Courses
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BELIZE
Venue: Maya Mountain Research Farm
Dates: 20 February - 2 March 2012
Led by: Albert Bates & guests
Phone: +1 5016 304 386
Web: www.mmrfbz.org
BULGARIA
Venue: Balkan Ecology Project, Shipka
Dates: 15 - 30 June 2012
Led by: Doug Crouch
Phone: +359 888 411 366
Web: www.balkep.org
BULGARIA
Venue: Balkan Ecology Project, Shipka
Dates: 5 - 30 June 2012
Led by: Sara Wuerstle, Mihail Kossev
Phone: +359 899 335 034
Web: www.balkep.org/pdc-june-2012.html
CAMBODIA
Venue: Sihanoukville, Kambuja Crossroads
Dates: 1 - 16 February 2012
Led by: Richard Rico Zook, Jeremiah Kidd, Houey Han
Email: rico@i-permaculture.org
Web: www.i-permaculture.org
CORNWALL
Venue: Keveral Farm
Dates: 13 - 29 July 2012
Led by: Bryn Thomas, Klaudia van Gool, Bill Knight
Phone: 01579 346 487
Email: klaudiavangool@hotmail.com
DEVON
Venue: High Heathercombe Centre, Dates: 21 April - 6 May 2012
Led by: Klaudia van Gool, Peter Cow
Phone: 01271 817 509
Email: mel@designedvisions.com
DEVON
Venue: High Heathercombe Centre, Dates: 16 - 30 June 2012
Led by: Aranya, Peter Cow
Phone: 01326 251 302
Email: mel@designedvisions.com
DEVON
Venue: Steward Community Woodland
Dates: 15 - 29 September 2012
Led by: Aranya, Peter Cow
Phone: 01326 251 302
Email: mel@designedvisions.com
DEVON
Venue: High Heathercombe Centre, Dates: 3 - 7 November 2012
Led by: Aranya, Klaudia van Gool
Phone: 01326 251 302
Email: mel@designedvisions.com
DORSET
Venue: Ourganics Evolving Systems, Bridport
Dates: Over 6 weekends
Led by: Aranya
Phone: 01326 251 302
Email: mel@designedvisions.com
DORSET
Venue: Monkton Wyld Court, Bridport
Dates: January - February 2012
Led by: Aranya, Abby Frary
Phone: 01326 251 302
Email: mel@designedvisions.com
DORSET
Venue: Threshold Cohousing Community, Gillingham
Dates: May - November 2012, weekends
Led by: Stephen Nutt & Linda Philip
Phone: 01747 825 477
Email: Lindascabbagepatch@yahoo.co.uk
EAST SUSSEX
Venue: Earthship Brighton
Dates: 11 - 27 May 2012
Led by: Alex Penn, Bryn Thomas, Daniel Holloway, Jen Beaufoy, Kate Hamilton & guests
Phone: 07746 185 927
Web: www.brightonpermaculture.co.uk
ETHIOPIA
Venue: Strawberry Fields Ecolodge
Dates: 13 - 26 February 2012
Led by: Tichafa Makovere, Alex McCausland
Phone: +251 912 214 687
Web: www.permalodge.org
FRANCE
Venue: Permaculture Eden, Le Bois de Grammont Lourdoueix Saint Michel
Dates: 1 - 13 July 2012
1 - 15 September 2012
Led by: Steve & Fiona Hanson
Phone: +33 254 064 523
Web: www.permaculture-france.com
GERMANY
Venue: Sieben Linden Ecovillage
Dates: 13 - 27 May 2012
Led by: Patrick Whitefield, Sandra Campe, Tomas Remiarz
Phone: +493 837 455 153
Web: www.siebenlinden.de/htmcontent2114.html
GERMANY
Venue: Gastwerke Ecovillage, Escherode
Dates: 15 July - 5 August 2012
Led by: Vera, Toas, Monika, Karoline, Alfred, Kirsty, Linder
Web: http://permakultur-akademie.de/front_content.php
GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Venue: Ragmans Lane Farm
Dates: 20 February - 2 March 2012
17 - 30 June 2012
Led by: Patrick & Cathy Whitefield, Sarah Pugh, Caroline Aitken
Phone: 01458 832 317
Web: www.patrickwhitefield.co.uk
