NEW: Day registrations include Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner for $100 ( and staying the night, with own bedding, if you wish )
Registrations now closed, please contact Lorraine retreat@temoata.org to go on waiting list.
Our 14-day intensive residential Permaculture Design Course. This Course fulfils the standard requirements of the international permaculture curriculum.
Permaculture is a design system for sustainable living and land use; it is the harmonious integration of landscape, people & appropriate technologies to provide food, shelter, energy & other needs in a sustainable way. Permaculture is built upon an ethic of caring for the earth & working with nature. Trish Allen and Daniel Tohill are outstanding and award-winning permaculture leaders and teachers.
Students have the chance to get fully immersed in the permaculture way of thinking and acting and invited to bring details of their own or potential sites.
No prior knowledge or experience is necessary, but the course is also suitable for experienced gardeners. To view course content click: PDC Outline of topics & reading list.
For your interest, here is the 2020 Course outline and timetable
Te Moata is the perfect place for a winter residential Permaculture course. Off the grid, rustic comfortable accommodation, roaring fires, delicious vegetarian food, inspiring teachers, and a fun cohort of students of all ages. The gardens and orchard are designed by previous PDCs. The programme includes a fun day trip to fantastic permaculture properties in the area, and a day off to enjoy Hot Water Beach and Cathedral Cove.
The course will:
- Cover sustainable living systems for a wide variety of landscapes and climates
- Give students an understanding of the ethics, principles, and patterns of permaculture design
- Convey an understanding of a wide range of common strategies and techniques
- Include the application of permaculture principles to food production, home design, construction, energy efficiency, waste recycling & alternative economic structures
- Explore the implications of social change towards ecological sustainability
- Assist each student to access the resources required to actively take the course philosophy and methodology into their future life
To secure a single room you need to register early, request a single room on your registration form and pay the full fee.
Accommodation – Rooms are mainly curtained cubicles with shared bathrooms. A limited number of single rooms/cottages are available at a $10 a day surcharge. Bedding can be hired for $15.00.
Meals – The kitchen team, led by Te Moata’s fabulous French chef will provide delicious and nutritious vegetarian meals. Please indicate on the registration form if you have any food allergies or special dietary needs. There is a $10 per day surcharge to cater for special diets.
Please note: Single accommodation, Bedding and Special Diet Surcharges are payable directly to Te Moata so please bring cash for this.
ABOUT THE TUTORS:
Trish Allen
Trish and her late husband Joe Polaischer founded the iconic, award-winning Rainbow Valley Farm in 1988 on permaculture principles and ethics. The farm inspired thousands of people over 25 years in sustainable living and demonstrated the principles of permaculture in action. Trish has now moved on and established a village-scale model of permaculture and shares her knowledge by teaching permaculture related courses and workshops. Read more about Trish and her incredible life story here: https://www.localmatters.co.nz/news/28828-local-folk-trish-allen.html
Daniel Tohill
Daniel is an award-winning landscape architect who has worked as a designer of permaculture landscapes, farms, forests, houses, etc for the last 25yrs. He lives with his family in a straw bale house with a biological natural swimming pool right outside the back door! Daniel designed and built both on their permaculture farm on the Kaipara Harbour, New Zealand. Daniel does design, consultancy and implementation work throughout the country and aboard. Daniel also teaches the Permaculture Design Certificate here on the Coromandel and in Japan. Daniel is interested in doing more aid work through out the world, teaching and connecting/working with New Zealand farmers in their efforts to become more productive in an environmentally sustainable way.
The 2019 offering of the course at Te Moata was reviewed in the June 4th Mercury Bay Informer Community Newspaper (July 4th 2019) – read it here:
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Trish and Dan and the Te Moata students from 2018
Testimonial from Claire, a Graduate from the 2019 PDC course at Te Moata:
The Permaculture Design Course at Te Moata is a wonderful opportunity for people familiar with, or new to permaculture principles. It offers a broad approach to creating integrated systems which respond to and work with nature informed by observation, analysis and reflection. Wonderfully, these can be applied on personal, community or global scale in any environment. Theory was thoughtfully structured and presented in very accessible ways and creative opportunities were provided for practicing our new learning.
Trish and Daniel presented new ways of looking at the world around us and gave encouragement to try these new ideas and practices in our lives and communities. They brought their depth and breadth of experience to share with the group. Their teaching was warm, generous and insightful..spread with gentle humour.
Trish and Daniel are very skilled facilitators and our group bonded quickly and gently. It was wonderful to be part of a group with shared values and purpose, holding a range of ages and experiences, enjoying a lot of laughter and some deep discussions. I left feeling renewed hope and with practical resources to respond to the challenges of living on Earth in 2019. I was moved and inspired by the generosity of Permaculture itself, our teachers and group.
Te Moata, both the place and people are a huge part of this experience. Again warmth and generosity were evident in every detail….the space, meals, service team, communication. This place provides for both contemplation and connection in the most exquisite, replenishing setting.
Feedback from other course graduates:
What a wonderful 2 weeks on this PDC. Words can’t express how grateful I am. – Lily
Thanks so much Trish for your wisdom, humour and energy on the PDC course. – John
I had a life-changing 2 weeks and am super-grateful. – Josh
Dan and Trish were absolutely fantastic, both quality teachers and compassionate people. – Amber
Trish, you have delivered on all levels on this PDC. How you live your life and teach is inspiring. – Lyn
Thank you, your teachings were clear, well supported with material and inspiring. – Nina
Thank you Trish for your wisdom and for what you share on this PDC, for your enthusiasm and our calm positivity. You are such an inspiration for all that you do to actively make a change in this world. – Max
This has been an amazing course. – Pip
Bookings
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