PDC in the Andes
The Ka’Way Monti School ofSustainability is
hosting a Permaculture Design Course (PDC) this Feb 18 until Feb 29
with Helder Valente that will be supporting the development of the permaculture
school.
Ka’Way Monti is a sustainable community in progress located up in the Cordillera
Blanca of Peru.
Our School of Sustainability is aimed at spreading our knowledge
of permaculture farming practices, sustainable technologies, and holistic living
with enthusiastic students from around the world as well as our neighboring
Quechua villagers in the Andes
We aim to use this school, and community, as an experimental testing ground to
develop a way of retaining our currently unsustainable comforts in a sustainable
way.
This PDC course provides students with the live-in opportunity to learn how to
transform land in an arid, high altitude (3,700 meters) plain into a lush,
self-sustaining landscape with a bounty of food filled with ponds and
waterfalls.
Through class room studies and surveying the lands you’ll be living
and eating on, this class of 15 students will be provided the freedom to
explore and determine the structure of our food producing landscape for the
community to come
Loaded with exercises and lectures in an overall
design project across an acre of land, on our 18 hectare expanse, students will
be given a wide variety of ways to absorb the principles and concepts we have to
teach of Permaculture design. It is our utmost desire to ensure that when a
student leaves our school it is not with just a slip of paper and a stamp, but
more importantly with ingrained second nature knowledge.
Classes will be held in English and Spanish, so
any and all bilingual students in these languages are encouraged to apply
Tuition for the course is S/.1,000 ($400 USD, €300,
or £240) which covers the lessons, housing, and 3 daily meals for
the 12 days. Living standards include a bed in a dormitory style home complete
with down comforters, a shared bath with hot water, and cubby to store your
things
Contact: sublimart(@)hotmail.com
More information
In the late 90`s he was introduced to
permaculture while participating in the development of a community center near
the Sintra mountains. And since then he has studied and practiced sustainable
designs for a variety of environments, both urban and rural.
Some of his teachers has been Bill Mollison,
Geoff Lawton, Rosemary Morrow, Darren Douherty, Doug Bullock and Sepp Holzer.
Recently Helder lived two years in southern
Portugal taking part in the development of Vale de Lama Permaculture Institute
and at the same time doing his permaculture diploma with the british
permaculture association.
Currently he is traveling in different countries
sharing his passion for permaculture and the shift our humanity can take to
thrive and live in balance with nature.
Helder resonates well with a diversity of
participants and landscapes.
His teaching style is authentic, informative
and creative
