This Course has ended. Please click here to see current Courses. or click here to browse our interactive map. Course website http://www.cultivate.ie Dates and times Fri, 17 Aug 2012, 1am More info This course is full-time and full-on from Friday 17th August evening until the following Sunday 26th at lunch time. Cost €550 /Limited number of scholarships available at -10% Course summary Join us for this unique opportunity to learn invaluable design and practical skills embedded in an active ecovillage and vibrant community; Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Tipperary, Ireland. The Ecovillage is a unique and innovative project that is striving to create a fresh blueprint for modern sustainable living. Created on beautiful land in Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary, the ecovillage will include 130 homes, renewable energy for heating, land for growing food and trees, an enterprise centre and community buildings. This course is full-time and full-on from Friday evening until the following Sunday at lunch time. The permaculture course in Cloughjordan aims to be as fully comprehensive and up to date as possible. Through a balanced mix of theory and practice participants will learn how to apply the principles of permaculture to many aspects of their own life and that of their community. The Cloughjordan course includes focused sessions on natural building, local economics, forest gardening, renewable energy, ponds and aquaculture, ecovillage and bioregional design along with new areas such as whole systems thinking, local permafacture, and open source distributed production. Graduates of the course will be fully accredited by the UK Permaculture Association with a Permaculture Design Certificate. see www.cultivate.ie for more info Other teachers Graham Strouts, Hannah Mole, Albert Bates, & more guest tutors from the eco-village. Apprentice teachers No apprentice teacher places available on this course Course type Permaculture Design Course Course contact email [email protected] Contact name Martin Giannini Contact telephone number +353 1 674 5773 Share this course Copied to clipboard