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Click above to view slideshow In early 2009, Lis Bastian from the Permaculture Institute worked with the Orange Community Gardeners at the Environmental Learning Facility in Orange (The ELF) to "permablitz" the existing Community Garden. After an introduction to Permaculture in the morning, a team of very dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers set to work in extreme heat and, over a few hours, sheet mulched a large area of lawn to create new garden beds, set up a strawbale compost bin and built a pond. The slideshow above shows the creation of the sheetmulched garden beds. As a follow-up, the Permaculture Institute, Netwaste and the Community Gardeners are now joining forces to offer the full Permaculture Design Course at the ELF, starting on the 29th January, 2010. Everyone is welcome to attend the course which has been designed to fit in around busy working lives. The 72 hour course has been split up so that it will be delivered once a month over 8 months from January to August. Students will attend a Friday evening session followed by a full day on Saturday, once a month. The course will cover urban, community and broadacre permaculture and will be taught by Lis Bastian, Rosemary Morrow and guest tutors. It will include visits to homes and rural properties in Central NSW and will combine practical and theoretical work.
Permaculture Design Course at The ELF in Orange
from 29th January to 28th August, 2010
Dates: Evenings— 29/01/10; 26/02; 26/03; 30/04; 28/05; 18/06; 30/07; 27/08 Saturdays—30/01; 27/02; 27/03; 1/05; 29/05; 19/06; 31/07; 28/08 From the 29th January, The Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute is working with Netwaste and the Orange Community Garden Group to present the Permaculture Design Course at the Environmental Learning Facility located at the Orange Showground.
Participants in the design course will learn how to build waterwise food-producing gardens, reduce waste and the price of living, retrofit houses to be more energy and water efficient, create water retentive landscapes and use more resilient agricultural techniques, explore broadacre rehabilitation, build community strategies that help keep people and money in our local communities, and prepare for the future by using an ethical design framework.
Based on the internationally recognised Permaculture curriculum and incorporating the work of pioneers like P.A. Yeomans and Peter Andrews, the course will be held over 8 x 1 1/2 day sessions from the end of January to the end of August, helping people build their skills and redesign their properties before the beginning of the Spring growing season. In order to be accessible for those with full time employment or other commitments, the course will be run once a month on a Friday evening followed by a full day on Saturday.
Permaculture courses bring together the best of traditional culture and contemporary advances in technology and agricultural practice, under an ethical framework that is about caring for people, caring for the earth and caring for future generations.
The course numbers are strictly limited to maximise each person's involvement in practical as well as theoretical work.
To secure your place contact Sue as soon as possible on 63938771 or 0400 336 508 or via email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it The Cost of the PDC is $600 which includes Rosemary Morrow's book, "Teacher's Notes".
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