PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATE with Trish Allen and Daniel Tohill

14 day intensive residential 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 & for 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.

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

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Accommodation – Rooms are mainly curtained cubicles with shared bathrooms.  A limited number of single rooms/cottages are available at a $10 a day surcharge. To secure a single room you need to register early. 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, and pay on arrival.

 

Registrations now open –  limited to 15 places – See bottom of this page

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    Listen to an inspiring interview with Trish here

 

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 through out 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.

 

 

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