Join us on an inspirational and empowering timber framing journey. Over a fortnight we will be constructing a multi-functional timber framed ‘solar barn’, mainly focusing on creating a strong, traditional and beautiful roof with a twist that is it optimised for a 12kW solar array.

Join us at the international standard curriculum of 72-hour permaculture certificate course
We are situated in rural Brittany with the beautiful, inspiring countryside on our doorstep. We have secured a former dairy farm as the main teaching site, and the learning will take place between there and Afrinoon Permaculture farm with its integrated food/animal systems.

Study Event Management and learn more about organising events.
The lessons covered in this course include:

Lesson 1- Scope and nature of Event Management

Lesson 2- Developing a concept and planning

Lesson 3- Organising the resources required

Lesson 4 - Catering: Food and Drink

Lesson 5- Promoting an event

Lesson 6- Managing the clientele

Lesson 7- Risk management, legalities and contingency planning

Lesson 8- Delivering the event

Lesson 9- Organising celebrations and parties

Lesson 10- Organising exhibitions

The PDC course is held at Garden Cottage in Britain’s oldest intentional food forest garden. There is nowhere better to learn about permaculture. You will be learning in a place where permaculture principles have been put into practice for over 28 years!

Study the What To Plant Where course over 13 lessons. The course is studied by distance learning so you can start at any time to suit you and work at your own pace.
This short course covers the following 13 lessons:

Come and get some inspiration for teaching rivers. The workshop will look at ideas and activities for the classroom, school grounds or fieldwork visits. Refreshments provided but bring a packed lunch to supplement some food cooked on a fire (weather permitting).

Make the ‘most boat’ you can from a single sheet of plywood using basic DIY skills. The one-sheet skiff can carry a small adult or young person and can be paddled, rowed, even sailed or driven by a small electric motor with a bit of imagination. Over two days you will mark up and cut the component parts, fix together the sides and transom and attach the bottom to create a perfect small boat for still waters. Test-launch on Sunday and then take home (on a roof rack) to paint with ordinary domestic paint. Suitable for adults and families with children over 8.

This PDC will be run by 2 experienced permaculture practitioners and teachers who have been involved in permaculture since 1980's. (Rod Everett from Backsbottom Farm and Phil Allen from Northern Ireland.) It will take place on Backsbottom Farm a beautiful valley in the Forest of Bowland. The ancient semi natural woodland, wildflower hay meadows, organic orchards, restored blanket bog and river restoration project make an ideal site for exploring natures role in our understanding of Permaculture.

This session will cover how to harvest, dry and sow your own seed for vegetables, fruit and flowers. Seed is always best sown fresh, and the most reliable way of doing this is to harvest your own. Learn the best times to do this, when and how to collect seed and why gathering your own produces more reliable, sturdier crops. Caroline Beck is a garden writer and cut flower grower with over 25 years experience of harvesting and sowing her own seed. Refreshments provided.

Training of Teachers – Permaculture
Tutor - Tomas Remiarz

Do you want to teach Permaculture or Sustainability topics?

This course is for you if you are interested in teaching permaculture and/or other related
topics
Aim of the course to enable people to deliver permaculture courses - the subjects and techniques covered will also be useful in teaching other subjects

Pre-requisites – to have studied permaculture previously, ideally hold a Permaculture Design Certificate

This intensive course is a professionally tailored curriculum for people who really want to know how its all done. You will be taught the keys skills by a pro with 14yrs of timber framing experience. You will not simply be working to finish someone’s project. This 4 day intensive Roundwood Timber Framing & Reciprocal Roundhouse Building Course gives you the chance to learn cutting the scribed (butter-pat) and mortise and tenon joints and we’ll build a full size reciprocal roundhouse roof so that you understand how that wonderful piece of geometry works.

The Apricot Centre Permaculture Design Course is a part-time, non-residential course that takes place over 6 weekends between September 2019 - February 2020 making it perfect for those wishing to study whilst working or have family commitments.

In the face of drought and desertification, well-designed water harvesting earthworks such as swales, ponds, and dams are the most effective way to channel water into productive use. The result can be increased food production, higher groundwater levels, reduced irrigation needs, reforestation and enhanced ecosystem resilience. Yet due to a lack of knowledge, designers, and landowners often build earthworks that are costly, inappropriately sized and sited, or even dangerous. This course will give you the knowledge and confidence to get your earthworks right, first time around.

The New School Permaculture PDC is centred on the needs of the student.So you get what you need.
This course is presented by creative non formal education methods, that are based on creating a bridge between the right and left side of the brain, so that the analytical and creative abilities of the students get fully stimulated and get the most out of the experience...for many people is the most empowering and inspiring transformative process of their lives...and they carry this with them everywere they go....and thats our goal.

On the island of S.Miguel we will be teaching several courses
The SMC Sociocracy Management Course
the PDC Permaculture Design Course
and the PFC Permaculture Forest Course
if you want you can be part of all courses to get a deeper experience on Permaculture education.
For people that complete the 4 courses there will be access to the
Permaculture Design Internship certificate

The PTC its a course designed for people that want to learn how to share information in a clear and supportive way.
We spend our time sharing about educational tools that can be used to present information in a way that there is little difference between student and teacher.
There is a deep focus on the practice of learner based education and discussion about the results.
On this course we also learn about how to teach the PDC and other courses, how to develop curriculums and content and how to design classes of any topic.