Spring PDC1 - Permaculture Design Certificate

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

Course: Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Spring PDC1 course) (31st Aug to 1st Dec 2019)

Date: {12 days in total} 31st Aug & 1st Sept / 14th & 15th Sept / 28th & 29th Sept / 19th & 20th Oct / 9th & 10th Nov / 30th Nov & 1st 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 Morning tea & lunch throughout the course.

- 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 with $300 initial deposit – Balance paid by 9th August 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

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