Jun 2023 – Sustainable Farming – 4 Day Permaculture Workshop

We are happy to announce a 4-day workshop on sustainable farming and permaculture principles from Thursday 29th June, 2023 to Sunday 2nd July, 2023. The program is intended for anyone interested in growing food and is designed to provide a good understanding of the principles and methods involved in sustainable farming.  The program will have a significant focus on hands-on work backed by theory sessions that will cover the underlying principles. Topics covered will include permaculture principles, getting started with a piece of land, water harvesting and earthworks, low to zero input organic farming methods, understanding soil, pest management, composting, seed saving, plant nurseries and vegetable starts, water harvesting, food forests etc.

• Permaculture principles and getting started with a piece of land
• Water harvesting and earth works
• Soil sciences and managing soils sustainably
• Plant sciences and sustainable growing principles
• Organic farming and natural farming methods
• Vegetable farming and grain farming
• Nurseries and starts
• Integrated pest management
• Seed saving
• Key agricultural issues

Each of the days have approximately 50% theory class room sessions and 50% hands on field work. The specific schedule will be drawn up as we get closer to the date in order to model the field work around the prevailing weather. This is a residential program and typically will involve sessions from 8am to 6pm and then a short post-dinner session from 8.30pm to 9.30pm on each of the days.

Participants will be required to arrive on Wednesday evening (Jun 28th) or by 8am on Thursday (Jun 29th) at the latest. The sessions will begin at 9.00am on Thursday and end at 4 pm on Sunday Jul 2nd.