Note: For 2021, our focus will be on producing and providing the Gardening Essentials course. We look forward to offering more Permaculture Design courses in the future.
Incorporating animals into our property design is of course a possible food source, but also spreads the burden of pollinating, aerating, digging, mowing, spreading fertilizer and containing pests.
Sheryn Dean will answer your questions about animals that interest you and will share her experience of the needs and gifts of each breed.
We will discuss integration, management and care of animals (poultry, worms, goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits, bees and cattle.) We’ll touch on establishing a habitat for spiders, butterflies, other beneficial insects and birds. Pasture care and other animal food sources. Fencing. Wildlife. “Pests.”
After lunch, we will visit a permaculture designed property with cattle, sheep, chooks, a forest garden, a “glamping” cob home, container house and many other permaculture solutions.
Tutor
Sheryn Dean, Tess and Marco Partridge
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“How fantastic to see a family living what we’ve been talking about all year. And I really got the reality of having and caring for animals, not just the cute, fluffy “Wouldn’t it be nice to have our own milk cow!” sort of future dream.”
“It was interesting to discuss how to encourage beneficial insects and other organisms and discourage the uninvited ones! All the hosts were informative and personable.”
“Louise blew me away – how much she knows about the insects in her garden, just from paying attention and then looking things up in books and on the internet. She totally woke me up to a layer of life I’ve been oblivious to in my own garden.”