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Aquaculture or Food Forest Classes in Midwest?
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Saralin Hatfield
Joined: Oct 18, 2010
Posts: 4
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I really really don't want to travel out west for additional permie classes like aquaculture or Food Forests, but I cannot seem to find any around Illinois this summer... (not that I don't love it out there, but gas $$ and karmic debt for burning fossil fuels...)
I've checked Midwest Permaculture and with the Permaculture Activists, and now here.. anyone else I could talk to?
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Luke Townsley
Joined: Apr 17, 2010
Posts: 53
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I'm in southwest Missouri and the situation is similar. It seems there is very little going on in the Midwest as far as permaculture is concerned.
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Jonathan Overlin
Joined: Jul 31, 2011
Posts: 15
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We are trying to start a Environmental Education Center on 80 acres in Central Iowa. The thought is to bring in experts and have classes on the land.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001458473916
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Ozark Hillbilly
Joined: Sep 18, 2011
Posts: 1
Location: North Arkansas-Ozarks
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Sounds great, but we do not use Facebook , (we don't trust it). We can Teach Cheese Making Classes.
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If people concentrated on important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.." - Thomas Jefferson
"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field." Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thomas Edison said,-I'd put money on sun and solar energy, before oil runs out 1931
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Zack Ewing
Joined: Nov 03, 2010
Posts: 25
Location: Mid Missouri
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I live in mid Missouri about 15min west of Jefferson city, my family and I have bought a small farm and are in the process of giving it a permaculture face lift. We have owned and operated a organic CSA farm for several years now and are transitioning the new farm to aquaponics. I have a great deal of knowledge in the hydroponic/aquaponic industry and would love to share that with people. I have completed the Mollison video course as well as his PDC manual and other books and plan on opening a learning center here in the near future. I am in the process of building a 12x100 greenhouse with a 5000 gal tank for fish and Prawn. 40' of this will be devoted to sub tropical and tropical dwarf trees. I will also have an attached 20x20 nursery for tree starts. We will be using a compost and a solar hot water heater to heat the 14Lx10wx7d underground tank and should have no problem keeping it all warm and cozy. A few other projects are converting a mid 1800 English cottage to a cob hybrid as well as a food forest and ponds. We would love to share our passion with anyone who is interested, we have plenty of land cute critters and a passion for permaculture. We are an open minded family of 3 and would love to help 
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Erik Lee
Joined: Sep 21, 2011
Posts: 86
Location: Zone 6 - Missouri
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http://www.permacultureproject.com/
PermacultureProject.com has design courses and other classes available in Carbondale, IL. I haven't taken any yet, but I know at least one person who recommends them, so there's that to go on.
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Tyler Ludens
Joined: Jun 25, 2010
Posts: 5313
Location: Central Texas USA Latitude 30 Zone 8
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Manitou, can I ask what species of prawn you're raising? Thanks. 
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Idle dreamer
My projects
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Have you seen Paul's rant on CFLs?
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