Permaculture Design Warwick
Working towards a sustainable future
Recent Activities
Community Garden
Beginning talks with Southern Downs Regional Council regarding setting up a Community Garden in Warwick. Council response (so far) has been positive. I'll update this section as news comes to hand.
Permaculture Group
Along with the establishment of a Community Garden, the next step is calling a meeting to gauge the level of interest in forming a local Permaculture group. I'm just booking a spot on Rainbow FM,the local community radio station to start drumming up some interest. I'll update this section as news comes to hand.
Sat 5th June 2010
We had a stand at the World Environment Day event,held at the Warwick Town Hall .We were very pleasantly surprised by the turnout. Especially encouraging was the number of people who had heard of Permaculture, and were interested in attending upcoming workshops to improve their knowledge.
Good to see a lot of new faces to the district, many of them "tree-changers" - welcome to you all.
Off-site links
Course Information
Stanthorpe PDC 2011
We will be running a Permaculture Design Certificate Course in the Stanthorpe area between January and April 2011.
The course will run every other weekend over a twelve week period. Third weekend in January (22/23rd) will be the kick-off, with completion the third Saturday in April.
FarmReady approved!
Approved Course Number FRTC0885
Course fees and booking information
The course is expected to fill fast, so secure your place with a min AU$200.00 deposit by the 17th December 2010. Full payment (unless using the payment plan) by 7th January 2011
Due to the way we are running the course, and the fact that it is targeted at people from the local area, we have not arranged accommodation. This can be organised (at cost) if required.
Major points as follows:
- Start date 22nd January 2011, completion 16th April 2011.
- Course cost AU$1500 inc GST
- Deposit ($200) required by 17 September 2010 to secure a place.
- A payment plan is available - $225 per weekend, 2 weeks in advance
- Cost includes text book (Permaculture: A Designers Manual), morning & afternoon teas
- Cost does not include accommodation, but this can be arranged for you at cost
- Venue is an ex commercial orchard. Planning exercises will relate to this property, with real client limitations and expectations
The booking sheet is available here
It can be filled out on your computer, then emailed, or you can print it, fill it in by hand, and snail mail it. Addresses are on the form.
Permaculture - what is it?
Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.
Permaculture design is a system of assembling conceptual, material, and strategic components in a pattern which functions to benefit life in all its forms.
The philosophy behind permaculture is one of working with, rather than against, nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless action; of looking at systems in all their functions, rather than asking only one yield of them; and allowing systems to demonstrate their own evolutions.
From Permaculture Research Institute of Australia