Bruce Rickard Workshop Schedule

Thursday 4th

Friday 5th

Saturday 6th

Sunday 7th

7:00 – 8:15 Breakfast

7:00 – 8:15 Breakfast

7:00 – 8:15 Breakfast

Travel

8:30
Candice Chaffee
Certified Natural Health Practitioner
30 Minutes on State of Nation's Health

Bruce Rickard
Session 1
Fundamentals of Permaculture

8:30

Bruce Rickard
Session 3

8:30

Permacultural Design Workshop
Classroom and instructors will brainstorm several designs for individual student's properties to include such items as layout and design, ideal livestock options, pasture-plant combinations, swales, water catchment, and more.

Closing- The Heart of Sustainability

12:00 to 1:00 Lunch

12:00 to 1:00 Lunch

12:00 to 1:00 Lunch

Arrival
…anytime after 3:00

3:00 to 5:00
Register at CSC
Set up tents / settle in

5:00 to 6:00
Informal Gathering
to meet fellow students

1:00 to 5:00

Laura Paine
UW Pasture Specialist
The Science behind the dramatic improvement of an overall ecosystem resulting from the integration of animals.

Tour
Mint Creek Farm
Like the Rickard's, Harry Carr and his family started with just a few head of
sheep, that now numbers in the hundreds.  

1:00 to 4:30

Tour
AquaRanch
Twenty years of
experience has
culminated in one of
the largest aquaponics operations (integrated
fish & plant greenhouse system) in Illinois. Myles Harston will
share his passions and innovations in his commercial,
permaculture-oriented system.

Take Down Tents

Say Good-bye

6:00 to 6:45 Dinner

5:30 to 6:45 Dinner

Dinner During Tour

6:45 Intro to Stelle & CSC
Tour of Community with look at ‘green' home, solar powered telephone company, wind powered water plant, and organic community gardens.

 8:30 Meet Bruce & Lisa Rickard and Family
A full history of their adventure into sustainable agriculture

9:45 End

Late Swim – Informal Campfire – Bed

7:00 to 9: 00ish

Bruce Rickard
Session 2

5:30 to 8: 00ish

Tour
A Poly-Cultural Farm
Jim and Dianne Moore and their two sons Aaron and Wes, raise many different varieties of livestock including chickens, turkeys, goats, sheep, pigs, a dairy cow and beef cattle along with their 125 member CSA vegetable operation. Some of the livestock they raise are heritage breeds that were common hundreds of years ago.