East Kent Permaculture Gathering Sunday 1st October 2-5pm

 

Permaculture Intro course at Pines 21/22 May 2022

 

Kent Permaculture - 1st May Open day at the Abbey Physic Garden in Faversham

 

A great way to start 2015: Forest Gardening course

Sat 31st Jan- Sun 1st Feb 2015 Forest Gardening Course. KENT

The weekend will be led by Jo Barker and Claire White, both experienced Forest Garden Designers and teachers who have worked on various projects, ranging from Farm scale design and implementation, community projects and home gardens. Examples of their designs will be available on the course.

To Book & more information contact:
Shavanna Barker <shavannabarker@yahoo.co.uk>
- See more at: http://www.projectdirt.com/apps/event/30395/#sthash.n5H4EmYT.dpuf

The course will cover:
• Origins & principles of forest gardening.
• Perennial food growing,
• Design with trees, shrubs and ground cover.
• Implementation of design and aftercare.

This course is open to all, no previous experience is necessary to attend, forest gardening attracts interest from experienced gardeners and professionals as well as newcomers. There will be practical sessions (mulching) and design exercises. We will be outdoors for much of the course and might be visiting other sites, if you have a disability that you think may affect your ability to attend the course, please contact us before booking to discuss how you can be accommodated.

By the end of the course you will have a basic knowledge of the ideas and principles of forest gardening as well as understanding some of the techniques necessary to put the theory into practice.

Canterbury Eco Screening 19th June

Our colleagues at Transition Canterbury has its next Eco Screening  on Weds 19 June 6 - 9pm in Chives Café on the top floor of Waterstones on St Margaret's St, Canterbury.

We will be showing the film Permaculture: The Growing Edge - and having a discussion about it afterwards.
£3 or £2 concessions

Food and drink available
Everyone welcome - come with your friends!

Rippledown Permaculture Intro course Nov

Introduction to Permaculture @ Rippledown 
(just outside of Deal - Ringwould)
Three Day Weekend course

Learn to live more sustainably. This introductory course will give you a ‘taster’ of how permaculture design and principles can be applied to your own life and work.

Date(s)
Friday–Sunday 9-11 November 2012

Cost
Residential £175 including all meals & refreshments
Non-residential £135 includes lunch & refreshments

http://rippledown.com/eco-courses-kent/introduction-to-permaculture/

Permaculture at Rippledown

Places are still available on Rippledown's INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE course 7-9th September and a full PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE taking place over four weekends this autumn and winter. 

Led by Steve Charter

Go to www.rippledown.com for more information and to book

Intro Permaculture Course at Rippledown Sept

Our colleagues at the Rippledown Environmental Education Centre at Ringwould nr Deal have 'Introduction to Permaculture Course' coming up soon.

The Course is an exciting, involving and thought provoking way to get a good understanding of the world of permaculture.

It  is on 7th to 9th September and cost's £135

Full details at the Rippledown site www.rippledown.com

Rippledown Permaculture Courses

Rippledown, our local environmental education centre at Ringwould outside Deal, is running a set permaculture courses this year.

The courses include a two day introduction course plus a full design certificate course.
 
http://rippledown.com/permaculture-courses/

Permaculture in East Kent

Kent Permaculture Courses 2012

The Ultimate training for Transition!

There are lots of brilliant courses happening in Canterbury, Faversham and Deal by trained and experienced teachers.
Learn sustainable living skills, feel empowered to live more abundantly living more ecolologically.


For All courses look at the Permaculture association website.
http://www.permaculture.org.uk/courses


Canterbury- Manor Barn. Centre for Peace and Personal Development
Introduction to Permaculture Weekend 12/13th May Manor Barn
Permaculture Design Course 12th May to 11th November
Part 1 Core theory, tools and applications. May 12th to 18th
Part 2 Permaculture in Action. Tour to Centre of Alternative Technology and other established projects
Part 3 Design weekends Sept 7/9th and Nov 9-11th
PDC : www.designedvisions.com
All other courses: www.livingincircles.com / www.dynamic-equilibrium.co.uk


Faversham- Rifleman Cottage
Permaculture Design Course 7-21st July
www.designedvisions.com


Deal - Rippledown Environmental Centre
Introduction to Permaculture Weekend 12-13th March
Introduction to Permaculture Weekend 18-20th May
Family Permaculture Design Course 4-19th August
Permaculture Design Course Sept 7-9th , Oct 12-14th, Nov9-11th, Dec7-9th
www.rippledown.com
 

Jo Barker Dip Perm Des
Permaculture & Life Tracking
.....Love your Life, Love your Land.....

www.dynamic-equilibrium.co.uk / 01227 832569

DWI Permaculture Meeting April 2011

We had a small but perfectly engrossed audience for our monthly Deal With It meeting on Permaculture.

