Over this weekend you will learn how to apply pro-active, sustainable design techniques to your immediate environment - whether you live in a small 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 neighborhood.
In a world out of balance, we are all looking for solutions that can lead to:
- Effective ways of growing healthy, organic food in urban environments
- Regenerative farming that can both feed a family, earn an income and build soil fertility
- Retrofitting techniques for existing houses or property that results in lower energy costs and better health for its inhabitants
- Intelligent, thoughtful design principles to build sustainable lives, and sustainable communities in a world of Peak Everything
Permaculture principles, like any really good design principles, can be applied across any biosphere, any property, any landscape, any city. Permaculture is a network of well-grounded theories and techniques that, over time, result in sustainable and productive systems.
We're talking systems for living, architecture, food production, land management and community. No chemicals and no excuses. Just good, thoughtful, innovative and effective design for the needs of our species.
This course practical strategies to better care and provide for yourself, your family and the planet. A jam-packed weekend of essential knowledge, useful techniques, a site visit to an amazing school / community garden and enough information to get you all fired up to be the change you want to see in this world.
About the teacher
This course will be taught by Nick Ritar of Milkwood Permaculture. Nick Ritar is at the forefront of a new generation of Permaculture teachers working on the edge of what Permaculture can do to restore landscapes and create abundance in almost any environment on earth.
Nick works and teaches extensively in a wide range of bioregions, farms, watersheds and city environments, and is a leading advocate and educator on how Permaculture principles can provide food security through sustainable farming practices both in country and city environments.
Included in your course fee
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.
Your course fee includes workshops for the duration of the course and tea + coffee + fruit during the day. For lunches, we usually put in a joint order to a great little organic cafe around the corner, LoveGrub - or feel free to bring your own.
We also make available an extensive library of Permaculture and associated texts, which students are welcome to browse, borrow and work with throughout the course.
Booking into the course
You have several options to secure your spot in the Sydney Summmer ITP course.
- Option 1 - Take advantage of the early bird discount rate and pay $198 now. This offer is only available until the 4th October. Click the green button at right to pay via PayPal or your credit card.
- Option 2 - Pay a deposit of $50 now and pay the remaining $170 of the full course fee ($220) by the 20th November. Click the gold button at right to pay via PayPal or your credit card.
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Our Sydney course venue is Alexandria Park Community Centre, set in the grounds of Alexandria Community School, on the corner of Park Road and Power Avenue. This amazing place has multiple thriving community gardens, school gardens, a bush tucker garden and outdoor classroom learning areas. Venue MAP.
Getting there by Train: The venue is 15 minutes walk from Redfern Station. Take the Gibbons St exit and continue south. Gibbons St will become Wynyard St, and soon you will reach Alexandria Park on your right. Cut through the park to the corner of Park Rd and Power Avenue, and there you are. Cityrail website.
Getting there by Bus: The 370 and 355 bus routes run along McEvoy St, one block from the venue. Sydney Buses website.
Parking: There is street parking around the school, or you can park in the school carpark during your course by entering via Belmont Street, at the read of the school.
Plan your trip to Alexandria Park Community Centre with the interactive map below:
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