Permaculture Design Course Day 5 : Trees

Oct 8, 2013 | Learning, Musings

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

Oct 4, 2013 | Learning

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

Oct 3, 2013 | Learning, Musings

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

Oct 2, 2013 | Learning, Musings

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...

Permaculture Design Course Day 1

Oct 1, 2013 | Learning, Musings

I’ve began a permaculture design course at the Zaytuna Farm with Rhamis Kent as the instructor. Zaytuna Farm is the personal property of Geoff Lawton, he is one of the world’s foremost experts and authorities on permaculture and this farm is one of the world’s...