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VISION: Deepening our relationship with Water and using our knowledge and skills to help regenerate the watersheds we live in.
Turn Water Scarcity into Water Abundance!
WHY: In times of climate crisis and drought we have the opportunity to learn and practice resilience. We CAN, like the Beaver, have a positive effect on our local water cycles, and thus on our surrounding ecologies & communities.
WHAT: In this workshop you will learn how to assess a site for rainwater harvesting potential, and how to apply regenerative design principles & techniques to retain water in the landscape, replenish groundwater, develop drought tolerance, mitigate fire, restore damaged watersheds and build ecological resilience.
Fri- Classroom Sessions & Tour of Local Projects
Sat & Sunday- Classroom Sessions & Hands-on Exercises
Topics covered will include:
Hydrological Cycles & Soil Health
Regenerative Water Design Principles
Rainwater Harvesting Catchment & Tank Systems
Rainwater Harvesting Earthworks: Swales, Rain Gardens & more
Bioregionalism & Local Standards and Regulations
WHO: Workshop is suitable for backyard gardeners, small acre homesteaders, large scale farmers, landscape design & construction professionals, urban & rural planners, land stewards, or anyone interested in developing water resilience in their home, community & watershed.
HOW: Workshop includes classroom sessions, hands on exercises and an onsite tour local projects. Classroom & Hands-on exercise sessions to be held @ Folk Soul Farm School. Friday Afternoon tour of projects at 2 different sites in the Medford Area.
Available for CEH credits with Oregon LCB
NOTE: Workshop is to be held regardless of weather with both indoor classroom and outdoor exercises. Please plan ahead and come prepared and dressed accordingly. (Layers, closed toe shoes/boots, rain gear, work clothes etc.)
WHEN: May 5th-7th
Friday, Saturday, Sunday 9am-5pm
(Lunch Break from 12:30-1:30, Organic meals available for purchase)
WHERE:
Friday morning & All day Saturday & Sunday morning Sessions to be hosted at Folk Soul Farm
624 W Valley View Rd,
Ashland, OR 97520
Friday Afternoon Tour to be held at local projects in the Medford Area
COST: $395
Early bird pricing till March 15th- $345
Camping & Organic, Meals available onsite at Folk Soul Farm for extra fee.
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About the location Folk Soul Farm:
Inspired by Waldorf teachings and philosophy, Folk Soul Farm’s mission to bring education to the whole child in an innovative way that feeds the will, nurtures the heart and awakens a life-long love of learning. Based on a growing farm in Ashland OR we weave time outside and work with our bodies into all that we do.
Following the Waldorf curriculum we hold in our education that there is goodness, beauty and truth in the world. Moving from tent classroom, to garden, to chicken-coop, and out into our local community we strive to honor the natural rhythms of both human development and the natural world.
Folk Soul Farm nurtures head, heart and hands, cultivating inner warmth, bringing warmth to the world.
About Friday Afternoon Tour Locations:
Join us as we visit developing projects at 2 different sites in the Medford area. We will observe rainwater harvesting tank catchment systems, as well as infiltration basins, swales & rain gardens loaded with native & edible plants. We will go over regenerative rainwater harvesting design principles & techniques as well as touching upon local standards & challenges. Sites are suburban residential as well as small acre rural residential.
About the Instructors:
Course Facilitator & Lead Instructor: Lion Waxman
Consultant, Designer, Educator & Landscape Contractor. Certified Permaculture Designer, Master Gardener and Community Sustainable Agriculture Guide.
Lion grew up in NYC and started his journey connecting with the earth at his first job at age14 on the only working farm in the city. Later in life, Lion studied permaculture visiting & volunteering on farms in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Israel, Palestine and more. He finished his first PDC & internship in 2009 with Gilad Margalit of Galil Permaculture in Israel. Afterwards he worked in agricultural research and landscaping while finishing a B.A in Social & Environmental Sustainability.
While working with ecological designer Dor Havkin building the Garden of Eden food forest project, turning a barren wheat field into a lush rainwater harvesting oasis, Lion gained a true appreciation of the capabilities in regenerating land and creating abundance via rainwater harvesting and permaculture design.
Since he moved to Southern Oregon in 2017, Lion completed a second PDC and an advanced course in Optical Surveying with Siskiyou Permaculture, as well a Permaculture Teacher Training under Jude Hobbs of the Permaculture Institute of North America.
He founded Good Earth Gardens, LLC, in 2018 with the intention of putting his experience & passion to to work in helping people, gardeners, farms & communities on their path to abundant resilience. Through Good Earth Gardens, LLC Lion offers regenerative farm & landscape consulting, design and build services as well as community educational classes and workshops.
More information about Good Earth Gardens work can be found at www.goodearthgardens1.com or via FB & IG @goodearthgardens1
Instructor: Karen Taylor
Karen’s water conservation and permaculture journey began over 20years ago in the high deserts of Arizona. It was there that a deep understanding of how precious clean water is and practices for conserving water was ingrained. As a partner in Eden on Earth, an ecological landscaping company that specialized in rainwater harvesting and greywater systems, Karen and her partners spent many hours designing and installing these systems.
For the past 12 years, Karen has been a partner at Siskiyou Permaculture focusing on permaculture education and consulting. She sees greywater and rainwater harvesting systems are great ways to conserve water and respond to drought and potential wildfires here in Southern Oregon.