About this Event
Green Spaces Course – Day 7
Designing Your Green Space
10:00 – 10:30 Introductions. What is Permaculture? What Permaculture isn’t. What approaches have we taken to planning gardens and projects? What has worked and what hasn’t.
Format: Open Discussion
Facilitator Paul (Criafolen Permaculture)
10:30 – 11:15 Design Approaches – Survey/Assess/ Design. Understanding people, place and resources.
Format: Presentation & Questions
Facilitator: Paul
11:15 – 11:30 Coffee break and chat.
11:30 – 12:15 The site: Slope; aspect and elevation. Zone and sector design. Urban considerations.
Format: Presentation & Questions
Facilitator: Paul
12:15 – 13:00 Lunch & chat
13:00 – 14:00 Principles of design: Holmgren’s 12 principles and the community garden
Format: Presentation & Discussion
Facilitator: Paul
14:00 – 14:15 Tea break & chat
14:15 – 16:00 Planning the Year in the community green space – design implementation
Format: Presentation & Open discussion
Facilitator: Paul
Participants completing 75% per cent of the courses from the Swansea Community Green Spaces Training will be eligible for certification.
*These sessions will be free for participants on low incomes, on benefits, or who are students. Free places will also be available for members of groups which have previously been involved in the Swansea Community Green Spaces Project.
Participants outside of these groups will be asked to pay £20 for each day session.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Environment Centre, Pier Street, Swansea, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00 to GBP 20.00
