Upcoming Courses

After returning from our fifth annual tour planting 1000 fruit trees in urban schools across California, we asked ourselves how else can we give back to the earth? Plant more trees, we thought. The weekend will be a festive celebration of life, spring, and stewardship of our beloved planet. Join Common Vision to plant 1,500 trees on five acres of National Forest. Forest base camp is in Alder Springs, less than 3 hours from the Bay Area, Ukiah, and Grass Valley, located southwest of Chico.

 

This 10-day course is intended for students and practitioners of permaculture and sustainability to have the opportunity to increase their experience and knowledge in the area of water design while traveling and living on one of Common Vision’s vegetable-oil powered buses. This course will provide hands-on experience with and exposure to many long-time practitioners in swales, key-line design, roof catchments, pond systems, and biological strategies. The program will incorporate a journey to Quail Springs Permaculture Center and will incorporate a weekend Dryland Summit, where permaculture designers from all over Southwestern US will converge to discuss strategies, triumphs, and lessons learned. This course is currently in development and is scheduled for 2009.

Daily Acts Sustainability Tours showcase examples of abundant bioregional living including: local organic farms, Permaculture gardens, green and natural buildings, vegetable oil powered vehicles, and many other leading ecological solutions that anyone can apply! In the spring of 2008, Common Vision will be joining forces with Daily Acts to create a planting experience that is certain to open minds and hearts to the potential and possibility for permaculture design in the North Bay Area. This daylong planting adventure will include travel onboard one of Common Vision’s vegetable-oil powered buses, transforming numerous Petaluma yards into food forests, drumming, grafting your own fruit tree, organic lunch, a Common Vision theatrical performance, and a powerful celebration of Spring.  Scheduled for Saturday April 22nd.  

The long awaited return of the vegetable oil-powered mobile permaculture design course is upon us. True to Common Vision’s collaborative and dynamic program design, this course will bring to life the 72hour PDC curriculum by weaving together site examples, teachers, and projects from all across Northern California that best demonstrate aspects of sustainable design. This course is currently in development and is slated for late summer or fall of 2009.