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 or permission of program chair.