Permaculture Strategies for 2012

Gregoire Lamoureux has been teaching & working with Permaculture for over 20 years in many parts of the country. He will share his experience of implementing a permaculture design on a small farm in the Kootenays. And he will also be talking about permaculture strategies that can be implemented on a smaller scale in the city. Other topics covered in the presentation will include the challenges & opportunities of working with permaculture in Canada.

$5-10 sliding scale, no one turned away

Drinks and dessert available

Bio: Gregoire Lamoureux is a permaculture designer, consultant and teacher.

He presented the first Permaculture workshop in Vancouver in 1993. And taught the first Permaculture Design Course in French in Québec in 1995, and also taught the Permaculture Design Course as a Summer Session at the University of Manitoba in 2005. Gregoire has been teaching the annual Permaculture Design Course in Ontario since 2001 and with Selkirk College in Nelson, BC since 2002.

His work experience includes market gardening, greenhouse production, orcharding, ecological land restoration, small-scale nursery management, landscaping, aquaculture, forestry & carpentry work.

Kootenay Permaculture : http://www3.telus.net/permaculture/

http://www.meetup.com/The-Vancouver-Permaculture-Meetup-Group/events/51085172/