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Description Over this weekend you will learn how to apply pro-active, sustainable design techniques to your immediate environment - whether you live in a small apartment, a quarter-acre block, or a rural property. Covering organic food production, system design (and re-design) for comfort and lower energy consumption, and ideas on how to approach a sustainable and positive community existence within your neighborhood. In a world out of balance, we are all looking for solutions that can lead to:
 Permaculture principles, like any really good design principles, can be applied across any biosphere, any property, any landscape, any city. Permaculture is a network of well-grounded theories and techniques that, over time, result in sustainable and productive systems. We're talking systems for living, architecture, food production, land management and community. No chemicals and no excuses. Just good, thoughtful, innovative and effective design for the needs of our species. This course practical strategies to better care and provide for yourself, your family and the planet. A jam-packed weekend of essential knowledge, useful techniques, a tour of Milkwood Permaculture Farm and enough information to get you all fired up to be the change you want to see in this world. About the teacher for this course:
Nick works and teaches extensively in a wide range of bioregions, farms, watersheds and city environments, and is a leading advocate and educator on how Permaculture principles can provide food security through sustainable farming practices both in country and city environments. Included in your course fee
The classic text Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison (RRP $41.70) is included in your course fee at no extra charge, to help get you started and keep you inspired when implementing what you learn at this course into your own habitat. Your course fee includes a home-cooked (organic where possible) country lunch on each day, and tea + coffee + fruit throughout your course. If you'd like to stay at Milkwood Farm during your course, a $30 per night per person fee includes camping, dinner and breakfast. Once you've booked in we will contact you about this option. We also make available an extensive library of Permaculture and associated texts, which students are welcome to browse, borrow and work with throughout the course. Booking into the courseYou have several options to secure your spot in the Milkwood Spring ITP course.
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Milkwood is a small organic family farm near Mudgee in Central Western NSW. A Permaculture Demonstration Farm currently under development, Milkwood features extensive permaculture earthworks and water-harvesting features, our amazing passive-solar cottage, food-forests in the making, seedball production and many other examples of sustainable and regenerative best-practice for farming and living. Our courses are held in our family's woolshed with beautiful views of Campbells Creek Valley and our organic farm cooking is such that students often joke about moving in permanently. Getting hereMudgee is an easy 4 hours by car or 40 minutes by air from Sydney, and is serviced by Countrylink Rail and Mudgee Airport. See our Getting to Milkwood page for a map and full details on getting here by plane, train or automobile. Accommodation- For this short course, we offer the option to stay at Milkwood Farm in our creekside camping area for $40 per person, per night. This option includes dinner, breakfast and use of all amenities. See our Staying at Milkwood page for more details. After booking into your course we will shortly contact you about whether you'd like to take up this option. - Stay further afield in Mudgee, which has a range of accommodation to suit all tastes and budgets. Mudgee Tourism Website. 
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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
be able to provide suggestions on background reading, in case you're
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This course will be taught by Nick Ritar of Milkwood Permaculture. Nick is at the forefront of a new generation of Permaculture teachers working on the edge of what Permaculture can do to restore landscapes and create abundance in almost any environment on earth.
