This is a very special and unique permaculture design course which is aimed at encouraging Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) into permaculture.
The course is open to anyone, however, we have a few funded places to help people from Barking and Dagenham, Newham or Redbridge, who identify as BIPOC and who cannot afford to attend this course.
One of the aims of this course is to design and implement a forest garden in the Beacontre region of Dagenham, hence priority bursaries are for people local to this area who can continue this project beyond the course.
It is also possible to attend selected individual days if you cannot attend the full course.
This full course made up of 3 sections
14 days is the core certified permaculture design course (PDC)
10 days are hands on practicals where we will design and implement a real forest garden in Dagenham (this is free and optional)
6 days are for people who want to be part of a project to make a permaculture reggae album (this is free and optional) Dates for this will be confirmed with whoever is interested
===SHORT COURSES ===
For those who cannot make the full course we have several short courses (half days, one day and 2 day courses) so you are welcome to come to any of these
ONE DAY COURSES
Sat 11 Feb Collaborative working (Sociocracy)
Sun 12 Feb Basics of Permaculture
Sat 25 Feb Water management + Mapping
Sun 26 Feb Meeting the needs of plants + Enriching soil
TWO DAY COURSE
Sat 25 Mar Designing a real forest garden p1
Sun 26 Mar Designing a real forest garden p2
HALF DAY COURSE
Sat 22 Apr Structures (Eco building)
Sun 23 Apr Ethical Livelihoods
Sat 10 Jun Urban permaculture
Sun 11 Jun How to make electricity (living off grid)