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Event 

Title:
Sydney Autumn ITP
When:
23 May 2009 - 24 May 2009  9am - 5pm
Where:
Orange Grove Public School - Leichhardt, NSW - Leichhardt
Category:
Introduction to Permaculture

Description

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Over this weekend you will learn how to apply pro-active, sustainable design techniques to your immediate environment - whether you live in an inner city 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 neighbourhood.
Come and learn practical strategies to better care and provide for yourself, your family and the planet. A jam-packed weekend of information, techniques, a site visit to Sydney's oldest Community Permaculture Garden and great feasts of organic food, all within a comfortable walk from public transport.

This course will be taught by Nick Ritar, an award-winning educator of community technologies and strategies for communication, and co-founder of Milkwood Permaculture, providing practical, ecological, do-able solutions for sustainable living and development. All previous editions of this course have sold out quick smart - so come along, and start your process of skilling-up for adaptation in a changing world....


Course fee: $220 including GST

Intro to PC cover

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. Course fee also includes an organic home-made lunch (made with produce from Milkwood Farm wherever possible), and all the tea, coffee and snacks you will need while thinking, learning and absorbing this great two day course. Lunch on the Saturday can be purchased from the most fabulous Farmer’s Markets in the School Grounds.


Booking into the course

To secure your spot in the Sydney Autumn ITP course pay the full course fee of $220. Click the green button at right to pay via PayPal or your credit card.

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Venue

Venue:
Orange Grove Public School - Leichhardt, NSW   -   Website
Street:
Perry St
ZIP:
2041
City:
Leichhardt
State:
NSW
Country:
Country: au

Description

The historic Orange Grove Public School is also known as the bush school in the city.

Getting there: free public transport trip planner website

Getting there by bus: Catch a 470 from Railway Square at Central, and get off at Balmain Rd (end of the route). Walk north up Balmain Rd for less than 5 minutes, and Orange Grove PS is on your left, on the corner of Perry St - see Venue Map for directions.

Getting there by train: Catch the train to Lilyfield and walk 5 mins to venue - see Venue Map for directions.

Getting there by car: Parking in the Lilyfield area is a bit of a nightmare, and the venue for this course will have no designated parking. May we suggest that you take public transport to this event.

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Reading List

Prior 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 champing at the bit to get going.


"Permaculture is a design system that reconciles human communities with the ecological imperatives of a living planet. Permaculture design may be used to restore ecosystems, create sustainable farms & healthy towns, & promotes economic systems that support Earth care."
Ben Haggard
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