Interested to learn about fruit tree grafting?
Have fruit trees that need pruning?

Come to a Grafting & Pruning Workshop by Chris Evans. You will learn about grafting and winter pruning, and take home 2 trees you’ve grafted yourself.

If you have a favorite apple tree in your garden you want to propagate, you can bring along a branch (scion) for grafting – contact Emma for details. Chris is also looking for scion of named varieties for grafting in his fruit nursery so if you need a tree pruning he is happy to exchange this work for some of the branches !

Join us for this inspirational 16 hour training where we will learn how to design and implement creative outdoor areas for children to play, learn and grow in together.

This training will give people the skills and experience to design creative 'learnscapes' for children by collaboratively running through a permaculture design process in detail, with a focus on how to design a habitat that empowers our children to thrive.

THIS TRAINING WILL:
-Give participants a basic introduction to permaculture (what it is and how it can guide and inspire our work with children)
-Empower participants in recognising and experiencing the importance of nature connection
-Explore how to create immersive spaces that provide unlimited learning opportunities
-Practice creative design techniques and processes to ignite ideas and help them to become reality
-Share stories and give advice from experienced childrens educators and designers

To register and for more info please visit: https://fb.me/e/3Ady8rONX

Understand more about animal feeding and nutrition requirements with the 20 hour short course- Feeding Animals. This is a self guided short course that will help you understand the essentials of what is required to feed animals.

Study online. Requires around 20 hours of study. Start at any time to suit you. Get 10% off by entering the promo code of STUDENT when you enrol.
This self study course is designed to provide the reader with knowledge of animal function relating to diet. It will give a comprehensive guide to the composition of feed with a detailed exploration of types of feeds and how humans work to manage and improve feed supply and production for animal health or, as we see most often in the case of livestock, for financial gain.

The Feeding Animals Short Course covers 10 lessons including an introduction to feeding animals and industry opportunities, the composition of feed, forage, concentrates, feed additives, managing feed production and supply, feeding small companion animals and pets, feeding livestock, feeding wildlife and finally eating and nutritional disorders in animals.

This agronomy course will help you understand everything you need to know about growing legumes for food crops for human or animal consumption. It’s a great course to study if you are wanting to start your agronomy career or for you to enhance your knowledge and skills for some professional development.

This course covers the following lessons:
• Scope and Nature of Legume Cropping
• Peas
• Growing Beans
• Growing Lentils
• Growing Lupins
• Growing Alfalfa
• Soybeans
• Growing Chickpeas
• Other Legumes

Forage Management distance learning course. This requires 100 hours of study approximately. There are eight lessons - scope and nature of forage resources, Grassland Species and Ecosystems, Fodder Trees and Shrubs, Forage Establishment, Forage Management, Forage Quality and Use, Forage Animal related disorders, Preserving Forage as Hay and Silage.
There is an assignment at the end of each lesson to submit to your tutor for marking and feedback. You can also contact your tutor with any questions throughout the course.
Start at any time to suit you and work at your own pace.
Get 10% off by entering the promo code of STUDENT when you enrol.

What can nature teach us in an era of uncertainty and change?
We associate woodlands, forests and other natural ecosystems with growth, connection, adaptation and resilience, but often struggle to experience these in our own lives – on a personal level, in our societies and with regard to our uncertain and changing world.
In this interactive workshop we will explore principles derived from nature and how we can learn from them in a real and practical way for the circumstances we currently find ourselves in.
This workshop is relevant for all types of challenges:
personal, both physical and psychological
changing circumstances
Covid-related issues
worries about the state of the world
concerns about the future
We will also explore how we can use nature’s wisdom to be part of the solution to the world’s problems rather than becoming paralysed in the face of uncertainty.
Come engaged, up for some thinking and prepared to join in with the group.

A practical and welcoming introduction to Compassionate Communication, based on Marshall Rosenberg’s Non-violent Communication model.
Milly Carmichael is a trained facilitator and perpetual student of permaculture. She has undergone training in solution-focused practice and compassionate communication.
Format: Zoom online
This unique programme has been commissioned to offer tools and support relevant to groups working to make our world better in a wide variety of different ways.
This programme has the aim of expanding, empowering and upskilling groups working to meet local and global challenges and is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, distributed by Transition Network and is being organised by Transition Leicester and Think like a Tree.
Who is the programme for?
Anyone who would like to learn skills so that their group can be more effective, avoid challenges and cope with group issues when they arise. To be able to change the world, we need tools to be able to work together.
Am I eligible?
Places will be initially reserved for anyone in the Midlands, UK who is part of a voluntary group, or who works with voluntary groups. If you are outside these criteria please contact us to go on the waiting list if places become available.
When booking please state which group/organisation you are part of and where you are from in the comments section.
Prices are: £25 if you are a volunteer or £50 if you work for an organisation supporting groups
Commitment:
Please note that you must commit to attending all 5 sessions when booking. Why? Because sessions build on each other; because we will be working and getting to know each other as a group; and because we want to show funders that their money is doing what we said.
Come prepared to attend all sessions and to join in with the group activities. You will be practicing the techniques during the sessions.

This three day workshop will cover:
▪️An introduction to lime,
▪️How lime becomes carbon neutral
▪️The mixing of lime mortar with
the application of lime to sandstone

In addition, we will take a 1.3 mile ramble through Babbinswood farm to learn about how natural building integrates and is part of the ecology of this holistically managed, organic, biodiverse farm.

During this walk you will be shown how to collect subsoil samples and gain an understanding of the benefits of clay earth plasters in building’s.

Looby Macnamara is creator of the Design Web - an organic, dynamic design framework specifically created for use in people based designs (although can also be used for land based designs as well). The Design Web was first featured in Looby's book People & Permaculture, and has more recently been expanded upon in her latest book Cultural Emergence.

This is a 7 week course with Looby Macnamara and Jon Young. The CEED (Cultural Emergence Effective Design) course develops our design skills needed for the MOVE & INVIGORATE phase of Cultural Emergence. We focus on how we can manifest our goals and visions effectively. You are guided to make a design for yourself using the Design Web (created by Looby) to create a culture of effectiveness and connection. The course starts with a reflective phase which is available as soon as you enrol, then the active design phase begins 17th Jan

This training will give you the confidence and skills to design any aspect of your life. You will gain design skills and tools ready to take forward and do more designs. Using the Design Web as a framework we move with intention and clarity to create flexible, motivating designs for an aspect of our lives. The design you create becomes a 'CEED' that you can grow and cultivate beyond the course.

This course is based on one of the phases of the Cultural Emergence toollkit, and will give you a good grounding for further exploration.
Discover this profoundly effective toolkit for positive change. During the course you will deepen your understanding of culture and how to influence it, including your own personal culture. I will be sharing tools to enhance your personal patterns of thinking, behaving and interacting. Woven into this we will begin to learn how to sense systems and engage with emergence, that will bring a new way of seeing the world. There will be practical activities to bring this toolkit alive in your own lives, and a comments forum to share stories and insights and engage in a culture of collective wisdom and learning.

The course material will be available from 13th Sept, and each week for 5 weeks you will receive the new lessons. The course material includes videos and activities from Looby Macnamara. There will be 2 group calls with Looby & Jon Young on 23rd Sept and 7th Oct at 6-8pm UK time, 7-9pm CET, 10am-12pm Pacific time (find out when that is in your timezone here

You will have access to all the material until the end of the year so you can dip in and out as you wish and work at your own pace.