Overview
It commonly involves developing a garden or farm where the plants and animals are put together in such a way that they support each others growth and development. The garden or farm may change over years, but always remains productive, requires little input once established, and is environmentally sound.
This is an “intensive” foundation course at Warnborough College. If you are only going to do “one” permaculture course do this! If you do this, do not do Permaculture I, II, III or IV as well (Permaculture Systems contains parts from the others). Learn to prepare plans for a permaculture system appropriate for particular environments and sites.
Course Aims
- Differentiate between Permaculture and other sustainable systems.
- Explain the procedures followed in practicing different techniques which are sympathetic to Permaculture, including: No-dig gardening, Companion Planting, Biological control, and Sustainable harvesting.
- Explain the interactions that occur between living and non-living components in five different natural environments, including: Forest Systems, Aquatic Environments, Soil Environments, and Arid Environments.
- Evaluatedifferent Permaculture designs against the nine Permaculture principles.
- Distinguish between different garden zones in a Permaculture system.
- Explain sector planning in a specific garden design.
- Design a mandala garden for a specific site.
- Determine the appropriate use of swales on a sloping site.
- Investigatedistinctly different Permaculture systems.
- Explain three different cultural techniques used to minimise the maintenance requirement, inPermaculture systems you study.
- Determinedifferent animal breeds, which can provide a useful and sustained harvest from a permaculture system in your locality.
Programme Structure
The duration of this online course is 100 hours. This consists of 8 in-depth lessons:
- Permaculture Principles
- Natural Systems
- Zone & Sector Planning
- Permaculture Techniques
- Animals in Permaculture
- Plants in Permaculture
- Appropriate Technologies
- Preparing a Plan
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 4 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- You can start the course whenever is convenient for you.
Language
Delivered
- Self-paced
Disciplines
Industrial & Systems Engineering Soil Science Botany View 34 other Short Courses in Soil Science in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Tuition Fee
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International
395 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 395 GBP for the full programme during 4 days. -
National
395 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 395 GBP for the full programme during 4 days.