This course is designed to cover the Permaculture principles with an emphasis on supporting you in your journey to permaculture design.

We will work together through theoretical and practical sessions and producing a mini-design you can take home with you to get you started. This course is all about becoming empowered in your approach towards a sustainable life and Permaculture Design.

No prior knowledge of Permaculture is needed to attend.

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An excellent way to find out more about permaculture is to attend our two-day introductory course. This 'taster' will provide an opportunity to actively learn about the principles and see examples of designs being implemented by projects. Our weekend course offers an introduction to the ethics, principles and design tools of permaculture. Come along and learn what Permaculture is and what it can do for your and your current lifestyle. This course is suitable for you if you have a smallholding, small garden, allotment and even if you are don‘t grow food. Its a great opportinuty to meet and connect with like-minded people.

The course provides the opportunity to discuss vitally important issues in a positive, creative and supportive space. The course is lively, participatory and thought provoking.

The sessions include:

Ethics and principles

Design

Examples of permaculture

An observation exercise

A practical exercise or walk

An overview of the permaculture network and how to find out more.

Our introductory course doesn't cover all the topics in great detail - it is a taster and overview. If you already know you want to find out about permaculture in more depth, it may be better to go straight on to a full permaculture design course, we offer discounts for those participants who go on to do the full design course after the introduction course. Some people however have found that attending an introduction to permaculture course was enough - with the enthusiasm generated by the course, plus books and their own knowledge, people have gone on to create some incredible projects after attending the weekend course.

Hot drinks and biscuits will be provided. This course is not residential. It will run from 9am to 4pm each day.

This is an ideal introduction to Permaculture. Learn how to apply Permaculture Principles and Ethics. See how they can be applied to your life, land, and work. It will include practical, hands-on sessions, foraging, and many other fun activities that all explore this inspirational and empowering design system. Peoplecare, Earthcare, and Future Care. This is not just about gardening.

You can expect: Experienced Passionate Tutors, like-minded people, experience sustainable food production, people care, and beautiful nature. The Windmill Community Garden was awarded Kent Community Garden of the Year 2018. It was recognised a Permaculture Land demonstration Site in 2013. And has been awarded gold numerous times for Kent Wildlife Trust's, Wild about Gardens.

Covid 19 precautions are being taken. There will be a small number of participants. If we have to close the garden for any reason, there will be an online option a month later with a site visit organised when we can do it.
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Introduction to Permaculture Design Course
This introductory course covers the Ethics and Principles of Permaculture Design, as well as providing some ideas you can experiment with immediately around your home and on the land.
This Introduction to Permaculture Design course is the classic course curriculum that covers the first few sections of the official 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate Course - following the official Teaching Directives of the founders of Permaculture - Bill Mollison and David Holmgren.
Introduction to Permaculture Design students moving on to the full official 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate course (PDC) will benefit from having a substantial foundation in the Permaculture Ethics and Principles.
The Introduction To Permaculture Design Course includes:
Introduction: What Is Permaculture
Ethics of Permaculture Design
The Permaculture Principles
Natural Systems Design
Additional resources and helpful materials

This is a short but wide-ranging introduction to permaculture as an approach to designing sustainable ways of living and working. Running over 6 weeks, there will home study of around 1-2 hours per week that you can fit in at your convenience, plus weekly group sessions online of about 30-40 minutes.
The course will give a good grounding in the core elements of a permaculture design including the ethical framework or values that underpin it, the principles from nature that it draws upon, and a design framework for applying them. You will be encouraged to explore issues that matter to your own life and work and will be given practical examples of permaculture in action.
This course can be taken as a foundation module (along with an accompanying blended course on Soils which is in prep) for the Permaculture Design Certificate taught in Wales by Angie Polkey and co-teacher Alice Gray, accredited by the Permaculture Association of Britain.

Permaculture is a natural design science mimicking the patterns of nature. It can be used to help build regenerative and resilient landscapes and communities. It is a solutions based, systems thinking, design process which can help you to adapt to and build resilience for changes in the natural and social ecosystems.

This course will give you an holistic overview of the basic theory and practical application of how permaculture can be used in what you do. We emphasise the importance of the ethics and prime directive, the key underpinning to permaculture.

We will show you how to use permaculture design in your garden as a pretext to how you can use social permaculture and build your own toolkit to build personal resilience. The content will include references to Chris Johnstone's work on building emotional resilience and guidance from 'Active Hope' by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone. We will also look at how we can use permaculture design to build community resilience.

Some content will include discussing the COVID-19 crisis and how it can be used to learn about resilience and pattern recognition.

Examples of areas we will cover are:

What permaculture is
The ethics of permaculture
Zones and sectors
Pattern recognition
How you can use permaculture in your everyday life
The practical application of permaculture design

The sessions run for 2 hours a week for 9 weeks. For more details please contact us.

Using a vibrant combination of theory and practice, our foundation course will introduce you to

- observation techniques
- natural systems and patterns
- ethics and principles of permaculture
- permaculture design tools

The course is informative and interactive. You will leave having designed a permaculture space, putting into practice everything you have learned. Additionally, you will have the grounding to be able to progress onto the full permaculture design course.

Our setting is a listed building inside beautiful Morden Hall Park, a superb place to draw inspiration from nature within the city.

Facilitators

This course is facilitated by Liz.

Liz is a mother, sustainability professional, eco-retrofit project manager, gardener, and chartered civil engineer with a Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design and has been teaching introductory Permaculture courses for 8 years. She has a thriving urban permaculture garden with a mini orchard, pond, hugel beds and much more. She also has a passion for alternative forms of education for children.

The Diploma Design Forum has been created to help Diploma Apprentices get momentum on their designs. (It's not strictly limited to apprentices, anyone post PDC is welcome to join if they want to stretch and refresh their design skills.)
It runs for 6 sessions and is a structured format to maximise feedback from the group.
The session consists of:
1 hour - design share then
1 hour (optional) offline - work on our own designs then
30 mins (optional) check-in regarding the previous hour study time / objectives for the week/month.
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Using a vibrant combination of theory and practice, our foundation course will introduce you to

- observation techniques
- natural systems and patterns
- ethics and principles of permaculture
- permaculture design tools

The course is informative and interactive. You will leave having designed a permaculture space, putting into practice everything you have learned. Additionally, you will have the grounding to be able to progress onto the full permaculture design course.

Our setting is a listed building inside beautiful Morden Hall Park, a superb place to draw inspiration from nature within the city.

Facilitators

This course is facilitated by Liz.

Liz is a mother, sustainability professional, eco-retrofit project manager, gardener, and chartered civil engineer with a Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design and has been teaching introductory Permaculture courses for 8 years. She has a thriving urban permaculture garden with a mini orchard, pond, hugel beds and much more. She also has a passion for alternative forms of education for children.