GREECE
Venue: Seliana Ahaia Greece
Dates: 7 – 18 June 2012
Led by: Rod Everett, Marios Dessyllas, Mill Millichap
Phone: +306 948 407 233 or 07624 480 882
Email: info@re-green.gr
HAMPSHIRE
Venue: Sustainability Centre, East Meon
Dates: 6 - 20 October 2012
Led by: Aranya
Phone: 01730 823 166
Email: courses@sustainability-centre.org
INDIA
Venue: Tamil Nadu
Dates: 31 January - 18 February 2012
Led by: Bernrad Alonso, Ilumalai
Web: www.healthesoilcsa.org
IRELAND
Venue: Kinsale Further Education College
Dates: Annual course
Led by: Graham Strouts
Phone: + 353 214 772 275
Email: kinsalefurthered@eircom.net
IRELAND
Venue: CELT, East Clare Comm, Co. Clare
Dates: Various 2012
Led by: Various
Phone: +353 61 640 765
Email: info@celtnet.org
ISRAEL
Venue: Centre for Creative Ecology, Kibbutz Lotan
Dates: 27 February - 27 July 2012
1 August - 1 December 2012
Led by: Mike Kaplin, Leah Zigmond
Web: www.kibbutzlotan.com/ga
ITALY
Venue: Scagnello
Dates: 19 - 28 May 2012
Led by: Aranya, Pietro Zucchetti
Email: www.permaculturaitalia.com
KENT
Venue: Manor Barn, Thanington, Canterbury & other venues TBC
Dates: 12 - 18 May 2012, Introduction
28 - 31 July 2012 PC in action
7 - 8 & 9 -11 September 2012, design weekends
Led by: Peter Cow, Jo Barker, guests
Phone: 01227 832569
Web: www.designedvisions.com
KENT
Venue: Rifleman Cottage, Faversham
Dates: 7 - 21 July 2012
Led by: Aranya, Jo Baker
Phone: 01326 251 302
Email: mel@designedvisions.com
LANCASHIRE
Venue: Prestwich/Heaton Park, Greater Manchester
Dates: 24 March 2012, Saturdays
Led by: Angus Soutar
Phone: 0162 272 320
Web: http://northernschool.info/bury
LANCASHIRE
Venue: Biospheric Foundation, Manchester
Dates: 23 - 29 June 2012
11 - 17 August 2012
Led by: Tomas Remiarz, others
Email: vincent@biosphericfoundation.com
MALAWI
Venue: Butterfly Space, Nkhata Bay
Dates: 19 - 30 March 2012
Led by: Tichafa Makovere
Web: www.butterfly-space.com
NEW ZEALAND
Venue: Takaka, New Zealand.
Dates: Various 2011
Led by: Brian J Weston, BSc. Ag., PDC
Email: goldenbayz@gmail.com
NICARAGUA
Venue: Bona Fide Institute for Regenerative Agriculture, Isla Ometepe
Dates: 3 - 17 February 2012
Led by: Chris Shanks, Douglas Bullock, Dave Boehnlein & instructors
Website: www.projectbonafide.com/courses
NORFOLK
Venues: Various
Dates: February - September 2012
Led by: Hannah Thorogood
Phone: 01366 381 507
Email: westnorfolkpdc@gmail.com
NORTHUMBERLAND
Venue: The Beautiful Room
Dates: 17 February - 8 April 2012
Led by: Wilf Richards & guests
Phone: 07906 439 084
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Venue: Ecoworks, Nottingham
Dates: February - June 2012
Led by: Tomas Remiarz, Paul Paine
Phone: 01159 622 200
Email: info@ecoworks.org.uk
PEOPLE & PERMACULTURE DESIGN
Venue: TBC
Dates: 2 weeks in June / July 2012
Led by: Looby Macnamara & guests
Phone: 01326 251 302
Email: mel@designedvisions.com
POLAND
Venue: ICPPC-Ecocentre, Stryszów
Dates: 6 - 18 August 2012
Led by: Karl Schmidt with guests
Email: karl@glaciallakespermaculture.org
Web: www.glaciallakespermaculture.org
PORTUGAL
Venue: Varzea da Goncala, Aljezur
Date: 22 March - 1 April 2012
Led by: Peter Cow.
