Permaculture Design Course( Part Time)

Permaculture Design Course (Part - Time) 

This course will be run over 9 weeks. One full day per week.

DATES TO BE CONFIRMED

Do you want to transform your property into a beautiful, sustainable & healthy oasis?

Do you want to redesign your property? Learn to live healthier, more sustainably, and while still creating abundance in your life?

This course enables you to create a complete permaculture design for your own project over the course of a few months, and at the end you will earn your internationally-standard Permaculture Design Certificate. The course content has a wide and flexible application, not only in home-based settings, but also for those wishing to apply permaculture design within their business or community.

We will give you the knowledge and tools to enable you to use permaculture design in a context that is meaningful to you. This slower paced course gives you time to absorb and practice what you learn as we move through the modules.
The skills that you learn in this course have an endless variety of applications. After all, sustainable living is one of the fastest growing themes, both socially, environmentally and economically.

Some of the content we will explore will include:

• Permaculture ethics and guiding principles
• Pattern in design
• Why we need Permaculture.
• Cultivated Ecology: such as regenerative pastures, forest gardens, no-till cultivation, biological pest control.
• Climates
• Waste reduction in the home, recycling and disposal.
• Soils: Soil regeneration techniques and soil conservation.
• Water in the Landscape
• Forests and Trees: Woodland establishment and management
• Invisible Structures: Real wealth, land access, formal/informal economy
• Design: Design process and tools, maps and overlays, project planning.

COST: We will meet once a week for 9 weeks and the course includes a vegetarian lunch, refreshments, teaching, site visits, handouts and access to online resources - €400.00

Deposit: €150.00 is required at the time of booking and this will be deducted from final fee.

PDF for Registration form

Karen is a certified educator through the UK Permaculture Association. For more information https://www.permaculture.org.uk/user/karen-noon and this course curriculum is certified by the Permaculture Association.

Limited places available so book now!