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Permaculture Design Course Rocklyn Ashram
Permaculture Design Course Rocklyn Ashram
Friday 22 February – Saturday 9 March 2019
Are you looking to live a more sustainable life?
Become less dependent on big business and supermarkets?
Design a resilient system in the face of growing uncertainties?
Retrofit your house, your community
Meet like-minded people?
This is a fully residential, fully catered course running over 15 days with a short break in the middle. This is a completely immersive experience.
The course will be structured around Holmgren’s 12 permaculture
principles (detailed in Permaculture: principles and pathways beyond sustainability) principles (detailed in Permaculture: principles and pathways beyond sustainability) and goes beyond land-based design, bringing permaculture to all aspects of human living.
The venue
The course will take place at the Rocklyn Ashram, nestled in the Wombat Forest near Daylesford in Central Victoria. Only a one and a half hour drive from Melbourne, you will feel like you are in another world. Beautiful and quiet, this special space creates an ideal learning environment.
Taking part in the ashram’s daily yoga program can further enhance your learning and enrich your experience. The ashram environment exemplifies and provides an experience of living by permaculture ethics. The serene and spiritual focus of the ashram complements the mindfulness of permaculture practice and reminds us to balance our activity and think with reflection.
At times the ashram program and the intensity of the course can seem challenging, however almost all of the
The food
Delicious, wholesome and ethical meals will be prepared by Su Dennett and the ashram’s kitchen volunteers. Su will make sure that what you eat meets permaculture standards. Items will be sourced from local organic and
The accommodation
Accommodation is camping in the
grounds of the ashram. You will need to BYO tent and gear. Alternatively you can choose to stay in a
course, but it is recommended you read the Essence of Permaculture if you have not yet done so. All other titles and writings by David Holmgren are highly recommended for those who have read Essence already. Please have a look through our online store or visit your local library.
Tutors
You will learn from the co-founder of permaculture, David Holmgren, and a team of excellent permaculture practitioners and educators. Their depth of practical and theoretical knowledge will make this a very special PDC. There will also be opportunities to
Prerequisites?
There are no prerequisites for this
Course content
This course will equip you with the foundations of permaculture.
You will learn permaculture ethics, principles and design,
and their application across the domains, so that you
can integrate them into all aspects of your life.
Topics include:
- permaculture ethics and principles
- ecology and natural cycles
- weather and climates
- soils
- permaculture food growing
- energy literacy
- reading the landscape
- appropriate technology
- built environment
- design processes and practices
- animals in permaculture
- health and spiritual wellbeing
- urban retrofitting
- finance and economics
- community strategies
The classroom experience will be complemented by field trips to working permaculture farms, homes and gardens including one
of the
You will work on a design project of part of the ashram during the course. You will be guided by experienced tutors and learn the fundamentals of permaculture to design the world you want.
Course Registration
The course size is limited to 26 students so you will need to book early.
Cost including full board is $2,400, but all you need is the $500 deposit to secure your place now,
and pay the balance by Friday 25 January 2019.
Please read the Ashram Lifestyle Information page before enrolling.
