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  • Event date:
    01/03/2025 at 8:30 am
  • Event end:
    31/05/2025 at 4:30 pm
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This unique course, delivered over 12 Saturdays in Brisbane, gives you the knowledge and skills to observe and design from natural patterns to create productive gardens and properties. You will learn how to grow your own food, apply appropriate technologies, use resources wisely, build on living systems and rebuild communities. Learn to build resilience through connectivity, facilitate regeneration of the earth and create abundance through design

This course runs on Saturdays, 8.30am to 4.30pm, from 1st March until 31 May 2025.  There are two Saturdays off (19 April and 24 May), with the latter one being for students to work on their final design project.

Course outcomes

By the end of our course, held over 12 Saturdays, you will:

  • Have tools for living with more ease, in harmony with the planet
  • Understand how permaculture applies to food, money, technology, buildings and more
  • Be able to apply the permaculture regenerative design framework to any place
  • Deepen your understanding of how nature works
  • Join an alumnus of millions of permaculture practitioners around the world.

What will you learn and do?

Our PDC balances practical techniques with foundational ‘systems thinking’ knowledge and eco-literacy. Some of the things you will do on our course include:

  • practice observational skills for understanding natural patterns
  • site measurement, inventory and mapping
  • create site designs, including a project of your choosing
  • calculate water harvesting volumes and requirements
  • learn about earth works to capture and store storm water
  • practice food growing techniques such as no-dig gardening and cover cropping
  • exploring food growing systems such as food forests and aquaculture
  • undertake soil testing and devising soil rebuilding strategies
  • research the growing and cooking of perennial vegetables for the subtropics
  • selecting animal breeds suitable in permaculture systems
  • practice group decision making techniques
  • explore community financial systems
  • observe passive solar building design, insulation and glazing systems
  • cooking with a solar oven or rocket stove.

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