NOTE - due to weather this workshop has been rescheduled from March 8th to March 15th. If you have already registered, please call or e-mail to let me know if you can make it on the 15th. If you haven't already registered, there is still room for more participants!

Location: a rural property mauka of Umauma, 16 miles north of Hilo on the Hamakua coast.

Instructor/facilitator: John Schinnerer

You must register for this workshop - cost is $5
To register, call John at 982-6529 or e-mail john@eco-living.net

BYO brown bag lunch, and snacks to share.

This workshop includes plenty of participatory and hands-on exercises and an optional service work party for our host, Sharron Cordaro.

Keyline Design is a holistic land use design system originally developed in Australia in the mid 1950's, and used there and around the world for decades. Significant aspects of permaculture design have their roots in Keyline methods and principles.

In this workshop you will learn the fundamentals of Keyline design, with an emphasis on water management practice and theory. We will cover the Keyline design scale of permanence, basic Keyline earthworks, and an overview of rural and urban applications. Then we will focus on the host property as a hands-on case study and work in progress for Keyline applications.

Activities will include site observation and assessment based on Keyline principles, locating key points and keylines, surveying and building water management features, and time for relevant digressions into ecological and permaculture design.

Wear comfortable work clothing and footwear and bring water, lunch, sun/rain protection and work gloves. Also notebooks, cameras, sketchpads...bring a chair to sit on.

We need some volunteers to bring extra shovels and a couple picks and rakes (soil rakes, not leaf rakes :-). There is deep soil at the host site - we will not be pounding rocks!!

For questions or further information:
John Schinnerer at 982-6529 or john@eco-living.net