Phone: +351 282 995 060
Web: www.icanfeedmyself.com
SCOTLAND
Venue: Urban Roots, Glasgow
Dates: 4 February - 3 June 2012
Led by: Lusi Alderslowe, Ludwig Appeltans, Ed Tyler, David Blair
Phone: 01416 132 763
Web: www.urbanroots.org.uk
SCOTLAND
Venue: Kilmartin House Museum, Argyll
Date: Various 2012, weekends
Led by: Lusi Alderslowe, Ed Tyler
Phone: 01546 510 278
Email: admin@kilmartin.org
AUSTRALIA
Venue: Permaculture Pathways, Eudlo
Dates: Various 2012
Led by: Sonya Wallace & guests
Phone: +61 754 573 961
Email: permaculturepathways@yahoo.com.au
AVON
Venue: Windmill Hill City Farm, Bristol
Dates: Various 2012
Led by: Ruth O’Brien
Phone: 07949 294 364
Email: course_enquiries@yahoo.co.uk
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Venue: LILI, Redfield Community, Winslow
Dates: Various 2012
Led by: Bryn Thomas
Phone: 01296 714 184
Email: lili@lowimpact.org
DEVON
Venue: High Heathercombe, Dartmoor
Dates: 9 - 11 March 2012
Led by: Klaudia van Gool
Phone: 07791 601 737
Email: high@heathercombe.com
DORSET
Venue: Threshold Cohousing Community
Dates: 28 - 29 April 2012
Led by: Stephen Nutt & Linda Philip
Phone: 01747 825 477
Email: Lindascabbagepatch@yahoo.co.uk
DORSET
Venue: Kingcombe Centre, Dorchester
Dates: 4 - 6 May 2012
Led by: Aranya, Peter Cow
Phone: 01300 320 684
Email: office@kingcombecentre.org.uk
EAST SUSSEX
Venue: Stanmer Park, Brighton
Date: 31 March - 1 April 2012
Led by: Pippa Johns
Phone: 07746 18 59 27
Web: www.brightonpermaculture.co.uk
FRANCE
Venue: La Brande Woodland, nr Poitiers
Dates: Various 2012
Led by: Various
Phone: 02076 106 452
Email: Labrande16@aol.com
GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Venue: Ragmans Lane Farm
Dates: Various 2012
Led by: Matt Dunwell
Phone: 01594 860 244
Web: www.ragmans.co.uk
HAMPSHIRE
Venue: Sustainability Centre, Hampshire
Dates: Date to be confirmed. 2012
Led by: Sarah Pugh
Phone: 01730 823 166
Email: courses@sustainability-centre.org
KENT
Venue: Manor Barn, Canterbury
Dates: 12 - 13 May 2012
Led by: Peter Cow, Jo Barker, Helen Smith
Phone: 01227 832 569
Web: www.dynamic-equilibrium.co.uk
NORTHERN IRELAND
Venue: Mullan’s Organic Farm, Limavady
Dates: 7 - 8 April 2012
Led by: Phillip Allen
Phone: 07872 334 180
Web: www.laganvalleypermaculture.co.uk
LONDON
Venue: Spirtalfields City Farm
Dates: 18 - 19 February 2012
7 - 8 April 2012
16 - 17 June 2012
Led by: Claire White, James Taylor
Phone: 07899 843 061
Email: clairefg65@yahoo.com
NORFOLK
Venue: West Lexham Education Centre
Dates: 18 - 19 February 2012
21 - 22 April 2012
Led by: Hannah Thorogood
Phone: 01366 381 507
Email: westnorfolkpdc@gmail.com
PORTUGAL
Venue: Quinta do Vale da Lama
Dates: Various 2012
Led by: Various
Web: www.valedalama.net
SCOTLAND
Venue: Centre 81, Garelochhead, Argyll
Dates: 25 - 26 February 2012.
Led by: Katherine Price, Rachel Bailey
Email: rachel.bailey3@gmail.com
SHROPSHIRE
Venue: Karuna Permaculture Project
Led by: Angie Polkey
Dates: 27 - 29 July 2012
Phone: 01694 751 374
Web: www.karuna.org.uk
SOMERSET
Venue: Brook End, Compton Dundon
Dates: 31 March - 1 April 2012
Led by: Gary Finch
Email: nicole@wildheartpermaculture.co.uk
Web: www.wildheartpermaculture.co.uk
SOMERSET
Venue: Maiden Croft Lane, Wick
Dates: 3 - 7 August 2012
Led by: Patrick & Cathy Whitefield, Calum Pawson
Phone: 01458 832 317
Web: www.patrickwhitefiled.co.uk
SURREY
Venue: Oak Tree House
Dates: 14 April 2012
