Easy Propagation & Profitable Plants: Grafting, Cuttings, Division and more...

Learn how to easily make plants through cuttings,

grafting and division for a healthy & inexpensive

garden, farm and food forestry.

You need plants.

It's true. If you're planting a garden, farming, making a food forest, looking to start a nursery, thinking about starting a business, you need plants.

So how do you make plants?

Propagation.

Propagation is a big word that means "to make more".

And that's what this workshop is all about. Making more plants from plants you've been given, you found or perhaps you purchased but want to make more of.

What I love about propagation is it's about using the materials (plant material, tools and soils) at your disposal to make more materials. It's kind of like printing money but using the surplus and cycles of nature to create more plant life to use, trade, gift or sell.

Learn from Brandon Bauer a permaculture designer and practitioner who makes his living through permaculture practices in seed saving, farming and propagation. A day learning from Brandon can prune years of trial and error off of your learning curve. Not to mention, he's an incredibly interesting teacher to learn from and one heck of a guy!

Any way you look at it, learning how to propagate is an amazing skill to start to learn.

Here's the nitty gritty of the course.

Nuts and Bolts of the Event

When: 

Saturday April 7, 2012

9-5pm

Where:
 

OUR Ecovillage 

1565 Baldy Mountain Road
Shawnigan Lake, B.C.
Canada V0R 2W2 

Cost:

$95+HST

Payment can be made in full using credit card. Click on the Register Now button below or contact us for alternative payment methods. There is non-refundable $75 fee for this course. Click here to learn more about our refund policy.

The tuition for the course includes all instruction and hands on material. There are no textbooks provided for this course.  

Workshop Schedule

AM - LECTURE

Different types of Propagation

• Cuttings (Summer, Winter, Spring) (Hardwood, Softwood)
• Division
• Grafting
• Local Edible and Non-Edible Species
• Willow Bark Tea
  

Workspace

• Cuttings bench
• Greenhouse
• Sterility
• Water sources

Economics of Propagation: Making something out of nothing

• Having a garden shouldn't cost a fortune
• Nature propagates and gives freely, how do we harmonize with these cycles thus reducing our workload
  
• Pruning is harvesting
• Weeding is harvesting
• Food Forestry - $15,000 in nursery stock or propagate it yourself.

 
PM - HANDS ON

• Hands on of propagation methods described in the morning 
• Soft Wood Cutting Bench - demo and work flow
• Using Willow Bark Tea
• Tools of trade, what to use and what not to use
• Biomechanics of healthy working
  

Materials to Bring

• If you have a grafting knife bring it along, if not bring a utility knife.  
• Electrical Tape
• Secateurs
• Water Bottle
• Wide Brimmed Hat
• Yogurt Lid
• Lunch (Or you can contact OUR Ecovillage and reserve lunch there, they have amazing and usually very local and organic food. I highly recommend reserving lunch from them early).
  

First step in creating food sovereignty and financial sovereignty to create permaculture that pays. Propagation is a tool and skill that is regenerative in nature. After using this skill you end up with more then when you started. Showing that growing food is the first step to creating real freedom in your life.

We're looking forward to seeing you in class.

Be Fruitful an Mulch Apply,

Javan "Grafting good skills" Bernakevitch