rico zook

1st to 16th February 2025
Open Shell Farm, Bandipur, India
Instructors: Rico Zook & Malvikaa Solanki

This course is both for those who want a general though comprehensive introduction to sustainability and how to create it, as well as those wishing to get a complete and in-depth introduction to permaculture, all its component elements, and the process and methodologies for creating a holistic permaculture design. Our focus is to really imprint the foundations and understandings so that students are able to think through to understand what is needed, than how to adapt and do the needfuls for their specific situation and site conditions. A basic understanding of regenerative systems is that every site is unique; therefore every application of Permaculture must be site-specific. So, while we will give many different ideas and system examples, it is the ability to adapt these to specific site conditions, including cultural, social and economic ones, which will truly make something regenerative, i.e. sustainable.

Join us for this 16-day immerse journey at Open Shell Farm. A demonstration experimental site for regenerative living as we explore Permaculture through traditional lectures, learning exercises, discussions, multimedia, walkabouts, design challenges, and immersive hands-on projects. Open Shell is a working farm with many installed permaculture/regenerative systems, so there will be many good expamples, as well as engaement with adding to Open Shell's regenerative systems.


Cost: Indians rs.42,000, International & NRI rs.45,000 ($540)
Contact: malvikaa@swayyam.org
website: www.swayyam.org
swaYYam FB page: https://www.facebook.com/Swayyam/
Instagram: swayyam_permaculture
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23rd  Nov. to 8th Dec. 2024
Aapbotay Busty, Mineral Springs, Darjeeling, India
Instructors: Rico Zook, Sailesh Sharma, Duhita Ganguly, + local Guest Presenters

Located in 1,000's of acres of organic forest garden cultivated by 467 family farmer cooperative, his course is the longest running annual PDC in Asia. In this course we focus on the foundations and understandings of regenerative systems so that students are able to think through to understand what is needed, than how to adapt and do the needfuls for their specific situation and site conditions. This course seeds a holistic designer's perspective into the student’s consciousness.

Using a variety of learning techniques and strategies this course presents Permaculture as an integrated holistic design approach to create sustainable human habitat. Course time will consist of traditional lectures, guest presentations, group discussions, games, exercises, hands-on projects, photos, movies and site visits. While we will focus on land systems, many discussions and examples will be explored of applications in the 'Invisible Structures'. These are the social, cultural, political, and economic structures we create as humans that powerfully shape much of our world today.
Not only will the course be about Permaculture, but it will also model it by its structure and the environment we create together during the course.

Mineral Springs, Dabaipani is an internationally certified organic area and fair-trade labeled collective of 456 small farmers since 2002. The farmers are joined together as Mineral Spring Sanjukta Vikas Sanstha, a farmers cooperative that collectively markets small farmer’s organic tea in the international market, which is grown as a polyculture crop. This course is located in one of these traditional villages in the beautiful Darjeeling hills, amongst 1,000's of acres of forest garden, with participants staying with local farm families, and our classroom is the village community centre.

Phone: +91 9800 86 9959
Cost: Indians rs.42,000, International & NRI rs.49,000   ~$590
Accommodation is Homestay w/local farm family
Blog Post: https://dlrprerna.blogspot.com/2023/07/permaculture-design-course-2-to-17.html
Organized by DLR Prerna https://www.facebook.com/DarjeelingPrerna https://www.instagram.com/darjeeling_prerna/?utm_source=qr
Contacts: darjeelingprerna@gmail.com saileshkharel@gmail.com
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9th to 19th November 2024

Aapbotay Busty, Mineral Springs, Darjeeling, India
Instructors: Rico Zook & Malvikaa Solanki

This dynamic and engaging course guides the participant in developing their unique personal style and ability to facilitate the learning experience for others. As a class, we create a safe setting of active learning and build confidence through preparing and co-teaching multiple presentations providing essential and experiential practice opportunities. This is an engaged experience, with lots of information shared. We keep the process relaxed while learning about learning and having fun.

Mineral Springs, Dabaipani is an internationally certified organic area and fair-trade labeled collective of 456 small farmers since 2002. The farmers are joined together as Mineral Spring Sanjukta Vikas Sanstha, a farmers cooperative that collectively markets small farmer’s organic tea in the international market, which is grown as a polyculture crop. This course is located in one of these traditional villages in the beautiful Darjeeling hills, amongst 1,000's of acres of forest garden, with participants staying with local farm families, and our classroom is the village community centre.

