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CoursesPermaculture Design Certificate Events: 3 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.
Introduction to Permaculture Events: 3 A two-day, weekend course that teaches you the principles of Permaculture design and a bunch of practical skills that will help activate you towards living sustainably and responsibly, wherever you may live. For comprehensive information about this course please click the coures title below.
Urban Beekeeping Events: 2 A practical workshop on keeping honeybees in cities and suburban areas. Bees are essential city pollinators, providing fertility for all where we need it most. Urban Beekeeping ensures a healthy and abundant environment for all residents, is easy and safe to do, inexpensive to set up and perhaps best of all, provides you with raw, local honey! Yum.
Keyline Farming Events: 1 This workshop is a combination of intensive technical & practical sessions targeted at farmers, professional land managers, consultants, permaculture designers, earthmovers and anyone with a strong interest in sustainable land management and soil creation. Keyline concepts were conceived and founded in the Australian landscape to build soil, hold water and improve the fertility and durability of the land.
BioFertile Farms Events: 1 Finally, a workshop that de-mystifies soil biology and how to improve it using available, basic, on-farm resources! The practicalities of how to hydrate, enhance and heal your soils and land through simple techniques. This workshop features how to make a range of bio-fertilizers using organic ingredients readily available to any landholder, and how to improve health and yeilds of pastures, croplands and treecrops by working with the soil and dramatically improving its fertility, naturally.
Local Farms & Community Events: 2 Joel Salatin is one of the world’s leading advocates of farming and food re-localisation. A recipient of the Heinz Award for Environmental Leadership, Joel will challenge participants of this course to design and participate in pathways to relocalisation based on his own acclaimed model at Polyface Farms in the USA, and other techniques and directions from the emerging relocalisation movement. For comprehensive information about this course please click the course title below.
Joel Salatin Talks Events: 3 Joel Salatin is one of the world’s leading advocates of farming and food relocalisation. A series of public talks where Joel will challenge participants to design and participate in pathways to relocalisation, both as producers and consumers. For comprehensive information about these talks please click the event title below.
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Milkwood newsletterSign-up to receive monthly updates on courses and all things permaculture. Upcoming CoursesFarmReady 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 a FULL REIMBURSEMENT of your course fee, travel and accommodation costs when you 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
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