permaculture

["permaculture@apollobay.org.au" <permaculture@apollobay.org.au>]

Hello all!

Here's some info about the upcoming courses being run in Southwest
Victoria, Australia.
The Otways PDC is the first full PDC to be run in SW Vic!!!
I think it's a mighty good program of events... I hope you do too! Please
tell me if you're interested in any of them.

Cheers!
Fern



OTWAYS PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATE COURSE
August 11th to 24th
This two week fulltime course forms the basis of permaculture learning.
Based in and around the township of Apollo Bay, this permaculture design
course has a community focus. Rather than staying on one property, we
visit many, include community events and fully delve into the social and
bioregional aspects of permaculture that help with creating sustainable &
connected communities. Totalling over 100 hours (with 72hours being
compulsory to obtain your PDC), this course has renowned and thoroughly
experienced teachers, and is far more valuable than the price asked.

INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE
August 11th & 12th
Learn about Permaculture: As a philosophy, with it's underlying ethics
'Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share' and 12 design principles. As a
vision & a design system to implement the vision. And as a movement,
that's a worldwide network of individuals and groups who are working on all
continents to implement the permaculture vision.
This 2 day Introduction to Permaculture will give you a good grounding as
to what permaculture is all about. Led by John Champagne and Phil Gall.

“POWER UP4 THE POWER DOWN!”
Early Morning Energy Sessions
With Adam (Fenderson) Grubb
& Fern Rainbow
Starting at 6am with meditation & energy maintenance exercises (own or
guided), we’ll have breakfast at 7am followed by a one hour talk on energy
literacy awareness & solutions, starting at 7.45am.
August 12th & 13th – Energy with Adam.
Tuesday August 14th – “Water within”
Wednesday Aug 15th – “Diversity needs”
Monday Aug 20th – “The Heart, connection & Communities” with Fern

SOIL & COMPOSTING
August 13th
Learn about soil, its health and how to diagnose its condition. Learn
about its structure and the biodiversity within it. Learn about making
compost and compost tea remedies that will help you grow what you wish,
reduce watering requirements and prevent diseases and fungal growth in your
plants. We’ll make a thermophilic compost on the day.

WATER & AQUACULTURE
August 14th
In the morning we’ll be looking at the function of water with Phil Gall,
water harvesting & storage methods, irrigation systems, water conservation
& erosion prevention strategies, treating & recycling waste water & natural
swimming pools.
In the afternoon, Nick Romanowski will cover all aspects of aquaculture,
the commercial & traditional systems, small to large scale systems,
freshwater polyculture, aquatic life and pond & dam construction. Held on
site on a developing permaculture property.

DIVERSITY DAY
August 15th
Diversity Day comprises of educational seminars, farm & garden tours and
practical examples.
Learn about our indigenous edible foods and fungi, about heirloom varieties
and heritage fruits, about rare breeds, trees, forest ecology and saving
seeds.
Speakers on the day include:
Kris Reinertsen (Bushfoods & fungi),
Ken & Judi Forrester (Otway Herbs)
Visiting Webber’s Heritage Fruit Farm and Otway Herbs.


WHOLE FARM PLANNING DAY
August 16th
John Champagne and Phil Gall will guide you through planning your and/or
clients farm. Learn to read the landscape, see the patterns in nature, and
understand the land (and people’s) capability. Learn how to do a site
analysis, read maps, develop a design and implement earthworks, windbreaks
& fire preventative design. Learn & discuss techniques in land restoration
such as keyline, swales, biodynamics, Peter Andrew’s NSF, remineralisation
and paramagnetism.

ESD BUILDING DESIGN & THE HOME ECONOMY
August 17th
Learn about the energy efficient design in temperate climates, site
selection and patterns in building design. Learn about energy & water
efficient systems and how to integrate these into your home & designs.
Look at healthy buildings & building material, and designing for disaster.
Phil Gall will be your tutor for the day with a field trip to an energy
efficient home in the afternoon. Home economy will cover home production &
auditing.

