http://www.kerrmaculture.org/home The Permaculture endeavor of Quiet Valley Ranch, home of the world famous Kerrville Folk Festival and Kerrville Wine and Music Festival. Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:48:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Don’t know how your year is going, but it’s been a little busy around here and things keep changing. We had this website hacked and they put up some very interesting (not!) porn. I hope no one was too taken aback. The class is coming together quite ... http://www.kerrmaculture.org/home/?p=19 Mark your calendars! We’re having the 6th annual PcDC at Quiet Valley Ranch on Oct 17-29, 2009. There is a slight possibility that we could have it a week later on Oct 24 - Nov 5, depending on teacher availability. Folks are already signing up and we ... http://www.kerrmaculture.org/home/?p=18 My friends, I hope you are all well after the hurricane. We got no rain nor wind at the Ranch. I want to remind you about our fifth intensive Permaculture Design Certification course at QVR, October 17 – 30. We hosted the Natural Building Colloquium at the Ranch last Fall ... http://www.kerrmaculture.org/home/?p=17 Come join us at the Quiet Valley Ranch in Kerrville, TX, for our fifth Permaculture Design Course. The dates are October 17 through 30, 2008. Last October-November, the Quiet Valley Ranch hosted a Natural Building Colloquium with over 300 participants! It was like having an advanced, hands-on Permaculture course times ... http://www.kerrmaculture.org/home/?p=16 Quiet Valley Ranch will host the Natural Building Colloquium from October 19 - 28, 2007. Austin’s Sustainable Building Coalition and other Texas natural building leaders will work with colloquium participants to improve facilities used by Kerrville Folk Festival artists, staff and visitors. “We’re looking forward to offering hands-on natural building seminars ... http://www.kerrmaculture.org/home/?p=15 Friends, Permies, Kerrverts and Greenbuilders, We are offering the fourth intensive Permaculture Design Certification Course at Quiet Valley Ranch, home of the Kerrville Folk Festival. We have developed our own brand of Permaculture in the Texas Hill Country and call it Kerrmaculture. We ... http://www.kerrmaculture.org/home/?p=14 Quet Valley Rach, home of the Kerrville Folk Festival in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, will once again be hosting a 72-hour intensive Permaculture Design Certification Course from October 22nd to November 4th 2005. The organizers of the course have again asked Scott Pittman, the premier expert on drylands ... http://www.kerrmaculture.org/home/?p=13 The Millenium Ecosystem Assessment was just released, so check it out. What is the Millenium Ecosystem Assesment? The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) is designed to meet the needs of decision-makers and the public for scientific information concerning the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being, and options for responding to those changes. ... http://www.kerrmaculture.org/home/?p=11 After much ado and a little delay, the 2004 Permaculture Design Course was completed in February 2005. We made some big steps toward completing the master plan for Quiet Valley Ranch and certified a few good permies in the process. We were very forunate to have teachers, Jefferson Ryon and ... http://www.kerrmaculture.org/home/?p=10 After lots of work in thier spare time, our Kerrmaculture volunteers have our new web site up in running. So take a look around, let us know what you think. This page is always a work in progress and a group effort. http://www.kerrmaculture.org/home/?p=7