Venue : 3 Hares Community Woodland, Auchendinny, Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland.

Prices are on a sliding scale depending on your income. £80/£140/£200/£240

Main Teacher : James Chapman
James is a specialist in large, complex site designs.

In the first weekend we will be looking at a variety of James' designs from his professional portfolio including farms, woodlands, businesses and community gardens. We will be surveying the site using a variety of tools and dividing the project into smaller areas.

In the second weekend you will be creating a design for one of the areas hi-lighted in weekend one. Potential design opportunities include buildings, garden, forest garden, willow coppice, wood fuel coppice, compost toilets, access and the new C.I.C. business.

PRIOR LEARNING
You need to have completed a Permaculture introduction weekend, Permaculture Design Course or your Diploma in Applied Permaculture to attend this course.

*If you are working on your diploma, the design work on this course can be counted as one of your projects.*

Direct link to booking form :
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Gaiacraft presents a uniquely creative and flexible advanced permaculture design course. This participant driven, self-directed program can be done from a distance.

Already have your Permaculture Design Certificate and ready to take the next step in your Permaculture Education? Join an advanced permaculture learning guild in a uniquely creative, flexible and ultra low cost program. Earn a Gaiacraft advanced permaculture certificate. This program also stacks to support those doing a Permaculture Diploma.

http://gaiacraft.com/advanced-permaculture-design-program/

As a social permaculture vehicle for carrying us through this time of transition, the course offers a dynamic learning pathway which will evolve your ability to design, practice, consult and teach using the permaculture toolkit.

Join us at Europe's most exciting (and the worlds most Northern) Farm Scale Permaculture & regenerative Ag farm & learning center.

This 10 Week Certificate training on farm training & Edu courses that includes;

• 90hr+ PRI (Aus) & PC Assoc (UK) certified PDC
• Introduction to Holistic Management & Integrated Animal Systems
• Keyline Design & Water Management
• Agroforestry & Perennial Cropping
• Annual vegetable production & Regenerating Soils
• 2 days of Top Bar beekeeping with Sweden's foremost expert Patrick Sellman.

We are proud to offer the most advanced, thorough & comprehensive training of it’s nature in Europe and have taken the time to put the info & prospectus together in order to answer the typical questions that come up for folks and clarify what you can expect from our program. Please read all the information presented carefully & thoroughly; it will help frame and orientate you for the experience. Our Internship begins with one of our internationally acclaimed PDC courses. We require all Internship participants to join. If you are retaking a PDC you qualify for a reduced rate on approval. Having run intensive education for many years we see the standard & content of PDC trainings varies greatly and we see it is of most benefit for people to join our course, meet the crew & orientate themselves here as well as benefit from additional time on the ground at this lighthouse project. People who made this choice in 2014/5 said is was very worthwhile and so we have made this a condition.
http://www.ridgedalepermaculture.com/10-week-internship-may-jul-2016.html

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!