BO4133 Permaculture 3
This course focuses on land use systems for achieving self-reliance by integrating cultivated ecosystems, permaculture design techniques and agroforestry practices. Topics include establishing and maintaining medicinal and edible food forests – perennial and annual polycultures clustered amongst tree crops; animals and insects in permaculture systems, wildlife management and agroforestry practices including windbreaks, hedgerows and alleycropping, silvopasture, riparian buffers and forest farming. A lab component explores practical elements of plant guild assembly, orchard design and forest management as well as animal husbandry and beekeeping.
Prerequisite
BO4132 and admission into holistic landscape design program