An Introduction to Permaculture - Two Day Course

An Introduction to Permaculture - Two Day Course

Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 August 2023, 9:30am to 4:30pm

Earthlings Café, Newcastle

Every day we read about the evolving global climate and biodiversity crisis, and for many of us it is really hard to feel that we can influence anything – and if we could, we do not know where to start! The crisis is not as much a challenge to nature, as it is to the human race – nature will restore itself and recover!

So how about we take a look at how nature is so successful;

• What can we learn from her methods of adaptation?

• Are there principles we could establish from her processes and patterns?

• Could we even form a set of ethics to live by from our observation of the world around us?

So this is what PERMACULTURE is all about. Based on a set of ethics and principles and with accompanying design processes and tools, we can re-design our garden, our diet, ourselves, our community, even our world.

This two day course is an introduction to the more extensive 12 day Permaculture Design Course. It will give you a flavour of what permaculture is, and how to start applying elements of it into how you think, live and work.

This introduction course will have an “urban focus” and will include basic elements of permaculture design, including:-

• History of Permaculture

• Ethics and Principles

• Observation – a valuable tool

• Design Processes and Tools

• Food growing – taking any opportunity

• Responses to the climate crisis

We are delighted to be running this course in the wonderful Earthlings Café in the centre of Newcastle – There will be a vegan lunch prepared for us on both days (included in the price) along with one hot drink. Other food and drinks can be purchased in the café during the course. Drinking water will be available at all times.

To ensure that this two day course is as accessible to as many people as possible, we offer pricing (including lunch and one free hot drink on both days) as follows:-

• Course ticket - £100 – this is the standard ticket for the course

• Supporters ticket -from £130 – if you feel you can help support others to attend

• Discounted ticket - £70 – for unwaged, student, low income individuals

• If you are unable to afford these prices, please email Mark ([email protected]) directly, as we hope to provide a couple of bursary tickets.

Mark Shipperlee, the tutor has been teaching permaculture in UK and Europe. He describes himself as a woodsman who grows his own food; and believes that permaculture design is a unique process that allows us to engage with and learn from nature, in a solution focussed way.

£10 deposit secures a place for you, and we will then be in touch via email for the payment that is most suitable for you at this time.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Earthlings - The healing Cafe, 94 Buckingham Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom