I have gained a lot of profession skills through attending the courses at Orchard Barn and being able to demonstrate these skills by teaching them to others. I have learned about the following subjects: Natural build skills Harnessing green energy Teaching skills Working with teams of people and volunteers Biodiversity Planning organising and teaching sessions, promotion of stalls. Designing and advertising electronic posters for courses on social media.
Designing the project to attain Land learning status for Orchard Barn improved my presentation skills, presenting permaculture to an audience of multi levels abilities both physical and mentally.
Personal
Without doubt Orchard Barn has presented me with lots of opportunities to learn as much as possible, most of the courses are free as that is part of Orchard Barns ethos, where possible grants are obtained to allow and encourage people of all levels of abilities and incomes to attend. I have taken full advantage of the opportunities presented to me at Orchard Barn and increased my portfolio, confidence and skill levels
Project
This project has shown me what I have achieved and how far I have come by attending all the various courses that have been on offer to me. I have had fun visiting other Land centres exploring their creative approach to presentation, tried to pull all those parts together in to a cohesive presentation for a Land learning Centre. The teaching course has come at the right time for me and is allowing me to merge what I have learned through the permaculture diploma to create a cohesive course and teaching technique to present permaculture in an exciting visual and practical way. This project has also fired up my creative side, part of the visual presentation was a photo board of how the various projects tied in together so I was able to
Tweaking Designing Land learning for Orchard Barn helped me to define the areas that required improvement. Part of my goal was to make the presentation for this as visually interesting and interactive to as many different abilities as possible. Although I attained Land Learning status the project requires a bit more work. Explanation on how each project : was set up How it works