FIELD TRIP TO GELLIBRAND
August 19th
First we’ll journey to Gellibrand to visit Paul & Kaye’s biodynamic dairy
farm, where Paul will inform us about the homeopathic care of his cattle,
rare breeds, biodynamic methods and pasture management strategies.
We’ll visit Bob’s organic berry farm where he’ll tell us about his berry
varieties, growing then and bushfoods too, and we might also get the chance
to visit another property to learn about citrus varieties, fire design &
plant diversity.

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
August 20th & 21st
On the first day we’ll be learning about community strategies and
bioregions, economic systems that serve communities and designing
settlements to suit our needs. We’ll integrate disaster & security
planning into whole community planning and envisage what a sustainable
township would entail.
On the second day we’ll explore into intentional communities and
eco-neighbourhood developments. Looking at community governance processes,
land access & tenure, legal structures & planning, infrastructure, energy
sources & finance. Then we’ll look at potential possibilities, site
selection and reading the landscape.

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY GARDENS DAY
August 22nd
Learn about Permaculture design for the school & community garden and
conduct a site analysis and design for a community garden. Watch and help
out with the Gardenwealth Games demonstration.
Held at Apollo Bay P-12 College, the grade 5’s and the community garden
group will share with you their exciting plans for a school & community
garden. And also learn about other school & community garden projects
happening across Australia.

RARE & EXOTIC FRUITS
September 22nd
Harry Harrison will talk about growing rare & exotic fruits such as;
jujubes, dragonfruit, sapotes (all colours!), wampi, custard apples,
guavas, babaco and more! Then we’ll learn how to graft avocadoes & white
sapotes.

ADVANCED PERMACULTURE PRINCIPLES
with David Holmgren & Su Dennett
October 26th to 28th
In this intensive course, David Holmgren, co-originator of the Permaculture
concept (with Bill Mollison in 1970's) provides an insight into
permaculture as a set of design principles for reshaping how we manage
land, our lives and our livelihoods in an world of energy descent.

Using a combination of free flowing lectures, visual presentations, case
studies of his own work, structured group discussions, observation and
design exercises, David Holmgren breathes life into the design principles
which link the diversity of permaculture solutions. This 3 day format
allows participants to gain experience in using the design principles in a
small group site design exercise.

For PDC graduates wanting to expand and redesign their permaculture toolkit
for new conditions and challenges, this course provides an update on the
ongoing evolution of these permaculture principles and their applications.

For those new to permaculture but with a grounding in sustainability
concepts and strategies, this course provides access to foundational
understandings necessary to make sense of permaculture strategies and
priorities.

SUSTAINABLE FRESHWATER AQUACULTURE
with Nick Romanowski
November 22nd
Nick will take us through all aspects of Sustainable Freshwater
Aquaculture; Commercial & traditional aquaculture, planning & making ponds
& dams, water quality & technology, feeding, breeding & harvesting,
permits, aquariums, polyculture & aquatic life (fishes, plants, crayfish &
prawns,). We’ll also look into aquaponics and whether this is a genuinely
sustainable way to produce high-quality food. In the afternoon we’ll go on
a field trip to Nick Romanowski’s property & nursery “Dragonfly Aquatics”.



TUTORS:

JOHN CHAMPAGNE, permaculture teacher, activist, ABC local radio presenter,
established Brogo Permaculture Gardens over 12 years. It now serves as one
of permaculture’s best examples of cool temperate design. John is founding
member of BEND [www.bend.org.au] and facilitated the design process of the
eco-neighbourhood in Bega.

PHIL GALL has been involved with environmental and sustainability activism
since the 1970s and an early pioneer of the permaculture movement. He is a
qualified Architect, Landscape Architect, teacher and permaculture
designer. Phil was fortunate to work with PA Yeomans and has a deep
understanding of the Keyline Planning System and swale construction. His
bio is so long its difficult to condense!
He currently works in the Bega Valley designing waste water treatment
systems, ecological sustainable housing design, whole farm planning and
environmental assessment to comply with council regulations.

