PDC1 Autumn 2021 Protracted 14 day Permaculture Design Course

For more information, please visit:  https://www.limestonepermaculture.com/permaculture-design-certificate

Course: 14 Day - Permaculture Design Certificate Course (2021 PDC1 - Autumn course) 

Dates:  Feb - 27th & 28th, Mar - 13th & 14th / 27th & 28th, April - 10th & 11th / 24th & 25th, May – 8th & 9th / 22nd & 23rd,

Time:  9am - 4pm

Venue: Limestone Permaculture Farm (846 The Bucketts Way, STROUD ROAD. NSW 2415)

Includes:  - Earth User's Guide to Permaculture (2nd Edition) by Rosemary Morrow

             - Seasonally inspired Gourmet Morning tea & lunch throughout the course. 

             - Learning onsite at Limestone Permaculture Demonstration Farm. 

             - 7x Guest teachers and 3x Permaculture Farm site visits - 

             - Course notes & presentations on USB

             - Your very own permaculture property design

             - PDC Facebook Group specific to the PDC Class for continued learning throughout and after the course!

Price: $2400 per person > ($500 deposit upon registration with balance $1900 required using Bank Transfer by 12th Feb 2021)

If you need to establish a payment plan to pay the course fee by installments over the period leading up to the PDC, please contact us at limestone.permaculture@gmail.com

We are happy to facilitate this, but ask you to set up this plan prior to the course, so that the full fee is paid by the time the PDC commences. 

Specific topics include:

* Permaculture & its history

* The Ethics & Principles of Permaculture

* Principles of Ecology

* Concepts & Themes of Design & Systems

* Domestic Water & Water in the Landscape

* Soils - Health, Aliveness, Erosion & Regeneration

* Climatic Factors & their impacts on the landscape.

* Earth Working and Earth Resources / Appropriate Technology

* Intensive Plant Guilds, Plant Stacking, Diversity & Successive systems

* Trees and their Energy Interaction, Forests & Windbreaks

* Patterns & their value in permaculture

* Urban & Rural Farming & Gardening

* Zone 0 - Home & Hub 

* Zone 1- Home Food Garden

* Zone 2 - Home Orchard & Small Animal Management

* Zone 3 - Cropping, Market Gardening & Large Animals

* Zone 4 - The Regenerative Harvest Forest & Pasture Improvement

* Zone 5 - Natural Forest & Wildness

* Weed Ecology - indicators & accumulators

* Integrated Pest Management

* Aquaculture & Aquaponics

* Design for Disaster

* Strategies for Sustainable Communities

* Income from Acres / Managing your Permaculture Projects

* Celebrating Permaculture

80% attendance & submission of all design assignments are required to complete this PDC.