Permaculture Design Course: Day 6 Water & Earthworks

Permaculture Design Course: Day 6 Water & Earthworks

Water is the elixir of life. I’ve always felt a very natural draw to water, despite being scared of putting my head below the surface and my inability to hit a stroke. There’s something very ominous about the power of bodies of water. One time I took a 200km canoe...
Permaculture Design Course Day 5 : Trees

Permaculture Design Course Day 5 : Trees

We’re half way through now with the permaculture course at Zaytuna Farm and still drinking from the fire hose. The main takeaway from today was that trees are the shit. I’ve always felt very connected to trees since I was a kid. I love climbing up trees and seeing how...
Permaculture Design Course Day 4 : Climatic Factors

Permaculture Design Course Day 4 : Climatic Factors

Today was really good. I felt so engaged and took more than six pages of notes. Most inspiring, I learned about a guy that is growing citrus trees in the Austrian Alps! Keep reading to find out more 🙂 Drinking from the fire hose is becoming more manageable. The more I...

Permaculture Design Course Day 3: Foundation

Today we started to get into some more of the technical aspects of permaculture design talking about guilds, planning, patterns and we even spent some time with Geoff where he gave us a history of Zaytuna Farm and highlighted some of the key changes over the years. I...

Permaculture Design Course Day 2 : Methods

Day two has been full of continuing the discussion from setting up the context yesterday and building off this to cover the ethics, principles and methods that inform permaculture design. The most challenging part of this course is that I feel like I’m...