FERN RAINBOW is an educator, project manager and natural therapist
specialised in oriental remedial therapies. She has a design background,
and acquired her permaculture design certificate in the late 90's. A past
president of Permaculture Melbourne Inc., she founded Otways & Coast
Permaculture Group and the SW Vic. Permaculture Network, and has been
living in the Otways & Coast bioregion for the past 6 years. Since 2004,
she has organised and run a multitude of community based permaculture
workshops & events in the Otways. She has also run her own specialist
workshops at various festivals (National Fiddle Festival, Apollo Bay Music
Festival) and at schools & education centres.

ADAM (FENDERSON) GRUBB founded Energy Bulletin <www.energybulletin.net >, an
online peak oil and sustainability news clearinghouse, supported by the
Post Carbon Institute, that receives about 500,000 visits per month. He was
also a key player in the “Greening the Apocalypse” sustainability
skill-sharing workshops and the Permablitz network.
Adam completed a permaculture design certificate (PDC) with David Holmgren
in 2004 and then another a year later with Bill Mollison & Geoff Lawton and
has recently completed studies at Southern Cross University with Dr. Elaine
Ingham in soil health & microbiology.
A self-described energy nerd, fermentation obsessive, and sustainability
skill sharer, he takes a break from caretaking Holmgren’s permaculture
property “Melliodora”, to share his knowledge of energy literacy in the
“Power Up4 the Power Down” early morning energy sessions, and to help on
the Introduction to permaculture and soils workshop for the Otways PDC
course.

NICK ROMANOWSKI is the foremost aquaculture specialist in Australia. Not
only is Nick a wealth of knowledge and practical experience, he is also a
fantastic teacher. A biologist who has worked with aquatic plants and
animals for well over thirty years, from managing a wholesale aquarium to
commercial breeding and propagation. He has written extensively on wetlands
and plants for habitat and water treatment, and has a particular interest
in the environmental impacts of aquaculture. UNSW press released Nick's 9th
book "Sustainable Freshwater Aquaculture" earlier this year.

KEN & JUDI FORRESTER run Otway Herbs biodynamic nursery. Ken is a
specialist in trees, agroforestry and forest ecology. Judi & Ken has
collected and propagated plants from all over the world. Their range,
diversity & knowledge of plants is legendary.

KRIS REINERTSEN is our local bushfoods and fungi guru.

HARRY HARRISON is president of the Rare Fruits Society of South Australia.
He is a wealth of knowledge and practical experience.






DAVID HOLMGREN is best known as the co-originator with Bill Mollison of the
permaculture concept following the publication of "Permaculture One" in
1978. Since then he has written several more books, developed three
properties using permaculture principles, conducted workshops and courses
in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Japan and North America. Within the
growing and international permaculture movement, David is respected for his
commitment to presenting permaculture ideas through practical projects and
teaching by personal example. He shows by example that a sustainable
lifestyle is a realistic, attractive and powerful alternative to dependant
consumerism. As well as constant involvement in the practical side of
permaculture, David is passionate about the philosophical and conceptual
foundations for sustainability, which are highlighted in his latest book,
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability. With this book
already on its third print run, and his increasingly prominent profile as a
public speaker, David provides leadership with his refreshing and
unorthodox approach to the environmental issues of our time.

David Holmgren lives with his partner Su Dennett and their son Oliver at
“Melliodora”, a one hectare permaculture demonstration site at Hepburn
Springs, Central Victoria, Australia













SUSTAINABLE CULTURE NETWORK
Originating from the permaculture movement and based on David Holmgren’s
“Permaculture Flower”, the Sustainable Culture Network aim is to help
create a network of sustainable & connected communities and to support &
promote sustainable cultural practises.
Contact: Fern Rainbow ph: 0425 710 380
permaculture@apollobay.org.au


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