Join us at Keela Yoga Farm in October 2018 for our month long Food forest course in Portugal.

Course Outline
- Enjoy a tour of our new food forest and the farm
- Design and help to expand a new food forest
- Learn how to draw to scale drawings for design and planning
- Learn about the food soil web, how to make organic fertilizers and cultivate microbiology for the soil
- Discover how to properly research trees and their companions
- Learn how to design guilds and a food forest
- Plant trees and guilds in the food forest
- Propagate perennials to plant into next year’s food forests
- Create beds for annuals in between the trees for planting to maximise the space in the food forests
- Learn how to design, select and buy irrigation systems
- Plan and perform earthworks for water catchment by selecting locations for swales
- Learn how to graft trees
- Learn how to make compost piles, organic fertilizers and how to breed fungi and bacteria for the soil (teas)
- Opportunity to learn some natural building techniques
- Attend weekly workshops on fermentations, permaculture principles and other farming related topics
- Plant trees as part of our reforestation program outside of the new food forest
- Learn about foraging for wild greens and weeds for edibles and medicinal plants
- Opportunity to learn carpentry skills for making items for the food forest such as cold frames and trellises
- 1 weekly trip to either the local market, local community events, community help or local sites
- 1.5 days of to relax and study
- daily yoga classes
- Healthy organic food

An introduction to the theory and practice of forest gardening. Based in a household-scale forest garden in an Aberdeen allotment.

An introduction to the theory and practice of forest gardening. Based in a household-scale forest garden in an Aberdeen allotment.

Tools for planning, designing and implementing a forest garden on small or large scale using permaculture design principles and process. This course is catered, accommodation is camping

Tools for planning, designing and establishing a forest garden small or large scale, using permaculture design principles and process.
This course is self-catered (bring food to share); accommodation is camping; inside accommodation available on request.

The concept of Syntropic Agriculture was devised by the Swiss/Brazilian researcher and botanist Ernst Gotsch from what is broadly known in Brazil as successional agroforestry. Syntropic Agriculture aims to produce food, timber and fibre through a process based agriculture with minimal external inputs and without chemical fertilisers and pesticides. The aim is to build resources such as water, topsoil and biodiversity as we produce our food. Syntropic Agriculture has been proving to be financially viable and effective in many climates and biomes.
Participants will learn:
The history and principles of successional agroforestry,
How to implement and manage those systems,
How to choose where to implement these systems in their properties,
How to harmonise these systems with nature's patterns (sun, winds, topography, local flora, etc.),
How to choose appropriate plant consortiums to each stage and soil condition of the system,
How to choose and plan the production of value adding produce.
Facilitators: Gabriel Menezes is an agroecological farmer in Campo Largo, South of Brazil. Gabriel has successfully integrated Permaculture Design principles and techniques as well as agroecological ones to his agroforestry-based farm. Since 2007 Gabriel has been working as a consultant in the planning and implementation of successional agroforestry systems (aka Syntropic Agriculture). As one of the co-founders of Simbiose Agroflorestal (https://simbiose.agr.br/somos-nos/).
Eurico Vianna, PhD, is an author, social activist, environmentalist and martial-artist driven to create a better world through everything he does.www.holosdesign.com.au

Forest gardening is an increasingly popular approach to growing food sustainably and efficiently through making use of the beneficial relationships of a natural healthy ecosystem, maximising the use of the garden’s vertical dimension, and increasing the range of perennial food plants to fill all available niches.

This two-day course will introduce you to the forest garden approach and its benefits, teaching you the basics of designing a forest garden, and the methods of establishing and maintaining it. The approach can be used whether you are converting an existing garden or allotment, want to grow more edible species in a forest, or are starting with a blank canvas.
There will also be an overview of the wide variety of trees, shrubs and perennial vegetables that can be grown and enjoyed for food, fibre, dyes, medicines, fuel, and pure beauty.
The course will include a practical element: you will use what you've learnt to create a design for a forest garden around our course venue, Bridgend Farmhouse.

For more information and to book, visit the NonStuff website here: www.nonstuff.co.uk/courses

Learn how to design, implement and maintain a forest garden / food forest, with this 15-episode video course. Available as the whole course or as individual subject episodes. Joining this course also enables access to the forest garden forum.

Learn how to design, implement and maintain a forest garden in this 2.5 day course, run by Martin Crawford and based in the forest gardens of the ART in Devon.

A 2.5 day course covering all aspects of forest gardening, from design to implementation and maintenance, based at forest gardens of the ART in Devon.