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JUNE
JULY
Key:
Original Tentative Schedule
Actual: image of Calendar of Events
Proposed Teaching day schedule: 6:30 - 8:00 Community shift + break fast cooking. 9:15 - 10-30 Teaching 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:20 Teaching 14:00 - 15:15 Teaching 15:30 - 18:30 Dinner cooking.
Week 1
Week 1.
What is Sadhana Forest - Aviram
Veganism
No business - Gift economy
Unschooling
No competition
History - lessons learned
Introduction to Permaculture Sophie V
Ethics
Principles
History
Patterns
Introduction to methodology of design
Movies to show:
Implementing a food forest
Introduction to Permacutlture - Geoff Lawton
Activities:
Sadhana:recycle. eco bricks, making cousins.
Weeding
Apply compost in nursery.
Outside: Tree planting.
Actual:
Week 1
Week 2
Week 2.
Energy Theory Lark
Intro
Practical Aviram + technician
Solar (passive solar)
Hydro electric
Wind
Human power
Movies to show:
none planned
Activities:
Sadhana: Bruce bicycle blender.
Solar oven, Rocket stove. Passive solar water heater?
Outside: Tree planting.
Actual:
Week 2
Week 3
Week 3.
Permaculture crash course in 3 languages, Monday and Tuesday
Water conservation - Aviram
Desertification
Soil erosion
Water run off
Water conservation techniques
Implementation manual / machine plastic Jcb, plastic tractor
Surveying techniques: A frame / plastic water pipe level.
Forest - Sophie H and Popoti
Layers of the forest
Type of forest
Indigenous vs exotic
Food forest - Stephane
Food forest and development - Aviram
Tree energy transfer - Stephane
Oxalo genesis - Aviram
Ethnobotany Sebo???
Movies to show:
Blue gold
Activities:
Sadhana: Build an A frame. Build a water level. Mark a swale. Dig a swale. Pegs.
Rain flood bund around the main hut.
Visit the nursery and explain the tree selection. Nursery activities.
Visit local forest.
Outside: Tree planting.
Actual:
Week 3
Week 4
Week 4.
Construction. - Bruce, Marc and the ladies
Weather consideration/sector analysis
Hot air rising
Cross ventilation
Winter sun / thermo-mass
Passive solar./passive solar
Underground tunnel cooling
Solar chimney
Rammed earth
Earth bags
Straw bale - Stephane
Maniata building hands on
Natural paints/finishes
Movies to show:
Garbage warrior
Nader halili
Activities:
Sadhana: Build a maniata.
Build something for the kitchen? Or main hut.
Cob. Find straw?
Outside: Tree planting. - Dam.
Actual:
Week 4
Week 5
Week 5.
Soil / Composting / Raised beds - Stephane - Bruce - Sophie V
Soil and climate
Soil life
Ideal soil
Recover soil (Claude Bourgignon)
Raise beds and sheet mulching
Compost
Worm farm
Compost tea
Weeds
Humanure
Hugelkultur
Movies to show:
Dirt.
Claude and Lydia Bourgignon
Activities:
Sadhana: Raised beds / sunken beds
Turn the compost.
Start a 21 days compost. Food waste, manure, wood chips.
Compost hot shower system.
Soil samples analysis.
Outside: Tree planting.
Actual:
Week 5
Week 6
Week 6.
Design methods - Sophie V
Sector analysis
Zone applications
Observation and deduction from nature.
Needs/ inputs and yields/ products analysis
Data overlay
Options and decisions
Random assembly.
Map reading / key point. (maybe this should be in water conservation)
Movies to show:
none planned
Activities:
Sadhana: Analysis and survey of the land.
Map drawing. Sectors. Work in team + presentation.
Outside: Tree planting.
Actual:
Week 6
Week 7
Week 7.
Practical design exercises. - Sophie V - Bruce - Sebo - Stephane
Client interview
SADIMET
OBREDIMET
PASTE
SWOC
CEAP
SMART Goals
GoSADIE
Movies to show:
Activities:
Sadhana: propose a set of design to realise.
Outside: Tree planting.
Actual:
Week 7
Week 8
Week 8.
Implementation.
Movies to show:
none planned
Activities:
Sadhana: implementation of design.
Outside: Tree planting.
Actual:
Week 8
Week 9
Week 9.
Implementation.
Movies to show:
none planned
Activities:
Sadhana: implementation of design.
Outside: Tree planting.
Actual:
Week 9
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