Life at Zaytuna – PDC Students Given Design Brief
Courses/Workshops, Land — by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor July 6, 2009
Yasaman surveys with the laser level
We’re halfway through our latest Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course, and the students appear to be learning a lot as well as having a lot of fun along the way.
Comments (2)Life at Zaytuna – June 2009 PDC Begins
Courses/Workshops, News — by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor June 30, 2009
A lily blooms on the dam. Photos copyright © Craig Mackintosh
In between classes, students get to enjoy the beautiful environs at Zaytuna.
What better way to stimulate the mind on the topic at hand: how to work with nature.
This year we’re running less courses than usual, only because we hope to soon concentrate on the construction of several new straw bale student cabins that will improve facilities and enlarge capacity for subsequent courses. But, our scheduled June Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course has just got underway and is off to a great start.
Comments (1)Southern Baja – Unique and Universal Water Challenges
Conservation, Courses/Workshops, Demonstration Sites, Developments, Education Centres, News, Water Harvesting — by Andrew Jones June 6, 2009
The Baja Peninsula forms an unusual geographic feature – running about 800 miles as the crow flies from the Mexico/California border at Tijuana down to the holiday and fishing port of Cabo San Lucas on the southern tip.
Comments (0)Following up on PRI USA’s First PDC on Molokai
Courses/Workshops, Demonstration Sites, Developments, Education Centres, News — by Jill Ross June 1, 2009
by Jill Ross, Co-host/Lunch Lady
Yes, it’s official! April 11th, on the beautiful island of Molokai, the Permaculture Research Institute USA completed its first Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course. With the enthusiasm of a student himself, instructor Andrew Jones passed out certificates to 13 budding permaculturists.
PDC students, instructor and convenors
Compost & Compost Tea Workshop
Compost, Courses/Workshops, Rehabilitation — by Kym Kruse May 15, 2009
A workshop in the utilization of local “waste” in providing all the required nutrients for productive systems, with Paul Taylor.
FarmReady Approved Course ID# FRTC0185
July 18th – July 19th 2009. 09:00-17:00 with lunch break
Malanda • Atherton Tablelands • Far North Queensland
$265 for 2 Days Incl. Morning & Afternoon Tea & Lunch
Topics include:
- Making “backyard compost”
- The principles of compost tea
- Compost tea brewers
- Creating beneficial soil biology
- Making commercial amounts of high-value compost from dairy and feedlot waste, using a tractor driven compost turner
- and much more….
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn the benefits of a management system based in beneficial soil biology from compost. Use less water and reduce your need of fertilizer!
Click here for a PDF with full details on the course.
Comments (2)PDC in Ghana – August 2009
Courses/Workshops — by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor April 27, 2009
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10th to 22nd August 2 Week Course Jo- Chris – Ma – Hotel, Graduate with Accredited $905 Ghana Cedis (inc. Snacks, Lunch) Strictly limited numbers Click here for full details (PDF) |
Women’s Only PDC in Far North Queensland with Rosemary Morrow
Courses/Workshops — by Kym Kruse April 20, 2009
Sunday 29th November – Sunday 13th December 2009
Walkamin • Near Cairns • Far North Queensland
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to take part in a very special two week Women’s Only Permaculture Design Certificate Course, taught by one of the best, internationally renowned teachers in the world. Rosemary is the acclaimed author of “The Earth Users Guide to Permaculture” and a role model for all aspiring female Permaculturists. This rare Women’s Only event promises to be an opportunity not to be missed. The course will incorporate intensive theory and practice in all aspects of Permaculture Design. This course is being held at FreeRange Permaculture’s demonstration site “Rosella Waters”, a stunning 6 acres situated right on the banks of the Barron River.
Click here for full details (226kb PDF).
Comments (3)Calling for Volunteers for IPC9 and the Permaculture Centre, Malawi, Africa
Conferences, Courses/Workshops, Developments, News, Presentations/Demonstrations, Project Positions, Social Gatherings — by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor April 17, 2009
The ninth International Permaculture Conference (IPC) and Convergence is inching closer. Previous conferences have been held in Australia, USA, New Zealand, Scandinavia, Nepal, Croatia and Brazil. This time it will run from November 2-6 in Malawi, Africa (Kumbali Village, Lilongwe), and will include site tours of Permaculture projects in Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
The theme for IPC9 is "Plan Africa – Food & Empowerment".
There are a few volunteer positions for this event that need filling. If you’ll be free during this period and would like to help make the IPC9 a success for the people of Africa and the wider international community by getting constructively involved in this exciting work, please click here (PDF) to read about these interesting posts and to find out how to apply.
