Advanced Permaculture – Water Management
February 6, 2025 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm PST
Resilient design begins with water. Come learn to work with water, nutrients, and energy flows to create vibrant landscapes and resilient communities. Taught by senior instructors Starhawk and Charles Williams. This class will guide you through the art and science of working with water to promote productivity and resistance in your landscape. You can take this class as a stand-alone class for personal growth or as the first module in a four-part Advanced Permaculture certificate program.
Course will cover:
WATER HARVESTING & LAND RESTORATION
- Water Harvesting, Water Cycles, Drought, and Flood Control. Learn the intricacies of how water moves in the landscape, and how human systems impact this movement. Delve into strategies for water harvesting and retention along with flood and drought mitigation.
- Water in the Landscape: Erosion Control and Stream Restoration. Learn about water remediation strategies in urban and rural systems. Explore techniques for healing degraded lands suffering from erosion, drought, and water pollution.
- Water Management Plans and Case Studies. Review case studies around water management, and write your own water management plan.
WATER COLLECTION AND TREATMENT
- Water Collection and Storage. Learn to design rainwater collection systems, including sizing, siting, and plumbing. Explore a wide range of water storage options, learning how to select which works best for a site.
- Treatment Strategies. Learn the basics of on-site wastewater treatment. We will review basic treatment strategies and go into detail about how to design and set up a treatment system.
Remediate Toxins and Manage Humanure. Explore treatment strategies for polluted water through biological methods. Learn to safely manage humanure for pathogen removal and landscape use.tion.
To learn more, please visit the Advanced Permaculture – Water Management webpage or register below.