Summer Permaculture Design Course at Umass

Description:  This four-credit course includes in-class lectures, field trips and a hands-on field component. It offers students a foundation in permaculture history, ethics, principles, design process, and techniques. The framework behind the theory and practice of permaculture is rooted in the observation of natural systems. By observing key ecological relationships, we can mimic and apply these beneficial relationships in the design of systems that serve humans while helping to restore the natural world. This course trains students as critical thinkers, observers, and analysts of the world(s) around them, and then goes on to provide students with the tools needed to design and grow for inspired and positive change.