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; animals and insects in permaculture systems; wildlife management and agroforestry practices including windbreaks, hedgerows and alley cropping, silvopasture, riparian buffers and forest farming. Field trips explore practical elements of plant guild assembly, orchard design, forest management, and animal husbandry. Course content will be delivered in a hybrid format with online synchronous and asynchronous content and an in-person lab component. Practicum design projects will be continued.
Prerequisite
BO4132 and admission into holistic landscape design program or permission of program chair.
Notes
Course fee $150