Cost: Indians rs.30,000, International & NRI rs.36,000  ~$430
Accommodation is Homestay w/local farm family

1.74 acres, Approximately 1 acre in old Hawaiian terraces, Top two terraces developed into gardens, Old and new perennial production plantings, Partially developed towards farm production, secure water, 8’ x 8’ built tool shed/hurricane shelter, Tools, Frontage on year-round creek, 1 of 4 private parcels in small valley inside 14,000 acre ranch (private, beautiful), Remote and off-grid, Access through locked ranch gate (guaranteed legal access), 4-wheel drive dirt road

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18th to 27th November 2023

Instructor: Rico Zook    Fee: us$400 Internationals       rs.25,000 Indians

In this interactive course learn impactful teaching techniques that promote effective communication and application of Permaculture principles and strategies to a wide variety of audiences and educational settings. We encourage and inspire your unique strengths and abilities by demonstrating diverse teaching modalities, including, effective use of lecture, storytelling, class discussions, interactive experiential activities, visual aids and hands-on skills.

As a class, we create a safe setting of active learning and build confidence through preparing and co-teaching multiple presentations providing essential and experiential practice opportunities.

Located near Darjeeling India, this course is hosted in  village, which is part of Mineral Springs, a 11 village farm Co-op with 1,000's of acres of established organic forest garden. Homestays with local farmer families.

More Information: https://dlrprerna.blogspot.com/2023/07/permaculture-teacher-training-course.html?m=1
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2nd to 17th December 2023

Rico Zook with Indian Instructors    Fees:   us$ 400  Internationals   rs. 40,000 Indians

Located near Darjeeling India, this course is hosted in Aampbotay village, which is part of Mineral Springs, a 11 village farm Co-op with 1,000's of acres of established organic forest garden. Homestays with local farmer families. This immersive experience will include Indian instructors, as well as Rico Zook, who has been practicing and teaching permaculture for over 25 years. This course not only gives you a strong foundational understanding of permaculture and regenerative design, it provides a personal Indian experience that is not tourist based. This is the 20th year DLR Prerna and Rico Zook are offering this course.

For More Info: https://dlrprerna.blogspot.com/2023/07/permaculture-design-course-2-to-17.html
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This course is both for those who want a general but comprehensive introduction to sustainability and how to create it, as well as those wishing to get a complete and in depth introduction to permaculture, all its component elements, and the process and methodologies for creating a holistic permaculture design. It is especially beneficial for farmers, ranchers, all types of agriculturalist, architects, urban planners, engineers, resource managers, and anyone else who works with our physical world or does design work in its many forms. However, one does not need to be going into a permaculture career or a related field to benefit from this learning. Many artists, medical professionals, business people, housewives, and others have gained insights and understandings that have enabled them to both increase their quality of life, as well as move all their endeavors towards creating a more sustainable world.

Using a variety of learning techniques and strategies this course presents Permaculture as an integrated design approach to create sustainable human habitat. Course time will consist of traditional lectures, guest presentations, group discussions, games, exercises, hands-on projects, photos, movies and site visits. While we will focus on land systems, many discussions and examples will be explored of applications in the 'Invisible Structures'. These are the social, cultural, political, and economic structures we create as humans that powerfully shape much of our world today.

Not only will the course be about Permaculture, but it will also model it by its structure and the environment we create together during the course.

Dates:  9th to 24th March, 2019
Instructors:  Rico Zook, with Guest Presenters
Location: Aampbotay village, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
Contact: darjeelingprerna@gmail.com dlrprerna@yahoo.com

This Permaculture course is being held on a beautiful site nestled in a valley, located 3 hours from Bangalore. The Timbaktu Kutumbam Foundation Trust (TKF) was formed in the year 2009, with the aim of regenerating a piece of land and begin organic farming. The 100 acres of land has over the years come to be called 'Kailasam', named informally after the Sri Kailasam temple located at the far end of the site. The farm at present is growing millets, fruits trees and vegetables, and there is an on-going effort to regenerate and revitalize the land, by improving soil fertility, increasing water availability, and introducing local indigenous varieties of forest trees . Experiments are also being done on Biodynamic Farming methods. Permaculture was introduced to the farm quite recently and so Kailasam is in the beginning stages of Permaculture design & implementation.

We are excited to host a Permaculture Design Certificate Course being taught by EIGHT other certified Instructors from India and Sri Lanka with support by Rico Zook, who will also present. This is a one of kind PDC, with multiple teachers from varied parts of India, coming together to support, teach and learn together with our participants. Each of the teachers is an upcoming Indian Permaculture instructor and practitioner and it is our privilege to host such a unique course in Kailasam. Many of these people are already building successful permaculture practices, from consulting to designing to implementing a wide variety of projects.

