Curso: Permaculture 2: Ecosystem Mimicry FALL 2025

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PD2: Fall 2025

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Permaculture Design Certificate Course
(Part 2, Fall 2025):
Ecosystem Mimicry

Lead Instructor: Monica Ibacache, Permaculture Faculty, (646) 645-3830
mji33@cornell.edu
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  Announcements Foro
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  Announcements & News Foro
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  TEMPLATE FOR ALL ASSIGNMENTS Página
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  Schedule a Coaching Zoom Página
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  PDC Workbook (Optional Resource) Archivo
Intro: Oct. 6 - Oct 10
- This short introduction week gives you an opportunity to become familiar with the Moodle interface and tools, the course materials and general flow from week to week as well as your classmates and instructors. Spend time looking through the entire course content so that you can consider how to budget your time and energy accordingly. As most of you are already familiar with the platform, this week should be easy.
  
  Please don’t hesitate to contact your instructor with any questions
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  Reading: Course Overview and Format Página
  
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  Course Syllabus: PLEASE READ Archivo
  
  108.5 KB PDF document
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  Read more about Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute certificate Archivo
  
  127.2 KB PDF document
- Tarea
  
  A0.1: Design Vision Board Tarea
  
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  Cierre: viernes, 10 octubre 2025, 11:59
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  A0.2 Questions about your Design Vision Board Foro
  
  Vencimiento: viernes, 10 octubre 2025, 11:59
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  A0.3: Participant Forum: Introduce Yourself Foro
  
  Hacer publicaciones en el foro: 1
  
  Vencimiento: viernes, 10 octubre 2025, 11:59
- Módulo de encuesta
  
  A0.4: Ecosystem Mimicry Self-Assessment Encuesta
  
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Week 1: Oct. 11 - Oct 17
Permaculture Concepts and Tools
- Objectives:
  Examine what makes a permaculture approach important in our modern world.
  Prepare or revise your base map for future assessment exercises
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  Video: What is Permaculture? Página
  
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  Reading: Essence of Permaculture by David Holmgren Página
  
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  A1.1: Base Map Revisions (Forum) Foro
  
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  Vencimiento: viernes, 17 octubre 2025, 11:59
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  ASSIGNMENT 1.2 EXAMPLE: Ethics, Principles, Strategies, Techniques Archivo
  
  189.3 KB PDF document
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  A1.2 Forum: Ethics, Principles, Strategies, Techniques Foro
  
  Ver Hacer publicaciones en el foro: 1 Recibir una calificación
  
  Vencimiento: viernes, 17 octubre 2025, 11:59
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  ASSIGNMENT 1.3 EXAMPLE: Reflective writing Archivo
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  A1.3 Reflective Writing: Permaculture Design Principles Tarea
  
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  Cierre: viernes, 17 octubre 2025, 11:59
- Optional Resources
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  TED Talk: Biomimicry: Janine Benyus URL
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  TED Talk: Cradle to Cradle: William McDonough URL
- Optional Activities
Week 2: Oct. 18 - Oct 24
Reading the Landscape and Patterns
- Objectives:
  Examine the "languages" of natural systems and how they inform ways to design and analyze landscapes.
  Demonstrate your understanding of patterns with a written example of a pattern language.
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  Video: Reading the Landscape Página
  
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  Video: Natural Patterns and Design Solutions Página
  
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  Reading: What is a Pattern Language, Anyway? Página
  
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  ASSIGNMENT 2.1 EXAMPLE: Describing from Patterns to Details Carpeta
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  A2.1: Describing from Patterns to Details Tarea
  
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  Cierre: viernes, 24 octubre 2025, 11:59
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  Participant Forum 2.2: Patterns and Pattern Language Foro
  
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  Vencimiento: miércoles, 22 octubre 2025, 11:59
- Optional Activities
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  TED Talk: The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman URL
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  Video: Nikos A. Salingaros on Pattern Language and Form Language URL
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  Article: The Structure of Pattern Languages by Nikos A. Salingaros URL
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  Slides of Presentations (PDF) Carpeta
Week 3: Oct 25 - Oct 31
Building and Sustaining Living Soil
- Objectives:
  Recognize the components and processes of healthy, biologically active soil and compost.
  Engage in a soil analysis or building activity by testing soil on your design site and/or build (or rebuild) a compost system.
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  Video: Soil Basics Página
  
