PDC2: Permaculture Design Certificate - Autumn / Winter 2019

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

Course: Permaculture Design Certificate Course (PDC 72hr course) (16th March to 8th August 2018)

Date: {2 days each month for 6 months} 30th & 31st March / 27th & 28th April / 25th & 26th May / 22nd & 23rd June / 20th & 21st July / 17th & 18th August

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 inspried Gourmet Morning tea & lunch .

- Learning onsite at Limestone Permaculture Demonstration Farm.

- Guest teachers and Permaculture farm site visits.

- Your very own permaculture property design

Cost: (Bank Transfer preferred)

Price: $1800 per person ($300 initial deposit upon registration – $1500 Balance paid by 15th March 2019)

Specific topics include:

* Permaculture & its history

* The Ethics & Principles of Permaculture

* The Concepts & Themes of Design

* Understanding 'Resources & Yields'

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

* The 'Methods of Design & Systems'

* Patterns & their value in permaculture

* Climatic Factors & their impacts on the landscape.

* Basics of Ecology, Energies & the Law of Return

* Water

* Soils - Health, Aliveness, Erosion & Regeneration

* Weed Ecology - indicators & accumulators

* Trees and their Energy Interaction within the Ecosystem.

* Earth Working and Earth Resources

* Designing for Different Climates - Humid, Temperate and Arid

* Aquaculture & Aquaponics

* Strategies for Sustainable Communities

* Appropriate Technology

Submission of all design assignments and 80% attendance is required to complete this PDC.