Date: 20 November – 29 November 2020
Where: Geneva, Florida, USA
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.
This PDC is geared towards, knowledge building, skills advancement, practical know-how and application of all the systems and methods that are covered in this vast body of work, and to equip and prepare you, the participant to start your own journey in this dynamic field of possibility.
Register for this course here: Registration Form
For any instant enquiries or further information, call me on 407 724 4879 or email me on jacqueline@inspirepemaculture.com
Cost: $765 – This price includes a comprehensive manual with practical applications and instructions. Organic tea and coffee and a light organic vegetarian daily lunch, as well as the stationary required for the final design assignment.
COURSE DAYS & TIMES
*All dates need to be attended in order to receive your certification. Should one of the days conflict with an already existing appointment, a catch up session may be scheduled.
Friday: 20 November 2020
Start time: 7:30
End time: 15:00
Details: Introduction to Permaculture, Permaculture Ethics and Principles
Saturday: 21 November 2020
Start time: 9:00
End time: 16:30
Details: Soil, Trees, Beneficial Plants and Herbs, Guilds and Polycultures
Sunday: 22 November 2020
Start time: 9:00
End time: 16:30
Details: Water, Aquaculture, Earthworks, alternative energy sources and Eco-building
Monday: 23 November 2020
Start time: 7:30
End time: 15:00
Details: Zones, Animal Integration, Propagation & Nursery Skills
Tuesday: 24 November 2020
Start time: 7:30
End time: 15:00
Details: Compost, Soil Rehabilitation and Plant resilience
Wednesday: 25 November 2020
Start time: 7:30
End time: 15:00
Details: Social Responsibility and Practical Applications
Thursday: 26 – No Class
Friday: 27 November 2020
Start time: 7:30
End time: 15:00
Details: Design Work, Integration, Practical Application & Research
Saturday: 28 November 2020
Start time: 9:00
End time: 16:30
Details: Design Work, Integration, Practical Application & Research
Friday: 27 November 2020
Start time: 9:00
End time: 16:30
Details: Final Presentation and Peer Review, culminating in a Graduation Ceremony
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.
Course Skills & Topics:
An introduction to Permaculture, our ethics and design principles.
Various systems to harvest and filter water:
Harvesting and filtering drinking water
How to build a sand filter and their placements (practical)
Grey water harvesting, filtering and composting systems
Anaerobic composting Banana circles (practical)
Alternative hot water systems
Capturing and storing water
The construction and considerations for dams and ponds, gabions, check dams and silt traps
Wetlands
Siphoning (practical)
Irrigation and pumps systems
Building and using an A-frame (practical)
Swales – the functions, marking/planning out of and their construction (practical)
The benefits and considerations of various animals:
Chickens, geese and ducks
Black soldier fly and mealworms
Aquaponics
Pigs
Rabbits
Composting worms (practical)
Wildlife integration & habitat resoration
Bees and other essential pollinators (practical)
Attracting beneficial insects and animals, such as ladybirds, owls and bats
Holistic management
Cell grazing
Living fences
Bio-digesters
Supportive animal feed and housing systems
Attracting beneficial wildlife such as owls, bats and insects ect
Growing food and supportive systems to build up soil nutrition:
Nursery skills and propagation (practical)
Tree pans and net ‘n pan systems (practical)
Market gardens (practical)
Kitchen gardens (practical)
Growing Mushrooms
Moon gardening
Aquaculture, Hydroponics and Aquaponics
Designing and growing windbreak
How to build up a food forest
How to carefully save and store your seeds (practical)
The multiple uses for Bamboo
Vetiver, land rehabilitation and erosion control
Companion planting for plant resilience and pest management (practical)
The importance of having a Mother Bed
Alien plant eradication (practical)
Various composting methods and liquid manure (practical)
Biochar
Soil analysis (practical)
Living roofs and fences
Planting green manures (practical)
Medicinal and culinary flowers, plants and herbs (practical)
Wild foraging (practical)
Alternative energy:
Solar
Wind
Water
Rocket stove construction (practical)
Biodigesters
And more:
Recycling systems and functions (practical)
Eco-bricks (practical)
Natural fermentation and food preservation
Composting toilets (practical)
Biodegradable personal hygiene and cleaning products (practical)
Where to start in your area?
Applied Permaculture, community development and working with communities at grassroots level
In summary:
Module 1: Introduction
Module 2: Concepts & Themes in Design
Module 3: Methods of Design
Module 4: Pattern Understanding
Module 5: Climatic Factors
Module 6: Trees & Their Energy Transactions
Module 7: Water
Module 8: Soils
Module 9: Earth Working & Earth Resources
Module 10: Humid Tropics
Module 11: Dryland Strategies
Module 12: Humid Cool to Cold Climates
Module 13: Aquaculture
Module 14: Strategies of an Alternative Global Nation