Deep Dirt Institute

From Seed to Harvest

Includes:

•   Seed sowing

•   Transplanting

•   Care & maintenance

•   Harvest

•   Growing in a greenhouse or in the garden

The Foundation for Healthy, Nutritious Food

Includes:

• Improving topsoil

• Making soil

• Growing life in the soil

• Turning a dirt parking lot into a garden

• To mulch or not to mulch

From Shirts and Socks to Soil

Includes:

•   Home scale

•   Field scale

•   Sheet mulch

•   Simple compost teas

•   Buy a bin or make a bin?

From Rainfall to Irrigation

Includes:​

•   Rainwater harvesting

•   Erosion control

•   Water conservation, best practices

•   Increasing effective rainfall

•   Storage: Cisterns vs. soil

Building Habitat

Includes:

•   Choosing plants

•   Care & culture

•   Natives vs. non-natives

•   Hedgerows: what they are & how to create them

•   Integrated landscapes - food for all

Charming, Practical and Fun

Includes:

•   Appropriate building materials

•   Creative repurposing of waste

•   Grow materials for the future

•   Siting buildings for passive energy

•   Living safely on the land

How External Forces Shape the Places We Live

Includes:

•   Basic permaculture philosophy

•   Developing observation skills - landscape detective

•   Developing a relationship with place

•   Seeing the world through fresh eyes

•   Mapping your site

Large scale

Includes:

•   Site assessment, understanding the flows

•   Where to intervene, maximizing leverage

•   The nature of soils

•   Rules and regulations

•   Building stabilization structures, how to chose

Beauty and Function

​Includes:

•   Growing your relationship with place

•   Planning for the future

•   How to get started

•   Simple steps, critical considerations

•   How our bodies tell us what works

Food Forests

Includes:

•   Benefits of growing fruit and nuts

•   Choosing trees

•   Which rootstocks

•   Preparing the ground

•   Pruning techniques

•   Care

(limited availability)

Includes:

•   Introduction and History

•   Learning to heat & hammer steel

•   Hardening & tempering tool steel

•   Heating at a coal forge

•   Shaping on the anvil

Their Importance, Beauty and Value; Those We Eat

Includes

•   Carbon sequestration

•   Grasses role in soil stabilization

•   Erosion management

•   Beauty of grasses