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Picture Summary – Essential Permaculture Weekend – Kalamazoo 8/12

 Essential Permaculture Weekend Training – Kalamazoo, MI – August 2012

 We were invited to deliver our “Essential Permaculture” weekend training in Kalamazoo by a former student of ours who is one of the coordinators of the Trybal Revival Eastside EcoGarden (TREE).  
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Permaculture Training on Lake Shore Drive – Chicago

That’s Lake Shore Drive (LSD) in the background.
Lake Michigan is on the other side of the Drive. 

Midwest Permaculture Students Learning to use an A-frame
The Institute of Cultural Affairs brought us in to teach one of our weekend “Essential Permaculture” trainings.
This training focuses on useful information for the suburban and urban resident. 
We took our students to the closest green area to teach them how to use an A-Frame
for measuring level contours for swale and rain-garden digging. 
The closest area was the greenbelt next to Lake Shore Drive…!!!
The training was hosted October 29-30, 2011 
 Some of the city behind us.
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