Learn the fundamentals of Permaculture Design and apply it to your own land. This 4-day ‘design your own project’ course takes place over 2 weekends and is created specifically for people who would like to design their own project using permaculture principles and ethics. It will help you avoid pitfalls and common mistakes in developing a new piece of land.

Curious what it takes to run this place? Want an insight into what we are doing here at Ridgedale? Want to start a project and farm in the future? Are you already a farmer or land-manager wanting to use regenerative design to overhaul your enterprise? A pre-professional or professional designer wanting to broaden your skills and get practical project initiation skills? A Permaculturist looking for a broader view? Wan't to know what lies beyond sustainability?

OVERVIEW OF TOPICS
· Taking stock: Our Current Situation
· Defining your Context
· Holistic Management
· Keyline Design
· Climate & Biomes
· Landform & Mapping
· Water Systems & Management
· Access on & around farm
· Tree Crop Systems
· Buildings & Infrastructure
· Animal Systems & Biomimicry
· Fencing & Appropriate Tech.
· Soils, BioFerts & Growing Microbiology
· Local Food & Regenerative Enterprise
Demonstrating soil microscopy & monitoring soil organisms...

Our primary educational objective is to specifically empower more people into farming & land based regenerative enterprises as well as supporting more designers to step up professionally tooled up with the right skills and attitude. This 2 day training is most suited for;

• Small holders, Farmers or future farmers
• Project Initiators
• Permaculture Design professionals & pre- professionals
• People wanting to experience what it takes to run a farm or project

http://www.ridgedalepermaculture.com/2-day-farm-scale-permaculture--rege...

Students will learn all aspects of living and working on a permaculture farm and will learn methods and design applicable to everyday farm situations. They will be fully involved in all farm activities.

There will be no “lecture room” experiences in the Practicals, because all learning will be accompanied by practical experience (learning whilst doing), but it is probably a good idea to carry a notebook and pen around with you!

The Practicals are in blocks, a 2 week Urban Focus Block followed by a Sustainable Building week, and a 4 week Rural Focus Block, with a Water Management week in the middle. Each Practical week runs from Monday to Friday (5 day week).

Students will learn all aspects of living and working on a permaculture farm and will learn methods and design applicable to everyday farm situations. They will be fully involved in all farm activities.

There will be no “lecture room” experiences in the Practicals, because all learning will be accompanied by practical experience (learning whilst doing), but it is probably a good idea to carry a notebook and pen around with you!

The Practicals are in blocks, a 2 week Urban Focus Block followed by a Sustainable Building week, and a 4 week Rural Focus Block, with a Water Management week in the middle. Each Practical week runs from Monday to Friday (5 day week).

Join the leaders and change agents at the forefront of new thinking in resilient and healthy food systems.

Schumacher College is the first in the world to offer a postgraduate programme in Ecological Food Systems, developed in collaboration with Plymouth University, The Organic Research Centre (ORC), The Campaign for Real Farming and the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT).

This course explores the frontiers of research and practice that will meet the social, ecological and economic challenges our food systems face in the 21st Century.

We offer you a unique and transformative blend of academic and practical learning opportunities from Schumacher College, Plymouth University, the Organic Research Centre, The Campaign for Real Farming and the Centre for Alternative Technology.

See more at: https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/postgraduate-courses/ecolog...

This is a ground-breaking new postgraduate programme from Schumacher College which can be taken as a full or part-time Masters, PG Dip or PG cert. The programme is rooted in an exploration of ecosystem dynamics, trends and behaviour, and socio-cultural systems and dynamics. It will focus on the design of the built environment and the connected ecological and social systems and services, but students will also be encouraged to apply lessons from nature to the design of all of our systems – political, economic, educational and sociocultural.

This unique programme has been developed with the School of Architecture, Design and Environment at Plymouth University, with input from the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University and brings together some of the biggest names in Ecological Design including Professor Seaton Baxter, Dr Simon Bradbury, Rob Hopkins, Ezio Manzini, Terry Irwin, and Fraser Bruce.

Find out more here: https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/postgraduate-courses/ecolog...

A targeted career course, only for people who wish to make a career out of Permaculture. The objective of the course is to train people to run a Permaculture Demonstration and Training site. A PDC is essential in order to apply for this course!

Students will learn all aspects of living and working on a permaculture farm and will learn methods and design applicable to everyday farm situations. They will be fully involved in all farm activities.

There will be no “lecture room” experiences in the Practicals, because all learning will be accompanied by practical experience (learning whilst doing), but it is probably a good idea to carry a notebook and pen around with you!

The Practicals are in blocks, a 2 week Urban Focus Block followed by a Sustainable Building week, and a 4 week Rural Focus Block, with a Water Management week in the middle. Each Practical week runs from Monday to Friday (5 day week).

Permaculture Site Design Course
October 10 & 11th
November 7 & 8th
Three Hares site design course.

Venue: Glencourse Centre, Penicuik, Midlothian
Site (15 min walk from venue): Three hares Community Woodland, Auchendinny, Midlothian.
Online application form: http://goo.gl/forms/vJ2ntdBc0E

This is a special, one off course helping to design the new 3 Hares community woodland site.

James Chapman (lead teacher)is a specialist in large, complex site design.

In the first weekend we will be looking at a variety of James’ design work including community gardens, farms and woodlands along with design techniques like model making and CAD. We will also be looking at ways to add to the long term success of the three hares project. We will be breaking a large site into smaller zones and projects.

In the second weekend you will be creating a design for one of the zones highlighted in weekend one. The areas we need to look at include a building, garden, forest garden, willow coppice, wood fuel coppice, compost toilet, access and the new C.I.C. business.

**The site is only accessible by foot and so therefore requires good mobility, due to restrictions.

Minimum requirement for this course is completion of an Introduction course and/or previous practical experience. Completion of a design for the project can count as part of your Diploma portfolio.

Please feel free to speak to us about this.

Online application form: http://goo.gl/forms/vJ2ntdBc0E

Please request more info by emailing courses@jameschapman.org.uk

Join David Holmgren, co-originator of Permaculture, for an advanced permaculture principles and planning tools course. Perfect for anyone ready to take the next step in effective, hands-on permaculture.

BOOKINGS - http://www.milkwood.net/course/advanced-permaculture-principles-150603/