Graham Burnett

Graham Burnett is an experienced permaculture practitioner, designer and teacher. He is a member of the Council of Management of the Permaculture Association (Britain), and holds the Diploma in Permaculture Design (Dip Perm Des). Graham is a member of the Permaculture Association's Designers Register, and has co-run Permaculture Introductory courses, full design courses and specialist courses on vegan-organic gardening and compost toilet building, as well as workshops for, amongst others, Organiclea, Naturewise, Green Adventure, Birmingham Decoy, Vegan Organic Network, Thrive (the therapeutic horticulture organisation), Transition Town Brixton ABUNDANCE, South East Essex Organic Gardeners and Southend Council’s Agenda 21 forum. Graham has been organising and teaching permaculture introductory and full design courses since 1998. Currently he works as part of the Naturewise team, running a variety of courses and events around North London, and with long term collaborator Ron Bates at Dial House in West Essex.

Scott Horton

Scott Horton is a permaculturist, eco-artist and writer living in the San Jacinto Mountains of Southern California. He is editor of the Permaculture Activist, the oldest periodical on the topic with the largest circulation in the Americas. He teaches annually at The Farm in Summertown, TN, and has taught through the Permaculture Institute of Northern California, Portland Community Colleges, Pacific Northwest College of Art, advanced permaculture at Lama Foundation in Taos, NM, and in Mexico under the auspices of Organi-K and Tierra Viva community. He annually travels to Tlaxcala State in Mexico, where he is a designer and partner renovating the 16th century Hacienda Santa Barbara Chapultepec to become a rustic eco-inn, permaculture and cultural center for the region. He has taught permaculture workshops to groups ranging from pre-school students to MBA candidates at UC Berkeley’s Haas Business School and from advanced design workshops to natural building with the Punks in the Iztapalapa district of Mexico City. He has studied permaculture, natural building and eco-village design with Penny Livingston-Stark, Alejandra Caballero and the Zopilote Foundation in Mexico and elsewhere. His writings on permaculture, ecology, nature and the arts have been published in recent issues of Ripples Magazine, Britegreen.com, Hopedance, Chamber Music Magazine and others, and he was guest editor of Communities Magazine’s Spring 2005 Art in Community issue.

William Faith

William Faith is a dedicated activist in the fight for the rights of animals, care of the earth and social justice, as well as a musician/songwriter, audio engineer and producer. Upon discovering permaculture in 2005, the nature of his artistry and activism changed for the better, both finding a confluence in permaculture. Shortly after completing his certification in permaculture design at the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm in Summertown, TN in 2006, William co-founded Ars Terra, a sustainable homestead project in Palmdale, CA. and has continued his study in permaculture, stewarded by friend and mentor Scott Horton. William is a permaculture practitioner, designer and apprentice instructor, and co-sponsored/co-coordinated a permaculture design course at L.A. Eco-Village in 2007.

C. Darren Butler

Darren Butler is a Consulting Arborist, Ecological Designer, and Landscape Specialist. His recent projects include designing and developing food forests in residential landscapes, which are forest-like systems that produce food with minimal maintenance once established. He has appeared on several episodes of "Weekend Gardening" for a large international television audience as an expert horticulturist and landscaper, on NPR radio, in newspapers, and other media. He has taught Sustainable Landscape Design and Diagnosing Plant Problems for the University of California Master Gardener Program in Los Angeles, Small-Space Food Gardening at Descanso Botanic Gardens, and is working with the Getty Villa to develop and teach gardening-related workshops.

We are very pleased to be holding this course at Animal Acres, the Los Angeles farmed animal sanctuary and compassionate living center directed by Farm Sanctuary co-founder Lorri Bauston.

The sanctuary is a refuge for animals, and a sanctuary for the soul. Farmed animal sanctuaries are a place where cows, pigs, and chickens reach out and touch the human heart. The “animal ambassadors” gently teach people to extend compassion to ALL beings through one-on-one interaction. For many people, it is the first time they have ever looked into the eyes of pig or chicken, and it can profoundly affect the way people view and treat farmed animals.

Animal Acres is located in Acton, CA., a 45-minute drive from central Los Angeles.

On-site camping will be available for course participants for an additional $100. per registrant.