4 May 2019
The foundation for applying excellent permaculture is a design process based on three ethics, 12 principles and “the scale of permanence.”
This module provides the critical concepts, language and framework for understanding and designing with permaculture. After some group introductions, we’ll flush out permacultures’ definitions, principles, ethics, get familiar with its origins. We’ll be inside and outside as weather allows, alternating lecture, short videos, paired exercises and individual work with fun exercises to give you that “gut” understanding of what permaculture is all about. We’ll also look at how others are applying permaculture design solutions throughout the world to give you a sense of what’s possible. We’ll finish by discussing the scope of individual design project due at the end of the course. Today lays out the pathway to module #2: The Permaculture Design Process.
Download the program overview here.
Tutors
Catherine and Neville Dunton-McLeod, guest presenter TBA
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“Thank you so much for your commitment to sharing this wealth of knowledge and setting up the course in Tauranga.”“My gardening teacher told me that what I wanted to be learning was this thing called permaculture. I’d never heard of it, but after Googling and reading your website, I see it covers all the things I need: the house and sheds, getting vehicles and stuff from here to there, what animals I could have, growing food, and having enough electricity and water. And probably the most important is making sure the plan is something both my partner and I love before we start putting stuff in.”“I love the homey, solar classroom and the really friendly group. I am excited about the year.”“I appreciate the relaxed style of the day with great organization, sticking to time and the fabulous food.”
“I wanted to say a huge thank you to both you and Neville for yesterday – I really enjoyed the first session of the course. I had been personally wondering whether there were people who choose not to have children for population reasons and I just wanted to say how much I respect your personal choices in this area, and your passion and commitment to sharing permaculture with people locally.”
“Today worked for me: discussing ideas, working in small groups, sharing food and then going to the outside for afternoon activities under the oak tree. Awesome!
“My next car was going to be a Lexus. Then I spent the day at permaculture fundamentals. Now I am thinking I’ll find a Valiant or similar old school vehicle with a simple engine that I can run on veggie oil and maintain myself. It no longer makes sense to buy a car that requires hooking up to a computer to find out what’s wrong with it!”
