SISKIYOU PERMACULTURE

WINTER INTERNSHIP
by Application only
By arrangement, up to 6 days December 27 – January 23

In this experiential work opportunity, you will join Hazel at their new home footprint outside Phoenix, Oregon for forestry and natural building using hand tools. 4-6 hour work days will be combined with discussions and group food preparation and camp maintenance.  Full Internship Description.

Cost $50 per day, includes camping. Interns bring their own food.  Prerequisite this year is to have taken a course with Siskiyou Permaculture. Contact us for more information or application.

SOCIAL FORESTRY
January 31 – February 5, 2026

Step out of the industrial mindset and into a regenerative future. Facilitated by permaculture elder Hazel Ward, author of Social Forestry; Tending the Land as People of Place, we build a sense of community and identity as we learn through storytelling, crafts, communion and forestry practice.

• Course Highlights
  Reconnect with the Forest: Rediscover how to live with forests as friends, moving beyond extractive practices to establish a reciprocal regenerative relationshio with the land.
  Hands-on skills: Engage in practical, hands-on activities that may include cultural burning, forest management, coppicing, basketry, use of hand tools and woods crafts.
  Ecological Knowledge: Learn essential skills for ecological assessment, carbon sequestration and restoration forestry.
  Community and Culture: Participate in a co-created gathering involving land tending, communal play, salon converations, and seasonal work cycles that connect communities to their local forested water catchment basins.
  Visionary Perspective: The course is designed to offer a fundamental shift in perspective, providing a vital vision for how humans can be a regereative force with the forest community.

Full Course Description. 
Course Price: $925, includes camping, bring your own food. Early registration until December 31, 2025: $850. Please register early.

PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE
Next Date TBA, Ashland Oregon

This PDC is held over 6 weekends.  This is the permaculture certificate course offered around the world with lots of local flavor included.  This course is taught by Hazel, Karen Taylor and Melanie Mindlin plus special guests.  Full Course Description.

Course Price for 2022 was $850. Early registration $750.

OPTICAL SURVEYING FOR EARTHWORKS & WATER
Cancelled for 2025

Advanced permaculture course

Basic surveying and layout are essential skillsets for every farmer, homesteader, designer and consultant.  In this 6 day course, Hazel teaches the use of analog (non-battery operated) surveying tools, along with advanced skills in keyline, pond and swale layout, mapping and other core knowledge necessary for design and execution of permaculture projects.  Full Course Description.

Course Price: $900, includes camping, bring your own food. Early registration $800 until Sept.10, 2025.

DESIGN CHARETTE
Intermediate Permaculture Workshop

Gain confidence in your design skills with this workshop focused on permaculture site assessment and conceptual design for a site that includes many components of permaculture such as forestry, farming, water catchment and/or community involvement.  This 3-4 day workshop is offered at the intermediate level.  Full Course Description.

BOTANY UP CLOSE & PERMACULTURAL

This botany course is a 6-day field intensive designed to be an esential part of training for stewards of earth repair, practitioners of Social Forestry or simply an opportunity to delve into the world of plants.  We will look at plants within their ecological and ethnobotanical contexts, exploring the eco-tones of our laboratory: the Little Applegate valley within the bio-region of the Siskiyous. Through storytelling, drawing, plant walks, discussion and botanical survey, we will hone our observation skills, gain fluency in identifying plants, use plan family key recognition chracteristics and build aptitude with analog plant identification resources.  In this field immersion, we will experience coming into relationship with the plant workd with all our senses.  Full Course Description.