This hands-on intensive Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course will deepen your environmental awareness and will equip you with the tools to design stable systems on any farm, small holding or homestead, economically and sustainably. When: 19 July to 31 July (excluding weekends) Times: 8am to 5pm daily Where: Inspire Permacultures, Bergvliet Course Days:…
Autumn Open Garden at Soil For Life
Saturday, May 5 at 9 AM – 3 PM “Part of being fully human is reconnecting with the Earth and its communities” Vandana Shiva. Please join us for our Autumn Open Garden on Saturday 5 May. There will be talks and demonstrations covering a wide range of topics and our friendly trainers will be on hand to answer any…
The Cape Honeybee Club
We start off with an Initial Introductory Class and thereafter meet once a month on the first Monday of every month. Initial Introductory Class: Saturday 5 May 11:00 to 16:00 Thereafter the First Monday of every month: 14:00 to 16:30 Group Outings: Once a term The Cape Honeybee Club is aimed at children between the…
East African Permaculture Convergence, Uganda
28 -29 May, 2018 I’ll be away for two weeks in May attending the 1st Permaculture East African Mini Convergence. Background: The East African Permaculture Convergence is a 2 day conference bringing together practitioners and interested parties from across East Africa to highlight and explore the potentials for permaculture education and project development in the region. We invite…
Tanzania & Practical Permaculture Institute
Practical Permaculture is what developing countries need. Take away the language barrier and the fluff and you’ve got Practical Permaculture that can be used and implemented straight away with what is locally available and appropriate. We visited the Practical Permaculture Institute on Zanzibar, Tanzania this month and were warmly greeted by Franco who took the…
Planting Calendar & Seed Saving Workshop
Well a seed saving workshop you say? Yes! With the next planting season coming in, its time to sort through our seeds and and prepare our beds for our Autumn planting. Nature is incredible! She provided exactly what we need when we need it. This is so true for the the foods that grow in…
Composting & Waste Management Workshop
Make compost, Make a worm Tower and Make Your Household Waste into a Resource Each and every on of us should feel wholeheartedly responsible for what we consume and the waste we produce through our daily living. Every single choice we make had a long lasting effect on the planet, our home. Come join us…
Cocoa PNG
This project is my main focus for 2018 and 2019. It follows a life changing family trip to Papau New Guinea in December 2016. During our trip we met with some of the isolated villagers on the Sepik River who depend on cocoa to have the means to access medicine and education for themselves and…
Permaculture Design Certificate Course
join lead instructors: Belinda Ross founder of Hope Farm Foundation & Jacqueline Edmiston Inspire Permaculture with Guest Teachers: Guy Goode Tendai Mariwarie Tannah Georgeu Learn about water harvesting, composting systems, alternative energy, construction of water bodies, livestock integration, aquaponics, bees, wild foraging, holistic management, living fences, soil rehabilitation, erosion control, nursery skills, windbreaks, firebreaks, seed…