Friday 11th August, 2023

Follow your passion and immerse yourself in this Modular Permaculture Design Course held in the beautiful Byron Shire. This course runs over a number of weekends. 🌱

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Friday 11th August, 2023

We will explore the foundations of Permaculture, where ecological understanding meets modern design, where science meets the arts and traditional knowledge systems.🍃

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Saturday 12th August, 2023

Explore a range of simple plant propagation techniques including cuttings, root division and seed raising to allow you to grow a range of plants for your garden in a simple and cost effective manner. 👩🏾‍🌾

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Sunday 13th August, 2023

The fundamentals of Permaculture design theory and practice. Explore how the elements of nature – earth, water, air and fire – define the unique conditions and opportunities of any site.✏️

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Monday 21st August, 2023

Native bees are fascinating creatures that are important pollinators and are vital to increasing fruit and vegetable yield. 🐝

Learn how to create a haven for bees in your garden, providing year round nectar, pollen and building materials that solitary bees need.

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Sunday 27th August, 2023

Learn to make a spreadable cheese, a béchamel cheesy pasta sauce, parmesan and a feta style cheese, as well as almond mylk and almond flour. Discover how to add different flavours to your cheeses using cashews, walnuts, almonds, macadamias, Brazil nuts and seeds.

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Saturday 16th September, 2023

Did you know that native animals like birds, frogs, lizards, and dragon flies are fantastice for catching insects like grasshoppers and caterpillars that eat our valuable garden produce. Come and learn how to attract them to your garden 🐛🦗

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Saturday 2nd September, 2023.

Come along to learn about various earthen building materials such as straw bales, cob, mud bricks & light earth during a combination of class time and hands on time. Please come wearing clothes that can get muddy!🤲

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Sunday 12th November, 2023

This workshop introduces potential bee keepers to the delight and fascination of this rewarding hobby. The session covers safety, myth busting, hands-on bee keeping (Steve will bring along a beehive), legal requirements and the most important thing – how to get started!🐝

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Friday 8th September, 2023

Get to know your own soil – what is it made of, what will grow well in it and how you can improve your soil to make the most of what it has to offer.🌱

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Saturday 9th September, 2023

Learn how to design, establish and care for your own diverse, tree based food production system in a low maintenance fashion that works with natures fundamental processes of land and soil repair.🌳

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Sunday 10th September, 2023

Explore a comprehensive range of Organic Gardening techniques including composting, crop rotation, companion planting and natural pest and disease management.🌱

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Saturday 16th September, 2023

An introduction into the wonderful world of plant identification, become familiar with some of our local rainforest species and unique bush tucker.

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Friday 13th October 2023

Learn how to incorporate animals into the design of your garden or food production system to increase its overall abundance, simplify management and optimise the health and productivity of your chickens, cows and other animals.🐓

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Saturday 14th October, 2023

Explore some of the latest innovations in green building techniques and materials, site layout, biophilic design, home ecology, house and village design, including tiny houses.🏠

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Sunday 15th October, 2023

Learn how to work with water in the landscape, exploring theoretical and practical examples of water harvesting, catching, storing and irrigation, changing our mindset from draining to ‘sponging’ water INTO the landscape.💦

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Friday 20th October 2023

Learn how to transform your backyard into an edible landscape that is productive and beautiful using permaculture principles.

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Friday 27th October, 2023

Learn social permaculture design and how to cultivate humans to be effective and thrive together. Explore ideas around collaborative governance, social enterprise, community living & integrated permaculture living.

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Saturday 28th October, 2023

This course is for students completing the Permaculture Design Course only. You must complete all the other PDC modules before you can enrol in this subject.✏️

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Sunday 29th October 2023.

This course is for students completing the Permaculture Design Course only. You must complete all the other PDC modules before you can enrol in this subject.🌳

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Saturday 25th November, 2023

Learn to identify and control a range of common weeds, pests and diseases of food crops through holistic, ecologically sensitive management techniques and the importance of soil management.

