You can see and read more about this course in an awesome blog post by one of the students in this course: These Light Footsteps – Hands-on Permaculture.

Classroom Panorama

Learning how to use a dumpy level to survey

Our newly completed bomb-proof sheet mulch

Getting ready to survey for the hugelkultur swale

Students laying wood in the hugelkultur swale

Students posing on the hugelkultur swale

Laying straw and seeds on the finished hugelkultur swale

Milton showing students the basics of grafting

Cooking a meal on the rocket stove

Collecting day lilly tubers

The next round of chickens came in the mail during our course

Grinding feed for the chickens

Back in the classroom Milton talks about plant guilds

Checking out Bill & Becky’s aquaponics setup

Getting ready to pour compost tea into the sprayer

One of the guilds that we planted in Bill & Becky’s Yard

Hands-on Permaculture Class Photo