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31st December 2018

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17th-24th July Carraig Dúlra, County Wicklow. An alternative…

2 week Permaculture Design Course (PDC)

31st December 2018

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18th - 31st July 2019 2019 will see the 6th year of…

Seasonal Permaculture Design

2nd December 2018

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Garden activity is slowing down for the winter - and design season is upon us, so now's a good time to be thinking about your Permaculture design, especially if you would like to include trees and shrubs, - which most of my designs wouldn't be without!

Hmmm it wants to be a wildflower meadow, it wants

Hmmm it wants to be a wildflower meadow, it wants to be a woodland, which will it be? Maybe a bit of both?

Out on a beautiful site visit yesterday surveying a farm site for a small holding, horses and rewilding project.

Identifying existing habitats, potential habitats, and rewilding strategies. Thinking about options for placement of orchards, growing areas and stables. Highlighting erosion and other risks and recommending routes to build resilience and regeneration.

All in a day's work.

#permacultureireland #permaculturedesign #biodiversityireland #rewilding #horsesandpermaculture #karst #themeadowmaker #naturalsuccession

I love this reflection- bursts of colour in blank

I love this reflection- bursts of colour in blank spaces at Derry city new urban farm 'Acorn Farm' where we've been leading an urban and project based permaculture design course for the city council staff behind the project. Teaming up once again with @carraigdulra and @ourganicgardens.
In our recent session we field tripped from city centre over to contrasting rural mountains of Donegal to visit and work at @ourganicgardens.

#urbanpermaculture #derrycity #cityfarm #plantgraffitti

Summer IS coming!! And our annual summer Permacul

Summer IS coming!!
And our annual summer Permaculture Design Certificate course along with it.
Few places still available and we start mid May!

A few snapshots here from previous year's courses, this year we are TEN!!

We still have a fab tutor team spanning expertise and practise across the topics we cover, and the site at @carraigdulra is maturing beautifully.

Topics we cover on the course include-

Social Permaculture - Design Practice - Organic Growing & Seed saving - Soil health & Compost - Forest Gardening - Natural Building & Crafts -
Working with Water - Woodland Skills - Ecology - Foraging and Making Natural Products - Upcycling and DIY skills - Local & Seasonal food - Community development skills... AND MORE!!!

Do join us.... link in bio!!

Course accredited by @permaculture_uk

We put the work back into workshop here today with

We put the work back into workshop here today with the @jacobsvegbox GetGrowing course participants. Spring has sprung and we'd lots of transplanting, pricking off, potting up and bed prep to get on with.
We made a a so called 'lazy bed' drill alongside a 'no-dig' bed and chatted about the history and context of cultural cultivation methods compared with this new fangled no-till carry on.
So interesting, good craic, loving these work n learn type series!

#getgrowing
#Strokestown
#experience
#outdooreducation

A new departure for us this year, bringing the Pe

A new departure for us this year, bringing the Permaculture Design Course on the road having been invited to work with the team behind the new Acorn city farm in Derry.

Together with @suziecahn and Joanne from @ourganicgardens we're experimenting with this new part in person onsite, and part online PDC tailored to a specific group and project.

It's a pleasure to be able to help bring a permaculture perspective to such a professional and collaborative team, and to learn along with them.

We do still have our flagship residential PDC running in @carraigdulra this summer and there are 4 places left available on that, starting at the end of May🐞

#derrycity #cityfarm #urbanpermaculture #permacultureireland

6 month permaculture design course participants gr

6 month permaculture design course participants graduated yesterday under beautiful blue skies!
(+2 people missing from this group photo)

We had a lovely final day of the course sharing project work and catching up with some of the course tutors who joined us for a springtime permaculture lunch (think nettles, pulses, eggs....)

We've had a brilliant time getting together for a day a week since September, field trippin', working, learning, connecting, planting, crafting, meithealling, designing.... and we're looking forward to emerging next steps, watch this space cause things are happenin'!

With gratitude to community, family, friends who've input and supported along the way. It takes a village to raise a permaculturalist 😄

#permacultureireland #roscommon #dreamteam #bigplans #weboflife

Grow your own veg course details! First @earthcare

Grow your own veg course details! First @earthcare_permaculture_ireland and @jacobsvegbox collaboration.
Spring vibes, get growing!

Get in touch for booking and questions.....

#Strokestown
#growyourfood
#getoutside

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#permacultureireland #permaculturedesigncertificat

#permacultureireland #permaculturedesigncertificate

An encouraging harvest on these unusual tuber crop

An encouraging harvest on these unusual tuber crops this year.
Occa and Yacon
Nowhere near the yield of a spud mind you but, potential. And always good to have diversity in the diet - all those good gut bacteria need lots of variety coming in.

What do I do next @gardensforlifeireland ? Should they be separated? cured? Dried? Do those little tails need to be removed? How do I select and store Yacon starts for growing next year?

#ancienttubers #useandvaluediversity #unusualvegetables #guthealth

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