PD2: Winter 2021
Permaculture Design Certificate Course
(Part 2, Winter 2021):
Ecosystem Mimicry
Michael Burns
<mb756@cornell.edu>
Michael Burns
<mb756@cornell.edu>
This short introduction week gives you an opportunity to become familiar with the Moodle interface and tools; the course materials and general flow from week to week as well as your classmates and instructors. Spend time looking through the entire course content so that you can consider how to budget your time and energy accordingly. As most of you are already familiar with the platform, this week should be easy.
Please don’t hesitate to contact your instructor with any questions.
THIS WEEK:
Permaculture Concepts and Tools
Objectives:
Optional Resources
Reading the Landscape and Patterns
Objectives:
Optional Activities
Building and Sustaining Living Soil
Optional Activities
Working with Water
Objectives:
Optional Activities
Optional Resources
Forestry and Agroforestry
Objectives:
Optional Activities
Optional Resources
Animals in our Systems
Objectives:
Examine the roles animals play in permaculture systems
discuss specific management of livestock and work animals
Optional Resource
Optional Activity
Please note that access to this course material is for one year (January 4, 2022.) Save your own local copies of your assignments as submitted assignments might not be saved online past March 31, 2021.
If you finish after March 31st you are still eligible to take part 3 of this series in subsequent years. If you plan to earn Continuing Education Credits OR will continue with next scheduled class in this series you must complete this class by March 7, 2021.