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Sunday 26th November, 2023

This course is for students completing the Permaculture Design Course only. You must complete all the other PDC modules before you can enrol in this subject.📚

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New dates to be added soon!

Want to inspire others to learn about permaculture? Join us for a seven-day intensive teacher training course that’s been designed to empower you to become an effective and creative permaculture teacher.

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Become and expert on effeciently planting, growing and harvesting your own perennial vegetables. Learn best practices techniques for storing, preserving and importantly.…cooking your home grown goodness.

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Thursday 12th October, 2023

Growing your own herbs, vegetables and fruit trees can be a rewarding and exciting experience. This course provides you with a mix of practical information and hands-on experience to achieve great results.🥕

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Gain an understanding of the soil food web! The microscopic world that forms soils, and feeds and protects plants.

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2024 dates coming soon!

Permaculture is a richly rewarding career, where you can immerse yourself in sustainable living and organic farming practices. 🌱

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This course is offered through Byron Region Community College RTO:90013

2024 dates coming soon!

Are you interested in learning permaculture skills to help make lives, homes and communities more sustainable? 🌱

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This course is offered through Byron Region Community College RTO:90013

Friday 8th September, 2023

Learn how to create beautiful baskets using natural fibres from plants that grow around us. You will learn how to recognise, gather and prepare local plants for weaving then be shown basic weaving techniques.🌾

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This hands on course will take you through the process of building a back yard oven made from clay & other earthen materials. These ovens can be scaled in size and used to cook wood fired pizzas, breads, crock pots and so much more! 🍕

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2023 dates soon to be released!

Learn how to make green cleaning products with simple ingredients that are easily found in your kitchen pantry. Helping to reduce the toxic load within the environment and improving everyone’s health🌿

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2023 dates soon to be released

Want to diversify your garden and experiment with unusual perennial vegetables? Learn techniques for growing, harvesting and processing perennial vegetables.

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2023 dates soon to be released!

Handmade eco soap is the most ethical soap you can make. The secret to success is using used cooking oil. This hands-on course will give you the skills and knowledge to safely make natural and sustainable soap at home.🧼

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2023 dates soon to be released!

This course will introduce you to local and traditional plants which provide a harvest of dye or fibre materials and teach you how to grow your own.🌸

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2023 dates soon to be released!

Partnering with worms to create healthy soil makes eco-sense. In this workshop, you will learn how to make a worm farm, how to care for the worms and how to work with worm leachate (juice) and castings. ✨

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2023 dates soon to be released!

Join Don Corben and Jules Hartmann in this hands-on workshop, where we share our knowledge and skills from years of experience working with this amazing material. We will be building an 8 meter bamboo yurt, creating a usable, undercover area that is both beautiful and sustainable.

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2023 dates soon to be released!

In this hands-on course you will create low tox beauty and body products for different personal needs. Every product is created with a conscious effort to support your wellbeing and the environment.🌷

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2023 dates soon to be released!

This course offers a holistic approach to weed management, introduced plants, their identification and roles in the ecological restoration process focusing on soil health.

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2023 dates soon to be released!

In this course, you will learn how to use whole-systems thinking strategies to create a living-learning laboratory where children can play, eat healthily and understand nature. 🐝

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2023 dates soon to be released!

In this short course you will learn how to harvest good quality bamboo and treat it for longevity. How to grow different species of bamboo and maintain bamboo clumps to make your harvest easier. Once harvested you will learn basic craft techniques like lashing and splitting.🎋

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2023 dates soon to be released!

Build on the skills learnt in Bamboo Basics Part 1. You’ll delve deeper into the 1001 multifunctional uses for this incredible renewable resource and master the basics of designing to build with bamboo🎋

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2023 dates soon to be released!

In this short course you will learn how to determine the quality of your waterway and gain knowledge and experience to take steps to fix it, in the process restoring aquatic plant and animal life, drawing down some carbon and healing the planet.🐠

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