20 May 2012
Led by: Peter Cow
Web: www.livingincircles.com
UK
Venue: Online
Dates: Commence any time
Led by: ACS, Distance Education
Web: www.acsedu.co.uk
WALES
Venue: Over the Rainbow, West Wales
Dates: 27 - 29 January 2012
Led by: Angie Polkey
Phone: 01974 831 300
Web: www.overtherainbowwales.co.uk
WARWICKSHIRE
Venue: East Lodge Sustainability Centre
Dates: 11 - 12 February 2012
Led by: Juliet Carter
Phone: 01926 421 467
WEST SUSSEX
Venue: Cowdray Park, Midhurst
Dates: 31 March - 1 April 2012
Led by: Aranya
Phone: 01271 817 509
Email: mel@designedvisions.com
WORCESTERSHIRE
Venue: Haye Farm
Dates: 1 - 13 May 2012
Led by: Joe Atkins
Phone: 01299 403 371
Web: www.haye-farm.co.uk
ADVANCED PERMACULTURE DESIGN
Venue: Maya Mountain Research Farm Belize
Dates: 4 - 10 March 2012
Led by: Jono Neiger, Eric Toensmeier
Phone: +1 5016 304 386
Web: www.mmrfbz.org
AQUACULTURE DESIGN
Venue: Vosges, N.E. France
Dates: Various 2012
Led by: Laurence, Hutchinson, Freshwater Solutions
Phone: +33 565 421 610
Email: ecologicalfish@btinternet.com
BACKYARD FISH FARMING
& AQUAPONICS
Venue: Upper Hayne Farm, Devon
Dates: Various 2012
Led by: Jimmie Hepburn
Phone: 01823 680 888
Web: www.aquavisiononline.com
BIOFERTILE FARMS
Venue: Cowdray Hall, Midhurst, Sussex
Dates: June 2012
Led by: Eugenio Gras
Phone: 01326 251 302 / 07768 193 848
Web: www.designedvisions.com
BUILD A HEALTHY HOUSE
WITHOUT A MORTGAGE
Venue: The Hollies, West Cork, Ireland
Dates: 11 - 13 May 2012
Led by: Thomas & Ulrike Riedmuller Phone: +353 238 847 001
Web: www.theholliesonline.com
BUILDING A TIMBER FRAME WORKSHOP
Venue: Easter Ross, Scotland
Dates: 7 - 11 May 2012
Led by: Chas Heath of Arbor-Antics
Phone: 01862 871 639
Email: info@woodlandtreasures.co.uk
THE DEO OF PERMACULTURE
Permaculture Design & Nature Awareness
Venue: Forres, near the Findhorn river
Dates: 30 April - 12 May 2012
Led by: SHEN foundation & Earth Ways
Phone: 01309 696 984
Web: www.lingtraining.net
DISTANCE LEARNING
Biodynamics Principles & Practices
Venue: Biodynamic Agricultural College
Dates: Launching in 2012
Led by: Biodynamic Agricultural College
Phone: 01342 827 771
Web: www.bdacollege.org.uk
EARTHED - COB BUILDING WORKSHOPS
Venue: Various 2012
Led by: Annabel Fawcus, Alan Cameron-Duff
Phone: 07917 361 580
Email: earthedworld@googlemail.com
FOREST GARDENING
Venue: Karuna permaculture project,Picklescott, Shropshire,
Dates: 16 - 17 June 2012
Led by: Chris Evans
Phone: 01694 751 374
Web: www.karuna.org.uk
GREEN WOODWORK & CHAIRMAKING
Venue: Brookhouse Wood, Herefordshire
Dates: Various 2012
Led by: Mike Abbott
Phone: 01531 640 005
Web: www.living-wood.co.uk
HEDGEROW MEDICINE,
KITCHEN PHARMACY
Venue Rowans garden, Herefordshire
Dates: Various 2012
Led by: Rowan McOnegal
Phone: 01531 670 075
Web: www.rowanmconegal.co.uk
HOLISTIC MANAGEMENT GRAZING
Venue: Cowdray Hall, Midhurst, Sussex
Dates: 24 - 27 April 2012
Led by: Kirk & Tamara Gadzia
Phone: 01326 251 302 / 07768 193 848
Web: www.designedvisions.com
HOLISTIC WOODLAND UNDERSTANDING
Venue: To be confirmed
Dates: 25 - 26 February 2012
Led by: Kenny Coombe
Phone: 07866 982 985
Web: www.inharmonywithwoodland.co.uk
HOW TO START AN INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY
Venue: The Hollies, West Cork, Ireland
Dates: 26 - 27 February 2012
Led by: Thomas & Ulrike Riedmuller
Phone: +353 238 847 001
Web: www.theholliesonline.com
IVE BOUGHT LAND WHAT NEXT?
