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Permaculture Design Course
2 Feb 2012
22 Feb 2012
PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE
2 - 22 February 2012
3-week hands-on residential course
Tui Community, Golden Bay, South Island
‘Permaculture’ is an integrated landuse design methodology based on ecological principles, with practical application from sustainable household to eco-nation to global restoration. The tutors of this course have worked in a wide range of countries and conditions, and have 20 – 35 years experience each in the field. Their teaching styles are interactive, dynamic and fun. This residential course takes place in the Tui Outdoor Events Treefield in Wainui Bay, adjoining the Abel Tasman National Park. It covers the standard international two week Permaculture Design Certificate curriculum, taught in an integrated hands-on way, culminating in several land-use design projects. We are including an additional week to offer the opportunity to for participants to personally deepen in the ecological and social foundation of Permaculture, under the guidance of tutors who lives and work is dedicated to the conscious design and development of ‘all-species communities’. Upon completion, a Permaculture Design Certificate will be issued by The Institute of Earthcare Education Aotearoa.
Course programme broadly covers:
- permaculture design principles & installation,
- organic growing methods (vege gardens, herbs, animals, fruit),
- rural land management (orchards, pastures, trees, water systems),
- ecological building, ‘waste’ recycling & renewable energy systems,
- urban/suburban scale household design,
- sustainable community/eco-village design,
- wildlife habitat & degraded land restoration,
- wild harvest & nature connection.
For further info contact INNA at earthcarenz@gmail.com
Location / Venue:
Tui Community, Golden Bay, South Island, NZ
Scholarship available !!!
To enable even those with little means to benefit from this inspiring, life-changing course, we are now awarding 2 General Scholarships.
The scholarships are available for people who are dedicated to apply the knowledge gained straight away in their local communities.
The priorities for these positions are:
• one position allocated to a local person (1st Golden Bay, 2nd Nelson region, 3rd Sth Island), and
• one position to an indigenous person (eg Maori, Pacific) or ‘3rd world’ person ie impoverished situation.
Hurry, deadline for scholarship applications coming soon!
The two General Scholarships are available at 70% of the middle sliding scale course fee (i.e. a remaining NZ$570 only is to be paid for full course by successful applicant). If this amount is still not attainable for the participant, requests for further support can by made to the “EEA PDC Scholarship Fund” to make up the difference. The “EEA PDC Scholarship Fund” receives donations from various sources, e.g. Tui Balms.
The scholarship participants are expected to pay for their own PDC Manual ($35).
Upon application, the applicant makes a statement about how they intend to use what they’ve gained in the course for the benefit of their local community, and commit to this, including reporting back to EEA after 12 months, with an interim report after 6 months.
Additionally, the recipient may be asked to contribute some time before, during or after the course helping out with practical tasks. The amount of time will be by negotiation and decided in advance.
Application forms are available on request by emailing: earthcarenz@gmail.com
Closing date for applications is Nov 30th. Decisions will be made by Dec 7th.