar series can be applied towards
any of our future PDC Courses (for up to three years).

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How This Works
We have pulled some of the best webinars we have hosted in the last couple of years covering some of the foundational subjects related to permaculture along with some great stories and examples of individuals applying permaculture thinking and actions in their lives.

These are not canned or edited presentations.  You will receive the recorded sessions just as they unfolded live for the students who participated in the original webinar.

Not long after a student calls in their order or we receive notice of the on-line purchase (this is not an automated process), webinar students receive a welcome email from Becky that grants them access the networking site where the full webinar series is posted for immediate downloading and viewing.

Computer Requirements
To download or view the webinars and handouts from the internet, students need a computer that is connected and has the modest capabilities to download standard internet files (.mp3, .mp4, .doc, .pdf).  Included on the webinar page is information and access to two video players that are free to download off the internet.

Computer DVD of Videos
For those that don’t wish to download the large webinar files, a DVD of these, along with the textbook (The Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture by Rosemary Marrow), will be shipped via snail-mail shortly after registration and should arrive in under a week, if not a few days.  As long as your computer can play a DVD, just about any computer will be able to play the video webinars.

Technical Assistance
Midwest Permaculture’s technical support person, permaculture teacher and all round great guy Milton Dixon, is available via email or cell phone to assist all webinar students with any start-up quirks.  It’s pretty easy once you get started.  Don’t let the technology part of this keep you away from these great webinars if you are truly interested. We will assist you.

 

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The Webinars – All as Computer Videos

#	Teacher	Title
1	Bill Wilson	The Case for Permaculture
2	Larry Korn	Story of “The One-Straw Revolution” (book)
3	Wayne Weiseman	Ethics and Principles of Permaculture
4	Donna & Robyn	Your Backyard Farmer
5	Wayne Weiseman	Methods of Design, Patterns, & Observation
6	Helen Cameron	Urban Roof-Top, Certified-Organic Farm
7	Wayne Weiseman	Weather and Climatic Factors
8	Marcus de la Fleur	Holding Water on the Urban Landscape

 

“Hi Bill, I just wanted to thank you for putting together the webinar series. I’ve been listening to them again, this time in the greenhouse while planting onions. They are still as enlightening as ever and it makes thinking about spring that much more enjoyable.” Whitney S.(Ohio) — Webinar Student (2010)

 

About the Presenters

Webinar #1 — Bill Wilson The Case for Permaculture: This is the foundational material from Bill’s 3-hour “Introduction to Permaculture;” Bill holds two PDC Certificates and two Advanced Permaculture Training Certificates (one in design, the other in teaching).  He is cofounder of Midwest Permaculture with his wife Becky and has taught at over 25 PDC courses. “Listening to Bill was like a breath of fresh air. I knew that there had to be a way out of the energy and societal challenges before us, and now I see it. Very inspiring and hopeful…!” Webinar Student

Webinar #2 — Larry Korn Larry Korn Larry is a soil biologist, an ecological landscaper, and is the translator/editor of one of the most influential books to touch the lives of scores of natural farmers,  The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka As a young man, Larry spent five years in Japan, two of those with the author, Masanobu Fukuoka, on his farm in southern Japan.  He lived in one of the mud-walled huts in Mr. Fukuoka’s orchard and performed farm chores with the other workers and students, learning all he could about Masanobu’s unique form of farming.Pictured below: Larry in the field with Masanobu Fukuoka   When Larry returned to the states he promised Masanobu Fukuoka that he would do all he could to see that his book The One-Straw Revolution was translated from Japanese into English and then published.  This is a fascinating story that Larry shares during his presentation with many slides and much detail.  We end up hearing stories about Robert Rodale, Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, Bill Mollison, Gary Snyder and more. Robert Rodale Wendell Berry Wes Jackson Gary Snyder

Webinars #3… #5… #7 — Wayne Weiseman Wayne holds a wealth of information and experience which becomes obvious as soon as he begins to teach.  Wayne has deep experience in farming, horticulture, alternative building methods, renewable energy, teaching and music.Wayne Weiseman has been certified by Bill Mollison and The Permaculture Institute of Australiato teach the Permaculture Design Certification Course.He is also the Founder and Director of The Permaculture Project, a full-service, international consulting business promoting the ideas of eco-agriculture, renewable-energy resources and eco-construction methods.

Webinar #4 — Robyn Streeter (L) and Donna Smith Learn many of the details about how these two farmers (who had little money and no land) set up and now run 53 “mini-farms” for a great income.Your Backyard Farmers Portland, OregonDonna and Robyn were the first we ever heard of who run their farming operation from other peoples back yards.And they don’t rent peoples back yards, they charge the homeowners yearly to have much of their own family’s food grown for them right in their own backyards.  Robyn and Donna visit each home once a week, attending to all that is necessary in the vegetable garden, leaving a full basket of produce on the residents doorstep when the little farm starts producing.

Webinar #6 — Helen Cameron Uncommon Ground Restaurant – Chicago Helen and her husband Michael had been restaurateurs for almost 2 decades. In 2007 they decided to open a second location for their successful restaurant and chose a building on the far North Side of Chicago because of the large-flat roof. Helen wanted to grow at least some of the food and herbs that they serve to their customers.In the process, they decided to become organically certified and as it turned out, became the first certified organic rooftop ‘farm’ in the United States.A very inspiring story.

