Course:Summer practicum/Planning
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This is the Summer practicum planning page.
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Summer practicum schedule
- For a list of all of our events, please visit the calendar.
We have weekly gardening sessions in the MUCS courtyard where we will get to apply what we have learnt throughout the class hands on, on Wednesdays from 4-7pm. We will then share a potluck except for the last Wednesday of every month when we will have a shared meal cooked together in the MUCS Kitchen. If you would like to offer a workshop pass by a gardening session and let us know (or contact us)!
We also organize fieldtrips to locations pertinent to permaculture (gardens, farms, ecological buildings, etc.).
Goals for the summer practicum
- apply and practice techniques learned in class
- present new material that is more easily learned hands on
- build a solid permaculture community
- create public permaculture sites for popular education
- produce food for the dining coop and other community groups
- facilitate MUSE associates finding jobs/internships/volunteer work with partner organizations
Techniques we hope to apply
- produce and implement a permaculture design--> MUCS courtyard garden
- basic gardening skills--> Scott's garden (?), MUCS courtyard garden
- principles of a permaculture garden: stacking functions, attracting diversity, incorporating a zone 5, etc.
- greywater treatment and use--> MUCS(?)
- rainwater harvesting--> MUCS
- ponds and aquaculture
- fruit tree care
- green building and cob oven--> with Action Communiterre (?)
- care for seedlings/successive planting
- bees and chickens--> pipe dream (?)
- composting-->MUCS (?)
- dehydrator--> MUCS rooftop (?)
- guerilla gardening
Potential field trips of interest
- Bioferme Laval- market vegetable farm that works with Autistic adults--> always looking for help
- Herbs on the side- medicinal herb garden in a backyard near Cote-Vertu
- Collective gardens: Pointe St. Charles, Action Communiterre, St-Henri
- Rooftop gardens: Santropol's garden at McGill
- http://www.pousses.blogspot.com Roerich guerilla garden in Mile End
- Seedy Sunday at the Botanical Gardens
- Plant identification walk on the mountain
- Plant identification at the Botanical Gardens
- Danielle's bee hives
- Montreal Centre of Excellence in Brownfields Remediation
- Concordia's greenhouse vermicomposting and large outdoor composter
- Windmill Point Farm, Ferme Tournesol, Jardins de la Resistance, La Ferme Berthe Rousseau
- Heartroot Farm *www.heartroot.com
- Earthship
Workshops
- primitive skills (Steve)
- rocket stoves (Ed)
- building with cob
- growing mushrooms (inoculating logs and/or straw and/or coffee grinds and/or cardboard and woodchips (Marion)
- urban abundance: an exploration of the many unconventional resources available in the city
- self-watering container gardening (Heather and Santropol?)
- potential RUST workshop in Mtl or making a wind turbine out of bicycle parts activity with Skott Kellogg from the Rhizome Collective
Related jobs
- Related jobs (currently inactive)
Related internships
See also
- Past discussion about potential sites.
