Full Permaculture Design course, PDC + an advanced Permaculture skills certificate 147hrs starts Tuesday 28th Feb 2012 & each Tues 9.00-3.00 pm@ Emerald for the first day then 9-4.00pm when at my "Telopea Mtn" classroom plus on 5 Sat or Sun------ final day late July .
How to Select, buy, plant, graft new ones and care for them. We will also discuss some of those varieties we had once and what is still available now with Apples, plums, Nashi, Pears & Cherries plus so much more. Class is now extended to discuss summer vs winter pruning and inspect the new 1/2 acre enclosure.
with 7 varities now available and over 20 types of logs that can be used this is such a good way to grow your own safley and save the $50-70kg price tag.
This class will look at the technical side of growing mushrooms with Todd Manfield and then we will be outside turning these logs into mushrooms growing ones
This class has run for years in the hills until about 2 years ago when I ran out of time to run it, due to many requests recently I have made time to run it again.
On the day we wil cover what chooks need , foods, shel;ter protection and look at how design good predator proof runs.
we will also look at what chooks to buy rare breed vs commecial breeds
See the details on the "Courses Menu" under the Intro to PC & Compost making
Last 7 day class will start Aug 11th 2011 on Thursdays all day.
this will also now be Part 1 of our Optional new PDC
others will run later in the year as community house funding permits
Learn how you can do all these at home to produce the environment you need to grow healthy food.
These can help you save water, ( by up to 80%) to reduce emitions & Capture CO2 plus increase the nutrients in your food.
Learn How & Why this is the method used all over the world.
Summer pruning...... why do most orchards use this method now to reduce labour instead of the old winter pruning.
We will look at the many reasons to change to this practice in the home garden and orchard, with this hands on session.
next dates for this class are 27th May & 9th sept, oct 13th
This one day course will give you the basic skills to make an apple cider & scrumpy or Pear cider (Perry) and then we will taste an apple cider made in 5 days using just smkt apple juice.
After a discussion on varieties of cider apples and other details on wine making
Course starts on Tuesday, look for sign in "Invermay road Monbulk" up top of the hill come in from Olinda Monbulk road end, its easier.
bring supper to share plus a pen & pad Starts 6.30pm
Book and pay via Emerald community house website
people can still jin this course up to session 3 ( if spaces are still available)
