PDC3 Spring 2022 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 (2022 PDC3 - Spring) 

Dates: 

Sept - 10th / 11th,  Sept - 24th / 25th, 

Oct - 8th / 9th, Oct - 22nd / 23rd,   

Nov - 5th / 6th, Nov - 19th / 20th, Dec - 3rd / 4th

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, nourishing wholefoods morning tea & lunch throughout the course. 

             - Learning onsite at Limestone Permaculture Demonstration Farm. 

             - 8x Guest teachers and 3x Permaculture Farm site visits - 

             - Course notes & presentations provided

             - Your very own permaculture property design

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

Price: $2400 per person > ( $400 deposit with balance $2000 required using Bank Transfer by  19th August 2022)

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 ... what is it?

* The Ethics & Principles of Permaculture

* Principles of Ecology

* Reading the Landscape

* Patterns & their value in permaculture

* The Holistic Design Process, Strategies & Techniques

* Domestic Water & Water in the Landscape

* Soils - Health, Aliveness, Erosion & Regeneration

* Climatic Factors & their impacts.

* Earth Working and Resources / Appropriate Technology

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

* The importance of Trees & Forests

* Shelter-belt Design

* Design for Extreme Events & Climate Change

* 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 & Medium Animals

* Zone 4 - Regenerative Farming & Large Animals

* Zone 5 - Natural Forest & Wildness

* Weed Ecology - indicators & accumulators

* Integrated Pest Management

* Aquaculture

* Sustainable Communities / Social Permaculture

* Income from Permaculture / Managing your Permaculture Projects

* Celebrating Permaculture

Submission of all design assignments are required to complete this PDC.