Pictures From our June 2012, Stelle PDC Course | Midwest Permaculture

Pictures From our June 2012, Stelle PDC Course

Bill Wilson
July 12, 2012

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Pictures by Milton Dixon and Bill Wilson – Captions by Bill

Midwest Permaculture first day in the classroom — Day 1 in the Classroom – The World Map on the Wall is a Nice Addition to any Learning space. – Becky Wilson Teaching

“Thank you Bill and Becky for such an incredible, life-altering week.”
Jody T. – Community Organizer

PDC Touring Stelle — Bill Touring Students around Stelle and the CSC Property

Edible parts of a cattail — Milton on Plant Walk showing Edible Parts of a Cattail

Willow grove — Walking Through the Black Willow Grove

Over the bridge — Crossing Footbridge over Kelly Creek into the Orchard

Swales on the clay model — Bill Giving Earthworks Demonstration using a Clay Model

Waiting out the rain to learn the "A" frame — A Brief Rain during our A-frame Segment

Swinging the pick-ax to start the hugelkultur swale — The Beginning of our First Hugelkultured Swale

Hugelkultured Swale with Linear Food Forest - Cross Section - 640pix — Here is a Cross Section Illustration of What We Have Designed for Center for Sustainable Communities’ (our local non-profit) 8.7 Acre Parcel of Land

Hugelkultured Swale with Linear Food Forests for Center for Sustainable Community - 640pix — There Will be Three of These Designed into the Hillside when Completed.

Loading up wood for the hugelkultur swale — Loading up Wood for the Hugelkultur Swale

Wood laid in the hugelkultur swale — Laying the Larger Wood Pieces into the Bottom

Throwing wood chips for the swale — Wood Chips can be Used in a Hugelkultur Swale for Quick Decomposition

Covering the hugelkultur swale with soil — Adding Smaller Wood and Brush while Working Soil into the Cracks

The designer is a recliner on top of their hugelkultur swale — A Layer of Grass and Weeds Provides Immediate Nitrogen to the Mound while making a Comfy Place to take a Group Photo

Putting the soil back on top of the hugelkultur swale — Time to Put all of the Soil back on Top

Check out this Short YouTube Video that we made to Help Explain the Function
The Hugelkultured Swale
(Video Animation and Editing by Milton Dixon)

Permaculture class in the orchard - Bill Wilson teaching — Bill Giving Talk about Community While in the Orchard

Making a cob bench — Learning to Make Cob for Building from the Earth Beneath our Feet

Permaculture teacher Milton Dixon demonstrating how to make a graft — The Grafting Workshop

Permaculturists working on their final project 1 — Down to Business – Working on a Final Permaculture Design Project – Jerol, Paul, Marie, Randy, Woody

Permaculturists working on their final project 2 — David, Jodi, John, Mike, Rebecca, Larry

Permaculturists working on their final project 3 — Lisa, Gianna, Dean, Susan, Zach, John

Who makes dinner? Nancy! — Nancy Lee Bently – Fantastic Cook for Several Meals During the PDC

Nancy Lee Bently is the Author of the book: Truly Cultured

A feast from Nancy. — Example of Some of Our Great Meals

Note: As graduates of a Midwest Permaculture PDC courses, these students are now linked into our network of other PDC Grads; will receive all updates to our Foundations of Permaculture Webinar Series in the coming years; and may audit a future PDC course we host at half-price should they like to repeat the training.

Congratulations to you all… and Welcome Aboard…!!!

Bill and Becky Wilson

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2 thoughts on “Pictures From our June 2012, Stelle PDC Course”

Bill Eaton
December 16, 2014 at 6:38 am

I was looking at photo of your linear food forest, At my house top of hill is south and bottom is north. Would I just reverse Over Story to further down hill and Under story at base of swale?

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1. Milton Dixon
  December 16, 2014 at 8:46 am
  
  Pretty much, you’d also want to think about spacing and plant selection. The north face of a hill is going to be a cooler microclimate all around, something like each 10° away from the sun is like a zone north (the converse is also true). I would also take advantage of any other strategies you can like thermal mass. Just watching what happens during a frost or thaw will be very instructive.
  
  On the other hand being on the north slope may mean that blossoms would appear later, so that those that would have otherwise been killed in a late frost may not even be out yet.
  
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