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Village Permaculture Apprenticeship

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Commenced:	01/03/0001
Submitted:	29/12/2014
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	Black Mountain, NC, US
Website:	http://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/village-permaculture-apprenticeship/
Climate zone:	Warm Temperate

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Village Permaculture Apprenticeship

Project Type

Rural, Residential, Intentional Communities, Community, Demonstration, Educational

Project Summary

8 month Residential Permaculture Apprenticeship at Earthaven Ecovillage in Western North Carolina, USA. Apprentices will learn how to tend the land skillfully through an organized, hands-on, project-oriented curriculum infused with implementing and managing physical permaculture systems, formal permaculture design, and cultural learning delivered organically through a permaculture lifestyle at Earthaven Ecovillage.

Project Description

March-November, 2015

Apply by January 20th, 2015

After taking a year-long hiatus from offering an apprenticeship program in 2014 in order to slow down, rest and truly assimilate some important life lessons, in 2015 Zev Friedman will be venturing for the fourth time into the age-old apprenticeship way of teaching and learning. SOIL is excited to be partnering with Zev to unfold this apprenticeship into its highest potential.

In the old way of seed cultures, it will be an experiment, grounded in past experience but trying out new variations. Most notably, we are proud to be having this apprenticeship program in the heart of Earthaven Ecovillage where Zev now lives and SOIL is based out of, and apprentices will be living here on the land for the duration of the program.

Apprentices will be learning through hands-on projects, the implementation and management of physical permaculture systems on a neighborhood and village scale, with some emphasis on formal permaculture design and lots of cultural and “invisible structures” learning delivered organically through a permaculture lifestyle at Earthaven.

This apprenticeship program offers apprentices the opportunity to have extensive time learning how to tend the land with Zev Friedman and team of other guest instructors, through an organized and coherent hands-on curriculum. This program aims to foster passionate people who are informed about what it takes to create a beautiful, just, and sustainable world and empowered to be a changemaker.

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