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Upcoming Events
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 June 2, 2012
Saturday, 10am - 3pm
reservations will open in the Spring
please join our email list for updates!
Join us to learn about permaculture design and how sustainability touches the ground here at Quail Springs.
Event Cost: $20/adult or teen, $5/child
This is a daytime event. Nearby camping and dining info for the Cuyama area is shared in the online pre-registration.
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with Sasha Rabin of Vertical Clay and Paul Swenson of Quail Springs
April 29 - June 8, 2012
 Sheltership is a six-week intensive apprenticeship and journey into the creation of a small shelter from start to finish, using natural materials, at a beautiful location in the Southern California mountains. Sasha Rabin of Vertical Clay and Paul Swenson of Quail Springs will lead a small group of individuals who are passionate to learn and explore. Although welcome, experience with natural building is not necessary. With natural building materials and applications as our focus, we will also explore the beauty of natural materials in how they connect us to so many other aspects of our lives often offering a more holistic approach to living simply.
During this six-week intensive apprenticeship, we will build a small shelter (less than 120 square feet) from start to as close to finish as possible, using a variety of earthen materials and applications. The educational emphasis will be on student's developing a keen understanding of the materials, so they can develop insight into the best possible way to use each of the materials/applications for specific building needs and individual situations.
We will focus on building with earth, including clay soil, sand, stone and straw. These materials will be used in a variety of applications, including: cob, light straw clay (slip-straw), wattle and daub, earth bag, earthen plasters, poured earthen floor, and some woodwork.
The learning process will primarily be a hands-on study ethic, with lecture worked in through the day in usually under one-hour sessions. We will offer inspiring slideshows, as well as a field trip to visit natural buildings in the region.
Sheltership will weave within our local community, interfacing with various farm and garden activities, community gatherings and special events, day to day community care, preparation and sharing of meals, music and storytelling, explorations of the area watershed and wildlands, and more!
More about Sheltership's facilitating teachers
Sasha Rabin has been building and teaching to build with natural materials since co-founding Seven Generations Natural Builders in 2002. Partner in Vertical Clay natural building company, she lives and works at a suburban permaculture and natural building home demonstration site in El Sobrante, California. www.verticalclay.com
Paul Swenson practices land stewardship & natural building as one of the founding team at Quail Springs Permaculture. He has been practicing and teaching natural building since 2005. Paul's teaching style is empowering and puts people at ease, with an emphasis on self-discovery, enjoyment, and creating beauty. www.quailsprings.org
Registration Information
As the intensive is limited to 10 participants, we advise those interested inquire early.
The cost of the intensive includes tuition, materials, meals and tent camping nearby
$2,600 (deposit of $500 holds your space)
$2,200 early bird rate, for payment in full by March 2, 2012
Payments accepted by check or credit/debit (3% transaction fee for credit/debit).
Limited partial work trade positions are available, please ask for an application! Payment plans may be requested as well. Please ask about Couples/Family rates.
Contact:
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Growing a Green Generation
Sustainable Vocations prepares young people (ages 15-24) for diverse leadership roles that integrate sustainability into their communities, and provides a Permaculture Design Certification along with an experiential introduction to green vocations.
Summer 2012 program dates: July 25 - August 11, 2012
Application available now - May 1, 2012 is the priority application due date.
Visit the Sustainable Vocations website for more info and to download the application! www.sustainablevocations.org
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 Warren Brush, co-founder and Executive Director of Quail Springs, facililitates permaculture education and regenerative systems design in the USA & internationally. Learn more about True Nature Design, Warren's work and full schedule at www.permaculturedesign.us.
IPC 10 JORDAN, PDC
Sept 3-15, 2011
with Rosemary Morrow, Brad Lancaster, Warren Brush, Geoff Lawton, Nadia Lawton, and special guest talks with Bill Mollison
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June 18th - July 1st, 2012
"My learning journey at Quail Springs helped to nurture my presence of mind to be a better and more active listener – a vital trait for the international development professional. The coursework was incredibly pertinent to my work in Uganda and without a doubt made me more aware, more compassionate, and more focused in my role as a project manager and human being." - a Former Student
We have tailored this program to equip people who work in international development situations with the skills needed to design and implement sustainable human settlement systems. This course is designed for people who work with Non Government Organizations, Government Agencies, or who are Community Organizers working in International Development.
Permaculture is fast becoming one of the most effective design methodologies for attaining sustainability worldwide. Permaculture is in 160 countries with an estimated 850,000 grassroots projects on-the-ground, feeding more people than all the world food aid organizations combined.
