Tennessee Carbon Farming Intensive

Broadacre Permaculture & Holistic Management for
Carbon Negative Agriculture

Exploring Soil, Water, Carbon, Energy & the Economy
through a 6-part holistic curriculum

August 25 – September 16, 2009

Ecovillage Training Center at the Farm
in Summertown, TN

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Including

Holistic Management, Advanced Permaculture Design, Keyline Design & Implementation, Soil Food Web, Rainwater Harvesting, Carbon-Farming, Food Forest Gardening, Energy, Economy Relocalization, and Much More.

Context

The Tennessee Carbon Farming Course will be the first in a national campaign to spread this cutting edge curriculum throughout the United States. The Ecovillage Training Center at the Farm offers an amazing opportunity to experience permaculture in action; the Farm’s 1,700 acres will undergo a massive keyline design and implementation during and after the course to help drought-proof the community and prepare for future growing.

Course Description

Taught by the leading experts in sustainable agriculture and carbon sequestration, this course will encompass all of the design elements needed to create a carbon sequestering agricultural system—returning carbon to the soil while increasing food production. This course will cover holistic landscape systems design, project management, and implementation.

Purpose

Studies have shown that permaculture-inspired soil building techniques lead to significant carbon sequestration, while also increasing soil fertility and water retention. This course will provide participants with an opportunity to learn these techniques in order to create resilient, drought proof, soil-rich, carbon-negative agricultural systems that produce organic food as well as additional income through the international carbon market.

Format

This course will be offered through six interrelated modules constituting the nation’s first holistic curriculum for carbon negative agriculture.  Participants can choose to attend the entire course or individual modules and/or combined selections based on their specific interests.

Modules

Module 1 – 8/25-30: Holistic Management®: with Kirk Gadzia
Module 2 – 9/1-6: Keyline Design Course: with Darren Doherty
Module 3 – 9/8-11: Regenerative Earthworks & Food Forestry: with Brad Lancaster & Eric Toensmeier
Module 4 – 9/13-16: Soil Food Web & Pathways to Relocalisation: with Dr. Elaine Ingham & Joel Salatin
Module 5 – 9/14-15: Regenerative Food Forestry: with Eric Toensmeier
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