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Title:: Dave Jacke short course: Melbourne :FULL:
When:: Mar 9 2013 - Mar 10 2013 9:00am - 5:00pm
Where:: Ceres Environment Park - Melbourne
Category:: Edible Forest Gardens

Description

This course is now full, but there's a range of other events with Dave in Sydney, Melbourne and Penguin (TAS), as well as a full-blown Forest Garden Design Intensive at Milkwood Farm, NSW. See here for more details...

9 - 10 March, Melbourne: Fundamentals of ecological Forest Gardening

A unique opportunity to spend two days with Dave Jacke, world leading thinker, designer and teacher of integrated forest garden and permaculture design.

This intensive weekend course will provide students with first-class design techniques and knowledge and to creating edible, resilient and regenerative landscapes. Covering design of food forest systems, forest gardens, farm forestry, coppice projects and much more for both urban, suburban and small farm projects.

"Edible forest gardening is the art and science of putting plants together in woodlandlike patterns that forge mutually beneficial relationships, creating a garden ecosystem that is more than the sum of its parts.

You can grow fruits, nuts, vegetables, herbs, mushrooms, other useful plants, and animals in a way that mimics natural ecosystems.

You can create a beautiful, diverse, high-yield garden. If designed with care and deep understanding of ecosystem function, you can also design a garden that is largely self-maintaining." - Dave Jacke

Ecosystem agriculture attempts to mimic the structure and function of natural ecosystems in consciously designed food-producing ecologies. This workshop explores the theory, design, and practice of ecosystem agriculture using the temperate deciduous forest ecosystem models.

Lectures, field observations, and experiential classes will reveal the nature of ecosystem architecture, social structure, underground economics, and succession.

You will then develop practical principles, practices, patterns, and processes for garden design and management based on those observations.

The Friday evening talk Gardening Like the Forest: Home-Scale Ecological Food Production is a prerequisite for this weekend workshop, and is included in your ticket price for this workshop.

Dont miss this one-off chance to accelerate your design skills and knowledge from a teacher at the forefront of regenerative design on our planet.

Booking into the course

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Please note that tickets for this course are not refundable, but are transferable to another name.

As part of our Fair Share policy, we provide pensioner and unwaged discounts where needed. Please get in touch for more information.

Included in your course fee

Students of this workshop will receive extensive resources from Dave Jacke and Milkwood Permaculture to support and further their future design process. Your course fee includes tea, coffee and fruit throughout the day.

About Dave Jacke

Dave Jacke, primary author of the award winning two-volume book Edible Forest Gardens, has studied ecology and design since the 1970s, and has run his own design firm—Dynamics Ecological Design—since 1984. An engaging and passionate teacher of ecological design and permaculture, Dave has designed, built, and planted landscapes, homes, farms, and communities in the many parts of the United States, as well as overseas. He holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies and a M.A. in Landscape Design. Dave's detailed resumé is available as a pdf download here.

While not required reading for this event, we highly recommend Edible Forest Gardens by Dave Jacke and Eric Toensmeier as an exceptional set of reference books on this subject.

"This comprehensive two-volume book constitutes an in-depth course in ecological garden design. Written in a passionate, clear, and engaging style, it integrates the vision and ecology of forest gardening with practical design, establishment, and management strategies. While Edible Forest Gardens was written as an integrated whole, each volume can stand alone as valuable learning tools and references."

If you can't make this event, there's a range of others with Dave in Sydney, Melbourne and Penguin (TAS), as well as a full-blown Forest Garden Design Intensive at Milkwood Farm, NSW. See here for more details...

Venue

Venue:: Ceres Environment Park - Website
Street:: Cnr Roberts and Stewart Streets
City:: Melbourne
State:: Victoria

Description

CERES - Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies, is an award winning, not-for-profit, sustainability centre located on 4.5 hectares on the Merri Creek in East Brunswick, Melbourne.

It is also a thriving community, an urban farm, Australia’s largest deliverer of environmental education, an event and conference venue and a place rich with social and cultural diversity. CERES is recognised as an international leader in community and environmental practice.

Built on a decommissioned rubbish tip that was once a bluestone quarry, today CERES is a vibrant eco-oasis. 350,000 people visit CERES each year. Many more engage with us through our Sustainable Schools program which takes sustainable education into schools across the state.

CERES’ green technology displays, buildings, education and training programs and social enterprises (CERES’ Organic Market, Café, Permaculture Nursery and Fair Food organics delivery) demonstrate food security, sustainable agriculture, energy efficiencies, renewables and water conservation in action.

This workshop will be held in Room 4 of the Van Raay center, just behind the Visitors Center.

ceres map

Getting there:

You can get to CERES via foot, bicycle path, tram, bus or by car.

Address

CERES Community Environment Park, Cnr Roberts and Stewart Streets, Brunswick East, Victoria

Melways REF, map 30 B7.

If you get lost you can ring the Visitor centre for directions on (03) 9389 0100

The Merri Creek bike path runs along the edge of CERES, so it’s very accessible for walkers and cyclists. You can enter via the gate closest to the Blyth St/Arthurton Road bridge in Brunswick East. Simply follow the green council signs along the path to CERES. The Merri Creek Bike Path also connects to the Capital City Trail.

Tram

Take the Number 96 tram to East Brunswick from the city (from Bourke St, travelling up Nicholson St) all the way to the end of the line (the intersection of Blyth and Nicholson Streets). CERES is about a 5 minute walk from the tram stop. Turn right down Blyth St (which becomes Arthurton Rd) and take the second street on the left (Roberts St) - CERES is about 100m up Roberts St on the right - you can't miss it. Turn right at Lee St and walk in.

Bus

Take the 503 Essendon to East Brunswick bus. Departs from Essendon Station and runs via Russell St, Napier St, Brewster St, Pascoe Vale Rd, Albion Street, Nicholson St, Stewart St, Roberts St and Arthurton Rd to the terminus at the corner of Blyth and Ryan St. Get off at the Lee St stop and you’re right out the front.

Car

We have some parking on site but it can be busy, particularly after 9am on Wednesday and Saturday when our market is on. Parking is also available on side streets (please read the street signs) and in the Cretan Brotherhood car park on Stewart Street.

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