Advanced Permaculture: Animals in a Permaculture System
By jeff@crazyroosterfarm on in Uncategorized
In this advanced course you’l learn concepts and skills related to designing and implementing permaculture systems with animals. You’ll gain hands-on experience with chickens, sheep, cattle and bees as well as learn how wildlife and humanlife create functional relationships that lead to healthy habitats.
This course will save you years of frustration and wasted money. You’ll see which kinds of animals click with you and how to integrate animals into your systems. Experience first hand trimming a sheep hoof , castrating a lamb, steering a steer to go where you want him to go. (And what it’s like when he doesn’t) You’ll learn how to use all the parts of an animal: Brain tan a hide, make tacos out of beef tongue, learn to tell if that old hen is still laying eggs.
Some of the topics we’ll cover include:
- Livestock care and handling
- Holistic Management and grazing principles
- Pastured poultry systems
- Small animal production and functions
- Animals in urban and suburban permaculture
- Forage production
- Hunting and trapping
- Firearms safety
- Integrating animals and cropping systems
- Holistic vet care
- Insects
- Beekeeping
The brilliant and iconoclastic, one and only Wayne Weiseman, director of the Permaculture Project, is returning for his third summer teaching at Crazy Rooster Farm. In addition to Wayne we will also have some guest instructors. Victor Suarez will share his experience teaching the Massi tribe in Kenya. Jake Hartnett, who is a grazing consultant for Thousand Hills Cattle and manages a grass-fed herd in northern WI, will share his extensive knowledge of fencing and mob grazing. Other guest instructors TBD.
We’ll also take a some field trips and have a lot of fun. The course will also include pre-course self-study assignments and post-course follow-up.
The cost of the course is $1200 including food and camping on the farm. Two work-study scholarships are also available. Save $200 if you register before July 1, 2013 (the code is: earlybirdspecial )