In this 3-day course, world-reknowned Permaculture designer Geoff
Lawton will teach on-the-ground permaculture strategies in the context
of a 100-acre reforestation and orchard expansion project at the MA
Center in Castro Valley, CA. The course will include several of Geoff's
famous slideshows and hands-on participation in creating a
water-harvesting, food forest on a grassy hillside. Students will walk
the landscape with Geoff and learn how to site small ponds, build
swales, design keyline systems, stabilize the landscape, and take an
ecological approach that transitions from "planting trees" to
"designing eco-systems". All proceeds will be donated to Amma's
Greenfriend's Tree Planting projects in the US.
GEOFF LAWTON is director of the Permaculture Research
Institute of Australia, a master of haresting rainwater in the
landscape, and a frequent co-teacher with Bill Mollison. He has been
invited by governments, NGOs, businesses, and communities in 27
different countries to teach, restore damaged ecosystems, and direct
sustainable design projects. See how Geoff has used permaculture to Green the Desert.
The MA CENTER is the US headquarters for the
activities of international humanitarian and spiritual leader Mata
Amritananda Mayi, known as Amma. > Learn more about Amma.
GREENFRIENDS is Amma's international environmental
initiative that has planted a half million trees throughout India and
the world in the past decade.
> View slide show and learn more