Planning, Boreholes, Yurts,
Organic Gardening, Orchards,
Natural Bee Keeping
Venue: Open Sanctuary, Hampshire
Dates: Various 2012
Led by: Steve Strange
Phone: 07889 598 159
Email: steve@clarendonhouse.co.uk
LIFE DESIGNING
Venue: Nr Glastonbury, Somerset
Dates: 8 -10 June 2012
Led by: Katharina Weber, Valerie Seitz
Email: nicole@wildheartpermaculture.co.uk
Web: www.wildheartpermaculture.co.uk
LIME RENDER & CLAY PLASTER
Venue: Pentiddy Woods, Cornwall
Dates: 4 days in May/June 2012
Led by: Katy Bryce, Adam Weismann
Phone: 01579 363 775
Web: www.clay-works.com
MASTERS IN LEADERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Venue Middlesex University, London
Dates: September 2012 - July 2013
Led by: Forum for the Future
Phone: 020 73 243 674
Web: www.forumforthefuture.org/masters-course
MEDICINE WHEEL TEACHINGS
Including Native American
Sweat Lodge Ceremony
Venue: Open Sanctuary, Hampshire
Dates: Monthly 2012
Led by: Linda Morten
Phone: 07889 598 159
Web: www.mitakuyeoyasin.org
NATURAL HOUSE/COB BUILDING
Venue: The Hollies, West Cork, Ireland
Dates: 2 - 10 June 2012
4 - 12 August 2012
Led by: Thomas, Ulrike Riedmuller
Phone: +353 238 847 001
Web: www.theholliesonline.com
NATURAL SWIMMING POOLS
How To Build Your Own
Venue: Saxthorpe, North Norfolk
Dates: Various 2012
Led by: David Pagan Butler
Phone: 01263 585 022
Web: www.organicpools.co.uk
PERMACULTURE ART & SOCIETY
Including PDC & European Convergence
Venue: Gastwerke e.V. Kassel, Germany
Dates: 15 July - 5 August 2012
Led by: Tomas Remiarz, Monika Frank
Email: v.hemm e@permakultur-akademie.net
Web: http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/search.cfm
PERMACULTURE GARDENING
Venue: Trumpington Pavilion, Cambridge
Dates: 28 - 29 April 2012
Led by: Chris Evans
Phone: 01223 840 602
Web: transitioncambridge.org
PERMACULTURE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Venue: Nr Glastonbury, Somerset
Dates: 13 -16 June 2012
Led by: Katharina Weber, Valerie Seitz
Email: nicole@wildheartpermaculture.co.uk
Web: www.wildheartpermaculture.co.uk
PRACTICAL PERMACULTURE GARDENING
Venue: Brighton & Sussex countryside
Dates: 31 March - 1 April 2012
Led by: Brighton Permaculture Trust
Phone: 07746 185 927
Web: www.brightonpermaculture.co.uk
RESOLVE CONFLICTS IN YOUR COMMUNITY & FAMILY
Venue: The Hollies, West Cork, Ireland
Dates: 4 - 5 February 2012
Led by: Thomas Riedmuller
Phone: +353 238 847 001
Web: www.theholliesonline.com
RURAL CRAFTS
Venue: nr. Montignac, Dordogne, France
Dates: Various 2012
Led by: Diane Hammill
Phone: 07814 313 161
Email: wild.harvest@yahoo.co.uk
STRAW BALE BUILDING
Venue: Pentiddy Woods, Cornwall
Dates: 9 - 13 April 2012,
Led by: Friederike Fuchs
Phone: 01579 363775
Email: mail@pentiddy.co.uk
SUSTAINABLE LAND USE
Venue: Ragmans Lane Farm
Dates: January - March 2012
Led by: Patrick Whitefield & others
Phone: 01458 832 317
Web: www.patrickwhitefield.co.uk
SUSTAINABLE LIVING CAMP
Venue: The Hollies, West Cork, Ireland
Dates: 2 - 10 June 2012
Led by: Paul OFlynn & others
Phone: +353 238 847 001
Web: www.theholliesonline.com
URBAN PERMACULTURE
Venue: Environment Centre,
Swansea
Dates: 25 - 26 February 2012
Led by: Witchhazel Wildwood
Phone: 01792 480 200
Web: www.environmentcentre.org.uk
WATTLE & DAUB CONSTRUCTION
Venue: Ranomafana, Madagascar
Dates: 5 - 15 February 2012
Led by: Scott Howard,
Earthen Hand
Phone: +1 503 287 2442
Web: www.earthenhand.com
WOODLAND CRAFTS
Venue: Moreton Wood,
Herefordshire
Dates: Various
Led by: Paul Morton,
Jo Callaghan
Phone: 07920 851 674
Web: www.moretonwood.co.uk
ZONE ZERO
Permaculture from the Inside Out
Venue: Haye Farm,
Worcestershire
Dates: 8 - 10 June 2012
Led by: Kate Spohrer
Web: www.haye-farm.co.uk