Dates: 9^th to 24^th March, 2019

Instructors:  Rico Zook, with Guest Presenters

Contact: darjeelingprerna@gmail.com dlrprerna@yahoo.com

Learn Permaculture while staying with local farmers and learning in an Organic Forest Garden. This is a unique opportunity to experience and learn in this amazing location and with the longest running PDC in Asia.

Using a variety of learning techniques and strategies this course presents Permaculture as an integrated design approach to create sustainable human habitat. Course time will consist of traditional lectures, guest presentations, group discussions, games, exercises, hands-on projects, photos, movies and site visits. While we will focus on land systems, many discussions and examples will be explored of applications in the 'Invisible Structures'. These are the social, cultural, political, and economic structures we create as humans that powerfully shape much of our world today.

Not only will the course be about Permaculture, but it will also model it by its structure and the environment we create together during the course.

Mineral Springs Dabaipani is an internationally certified organic area and fair-trade labeled collective of 456 small farmers since 2002. The farmers have come under the Mineral Spring Sanjukta Vikas Sanstha since 1996. The collective has been marketing small farmers organic tea in the international market, which is grown as a polyculture crop. The participants will have home stay accommodations facilities with the members of Mineral Spring Sanjukta Vikas Sanstha.