Introduction to Permaculture
As part of our Prairie Culture eduction series, we offered an Introduction to Permaculture Course August 20 – 21, 2011 in Winnipeg, MB. The course was taught by trained permaculturist Adrian Buckley of Big Sky Permaculture.
Watch for future presentations of this course, announced on this website.
About the course
In this 2-day workshop, you learn about the basics of permaculture. Permaculture is a design science for creating sustainable human habitat. Whether you’re heavily into gardening, interested in making positive change, want to learn about renewable energy, or are determined to ensure clean water is freely available, this course is of interest to you!
Topics:
- Functional design
- Sustainable water systems?
- Fundamentals of organic food production?
- Garden and landscape design
- Designing fossil energy out of the? system?
- Soil science, soil building and composting?
- Local renewable energy systems and planning?
- Strategies for building a local resilient community
…and much more!
Four principles that matter
Attendees learn about four principles behind resilient and regenerative natural systems. These principles are directives for designing gardens, properties, businesses and projects, that function with no unnecessary inputs of energy, time or money. When you learn these principles, you’ll quickly see that they can be applied to every facet of your life, leading to lasting and regenerative relationships, businesses, gardens, homes and much more.
Fun, hands-on learning
We offer hands-on activities to develop the principles after you’ve learned them, including detailed coursework on the methods of permaculture design. These methods will make you see your property, house and watershed in a new way, and will get you started in applying the design principles correctly for positive effect. The activities associated with the design methods allow you to practice them and ask questions to learn them thoroughly.
Then we break the class into ‘design teams’ where we give you real-life projects/situations, and each group is required to produce a design from start to finish using all the methods and principles learned.
You will be able to:
- Design a regenerative garden.
- Make choices that will potentially save you thousand of dollars in property design.
- Build the best soil on the block!
- Develop an understanding on how you can save yourself much time and energy using simple design principles that can be applied anywhere by anyone.
- Reap the benefits of holistic design thinking.
- Make the most positive decisions possible to help yourself and others.
And you will learn about permaculture…
This course introduces you to permaculture design and its most important applications so that you can start using permaculture design in your garden and your life!
4 reasons to take this course:
- Universal design principles that will be with you in any situation and any place
- A delicious meal and refreshments included in both days
- Two full days of inspiring and engaging instruction and hands-on exercises
- You are welcome to attend any future Introduction to Permaculture course for free from Big Sky Permaculture (we only ask that you pay for food).
About the Instructor
Originally from Nova Scotia, Adrian Buckley has taught numerous introductory courses in permaculture, and has undertaken several permaculture garden installations around Calgary. Adrian had also started and managed the Calgary Urban Harvest Project, which has turned into one of Canada’s largest fruit gleaning initiatives in Canada. Adrian led our summer 2011 Introduction to Permaculture course in Winnipeg.
Cost and Registration
The cost of this introduction to permaculture training is $240. The course fee includes lunch and refreshments for both days, two days of instruction and Introduction to Permaculture textbook.
Contact
For further information, please contact the Harvest Moon Society.
Thanks to the University of Winnipeg Campus Sustainability Office for their sponsorship of this event.