Webinar #8 — Marcus de la fleur Marcus de la fleur and wife Cathy Haibach, didn’t stop with just rain barrels to capture the bountiful rainwater falling on the suburban home they lived in. They also incorporate: bio-swales… porous pavements… rain gardens… a green roof… a cistern… and gravel grass.Marcus de la fleur is a Registered Landscape Architect and owner of the design and consulting firm de la fleur LLCin Chicago, IL.  He received his horticultural degree from the School of Horticulture at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, and obtained his Masters in Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield, also in the UK.In the webinar, Marcus takes us for an intimate journey through this website that documents the work that he and Cathy did on this very-suburban home.

 

5-Hours of Additional Audio Webinars
For many of the Permaculture Design Certificate Courses we host a 1-2 hour Q&A period where students are invited to ask any sort of question they might have about permaculture. These turn into some very interesting discussions so we wanted to add several of these webinars to this series as well. These are audio files only (there are no pictures to view) and are immediately available to students on-line following registration.

Begin Now
Within hours of registering, webinars students receive a welcome email from Midwest Permaculture with instructions on how to access the networking site were everything is posted for immediate downloading. For those that don’t wish to download large webinar files, the DVD will arrive several days later in the same package with the text book, The Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture. Start with the handouts and the Q&A sessions while waiting for the DVD and book to arrive.

In Addition Continue to Receive Updated and New Webinars – Indefinitely! Whenever and however the webinars are updated in the future, you will always receive the latest version of the webinar series via the internet.  It’s sort of like a “life-time membership” except, how can we really predict the future like that?  Let’s just say that we feel that you have become part of our Midwest Permaculture family when you have ordered these webinars and we want you to have access to continued permaculture resources to the extent that you are interested.  For example — all of our previous webinar students will now have access to all of these new ones.

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Registration – On-Line or by Phone

 Price of Webinar Series — $195.00

Webinar Package Includes - 8 Recorded Video Webinars – On-line and/or on Computer DVD (11 Hours) - 5 Different Teachers – Wonderful Diversity (scroll down) - 3 Additional Q&A Audio Webinars (5 hours) - PDC Course Textbook - Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture by Rosemary Morrow - 150 Study Questions - Over 2-Dozen Handouts from our Design Courses In Addition - Continue to Receive Updated and New Webinars (whenever we update the series)

	To Order: Option 1 Register Online. We take MasterCard, Visa and Discover. Option 2 Call Becky to register over the phone at 815-256-2215 with credit card or to mail in a personal check.

Reminder:The full $195 is subtracted from the price of any of our full Permaculture Design Certificate Courses for those students who register within 3 years of ordering the webinars. Group Pricing - We do have special pricing for schools, universities, not-for-profits, and other organizations and institutions.  More…

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A Few More Details

PDC Course Textbook Included with these Webinars ‘Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture’ by Rosemary Morrow This gem of a text, shipped to students upon registration, is written by Rosemary Morrow of Australia who has taught permaculture around the world for decades. The book is straightforward and loaded with illustrations, depth and substance.  It covers theory and also focuses on the practical aspects of how to implement permaculture design. This book is a must read for the serious permaculturist and is a requirement for students of our design certificate courses.

Additional Networking Site (optional)
For those who take this webinar series there is the networking ‘home room’ where all registered students can post their personal bios (if they wish), share ideas or questions and just get to know other webinar students.  It is similar to FaceBook (if you are familiar with that) but private.

This is completely optional (to interact with others) but the networking site is where you will go to access a downloadable copy of the webinars, the over 2-dozen handouts and the 150 self-study questions.

Feel free to look around our Midwest Permaculture networking site.  You won’t be able to fully access the ‘Foundations of Permaculture’ webinar page for this is only for registered students, but all of the “Public Forums” are fully available for everyone to visit and you will get a feel for how the networking site works.

http://midwestpermaculture.ning.com/

Our hope is that people interested in permaculture will be able to meet others in this ‘networking site of like minds’ to share ideas, questions, personal projects, and inspiration.

Bill and Becky Wilson

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Institutional or Group Pricing 6-16 Students                                    $175/ea. (Includes a 90-min. live webinar with Bill Wilson of MWP) 17-48 Students                                  $150/ea. (Includes two 90-min. Live Webinars with Bill Wilson of MWP) 49-96 Students                                   $140/ea. (Includes four webinars or a half-day training with Bill Wilson at your location) Benefits to Each Student Each student receives the full webinar package with textbook , DVD and study guide. In Addition: –  a $ credit commensurate with payment for any of our future PDC Courses –  Access to all future updates of the webinar series Further Details The institution or group typically registers each student by name, mailing address, and email address so that we can ship out the DVD & book and connect students to the on-line information. Students can be registered all at once or we will set up an account for an institution or group to add their students as they come in over time. For groups of 49 or more who wish to bring Bill in for a half-day of training, the only additional costs are for Bill’s travel and motel if necessary.

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Please contact Becky at Midwest Permaculture for further information, other variations on the above, registration of students, and payment. Email  Phone (815-256-2215)