Matt Powers Permaculture
Matt Powers is now opening enrolment for The Advanced Permaculture Student Online 2021. This course is simply the BEST PDC I've ever encountered. Honestly, I cannot say enough good about it. I've taken 4 online/video PDCs - 2 taught by Bill Mollison himself, one with Geoff Lawton and one with Larry Korn. Matt's is the only one I ever completed for credit! Matt doesn't just repeat what Mollison wrote in "The Big Black Book", although he certainly covers everything in a traditional PDC and in greater depth than most. His course includes soil science with Dr. Elain Ingham, Mycology with Peter McCoy and SO much more! It also keeps going after the regular 120 hour PDC. Matt gives you access to books and videos on everything from bee keeping to starting a business. He does a live Q&A every week and real hands on mentoring. He is one of the nicest, most helpful guys you'll ever encounter. And, if you take his course I'll throw in this bonus here on TGN - you can contact me with any questions and I'll help you though it, as well. So, tell Matt I sent you... and he'll give me a small commission!
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I have taken many of Matts class including the PDC.
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Me too - his stuff is great and he's a valued friend.
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I saw the one for K-12 and might talk to my 13 year old son about doing it. Would that one be better for us, or the one you are recommending?
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I don't think you could go wrong either way. Matt was a school teacher, so he is particularly good at presenting lessons for kids in a way that makes the info accessible. But, he also really goes through each concept step by step in the Advanced PDC, too... and with a lot of energy and enthusiasm. So, it is really just a matter of whether or not you want a program tailored specifically for kids.
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Shucks, I could just quit everything else and learn! But I'm going to be disciplined and first do the courses here whenever I have some spare time.
And now I've got to go back to learning in order to teach my youngest and final homeschooled teen about food science. We're doing sugars right now....
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Having attended UGA just after Alton Brown, I have a passion for Food Science... rock on!
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I've got my eye on signing up for one or more of his courses even though I already have my PDC certificate. I discovered him about 6 or 7 months ago. I feel a lot of good energy behind his work.... Thanks for the heads up.
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Enjoyed listening to matt at the last homegrown food netwrork and other regenerative ag summits.
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If there is one thing Matt dos not lack, it is enthusiasm! Well, that and knowledge.
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Just got this from Matt:
Has Permaculture Changed Your Life?
It’s changed mine! I was just a local high school teacher with more debt than my job could dig me out of, my wife was continuously fighting cancer, and we had two young boys, and I was feeling the weight of it all. I’d quit being a studio and touring musician and found myself marooned in California’s Central Valley, a hot, dry, and depressed region. Its problems ecologically are so profound that it’s hard to not encounter them living in the area, and it’s even harder to not recognize the link between the harsh landscape and the strained businesses, crime, and lack of regenerative growth. The very dust once airborne there can give children a fatal fever called Valley Fever. I being a naive young man thought I could grow all our family’s foods and all the veggies for juicing that we’d need to do my wife’s cancer protocols… the soils were 140˚F and only dipped to 120˚F when watered twice a day - it was WILD!! BUT, I was able to transform that site, grow an abundance, redesign my life, and shift into a completely different space where I am my own boss, where I share and teach permaculture full-time, where my family lives healthier, where my children have real skills and real hope, and where I don’t have to live in fear of an uncertain future.
Permaculture helped solve so many of the fundamental challenges I faced in that growing situation, and I’ve been able to use it on every site we’ve moved to. It gives me hope and a diagnostic and design lens that ethically guides me through the world and life, BUT WHAT ABOUT YOU?
I’m gathering stories of how Permaculture has changed people’s lives for a podcast I’m planning. Would you be willing to share with me and my audience your story? It would be read aloud on my podcast/youtube show: A Regenerative Future with Matt Powers, and aired on Youtube and iTunes next week.
Email me if you’d like to participate - I’m stoked to read your stories!!
Thank you for living Permaculture!!
Grow Abundantly, Learn Daily, & Live Regeneratively,
Matt Powers
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I think I'll change the name of this threat to just "Matt Powers Permaculture" - he's always up to something cool!
Do you want to listen to the opening of my new book Regenerative Soil?
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