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# PERMACULTURE DESIGN INDEPENDENT STUDY - TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 2022
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PERMACULTURE DESIGN INDEPENDENT STUDY - TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 2022
With Professor Michael Lee Poy
Wa Samaki Ecosystems, created in 1997, offers a working example of a Permaculture operation producing cut flowers for the local market, organic food for our household consumption, wildlife conservation, watershed rehabilitation, Permaculture Design Courses, workshops and volunteer and internship opportunities.
Walk through Wa Samaki PropertiesThis land-based program invited OCAD U Undergraduate students to an 9-day workshop from October 8 - 16, 2022, to Freeport Trinidad (Trinidad and Tobago). Students were invited to work in collaboration with Wa Samaki Ecosystems, an 11-acre permaculture designed and operated farm. Students were guided through the core ethics of the program: Care for the earth, people, and community. These ethics provide a framework for the principles that foster a regenerative relationship between land and people and are instrumental in designing and developing sustainable human settlements and institutions.
Students creating a natural building using hay + mudStudents investigated the permaculture-designed Wa Samaki site and applied the principles through a variety of exercises on topics that include mapping/leveling, companion planting, foraging, landscaping, soil remediation, energy cycling, climate change, ecosystems, biogeography, wildlife restoration, water conservation, forest/trees, recycling, etc.
Students leveling ground for natural building structure