"When we can learn how to look after ourselves, we come out to nature more, and we appreciate what we have." - Frazer Smith, Tsartlip Indigenous Wisdom Keeper Canadian PA Member and Diploma Tutor Delvin Solkinson serves as Dean and on the Instructor team along with his wife Grace. They celebrate completing the first half of the Permaculture Design and Resilient Ecosystems Diploma at Pacific Rim College. The participants in this program have been on a learning journey with permaculture design taking place in many nature classrooms with a large teaching team, the course has been able to ‘Use and value diversity’ We had an awesome first half of the Permaculture Design and Resilient Ecosystems Diploma, a full time, 720 hour hands-on program run at Tiny Tree Herb and Flower Farm Campus of Pacific Rim College. Delvin & Grace Solkinson are excited to continue our journey with an extraordinary learning guild of participants into the second half of this learning adventure. Guild with Frazer Smith, Tsartlip Indigenous Wisdom Keeper, Storyteller and Extraordinary Teacher of traditional skills Learning in old growth ecosystems Fairfield Permaculture Commons Suburban Permaculture Homestead with gardens, chickens, rabbits, ducks, forest gardens and so much more JB Williams an Indigenous Knowledge Holder, master teacher, storyteller and ethnobotanist of Tsawout and Ahousat descent Everyone contributed to this composting toilet made out of mostly reclaimed and scrap materials. Copied to clipboard