Permaculture Design Course Brisbane

Next PDC on Thursdays from July – see below

UPDATE! From July our PDC will include a copy of Rosemary Morrow’s wonderful text “Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture.”

The Northey Street PDC

The Permaculture Design Course is the classic permaculture qualification and forms the backbone of sustainability education at Northey Street City Farm.  This exciting program gives you knowledge and skills for designing productive gardens and properties, growing your own food, applying appropriate technologies, using resources wisely, designing animal and plant systems to minimise your workload, rebuilding community values, and generally reducing your impact on our precious environment.

The Permaculture Design Course gives a good overview of permaculture ethics, principles and practice, with an emphasis on design. At Northey Street, we include significant hands-on practical experience as well, and incorporate partnerships with other community organisations.

Course Dates & Times

Choose from the following 2013 courses:

* Saturdays from 9th March to 15th June

* Thursdays from 11th July to 17th October

* Intensive  21st September – 5th October (Monday to Saturday), plus 19th October

* Session Times: typical days run from 9am – 4pm with a lunch break.

Our 2013 PDC Teachers (more to be announced):

Dick Copeman

Tim Auld

Bunya Halasz

Barb Ford

Robin Clayfield

Danial Lawton

Peta Deacon (Coordinator of Edible Landscapes Nursery)

Tim Davies

The Permaculture Design Course (PDC) includes:

• What is permaculture?
• How permaculture design works and how to apply it to your property and situation
• Basic ecology, plant identification and how it relates to designing productive gardens and properties
• Understanding and improving your soil
• Water capture, control, use, re-use in permaculture systems
• Propagating your plants and seed saving
• Growing healthy vegetables and maintaining healthy gardens
• Managing pests and diseases organically
• Improving your soil with composting and worm farming
• Keeping poultry and how a wide variety of animals are incorporated into permaculture systems
• Sustainable city living walking tour
• Trees in permaculture design
• Thinking of a tree change hinterland tour
• Living sustainably using passive heating and cooling, sustainabe housing design, appropriate and renewable energy
• Building local permaculture communities

Enquiries, Bookings and Payment

Download the Programs Booking Form or contact the Farm.

Places are limited in most courses and workshops so book now. To book your place prior to commencement with a credit card, you can:

• phone us on (07) 3857 8775
• email your booking form with payment details to info@nscf.org.au
• print out  and complete the booking form and post it (along with your cheque or payment details) to 16 Victoria St, Windsor QLD 4030
• …or simply bring your booking form in to the Farm and pay cash or EFTPOS at the Farm Nursery.

Phone: (07) 3857 8775 (10am-4pm, Tue-Fri)

Fax: (07) 3857 8108

Email: info@nscf.org.au

Bookings for PDC require payment of a deposit of $300 ($240 conc.) There is a discount for payment in full by one month prior to course commencement.

Please note that from September the price of the PDC will rise slightly in order to enable us to provide superior learning materials to students.

*This small outlay is a contribution towards the new standard text for the PDC, Rosemary Morrow’s “Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture.”

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