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Planet Organic professional regional-scale training in organic agriculture, permaculture design and sustainable land-use management
EARTHSPIRIT Nature Connection Workshop
Golden Bay, Nelson Province
Permaculture Design Course 2011
Tui Community, Golden Bay
Rural Living Skills
(for permaculture graduates)
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Permaculture
Permaculture Course Thursday 3rd - Wednesday 23rd February 2011 (similar past courses happened in 2008, 07, and 09) at Tui Community in Golden Bay. This course happens annually in February.
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‘Permaculture’ is an integrated land use design methodology based on ecological principles, with practical application from sustainable household to eco-nation to global restoration. The tutors of this course have extensive experience in this field and have worked in a wide range of countries and conditions. Their teaching style caters for all learning modalities, is inspiring, interactive, dynamic and fun. The course covers the standard two week international Permaculture Design Certificate curriculum, taught in an integrated hands-on way, culminating in several land-use design projects. Upon completion, a Permaculture Design Certificate will be issued by The Institute of Earthcare Education Aotearoa.
The beginning of the course offers the opportunity for participants to personally deepen in the ecological and social foundation of Permaculture, under the guidance of tutors whose lives and work are dedicated to conscious design and development of ‘all-species communities’. This includes spending time studying in ‘the library of nature’, experiencing Deep Ecology and the Maori world view, and visiting inspirational properties in the Golden Bay which demonstrate Permaculture in practice. The themes of community building and eco-village development will weave throughout our almost 3 weeks of practical permaculture learning, which encompasses many hands-on skill building activities and mini-design exercises happening on Tui land, where this residential course takes place. Tui Community is a 25 year old, 40 member, rural residential community governed by a Charitable Trust. It is situated on 150 acres of land, has an established orchard, gardens, wilderness areas and a thriving community business and many creatively designed buildings. We will be based at Tui’s Outdoor Events Treefield, situated in Wainui Bay, adjoining the Abel Tasman National Park. For more on Tui and its programmes, visit: www.tuitrust.org.nz
Course Programme broadly covers:
- permaculture ethics, design principles and installation,
- organic growing methods (vege gardens, herbs, fruit),
- rural land management (orchards, pastures, trees, water systems),
- integrated animal systems,
- water harvesting & storage, grey-water recycling,
- ecological building, ‘waste’ recycling & renewable energy systems,
- urban/suburban scale household design,
- sustainable community/eco-village design and development,
- ‘invisible structures’ (eg financial, legal, governance systems)
- design for wildlife habitat & degraded land restoration,
- nature connection, wild foods harvest. .
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EarthCare Education Aotearoa