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CoursesIntroduction to Permaculture Events: 2 Join Milkwood Permaculture's Nick Ritar and other special guests as they lead you through 2 days of permaculture design theory and action. You will leave this course ready to sink your teeth into a bunch of permaculture projects and be in an informed position to do further research and learning in ecological design.
Permaculture Design Certificate Events: 4 A Milkwood Permaculture Design Certificate provides an exceptional grounding in Permaculture design and theory. Our PDC graduates leave our courses ready to design and implement permaculture principles into a wide range of scenarios; urban permaculture systems, small farms, suburban blocks and overseas aid projects.
Mushroom Workshop Events: 1 Learn how to grow multiple types of delicious mushrooms at home, organically! This hands-on workshop will take you through the basics of many types of home mushroom propagation using recycled materials, and introduce you to the fascinating world of fungi. Growing your own mushrooms is a fabulous way to broaden your family's home-grown nutrition, has many benefits for your nearby garden, and is a great micro-enterprise.
Natural Beekeeping Events: 3 A practical workshop on keeping honeybees naturally, using Warré hives. Bees are essential pollinators for both rual and urban environments, providing fertility for all where we need it most. Natural Beekeeping ensures a healthy and abundant environment for all, is easy and safe to do, inexpensive to set up and perhaps best of all, provides you with raw, local honey! Yum.
Permaculture Teacher Training Events: 1 Taught by Rosemary Morrow, the world's premier Permaculture teacher trainer. Permaculture teacher training can build your ability to empower others with life-changing skills. Learn how to pass on knowledge of permaculture theory and practice in a way that creates real change within your students, and activates entire communities.
Forest Garden Workshop Events: 2 A hands-on workshop on the science and practicalities of designing, planning and installing a forest garden. Learn how to design and create a stable, blooming and resilient forest garden which will keep your family in produce year round. Roll up your sleeves and get growing with us!
Organic Market Gardening Events: 1 Learn how to create a thriving organic market garden or microfarm. These courses teach you how to effectively grow good food at a community scale, using organic techniques and permaculture principles. Taught by experts with established and successful microfarming and community supported agriculture experience.
Advanced Watershed Restoration Events: 1 Craig Spoonholtz is a world-leading expert in watershed restoration using techniques that harness natural hydrology to self-repair riparian zones and watersheds. Brought to the fore in Bill Zeedyk's manual 'Let the Water do the Work', these techniques use practical, natural materials and good design to repair and restore the most degraded gullies, creeks and floodplains back to their natural capacity as moisture-rich landscapes.
Earthship: Michael Reynolds Talk Events: 1 "Green Buildings, Sustainable Architecture. Retrofit. This is what we do. Earthships are radically sustainable buildings made with recycled materials. Earthships can be built in any part of the world, in any climate and still provide solar power, catchwater, contained sewage treatment and sustainable food production."
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FarmReady CoursesIf you are a farmer, a primary producer, a land manager or in the immediate family of someone who is, you may be eligible for FarmReady which covers course fees, travel and accommodation costs when eligible students attend specific Milkwood Permaculture courses that are FarmReady approved. Reading ListPrior to attending your course, you might like to take a look at our ever-expanding reading list,a bunch of recommended and practical texts on Permaculture, sustainable agriculture and community resilience. None of these texts are pre-requisite for our courses, we just like to
be able to provide suggestions on background reading, in case you're
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