You can farm in the city, and work for multiple environmental issues, by using the techniques of permaculture.

Have you always wanted to live on a farm but can’t leave your city lot? Cheer up. Now you can learn how to make your city lot a farm using the techniques of permaculture.

Permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements that integrates agriculture with everyday life. The theory is that using basically sound agricultural and human cultural impulses, food can be produced and the environment kept clean and renewable.  Backyard tomato farms, keeping chickens, bees, collecting rainwater and all kinds of other projects become possible when you think of your home as a modern victory garden.

Kristin Huber, a local environmentalist and urban-homesteading advocate, has organized a permaculture seminar in Fort Worth beginning May 30th. This is a repeat of a course offered in March. The following information was given about the instructor in the email alert:

Wayne Weiseman, a life long permaculturist and experienced teacher, will lead this 2009 Course in Fort Worth, Texas. Wayne has been authorized by the Permaculture Institute of Australia (Mollison’s Founding Organization) to teach and grant PDC certification and receives constant praise from students as being an excellent teacher. Each certificate that Wayne grants is dated, numbered and registered with the Permaculture Institute of Australia.

Deadline to register is May 15!!

Go to www.dfwpermaculture.com for more details.

Image credit Samuel Mann.