DESIGN COURSE

LEARNING HOW WE CAN LIVE MORE SUSTAINABLY USING ECOLOGICAL DESIGN Practical skills for horticulture, agro-ecology, enterprise, green building, perma-facture, collaboration, social innovation, regenerative culture and community resilience.

11-20 August 2017 | Cloughjordan | Co Tipperary | Ireland €550 / €495 Members | some concessions are available, €100 deposit to secure your place. The price includes wholesome hearty lunches each day and dinner on arrival. Options for accommodation below.

This 10-day course is organised by Cultivate and hosted in association with Cloughjordan Community Farm and the Ecovillage Education Group and is fully accredited by the Permaculture Association with a Permaculture Design Certificate. To join our resident experts this year we have invited Albert Bates Aranya special guest tutors Albert Bates, the founder of the Ecovillage Training Centre at in Tennessee and author of 16 books on ecology, and Aranya, a leading UK Permaculture teacher, designer and author of Permaculture Design: A Step-by-Step Guide. This immersive course is set in Cloughjordan Ecovillage, one of Ireland’s leading examples of an ecosystem of innovation. It includes over 50 eco-homes with community woodlands, renewable energy production, a wood-fired bakery, research gardens, a community farm and WeCreate Workspace, innovation Cloughjordan Ecovillage hub and Permaculture Course centre. www.cultivate.ie More About Permaculture Other tutors & staff this year… Eileen Flanagan brings extensive professional experience in water Permaculture is about creating sustainable management systems and natural building. In 2011 she self-built a human habitats by following nature's circular cob home in Cloughjordan eco-village, and is trained in patterns. It uses the diversity, stability and Passive House design and construction. resilience of natural ecosystems to provide a framework and guidance for people to Bruce Darrell is a specialist in horticulture and food security living in a develop their own sustainable solutions to self-built house in the Cloughjordan Ecovillage. He hosts a YouTube the problems facing their world, on a local, channel on the Research Education Development (RED) Gardens, a national or global scale. It is based on the series of gardens which are exploring different methods of growing philosophy of co-operation with nature and vegetables at a family and neighbourhood scale. caring for the earth and its people. Davie Philip is one of the original catalysts of the Transition Towns Permaculture is not a set of rules; it is a process and the manager of Cultivate’s Community Resilience process of design based around principles programme. He facilitates groups working on collaborative approaches found in the natural world, of co-operation to help their communities flourish and has a passion for social and and mutually beneficial relationships, and organisational Permaculture. translating these principles into actions. Kevin Dudley is one of the farmers at Cloughjordan Community Farm Why do the course? and was orchard curator at the Irish Seed Savers Association for 10 years. He has completed an apprenticeship at the Centre for Agro- The permaculture design course has become ecology and Sustainable Food Systems at The University of Santa Cruz, California, where he developed his interest in Social and one of the benchmark accredited courses in community supported farming. and, as such, is an essential part of the toolkit of real and practical ways to Devyn Olson-Sawyer knows that it’s impossible to learn on an empty face the difficult challenges of our times. stomach. She brings her passion for combining delicious ingredients, Whether your interest is in community, culinary knowledge and keen interest in food issues to offer horticulture or in engineering; or how you Permaculture kitchen sessions and oversee the course catering. design a homestead or sustainable community or just how to best navigate the Ben Whelan is a Founder and Director of Cultivate and WeCreate transition to a resilient and low carbon Workspace. He has taught and published in many areas of society, the principles of permaculture and sustainability including permaculture, bioregionalism and local regenerative design will be helpful. economics. Currently his focus is on green and sustainable uses for open source hardware and digital fabrication. No prior knowledge is necessary to take the Philippa Robinson is a student of permaculture since 2005. The course, although, as permaculture is such a permaculture course coordinator, ‘people care’ person & information wide ranging discipline, it is recommended hub for Cultivate. that participants do some basic research. Accommodation Options range from basic camping onsite (compost toilet and shower available), affordable eco-hostel accommodation at Django’s Hostel to bed and breakfast in the the eco-village. Camping /Campervan 9 nights €45 Djangos Hostel dorm bed 9 nights €165 Booking To book a place, or for more information contact Philippa Robinson on 0505 56060 or at [email protected]