PART-TIME PDC!

We’re pleased to announce that we’re offering the traditional Permaculture Design Certificate part-time across eight weeks. The part-time PDC format has proved a great success with past students – many people have busy schedules and family lives, and find it very difficult to take two weeks off to do an intensive, residential course. For these people, the part-time format works beautifully. It also gives participants the chance to digest the material during the week, try things out in their own gardens, and come back with questions the following week.

Click here to go to our courses page for dates and more information.

AT HOME IN THE YURT

We started off 2010 by moving to [Mulloon Creek Natural Farm] (http://www.mcnf.com.au), one of Australia’s leading examples of sustainable farming, and home of the Mulloon Institute. The farm produces free-range pastured eggs and beef and the Institute provides education, information and demonstration of a range of restorative agricultural land management practices, drawing on the principles of Natural Sequence Farming, Permaculture Design, Keyline Design, Biodynamics and Holistic Management to name a few.

The Institute’s aim is to provide for the needs of future generations in a way that’s not just economically, environmentally and socially sustainable, but to go beyond that towards regeneration and restoration.

Cam is teaching permaculture and more, while helping to develop the various sustainable practices of the farm; Jessie, Yarrow and Mairead, together with the eight families living and working on the farm, are growing all the fruit, vegies, eggs and dairy, honey, berries, nuts, herbs and spices we all could possibly need.

We look forward to sharing all this with you on future courses!

CAM’S BLOG

Cam has a new blog sharing some practical ways you can create resilient and sustainable edible landscapes. No repeats of what’s written in hundreds of organic gardening books, but a few new things to fill in gaps Cam’s noticed over time, such as techniques to improve soil, water infiltration etc. Click here, and we hope you get a lot out of it!

RESILIENT ABUNDANCE

Imagine a garden lush with ripe tomatoes and dusky peaches, the scent of herbs in the breeze, chooks clucking as they lay brown speckled eggs. Juicy berries, sacks of nuts for winter, golden pumpkins and salad greens.

Imagine eating your own tasty, fresh, organic food, for the small price of a packet of seeds. Imagine dripper hoses, tanks, subtle earthworks and hidden pits, all storing water in your garden through the hottest summers.

Contact us for a sustainable and holistic garden design today.

EDIBLE FOREST GARDEN GROUPS

Just as beautiful as a natural forest, but edible! Plant a canopy of your favourite fruit trees, some berry and currant bushes to make up the understorey, and groundcovers of your favourite culinary, medicinal and tea herbs. A meandering path, a wee pond for frogs, and your food forest will come alive.

In a small group with three or four friends, do a short course on how edible forest gardens work. Then spend a couple of days at each friend’s home to create a luscious food forest together. Ideal for Mums with time at home.

If you’ve been wanting to grow your own fruit, berries and herbs for a while, give us a call.