How would permaculture benefit your international development organization:
• Give your agency the tools to integrate sustainable systems design into existing projects
• Learn to create stable and resilient food, shelter, water and waste cycling systems for health and abundance in any of your projects
• Create an ethics and principle based training program within your organization that honors local customs, traditional knowledge and ecological conditions
• Allows your agency to have staff who have hands-on experience in creating holistic designs for various circumstances and environments, composting, water harvesting, bio-sand filters, and the building of rocket stoves.
People working in international development will benefit from the years of experience of our teaching team in applying permaculture around the globe. We have tailored the entire permaculture certification curriculum to better equip the people who work international situations where people live in non-westernized conditions.
Course topics delivered in a combination of classroom and practicum sessions include: permaculture certification curriculum, integrated design basics, sustainable human settlement design priorities for varied climates, water harvesting, waste cycling, local food resilience, sustainable agriculture systems, aquaculture, livestock integration, appropriate technology, energy efficiency, ecological building, hydrological system restoration, water filtration, integrated pest management, keyline, composting, compost toilets, earthworks, greywater design, cooking technologies, peacemaking, conflict resolution, and community organizing.
Hands-on projects include:
• rocket stove for reducing cooking fuels by 75%
• biosand water filter
• a simple compost toilet
• bioswale mapping and construction
• building a compost system
The Teaching Team
Our instruction team is comprised of a diverse mix of Quail Springs residents and special guest instructors from around the world led by Warren Brush, international permaculture educator, designer, and co-founder of Quail Springs and True Nature Design, and Loren Luyendyk, the founder of Surfers Without Borders and Global Permaculture Design Group.
Other guest instructors include:
Julius Piti, Alissa Sears, Cathe Fish, Andrew Jones, Jeannette Acosta, Brenton Kelly, Lyn Hebenstreit, Tara Blasco, Pete Schwartz, and Daniel Parra-Hensel.
Program Affiliates
Registration Information
Cost: $1650. Early bird registration: $1,450 by March 1, 2012
Price Includes: instruction, certification, camping accommodations, and meals
Payments accepted by check or credit/debit (3% transaction fee for credit/debit).
Contact: Click here for Online Inquiry and Pre-Registration or call 805-886-7239
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October 28 - November 11, 2012 
Details TBA: please use our Online Inquiry form to be updated!
Hands-On Permaculture Design Certification Course(PDC) is sponsored by Quail Springs Permaculture, an internationally recognized permaculture education organization.
The grassroots Permaculture movement promotes effective methodologies for attaining sustainability worldwide.
This 2-week course covers the permaculture curriculum for certification, and includes hands-on learning in a diversity of applied topics that lead to sustainability for individuals, families, businesses and communities.You will learn to design and apply natural principles to create stable and resilient systems that provide food, water, shelter and energy needs while regenerating ecology, community and economy.
Instructors: Learn with Warren Brush, international educator and co-founder of Quail Springs, and a team of passionate and knowledgeable instructors.
Course Topics include:
Sm. Scale Food Production - Integrated Pest Mgmt – Composting - Tree Planting - Water Harvesting -Greywater Systems - Compost Toilet Systems - Natural Building – Earthworks - Watershed Restoration – Keyline - Appropriate Technology – Beekeeping – BioChar – BioEngineering - Alternative Economics - Green Job Preparation - Livestock Care - Goat Milking - Pastured Poultry - Cheese Making - Bread Baking - Saving the Harvest - Community Building - Nature Awareness
Permaculture is a conscious integrated design system based on ecology and sustainability principles to create resource efficient and productive human environments and reduce our footprint on the earth. Permaculture provides a framework for consciously designed landscapes that mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature that provide diversity, stability, and resilience. These systems yield an abundance of shelter, water, energy, and food for the provision of local needs.
Registration Details TBA: please use our Online Inquiry form to be updated!
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Quail Springs co-sponsors natural building workshops with sister organizations and natural builders, hosted around Southern California.
We work with:
Paul Swenson of
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Sasha Rabin of Vertical Clay
Justin Kirmse of Living Craft Project
 Workshops are for first-time as well as professional builders who want to delve into the functions and aesthetics of utilizing natural materials. Gain guided hands-on experience: using natural finishes; building earthen ovens, earthen benches, in-door and out-door gathering areas; building with a variety of natural materials and techniques, including cob, straw bale, light straw clay, adobe block, wattle & daub; integrating materials, prospecting, testing & preparing materials; and more!
Complemented by slide shows & discussions on theory of natural building, siting, design, passive solar, foundations, natural plasters, earthen floors, roofs, electric & plumbing for earthen buildings.
CONTACT to join interest list, to host a workshop or commission a project
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or 805-886-7239
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