Some key ideas, concepts & practice from the workshop:

Permaculture is more than keeping a Sustainable status quo.  Its about moving from the Degenerative systems we live with now, to systems of Regeneration !

The industrial food system takes 10 calories of hydrocarbons to produce one calorie of food, and depletes precious global top soil year after year (our #1 environmental problem before deforestation & pollution) Lets grow our own gardens! 

If we change our view about what is 'waste', then we have an opportunity for new yields - also called Upcycling! eg. 'waste' water from your roof ...

Want to learn more? Come to the Permaculture Design Course in April 2011 with Jesse Lemieux!

Thanks to Rob Avis of Verge Permaculture & Adrian Buckley of Big Sky Permaculture for teaching in Cranbrook on their whirlwind two week permaculture tour of Eastern BC!  We were oh so happy to host them & the event.  

Thanks to College of the Rockies Cranbrook for their generous use of the lecture hall!