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Want to save money and time, improve your property, and be eco-friendly? In Zen and The Art of Watercycle Maintenance: A stepwise guide to backyard ecological design and management, you will learn how to create a downspout runoff managing waterwalk as well as a beautiful, low-maintenance lawn and meadowscape that will attract pollinators year-round. Sessions will cover the basic science and math behind resilient ecological design; how to plan and build a downspout waterwalk to prevent erosion of nutrient-dense soil; and key steps to planting a maintaining a “Cape-friendly” lawn and meadow. You will also make a model of a waterwalk, review samples of different kinds of soil, and collaborate to create a small hugel terrace. All activities will be indoors.

Classes are scheduled to meet on these dates: 3/25, 4/1, 4/8

About the instructor:  With over 40 years of global experience in the practice and teaching of agroecology, food security and watershed management, Peter has developed the Terra Firma Method to simplify the small, doable actions anyone can implement on the small to medium scale in order to turn runoff into a resource within their own landscapes. Peter grew up in Orleans, graduating from NRHS in 1981. Following his Animal Science degree from UVM he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Haiti where he saw firsthand the need for small doable actions to ease the challenges of severe weather upon the land. This became the basis for his Masters Degree in Soil Science and Agroecology from NCSU. Ten years as a WVU Extension Agent led to 20 years across Africa, Asia and Latin America working with the Peace Corps, UN and USAID funded food security projects where the Terra Firma methods were perfected. As the owner of Terra Firma Permagardens, Peter focuses on runoff mitigation waterwalks, hugel terraces and Cape Cod and Pollinator Friendly “Meadowscapes”.