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Welcome! We specialise in high-quality permaculture education. We offer a range of different courses at a variety of venues in England. We hope you will find the one that’s just right for you. Permaculture means learning from nature. The aim is to make our lives more sustainable and more productive while reducing the work and energy required. We do this by taking nature as the model for designing our own houses, gardens, farms, woodlands, towns and villages.
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NEWS
Now more accessible to busy people Our Sustainable Land Use course has always been popular. No other course in Britain offers its unique mix of permaculture and other subjects. Now we're making it more accessible to people with full-time jobs or home commitments. Instead of running it spread out over nine weeks we've reprogrammed it into five - with no loss of content. Not only that but it's now fully modular. You can take one, two or three weeks this time and the others in the future. The permaculture module is now two weeks and is interchangable with the summer Design Courses. So you could take three weeks in the winter and two in the summer to complete the course in one year. Or you can take a single week on its own - Ecology, Organic Horticulture or Sustainable Forestry - if that's what specially interests you. For details of the modules click here.
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Patrick's latest book The Living Landscape, how to read it and understand it, is now out. You can also join Patrick on the Living Landscape course,10th-12th Sept at Ragmans Lane Farm, an excellent complement to the book. ______________________________________________
THE COURSES The two-week Design Course is the classic permaculture course, recognised the world over. The Sustainable Land Use Course includes the Design Course plus modules on: the soil, ecology, organic horticulture and sustainable forestry. Permaculture in Five Days is for busy people. It runs over a weekend, so you only need to take three days off. Permaculture in Action - four days on a permaculture mini-holding - experience it first-hand!
The Living Landscape - three days in the heart of the countryside, learning to read the landscape.
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