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  Video: Compost Happens! Página
  
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  Video: Ray Archuleta on Soil Health (7 minutes) Página
  
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  Video: Vermicompost, A Living Soil Amendment. Video (9 minutes) Página
  
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- Complete either 3.1 or 3.2.
  Everyone must complete Assignment 3.3.
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  ASSIGNMENT 3.1 EXAMPLE: Test Your Soil Archivo
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  Activity 3.1: Test Your Soil Tarea
  
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  Cierre: viernes, 31 octubre 2025, 11:59
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  ASSIGNMENT 3.2 EXAMPLE: Make a plan for Spring Composting Carpeta
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  Activity 3.2 Make a plan for Spring: Composting Tarea
  
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  Cierre: viernes, 31 octubre 2025, 11:59
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  ASSIGNMENT 3.3 EXAMPLE: Create a Soil Assessment Map Carpeta
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  Activity 3.3 Create a Soil Assessment Map Tarea
  
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  Cierre: viernes, 31 octubre 2025, 11:59
- Foro
  
  Participant Forum 3.4: Soil Health Foro
  
  Ver Hacer publicaciones en el foro: 1
  
  Vencimiento: viernes, 31 octubre 2025, 11:59
- Optional Activities
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  Reading: Selections from Cornell Garden Based Learning Página
Week 4: Nov. 1 - Nov 7
Working with Water

Objectives:
Review basic principles of water
Explore how we assess and design water in permaculture systems.
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  Presentation: Water (Video, 40 minutes) Página
  
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  Presentations: Water in Permaculture Systems (Videos, 52 minutes) Página
  
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  Geoff Lawton - Swale Plume URL
  
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  ASSIGNMENT 4.1 EXAMPLE: Your Water Budget Carpeta
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  Activity 4.1: Your Water Budget Tarea
  
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  Cierre: viernes, 7 noviembre 2025, 11:59
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  ASSIGNMENT 4.2 EXAMPLE: Contour Mapping Carpeta
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  Activity 4.2: Contour Mapping Tarea
  
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  Cierre: viernes, 7 noviembre 2025, 11:59
- Carpeta
  
  ASSIGNMENT 4.3 EXAMPLE: Water Assessment Mapping Carpeta
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  Activity 4.3: Water Assessment Mapping Tarea
  
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  Cierre: viernes, 7 noviembre 2025, 11:59
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  Water Assessment Map Example Archivo
  
  4.3 MB Image (JPEG)
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  Participant Forum: Contour Mapping Foro
  
  Ver Hacer publicaciones en el foro: 1
- Optional Resources
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  Google Earth for Farmers: Intro URL
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  Google Earth for Farmers 2 - Draw and Measure URL
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  Water – Simple, Yet Complex with Craig Sponholtz (audio) URL
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  Earthworks to Capture Rainwater Runoff and Prevent Erosion (audio) URL
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  Water Harvesting with Brad Lancaster (audio) URL
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  Brad's Rainwater Harvesting website URL
Week 5: Nov. 8 - Nov 14
Forestry and Agroforestry
- Objectives:
  Examine trees as systems.
  Identify key concepts of forest management and the practice of agroforestry.
  Research trees and plants for a potential polyculture on your design site.
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  Video: Trees and Forests (Narrated Lecture, 51 minutes). URL
  
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  Presentation: Agroforestry Systems (YouTube Videos) Página
  
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  ASSIGNMENT 5.1 EXAMPLE: Tree Research Carpeta
- Tarea
  
  Activity 5.1: Tree Research Tarea
  
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  Cierre: viernes, 14 noviembre 2025, 11:59
- Carpeta
  
  ASSIGNMENT 5.2 EXAMPLE: Stacking in Time and Space Carpeta
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  Activity 5.2: Stacking in Time and Space Tarea
  
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  Cierre: viernes, 14 noviembre 2025, 11:59
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  Participant Forum: Your Polyculture Foro
  
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  Vencimiento: viernes, 14 noviembre 2025, 11:59
- Optional Resources
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  Learn to Cultivate Mushrooms - Cornell Resources URL
  
