Permaculture Design Certificate (Spring Course)

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

Course: Permaculture Design Certificate Course (PDC 72hr course) (28th April to 9th Sept 2018)

Date: {2 days every fortnight over 10 weeks} 22nd & 23rd Sept / 6th & 7th Oct / 20th & 21st Oct / 3rd & 4th Nov / 17th & 18th Nov / 1st & 2nd Dec

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 Vegetarian & Wheat free Morning tea & lunch throughout the course .

Cost: (Bank Transfer preferred)

Price: $1800 per person with $300 initial deposit – Balance paid by 31st August 2018

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

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