Learn Permaculture Design

I started a full time Permaculture course in Kinsale, Ireland but our second child arrived half way through the year and I hadn’t enough time to juggle both. I’d be very interested in an online course to fill in the Gaps in my knowledge.

I’m looking for a good course to learn about permaculture and forest gardens… can anyone advise me?

CHEERAS

At last… Will know Permaculture by the end of next Summer, can’t wait!

Today I read an article by Bill Reed “Progressing BEYOND Sustainable to Regenerative Design”. I love his language and they way he has expressed thess ideas. What most amazed me was taken from “Tending the Wild” – that a hands off approach to nature can promote landscapes that are inhospitable to human life, causing us to loose practical knowledge of correct interaction. “When intimate interaction ceases, the continuity of knowledge passed down through generations is broken, and the land becomes ‘wilderness’.”

A compelling case for human engagement over conservation. I realize the need to further shift my own thinking – that my urge to create doesn’t have to be a dirty desire – directly conflicted to my urge to protect the beauty of an environment. I have know this but struggle to trust in it.

Oh the power of knowledge of a place and its living systems. Designing for engagement with these living systems has the potential to not only sustain but to restore and regenerate. Regenerate a system’s capability to continuously self organize. This is my purpose. I can feel it pulsing through me.

“The urban pattern elaborated and enriched the edge between land and sea.” Oh the beauty of edges and intersections and connections! They spread before me in the landforms I watched from the plane. And in the undersides of the mushrooms I saw while hiking yesterday. In every macro and every micro – edges are infinite.

I know Permaculture is absolutely essential to my life. I will sign up early next spring.

is a good time for reading my permaculture book. Maybe by spring I will be organized enough with my time that I can begin to put in a garden, based on permiculture design. I have read enough literature on permiculture to know where to start. I need to build swales and contour the land to retain water better. In Oregon we get rain, but if the land were contoured properly I could retain the water better and avoid unnecessary use of additional watering. I think I’ll get my book out and start planning.

i did a program through LivingRoutes.org and used it as an excuse to travel as well, and went to IPEC in Brasil for this year’s course.

It was amazing – and though now i am officially a Permaculture Apprentice, there is still so so much to learn, and even more to do.

i can say that i’ve done this step, though – the next goal is to become a certified permaculture designer, which requires 2 years of practical hands-on work, :1

I’m reading Graham Bell’s book, “The Permaculture Way,” and will be incorporating some of these concepts into a class I’m teaching later this summer.

Although I love to read, when it comes to learning “how-to” stuff, I learn better from people.

see goal about going to brazil, :1