Realising a Permaculture Design – the first year on a new site

Ecological Gardening Skills Evening Classes:

at Oblong Resource Centre

This is a practical gardening skills course where you can learn plant skills and gardening methods that work with nature to create gardens that produce food, are low-maintenance and are also beautiful, living eco-systems and havens for wildlife.

This course will use Oblong’s new community garden project as a case study  -‘Pennington Street Community Garden’, and is suitable for volunteers on this project (new volunteers welcome anytime!); however the course is open and relevant to anyone interested in growing food in a sustainable and eco-friendly way.

• Topics:

• • Permaculture gardening – what is it and how do we do it?

  • Designing planting plans.

  • Clearing and establishing your site.

  • Healthy soil for healthy plants – lots of ways to build soil fertility.

  • Forest gardening – creating an edible, low-maintenance eco-system.

  • All you need to know about fruit trees…

  • Shelter for your site – why it’s so important and how to do it.

  • Eco-technology for garden and smallholding.

  • Spotlights on permaculture plants

  • Tools and techniques for quick success

Cost:  Free!  (well nearly, request donation £1 per session)

Dates and time:  Thursdays, Oct 15^th – Dec 3^rd ’09, 7 – 9 pm

Venue:  Oblong, Beulah Hall, 2 Beulah Mount, Leeds LS6 2JZ

(in Woodhouse, just round corner from Chemic pub)

Sessions will be led by permaculture gardener and designer Niels Corfield

Sessions are drop-in but booking preferred so we can gauge numbers, you may attend any number of sessions but it’s preferable to attend whole course.

For further info and contact Niels on: 0113 2623536, email lpn[AT]permaculture.org.uk, or see the events calendar.

lpn[at]permaculture.org.uk or see the events calendar