Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Part 2, Winter 2020): 

February 7 - February 13

• Examine trees as systems, principles of forest management and the practice of agroforestry.

  Research trees useful to your design site.
  

• Presentation: Trees and Forests (Narrated Lecture, 51 minutes). Page
• Presentation: Agroforestry Systems (YouTube Videos) Page
• Agroforestry with Steve Gabriel (audio) URL
• Mushroom Cultivation (Cornell Resources Online) Page
• Activity 5.1: Tree Research Assignment
• Activity 5.2: Stacking in Time and Space Assignment
• Participant Forum: Your Polyculture
• Optional Activities

• Paul Stamets: 6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World URL
• Reading: Excerpts from Profitable Farms and Woodlands File 1.5MB PDF document
• Forest Farming: Growing Crops Under the Canopy of an Existing Forest (audio) URL
• Hazelnuts. A Viable Broadacre Crop for the Midwest? - Phil Rutter (audio) URL
• Farming the Woods (Steve's Book) URL