Design

Learn more about upcoming DiRT & Glitter Youth Art & Adventure Program design offerings below!

Sign up for the DiRT & Glitter newsletter at the bottom of the page to learn more about design courses in the months to come!

CANCELLED: Permaculture Design Course

In order to make these tools more accessible to the community, we are pivoting this offering from a 10 day camp available only to youth to a series of weekend workshops available to the whole community! To hear about how you can participate and when the new dates are announced, please sign up for the DiRT & Glitter newsletter here!

Come learn with Ben Zumeta of Old Growth Edible Landscapes, site designer-developer for the Crescent City Food Forest, naturalist, educator, park ranger, ecological restorationist, homesteader & permaculture designer with over a decade experience

July 26- Aug 4
Howland Hill Outdoor School

FREE for 18-24 year olds living in Del Norte & adjacent tribal lands! (Food & rustic cabin lodging provided)

An overnight 72 course-hour place-based permaculture intensive (with nine days of 8 hour lessons) focused on earth care, people care & sharing abundance in the coastal redwood forest

Learn skills to design more beautiful, bountiful lives & landscapes including:

  • Forest gardens & ecologically integrated farming

  • Water retention landscaping

  • Wildfire resilience

  • Soil regeneration

  • Natural building

  • Livestock management

  • Social & financial strategies to stop giving sociopaths time & money

  • Improve self-sufficiency and local community autonomy

  • Revolution disguised as organic gardening

Learn about upcoming weekend permaculture workshops here!

Questions? Contact ogediblelandscapes@gmail.com or 707-954-9207

Currently in progress: How Did We Get Here?

Radio Play & Documentary Course

A Sound Design Course for youth in Del Norte and adjacent tribal lands, ages 14-24, brought to you by KFUG/ Redwood Voice in collaboration with DiRT & Glitter’s Youth Art and Adventure Program!

Earn $1,500 bringing the graphic novel How Did We Get Here? (learn more about the graphic novel here!) to the airwaves! This course, where students will learn sound design, audio and video editing, will take place at KFUG Community Radio over 10 weeks starting June 30th.

The sound design course is now full; to learn about future sound design opportunities, please sign up for our newsletter at the bottom of the page.