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Permaculture Design Certificate Course at Ireland’s Ecovillage

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Join the ecovillage’s resident experts of permaculture, gardening, farming, perma-facture and green building for this unique, yearly opportunity to learn invaluable design and practical skills. This is Cultivate’s 9th year holding the UK Permaculture Association accredited Permaculture Design Certificate (“PDC”) Course at Cloughjordan Ecovillage.

The 9 day residential course is delivered by a number of teachers who live and work in Cloughjordan Ecovillage and are passionate about their area of interest. The course is taught through a mix of facilitated learning, master classes and practical hands on experiences.

This PDC is organised by Cultivate in association with Cloughjordan Community Farm and Village Education Research and Training (VERT) at the Cloughjordan Ecovillage. The venue for indoor sessions is the enterprise centre a.k.a. FabLab, WeCreate.  See photos of previous courses here.

This course is full-time (and “full-on”) from Friday evening (starting with dinner around 6pm) until the following Sunday afternoon (around 4pm) | Find presentations, links and other resources on Our Permaculture Resource Site.

Friday 11 – Sunday 20 August 2017 | Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Co Tipperary, Ireland |Contact Us | Fees €550, some concessions are available, €100 deposit secures your place (payment details – PDF)

Link to the official website →

Permaculture Resources updated

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Updated 7 August 2014

Here we are collecting a range of resources for Permaculture students and practitioners, made available over the past 6 years of offering the Permaculture Design Certificate Course (the ‘PDC’) yearly at Cloughjordan Ecovillage.

New!  The 2014 Permaculture Design Certificate Course Handbook by Graham Bell 

The Weather in Cloughjordan (Weather Underground)

New! The 2014 Permaculture Design Certificate Course Timetable (V1.2)

Cloughjordan Wood-fired Bakery (get your breakie bread fresh!)

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All Ireland Permaculture Gathering 2014

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AIPG2013-29-10 August 2014 – Brookfield Farm, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary

The “All Ireland Permaculture Gathering” is an annual camping weekend that each year takes place in a different location around the island of Ireland (Ireland and Northern Ireland). It’s a non-profit, self-financing, self-organizing, drugs and alcohol free event, family friendly and all the people involved give their time and effort voluntarily.

It is about bringing people from different backgrounds, professions and experiences together to discuss, exchange and develop their common interest in environmental design, sustainable and ethical methods to building a better world.  This exchange is mainly facilitated through workshops in an “open space” scheme, without any formal agenda, where everybody is welcomed to participate.

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Sustainable Horticulture at Kinsale

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Thirteen years ago a new course started at Kinsale College of Further Education. Called “Practical Sustainability” the course aimed to draw together a wide range of different skills and disciplines including permaculture design, sustainable woodland management, ecology and conservation, gardening and horticulture, natural building and community development.

This ambitious course, now called Sustainable Horticulture/ Permaculture, went from strength to strength and within just a few years became one of the largest and most popular courses of any subject in the whole country, attracting students from all over Ireland, Britain, Europe and North America.

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The qualification for the first year of the course is FETAC Level 5 Horticulture. Recently, FETAC re-wrote all courses nation-wide and we now have some new modules and have lost some old ones. The Permaculture module is still there, and includes natural building and woodland management.

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This years’ (class of 2013-2014) Permaculture Design Course graduates with their certificates.

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