Location: Kailasam Farm, Godepalli, Anantapur, Andra Pradesh, India
Contact:  duhitaganguly@gmail.com / 9866593373

To Register: http://bit.ly/JanPDC2019

Advanced Permaculture Course in Teaching
Dates:  December 1 - 8, 2018
Instructors:  Jude Hobbs, Rico Zook and Guests
Location: La Loma Vida Permaculture Design Center, Gualchos, Granada Coast, Spain
Contact:  info@lalomaviva.com

http://www.lalomaviva.com/permaculture-teacher-training-course-1/

Advocate for Change Through Teaching Whole Systems and Passion Based Learning.
In this dynamic and interactive course, we share impactful teaching techniques that promote effective communication and application of Permaculture principles and strategies to a wide variety of audiences and educational settings. Our goal is to encourage and inspire your unique strengths and abilities by demonstrating diverse teaching modalities including effective use of lecture, storytelling, class discussions, interactive experiential activities, visual aids and hands-on skills.

As a class, we create a safe setting of active learning and build confidence through preparing and co-teaching multiple presentations providing essential and experiential practice opportunities. Participants engage in social permaculture and build strong resource networks to support one another via group projects.  
Teaching is Sharing Information, Regenerative, Empowering and Part of the Permaculture Solution

Course Topics Include:
• Philosophy and Ethics of Being an Instructor • The Art of Teaching and Facilitation • Adult Learning Styles
• Building Curriculum and Lesson Plans • Presenting Styles • Utilizing Media and Activities • Co-Instructing
• Time Management • Venue Logistics, Course Planning, Marketing and Budgets • Interns, Apprentices and Mentoring • Evaluations and Feedback • Tips from the Trade • Keeping Up The Spirit • Self-care • Right Livelihood • Extensive Resources and More

A core part of Jude’s work is inspiring and training the next generation of Permaculture advocates. We appreciate the unique skills and experiences of those attending and cultivate networking for future connections and support.

Certificate from the Permaculture Institute of North America
Prerequisite: Permaculture Design Course Certificate or instructor’s approval.

Instructors:
Jude Hobbs is an internationally recognized permaculture designer and educator with 30 years’ experience in the design and teaching fields. Her focus is whole systems thinking to generate environmentally sound solutions that inspire sustainable actions in urban and rural settings.
As an educator, she conveys her passion for permaculture by providing curricula developed to encompass diverse learning styles with teaching techniques that are accessible, inspiring and information rich.
Jude tends Wilson Creek Gardens, a 7-acre homestead and demonstration site located in Cottage Grove, Oregon. www.cascadiapermaculture.com

Rico Zook: For the past 20 years Rico has been a Permaculture designer, consultant and educator working with private individuals, farmers, villagers and local organizations in India, Cambodia, Spain, northern New Mexico, the middle-east and other parts of the world. His work focuses on assisting all levels of our global community to create culturally and environmentally appropriate life systems that are resilient and regenerative. www.i-permaculture.org

3rd to 18th May 2014
Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
Locals Rs. 11,000 Indian Resident Rs. 17,000 Foreigner Rs. 23,000

Homestays with local organic farmers
Venue is situated in 1,000’s of acres of certified organic forest garden
Longest running annual PDC in Asia, in its 10th year
Instructors: Rico Zook, Rohin D’souza, Sailesh Sharma

Demand for our annual PDC in November has become so strong that we are now starting another one in May. This venue, host organization and instructor (rico) have been facilitating this, the longest running annual PDC in Asia, for the past 10 years. The venue is situated in a nearby village that is located in 1,000’s of acres of mature and certified organic forest garden. The participants walk from their host's home through this amazing jungle to arrive at our classroom with a view of the high Himalayas.

Using a variety of learning techniques and strategies this course presents Permaculture as an integrated design approach to create sustainable human habitat. Course time will consist of traditional lectures, guest presentations, group discussions, games, exercises, hands-on projects, photos, movies and site visits. While we will focus on land systems, many discussions and examples will be explored of applications in the 'Invisible Structures'. These are the social, cultural, political, and economic structures we create as humans that powerfully shape much of our world today. Not only will the course be about Permaculture, but it will also model it by its structure and the environment we create together during the course.

To Register Contact: darjeelingprerna@gmail.com
For more information about this course, Rico and his work: www.i-permaculture.org