This unique course, delivered on Saturdays over 16 weeks gives you the knowledge and skills to observe and design from the natural patterns to create productive gardens & properties, grow your own food, apply appropriate technologies, learn to use resources wisely, build on living systems and rebuild communities.
Learn to:
Build Resilience through Connectivity
Facilitate Regeneration of the Earth
Create Abundance through Design
DATES: Saturdays, from 11th August to 24th November 2018
COST: $1450/ $1130 Health Care Card Holder (GST Inclusive)
INCLUDED IN YOUR COURSE FEE
- Rosemary Morrows ‘Earth Users Guide to Permaculture’
- Extensive resources and handouts to complement course outcomes
- Teachers whose conceptual understanding of the permaculture design process complements their broad range of knowledge and experience to create an immersive learning environment
- Visit to Crystal Waters where we will explore how these landholders have implemented permaculture design concepts into their lives
- An experience of COMMUNITY & FUN
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YOU WILL LEARN
- the history of permaculture and agriculture and the foundational concepts of the permaculture ethics and design principles
- to design from ecological pattern literacy, systems thinking, using Ethics and Design principles, designing from the whole, differentiated into parts
- to use the Scale of Permanence to give realistic outcomes for any design
- climate analogues and how varied micro-climates affect your site
- the patterns of our intent and that of our landscapes, elements and their functional connections in your design to minimize waste
- to savour our soils: soil biology, amendments, uses and putting it all together
- about trees and forests and how we can integrate them into our systems
- how we can cultivate our ecology to produce food based on our unique needs including annuals, perennials, forest gardens and animals into our systems
- to enhance our communities and local economies through social permaculture design
- a practical understanding of the design process through group and individual design work
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