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  Paul Stamets: 6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World URL
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  Agroforestry with Steve Gabriel - Permaculture Podcast URL
  
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  Reading: Excerpts from Profitable Farms and Woodlands Archivo
  
  1.5 MB PDF document
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  Forest Farming: Growing Crops Under the Canopy of an Existing Forest (audio) URL
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  Hazelnuts. A Viable Broadacre Crop for the Midwest? - Phil Rutter (audio) URL
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  Farming the Woods (Steve's Book) URL
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  Food Forest Trial Garden Workshops Carpeta
Week 6: Nov. 15 - Nov 21
Animals in our Systems
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  Animals
  
  Examine the roles animals play in permaculture systems
  Discuss specific management of livestock and work animals
  Assessment & Design
  Map and describe key elements of your site and design
  Assemble previous work to prepare for part 3 of the course.
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  Animals in Permaculture Systems (Narrated Lecture, 46 minutes). Página
  
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  Presentation: Aquaculture and Aquaponics (Videos total ~ 48 minutes) Page Página
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  Video: Allan Savory: How to fight desertification and reverse climate change URL
  
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  Reading: Rabbits Love Roses Página
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  ASSIGNMENT 6.1 EXAMPLE: Site Assessment Summary Carpeta
- Tarea
  
  Activity 6.1: Site Assessment Summary Tarea
  
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  Cierre: viernes, 21 noviembre 2025, 11:59
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  Forum 6.2: Animals in Your Landscape Foro
  
  Ver Hacer publicaciones en el foro: 1
  
  Vencimiento: viernes, 21 noviembre 2025, 11:59
- Optional Resource
- URL
  
  Joel Salatin - Polyface Farm URL
- Optional Activity
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  Activity 6.x: Animal Integration Research Tarea
  
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  Cierre: viernes, 21 noviembre 2025, 11:59
Concluding Weeks
Refine, catch up, and finish at your pace.

This course is paced to use the colder months to complete a permaculture curriculum that goes above and beyond the standard permaculture design course curriculum of 72 hours of instruction and design work. Realizing that most of our students have busy work and family lives that may make completion within the time frame difficult, this course is flexible to help. So if you have not finished your assignments--and find this class about to end and the next starting in two weeks--don't worry. You are not penalized for late work. I will have at least 6 office hours each week through April.
If you cannot finish part 2 until after March 13, 2024:
1) You can still register for part 3 and continue to finish your work from part 2 if you feel confident you can continue your own pace of work. You are encouraged not to take a break and try to finish before summer, so you do not lose momentum. As your instructor, I am available to help year-round but my availability is limited after April. From May through September, I will only have a couple of hours a week available for office hours, mostly by appointment.
2) You are still eligible to take part 3 of this series in subsequent years.
If you plan to earn Continuing Education Credits be sure to contact Matt Bennett mb2785@cornell.edu as soon as you finish.
Please note that access to the course material is available for one year until January 14, 2025. Save your own local copies of your assignments, as submitted assignments will not be saved online past December 31, 2024.
- Módulo de encuesta
  
  Need a certificate of completion? Please answer by April 31st Encuesta
  
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  Cornell Continuing Education Certificate
- Módulo de encuesta
  
  Course Feedback Encuesta
  
  No disponible hasta que: La actividad Activity 6.1: Site Assessment Summary esté marcada como realizada
- Recurso
  
  Information on gaining a Permaculture Design Certificate Archivo
  
  127.2 KB PDF document
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  May we share your best work? Consulta
  
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Diagrama de temas

PD2: Fall 2025

Permaculture Design Certificate Course

(Part 2, Fall 2025):

Ecosystem Mimicry

Intro: Oct. 6 - Oct 10

Week 1: Oct. 11 - Oct 17

Optional Resources

Optional Activities

Week 2: Oct. 18 - Oct 24

Optional Activities

Week 3: Oct 25 - Oct 31

Complete either 3.1 or 3.2.Everyone must complete Assignment 3.3.

Optional Activities

Week 4: Nov. 1 - Nov 7

Optional Resources

Week 5: Nov. 8 - Nov 14

Optional Resources

Week 6: Nov. 15 - Nov 21

Concluding Weeks

Complete either 3.1 or 3.2.
Everyone must complete Assignment 3.3.