Dave Jones, the Head of Rippledown Environmental Centre at Ringwould, gave a clear and inspiring outline on how permaculture works to transform individuals and communities.

Behind the jargon there is much which people would recognise and with  'recovered' skills and knowledge on how we interact with nature gives a real way to live your life in a sustainable way. It was great fun and there was lively discussion. The Garden Sharers in the audience were very taken with digging-less future!

Rippledown have a open 'fun' day on Sunday the 5th June. Deal With IT will also be promoting the Centre's 2 day and 72hr courses on Permaculture amongst supporters later in the year.

A big thank you to Dave for a informative and energizing talk.

Permaculture meeting 26th April

Deal With It is fortunate to our local permaculture expert, Dave Jones, from the Rippledown Environmental Centre to talk to us in April with a 'Brief introduction to Permaculture'.

The meeting is Tuesday 26th April at 7:30
at Dealability, 43 Victoria Road Deal CT14 7AY
All Welcome

Permaculture Course at Rippledown Environmental Centre

Introduction to Permaculture

Date: 26/27 March
Location: Rippledown
£210
Learn how to use permaculture principles and practice for your own life, your workplace and your community. Rippledown is our local environmental educational centre at Ringwould just outside Deal, in East Kent.

Contact Rippledown here

Permaculture Course in Faversham

Live the Green Dream in a Day!!!
A Permaculture / Transition event
Saturday November 13th, Nr Faversham

•    See inside an eco adapted house and lifestyle
•    Consider your own next steps towards self reliance
•    Learn tools for solving human problems, big & small
•    Enjoy good food and like minded company

Cost only £25 including light lunch & refreshments
Contact Jo www.Dynamic-equilibrium.co.uk 01227 832569 / or John www.riflemancottage.co.uk 01795 521638

For anyone interested in sustainable living

Permaculture - Courses at Rippledown

Permaculture Course Rippledown Environmental Education Centre, just outside Deal on the A258 at Ringwould, is running two Permaculture weekend courses this Autumn on the 23–24th of October and the 20–21st of November.

Attend these 2 days and leave with the skills and aptitudes for sustainable living in the 21st century.
During the course you’ll learn how to use permaculture principles and practice a) in your own life, b) to contribute to the processes in the Transition Towns / Village movement, c) for community projects and d) to improve sustainability in your workplace.

The course also covers eco-building, sustainable energy, sewage, composting, eco-community, appropriate economics and much more.

For more information please contact Rippledown on 01304 364 854.

Victoria's Green Matters - 24th May

Deal With IT's Secretary Victoria Nicholls writes a regular column in the East Kent Mercury:

What is ‘permaculture’? One definition is that it is ‘ an innovative framework for creating sustainable ways of living; a practical method for developing ecologically harmonious, efficient and productive systems that can be used by anyone, anywhere.’

This definition sounds very scientific and unattainable by the person in the street but the last two words tell us that we can all work towards a world that is not reliant on oil based chemicals. It was first conceived in the 1970s at the time of the first oil crisis and called ‘permanent agriculture’.  The idea of moving away from annual cropping and monoculture to a multi-layered approach that made use of trees and perennial plants was developed in agriculture and soon spread throughout society, being seen as a culture of permanence.

Of course, permaculture was looked upon as an odd form of gardening, recycling old car tyres and growing strange plants that no-one wanted to eat and that few would want to follow but now we have reached peak oil, the principles of permaculture more than fit this different, future world.

Our agriculture has become reliant on chemical fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides produced from oil, and over time these chemicals have destroyed the natural nutrients in the soil and effectively made the soil dead. They have destroyed the habitats of many beneficial creatures that we should work with, not against, to produce our food. Many people believe that the cocktail of chemicals delivered to our fields has helped to put the lives of our bees in jeopardy, and so food production may be even more threatened.

Permaculture is not just a way of growing things, although this is more than a good start. If you have even the smallest space you can grow some things to eat and in so doing have the great satisfaction in knowing that you have helped make a better world.

Permaculture - What is it and why is it relevant to your life ?

‘Permaculture’ is cropping up all over the place at the moment from Gardeners Question Time to BBC’s Dig programmes.

At its core it is about living lightly on the planet, and making sure that we can sustain human activities for many generations to come, in harmony with nature.

Want to find out more ?

We will have a speaker & a short film at our next monthly meeting.

Tuesday 25th May at 7:30pm
DealAbility, 43 Victoria Road, Deal CT14 7AY 

Copy of meeting leaflet can be found Here

http://www.permaculture.org.uk/