The following are all courses that I have attended over the past 2 years to help towards attaining sustainable skills to assist towards building a portfolio for my Permaculture Diploma.
Show casing how other sustainable centres work with permaculture.
Designing and presentation of the permaculture ethics and principles at Orchard Barn to attain Land learning status from The permaculture Association
Biodiversity at Orchard BarnI attended this course to observe how biodiversity worked at Orchard Barns.
Focusing on lichens and mosses to see how they adapted to changes in environment and climate. Click here to go to Biodiversity course at Orchard Barn Intro to Permaculture course 2012Intro to Permaculture a
2 day course. An introductory Permaculture course a good training ground for learning presentation and teaching skills. Picture's of the 2 day intro to Permaculture course Click here to go to Permaculture Course How to build a BenderA team building exercise to help us work more effectively together with the practical out come of construction of a bender as a teaching area Click here to go to build a bender slide show |
Sustainable living multi courses 2011Creating a greener home
I attended introductory sustainable living courses that went on to build the following practical individual projects: Solar heating panels Battery powered by bicycle Compost toilet Rainwater harvesting Click here to go to slideshow Sustainable Living multi courses 2012Natural building
I attended another natural build course which went on to learn more skills through building practical individual projects: Mixing and building Cob walls Working with Wattle and daub Build a worm palace Construction of a Urinal Rainwater harvesting course 2012A rainwater harvesting course demonstrating how easy it is to harness rainwater and divert the flow to use in other areas in need of water.
Pictures and video footage of demonstrating rainwater harvesting Click here to go to Rainwater harvesting course |
People's community garden 2012Promotion of other land Learning centresBy visiting other Land Learning sites, talking to and supporting them, I built up a picture of what could be done to:
Learn how they present permaculture principles. Help support the work that they were doing. Work as a unit with other Land Learning centres to promote them and their work. Click on Link to Look at other Land Learning Centres The Oak tree low carbon farm |
Setting up Land Learning Centre 2012 at Orchard BarnThis project was all about stacking functions.
To utilise this material as a teaching media Obtain Land Learning status for Orchard Barn. Each project at Orchard Barn is colour coded to link back to:· The site plan The zones each project in those zones I designed it this way so that people could walk round the site and see which zone each project was in and how it worked. My hard work paid off and Orchard Barn was awarded Land status. see write up below. OBee Director Peta Jane Gulliver writes - "We are on the map! OBee has just been awarded Land status by the Permaculture Association of Great Britain. Many thanks to Sue Burton for her work on this for us, as part of her Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design. So do you know what permaculture is? It is observing and mimicking nature to create sustainable systems. These sustainable design principles can be used in any situation. Permaculture principles have been used in the development of Orchard Barn for the last five years. Click on link to go to slideshow of Land Learning Permaculture day Click on link to look at Land Learning information for Orchard Barn |
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Projects at Orchard BarnThe projects at Orchard Barn are all utilised as teaching projects, teaching people skills while building and completing a practical project.
The best proven way to learn and retain a skill. Click here to see slideshow of barn projects |