Comments (2)Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton Team Up for Melbourne PDC Again!
Courses/Workshops — by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor April 4, 2009
For full details on this excellent opportunity to take your Permaculture Design Certificate course under the combined tutelage of legendary Permaculture teachers, Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton, please click on the links below (all PDF files):
This information can also be found in our course listing.
Comments (2)PRI Training Centre Development Plans Approved
Aid Projects, Courses/Workshops, Demonstration Sites, Developments, Education Centres, News — by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor
 Zaytuna Farm |
Good news people! We’ve just received local council approval on our development plans, which means we can move forward with our intention to improve the facilities and increase the capacity of our Permaculture training facility at PRI headquarters at Zaytuna Farm, close to The Channon village, in Northern NSW, Australia.
Up until now, accommodation for courses has been camping only, and facilities have been somewhat rudimentary. Once this development is complete we’ll have improved facilities for the campsite and five straw bale cabins as well!
I’ll put the design plans below so you can check ‘em out.
Comments (7)Carbon Economy & Farming Courses USA 2009
Courses/Workshops — by Darren Doherty March 15, 2009
We are pleased to announce another world 1st! We have designed and organised three ‘Carbon Farming Courses’ and one ‘Carbon Economy Course’ to be convened across the US during 2009.
The course modules include: Holistic Management, Soil Food Web, Broadacre Permaculture, ZERI, Fungi, BioChar, Energy Systems, Natural Building and Pathways to Relocalisation.
To deliver these modules we have some of the world’s most experienced and respected facilitators and practitioners including:
Comments (0)Jordan PDC Course Announcement
Aid Projects, Community Projects, Courses/Workshops, Demonstration Sites — by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor March 13, 2009
Permaculture Research Institute Australia and the newly established Permaculture Research Institute Jordan are please to announce PRI Jordan’s first Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course to be taught in the Dead Sea Valley, Jordan October 10 to the 23rd. This is near the site of the legendary Greening the Desert project.
Your attendance at this course will help subsidise the education of local Jordanians, and also go towards the sending of a local representative body to the International Permaculture Convergence Summit of 2009 held in Southern Africa. Among the goals of this trip will be to lobby for the International Permaculture Convergence of 2011 to be held in Jordan with the theme of conflict resolution through sustainable community solutions.
Comments (1)Extra Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course Just Added
Courses/Workshops — by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor February 26, 2009
Just in case you missed it, we’ve now added yet another Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course to the schedule for 2009. This one runs from June 27 through to July 11.
Check out the full details here, and browse our other courses here (we have a bunch of courses now, ranging from weekend gardening courses, six-day project aid worker training courses and more!).
Comments (1)Report on our Iranian Consultancy Trip of December 2008
Aid Projects, Compost, Conservation, Courses/Workshops, Dams, Developments, Earth Banks, Gabions, Land, News, Plant Systems, Rehabilitation, Soil Conservation, Soil Erosion & Contamination, Swales, Trees, Water Harvesting — by Geoff Lawton February 24, 2009
Editor’s Note: Iran has been making headlines in the media a great deal over the last few years. Here’s a side to the story you don’t normally get to hear, as experienced by our own Geoff Lawton.
We are applying Permaculture techniques to restore the landscape
in the hottest place on the planet
In December 2008 it was our great pleasure and honour to be invited to Iran to work for the Forest Rangeland Watershed Management Organisation, originally formed in 1928 (see Word doc on their work here). We were working with different departments of the organisation, like the Sand Dune Fixation Department that was formed in 1958 for the Bureau of Desert Affairs. All of this falls under the central government’s main organisation of Jihad Agriculture Ministry. We were invited to teach a 10-day Permaculture course focusing mainly on desert rehabilitation.
Comments (9)Last Chance!
Courses/Workshops — by Kym Kruse February 16, 2009
 Rosella Waters |
This is your last chance to secure a spot in FreeRange Permaculture’s March PDC, to be taught by the incomparable Darren Doherty. Darren, fresh back from the land of the long white cloud New Zealand, will be teaching his final PDC in Australia for some time. This is your last chance to catch him before he heads off on a world wide teaching tour for the remainder of 2009. We’re very happy he’s chosen to visit us in the Far North as his last port of call!
Our Permaculture demonstration site is Rosella Waters, located near the thriving international tourist city of Cairns. The 2.38H property is situated in Walkamin, on the edge of what is locally known as the “jump-up”, the aftermath of an ancient lava flow. At an elevation of close to 600 meters above sea level and with over 1000mm of rainfall per year, it has a unique climate within our wet tropics region. The property is fronted by 194 meters of the Barron River, which flows year round and is the major river in the region.
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