18/02/2024
An amazing opportunity to do a Permaculture Design Course over three weekends, one of which is at Cae Mabon. With top rank teachers, Angie Polkey and Alice Gray. A few places still available.
Email purposefulpermaculture@gmail.com to check availability (places are limited to 12 participants).
Permaculture design is about creating ecologically sound ways of living based on observing natural systems and applying ecological principles to what we do. It equips you to care for the earth, yourself, and others in ways that are resilient, abundant, and rewarding - it can be a truly life-changing and empowering experience.
The core qualification for doing permaculture design is a Permaculture Design Certificate – a minimum of 72 hours study. Our course offers you the opportunity to gain your PDC by taking 3 long weekend modules and, guided learning between each weekend, with our follow up resources, plus a personal design project. These require a minimum of 8 hours between each module and enable us to cover the full PDC curriculum, as certificated by the Permaculture Association and internationally recognised by other permaculture practitioners & organisations. It also gives you lots of applied design experience – both during your own course projects and as part of a group project every weekend.
Angie and Alice have decades of experience in using permaculture thinking and applying it in practice in some very wide-ranging fields of activity in the UK, as well as Palestine, Kashmir, Uganda & (remotely) with displaced people in Kenya. We both live in Wales – Angie is a founder member of Lampeter Permaculture Group & Lampeter Resilience Hub and Alice is a founder member of Tyddyn Teg farm co-op. We are long established teachers with experience of engaging diverse groups of adults in accessible and dynamic ways.
Angie’s place: https://www.permaculture.org.uk/people-projects-places/project/purposeful-permaculture
A short YouTube film, part 1 (2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1Op7Fg4lDU ; part 2 (2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGeLeS9Dgg0 ; And with Morag Gamble (2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkP7nt1mD2Q&t=1588s
Alice’s place: https://tyddynteg.com/ https://www.facebook.com/tyddyntegcooperative
PERMACULTURE 1, Fri 23 to Sun 25 February. We begin at the world-renowned Centre for Alternative Technology, near Machynlleth, west Wales: www.cat.org.uk/. CAT is the longest running centre for sustainability in the UK and its focus is on demonstrating & teaching ecological ways of living, from food growing to renewables to building design and more. It is home to Zero Carbon Britain, which supports councils, communities and others to act on the climate and ecological emergency, backed up by sound research, guidance and demonstration models.
PERMACULTURE 2, Fri 22 to Sun 23 March. The second module is at the incredible natural building site, Cae Mabon, near Llanberis, north Wales, described as ‘jaw-droppingly’ beautiful; a ‘fairy-tale village’; ‘a verdant retreat from the crazy world’; a place that shows that ‘dreams can come true.’www.caemabon.co.uk. Prof Tom Woolley declared Cae Mabon the ‘number one natural building project in the UK... a Welsh Shangri-La hanging on a steep hillside with stunning views across to Snowdon...Built initially without planning permission, officialdom has been won over by its charm and magic.’
PERMACULTURE 3, Fri 19 to Sun 21 April. The third module is at Denmark Farm Conservation Centre near Lampeter, west Wales - a remarkable biodiversity restoration project (with elements of rewilding) and education centre where Angie worked for 15 years: www.denmarkfarm.org.uk . Its aim was to see whether the process of land degradation could be reversed without major inputs or capital expense, and to monitor the speed and extent of the return of wildlife – and within 10 years Denmark Farm was described as A ‘notable nature reserve’ created from ‘a very barren place’!
Organically grown local vegetable farm in Eryri. Join our box scheme or drop in to pick up some veg!
