| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | |
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1 | Day 1 - July 1st Introduction | Day 2 Man & Nature | Day 3 Stages of project development | Day 4 Water & Access | Day 5 Trees and plants | Day 6 Soils | Friday - Day off - Optional tours | Day 8 Organic Gardening | Day 9 Earthen building | Day 10 Farm Animals - Essential technology | Day 11 Ecosystem Restoration | Day 12 Plasters & finishes | Day 13 Project management - Economics | Friday - Work on personal projects | Day 15 Presentations | |
2 | 6:45 - 7:30 | Silent Walk/ Mindfulness | Silent walk | Silent walk | Silent walk | Meditation or silent walk | Meditation or silent walk | Meditation or silent walk | Meditation or silent walk | Meditation or silent walk | Meditation or silent walk | Meditation or silent walk | Meditation or silent walk | Morning Off | Morning Off | |
3 | 7:30 - 8:15 | Farm Tour | Feeding animals | Composting | Drip irrigation installation | Tree nursery | Flip compost | Tizi N'oucheg Trek & sightseeing | Natural pest prevention | Prepare mud mix | Prepare animal feed | Tree Planting | Plaster preparation | Farm chores | ||
4 | 8:15 - 9:00 | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | ||
5 | 9:00 - 10:30 | Introductions | History of Environmentalism | Making a reedbed gray water filtration | Drip irrigation installation | Tree Planting & seeding | The Art of Composting | Principles of Organic Gardening 1 | Making adobe bricks | Livestock considerations | A Systems View of Global Ecosystems | Making a traditional earthen bread oven | Farm management essentials | Work on Designs | ||
6 | 10:30 - 11:00 | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | |||
7 | 11:00- 12:30 | Course overview | Introduction to Permaculture | Creating a holistic context | Water through the landscape: Harvesting techniques | Forests | Soil fertility & the soil food web | Principles of Organic Gardening 2 | Making adobe bricks | Rotational Grazing | Climate Change & Mitigation | Business plan development | Work on Designs | |||
8 | 12:30 - 15:00 | Lunch Break [shower, lunch, nap] | Lunch Break | Lunch Break | Lunch Break | Lunch Break | Lunch Break | Lunch at Tizi N'oucheg | Lunch Break | Lunch Break | Lunch Break | Lunch Break | Lunch Break | Lunch Break | Jumuaa - Lunch Break | Lunch Break |
9 | 15:00 - 16:00 | The State of our world | Design directives & principles | Challenges of farm design & management | Designing access: Considerations | Ground preparation for a food forest - Designing a living fence | Dryland soil regeneration strategies | Market Garden management | What is Sustainable Building? | Drip Irrigation - Compost tea - Electric fence - CEB - Chipper - BCS | Climate Change Adaptation | Plastering choices | Comparative business models | Work on Designs | Work on Designs | |
10 | 16:00 - 16:30 | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | Tea & Coffee Break | |
11 | 16:30 - 18:00 | Roots of the environmental crisis | Reality check: Ideological fallacies | Reading the lanscape: Geographic factors | Surveying with a laser level | Fruit tree care | Making an actively aerated compost tea | Evening in Marrakesh | Making and planting a vegetable bed | Modern Earth construction | Food transformation workshop | Meet the Farmer | Lime Plastering 1 | Work on personal projects: Holistic context assesment | Work on Designs | Presentations |
12 | 18:00 - 19:30 | Nature awareness exercise | Free Time | Climatic factors | Surveying with low tech equipment | Planting Live Mulch | Worm farm plastering | Free Time | Building an adobe chicken coop | Free Time | ||||||
13 | 19:30 - 20:15 | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner in Marrakesh | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | |
14 | 20:15 - 21:45 | Conversations | Inhabit (2015) | Conversations | Conversations | Life in Syntropy | Permaculture Soils | The Polyface Farm (2005) | Conversations | Conversations | Hope in a Changing Climate (2009) | Conversations | Forget Shorter Showers + Discussion | Conversations | Dinner Party | |
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16 | LEGEND | |||||||||||||||
17 | Yoga/Meditation | |||||||||||||||
18 | Sessions | |||||||||||||||
19 | Meals | |||||||||||||||
20 | Breaks/Free time | |||||||||||||||
21 | Trips | |||||||||||||||
22 | Days off | |||||||||||||||
23 | Activities | |||||||||||||||
24 | Design Work | |||||||||||||||
25 | Presentations | |||||||||||||||
26 | Projections |