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Central
Georgia Permaculture Institute (CEGAPI for short) offers: >
Teaching: CEGAPI
co-founders Bob Burns, and Isabel Crabtree lead workshops
through out the Southeastern US, and organize and co-teach Permaculture Design Courses around the Southeast US. Touring CeGaPI: - If
you would like to set up a group tour of the permaculture farm please
contact Isabel. Price is $5 per person, minimum 6 people. Tour date
must be scheduled at least two weeks in advance.
- CeGaPI is located on a private homestead. It is NOT ok to just show up!
Central Georgia Permaculture Institute, LLC can be contacted at: cegapi1 (at)gmail (dot) com
Curriculum Vitae Bob Burns
is a regionally known Permaculture educator, designer, visionary,
organic farmer/gardener, and former organic certifier for Georgia
Organics. His work in Georgia and the Southeast spans 26 years, always
with an eye to sustainable design and implementing Permaculture
practices. He received his Permaculture Design Certificate in
2000 from Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton, in Minden, Louisiana.
Most
recently Mr. Burns is co-founder of Central Georgia Permaculture
Institute, an education and design entity based out of Milledgeville,
Georgia along with his wife/partner Isabel Crabtree. They are also
designing and implementing a working 40-acre permaculture research
site, in the same area. They hope to open the site to apprentices in an
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With a current focus on teaching, Mr.
Burns is currently secondary (student) teacher for several Permaculture
Design Courses around the region, including Gainesville, FL and the
historic Koinonia Farm, outside Americus, Georgia. He has designed and
managed sustainable land systems for several small and large sites over
the years, including small urban sites, and large farms, and everything
in between.
Mr. Burns was a member of the Koinonia Farm community
for over 10 years, where he was manager of, at the time, the second
largest organic farm in the state of Georgia. From 1998 to 2004 Mr.
Burns served as a board member for Georgia Organics, and as an organic
certifier. and has been a frequent guest speaker at the Georgia
Organics yearly conference. From 1985-1988 he worked in the Noakhali
and Feni districts of Bangladesh where he was an advisor and teacher,
working on an NGO extension program, helping local people catalog
edible wild plants, teaching composting, planting fruit and spice
trees, plants and vegetable gardens, and helping Bangladeshis increase
the sustainability of their sites.
Publications: “Wild edible plants in Greater Noakhali District of Bangladesh”
Isabel Crabtree
is a Permaculture Design Graduate from the Earth Activist Training held
in Franklin, N.C. in 2007. Her teachers were Penny Livingston-Stark,
Starhawk, and Patricia Allison.
Before 2004 Ms. Crabtree lived a
typical consumptive American life, and was an avid gardener and graphic
designer who worked mostly in digital art and print design. She also
worked for a unique subscription organic food service in South
Carolina, before moving to Georgia in 2003. She has been interested in
health issues, healthy eating and herbal medicine for many years.
Ms.
Crabtree met her husband/partner Bob Burns at the Georgia Organics
conference, and learned about Permaculture by observing his work. The
two became a great team, and are continuing to pursue Permaculture in
many directions. Ms. Crabtree is pursuing a teaching track as well as
developing a track for the organization, logistics, planning,
registration and advertising of Permaculture Design Courses and other
Permaculture classes in the South, as well as web design for
permaculture events and entities.
She and her husband are also working full time on developing a 40 acre Permaculture research institute in central Georgia.
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