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Permaculture Design Certificate Course

What is Permaculture?

Permaculture is an environmental design philosophy which develops sustainable architecture and self-maintained agricultural systems modeled from natural ecosystems.

Permaculture design seeks to minimize waste, human labor, and energy input by building systems with maximal benefits between design elements to achieve a high level of synergy.

Through this Permaculture Design Certificate Course, students become immersed in the principles and practices of systems design and how to integrate these systems.   In order to earn the certificate, a person must participate in creating a design over a “72” hour training.  The space of focus for this course will be Patterson School property, just outside Lenoir NC, in Happy Valley.

Students will develop a comprehensive overview plan for Patterson with a focus on land use and systems based in permaculture principles.

Dates:    Friday July 19 – Saturday July 27

The usual price of the course is $850 and includes 11 teachers and 25 meals with a minimum of 10 full participants.  Patterson has arranged for a special course to be taught on Patterson School campus.

$600 per student for full 72 hour course

$70 per day for students who cannot commit to the full 72 hours – No certification

The goal is to have created and presented actual maps and designs for Patterson, by the end of the course.

Please contact:

Edward or Crystal 704-592-2557  -  weareallfarmers@gmail.com
OR
Debbie Goforth 864-621-1770   -  debbie@debbiegoforth.com

to reserve a space and ensure that we prepare enough materials.

A limited number of dorm rooms at Patterson School may be available at a nominal cost of $10 for over-night guests.   Guests will need to bring their own bedding (sheets/cover/pillow), and comfortable, casual clothes.

During the week of June 3rd-7th students in grades 3-5 from various schools in Caldwell County frequented the campus of Patterson Science Center to engage in a week long summer camp in which they explored various areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)! On the first day of camp, teachers, Amy Bradley and Jennifer Biddix, read students the book Too Many Toys by David Shannon and challenged the students to use a cardboard box like the main character of the story to create a device that would better their everyday lives! Following this challenge students were immersed in the engineering design process to design, create, and test a bridge made entirely of pasta! On the second day of camp students were challenged to create a newspaper chair that would hold the weight of adult! Using Knex Toys students designed a “critter” with the only stipulation that the critter had to have parts that moved and students had to explain what made the parts move. The focus of the third day of camp was “Theme Park Day,” students created marble runs from toilet paper rolls, pipe insulators, cups, and various other objects. Using Lego’s student built Merry Go-Rounds to explore how simple machines worked. The fourth day’s focus was “Medieval Times,” in which students first built a catapult using only Popsicle sticks, a wooden block, masking tape, and a spoon that would launch a cotton ball. Later they improved their designs and used Lego’s to create larger catapults to launch tape balls. On the final day of camp students showcased their creations to their parents and invited guests and presented the concepts they had learned. The camp ended with parents competing against students to engineer a “water drop parachute” to land a cup of water safely to the ground without any water being lost in the process.

Patterson Science Center has two more scheduled summer events for students, during June 17th-21st, rising 6th-9th graders can register for another STEM camp called “STEAM-ing Up the Valley.” During this week long camp students will engineer bungee cords,build hovercrafts and gravity cars, create windmills, solar boats, solar cars, and design a sustainable community. The last summer student camp is scheduled for July 15th-19th, again for rising 6th-9th graders. The camp is called “Tom Dula: Friend or Foe,” during this camp students will engage in a forensic investigation as the legend of Tom Dula is retold. The camp will begin with a visit to Laura Fosters grave, following the field trip students will dig up a mock grave and begin the process of analyzing a crime scene. Using eyewitness reports and analyzing trace evidence of hair, fibers, blood, and DNA students will present evidence in a mock trail to discover if Tom Dula killed Laura Foster or if Ann Melton was involved in the salacious crime.

For more information please call 828-754-1569 or go to http://www.facebook.com/PattersonScienceCenter

Thanks!

In Loving Memory
Pastor Randy Alan Gibson
6/25/1952 – 6/6/2012

Lenoir, NC – Pastor Randy Alan Gibson, age 59, of Lenoir, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte.

Born June 25, 1952 in Burke County, Randy was the son of Earl “Bud” and Floye C. Gibson. At a young age, he was known for his singing and playing the autoharp. It was at this time that he was called to serve the Lord at the age of 13. He was the preacher for 27 years at Worship Point Baptist Church. Through his ministry, he started the 1st Christian School in Caldwell County. He did missionary work in Haiti, Mexico, Jamaica and in the United States where he helped build Churches, Hospitals and Schools. He preached at the White House and had met several of our nation’s presidents. He helped with the Greg Lentz Ministries Heritage Tours. Randy was featured on a DVD called “Revival Days” which has been published in over 20 foreign countries. Randy was an avid reader and has one of the largest private owned libraries. He was renowned and knowledgeable and a well known Historian as well as a Genealogist and Ancestry research. He taught and served as principal in multiple local Christian Schools as well as Seminary and Bible courses for young preachers. He was a past president of the Kiwanis for two years. He was an avid supporter of the Highland Games. One of the most important things was that Randy was everyone’s friend. He was preceded in death by a sister, Cathy Darlene Gibson; his grandparents, Oscar and Jessie Crump Gibson, and Dewey and Louetta Smith.

In addition to his parents, Randy is survived by his wife of 39 years, Wanda Gibson of the Home; a son Jamieson C. Gibson of Lenoir; a daughter, Alisha Jeanine Gibson of Winterville, NC; an aunt Ruby Gibson Watson; an uncle, Ted Smith; he is also survived by numerous other relatives.

A celebration of Randy’s life will be held on Saturday, June 9, 2012 at 1:00 PM at the Union Grove Baptist Church with Pastor Gary Shew, Pastor Sam Craven, Pastor Greg Lentz and Preacher Melvin Day officiating. Interment will follow in the Union Grove Baptist Church Cemetery.

The family will receive friends prior to the service from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the Union Grove Baptist Church.

Memorials can be made to the Worship Point Baptist Church Missionary Fund at 2310 Collettsville Road, Lenoir, NC 28645.

Online condolences can be sent to the Gibson family at www.evansfuneralservice.com.

Evans Funeral Service & Crematory of Lenoir are serving the Gibson family.