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Courses - ArchiveIntroduction to Permaculture Events: 18 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: 10 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.
Compost & Compost Tea Workshop Events: 1 A practical workshop on how to hydrate, enhance and heal your soils by understanding the soil food web and how to make biologically active Aerated Compost Tea. This workshop focuses on practical techniques of applying compost and compost teas for small, medium and larger-scale farming, grazing and forestry operations. For comprehensive information about this course please click the coures title below.
Joel Salatin Workshop Events: 1 Join 'the world's most innovative farmer' (TIME Magazine) Joel Salatin for a unique one-day workshop looking at how to make your small farm more ethical, profitable, and deeply integrated with your local community. Joel is known and respected world-wide for his family's innovative and effective farming techniques that allow them to produce 'beyond organic' produce on a small scale, while regenerating their land and livelihood.
Urban Beekeeping Events: 1 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.
Urban Permaculture in Action Events: 3 A boots-and-all weekend of Permaculture in practice! Learn how to transform an inner-city backyard into a functioning Permaculture system - including techniques for food production, energy re-cycling and soil creation on an intimate scale. And expect to get your hands delightfully dirty in the process. For comprehensive information about this course please click the coures title below.
RegenAg Series Package NSW Events: 1 A sensational package deal for the entire 2010 Regenerative Agriculture Workshop Series. Includes essential workshops in Holistic Management, BioFertile Farms, Keyline Farming and Local Farms & Community. Gain all the knowledge you need to either start or convert your farming business into profitable, regenerative agriculture.
Keyline Farming Events: 2 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.
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.
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: 7 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.
Aquaponics Workshop Events: 3 A practical workshop on how to produce your own organic vegetables and fresh fish in one sustainable, closed-loop system, in your own backyard. Aquaponics combines the best bits of of aquaculture and hydroponics, but without the use of chemicals, to create super-efficient food production systems.
Earthbag Workshop Events: 1 A hands-on workshop in EarthBag building. Learn the secrets of this versatile natural building technique and leave knowing how to build beautiful, natural and super-versatile earthbag structures with basic materials and very little cost.
BioFertile Farms Events: 3 Over the last 20 years, pioneering scientists in Latin America have developed a range of ‘farm-made’ BioFertilizers to replace energy-intensive and expensive artificial fertilizers. These techniques have enabled farmers across Latin America access to the tools and knowledge needed to get themselves ‘off the drip’ of increasingly unaffordable artificial fertilizers. Now we're bringing this open-source knowledge to the rest of the world.
Food Forest Workshop Events: 1 A hands-on workshop on the science and practicalities of designing, planning and installing a food forest. 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!
Pasture Cropping Workshop Events: 1 Pasture cropping is a technique of sowing crops into living perennial (usually native) pastures and having these crops grow symbiotically with the existing pastures. Colin Seis and Daryl Cluff initiated this idea about 15 years ago and since that time Colin Seis has spent much of his time perfecting this technique. Colin discovered that it is possible to grow many different types of winter and summer growing crops, without destroying the perennial pasture base, while sequestering large amounts of carbon.
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.
Holistic Management Events: 4 Holistic management is an animal and land management practice that mimics nature to benefit grazing stock and biodiversity at the same time. This type of grazing management is now considered to be the single most beneficial technique for restoring both profits and biodiversity to independent grazing operations.
Winter Workshop: Feed Your Garden Events: 1 In this hands-on, 4-hour workshop you will learn the skills and techniques that will allow you to create and maintain a healthy, highly productive, nutrient-dense organic food garden. Growing your own is great, but what you grow is only as healthy as the soil it grows in. Using completely organic, do-it-yourself techniques, we will show you how to best feed the garden that feeds you!
Winter Workshop: Grafting Events: 1 A practical, 2-hour workshop that will provide you with the skills to grow and graft edible fruit trees this winter for a blooming spring. Grafting is an age-old technique that allows you to adapt fruit and nut trees and shrubs to best suit your climate and conditions, and can save you a heap of money once you get the trick of it.
Winter Workshop: Mushrooms Events: 2 Learn how to grow delicious oyster and shiitake mushrooms at home, organically! This hands-on workshop will take you through the basics 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, and has many benefits for your nearby garden as well.
Winter Workshop: Designing for Spring Events: 1 Hit the ground running this spring! This hands-on, 4 hour workshop explores simple yet incredibly effective methods to help you design an abundant spring garden. And a well-designed garden means you put in less effort to produce a larger, more diverse harvest of yummy, organic food!
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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
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