Grow Your Own Groceries Permaculture day course

GROW YOUR OWN GROCERIES PERMACULTURE DAY COURSE

A one-day course comprising theory and practical sessions to give you the tools to grow nutrient dense food by teaching you how to build beds, feed soil, sow seeds, transplant plants, deal with weeds and mulch.

Starting a Vegetable Garden

• How much vegetable garden do I need, where do I put it, building soils and putting in shelter, no dig systems and plastic house, what do I need to start
• Practical – walk & talk around vege garden looking at tools, watering systems, netting/protection

Seed Sowing

• Do’s and don’ts for perfect results, seed treatments, hardening off, transplanting, open pollinated and F1 seed, seed treatments, seed sowing methods and materials
• Practical – seed sowing and ‘mini greenhouse’ making

Building Pallet Beds

• Pull apart pallets efficiently and effectively, building durable, free, long lasting garden beds , filling with carbon and nitrogen materials
• Practical – entire session on pulling apart pallets and making and filling pallet beds

Weed Uses and Solutions

• Identifying annual, biennial and perennial weeds, positives and negatives, what time of the year to deal with them, tools, different controls and solutions
• Practical - building a weed biodigester to turn noxious weeds into garden fertiliser

Mulching

• What is it, why we need it and what it achieves, materials and thickness of mulch, green manures and cover crops
• Practical – walk and talk around different mulch systems

Cost $100 per person. Places are limited to 15 - includes morning & afternoon tea.  Bring something for a shared lunch.

• Practical and theory sessions based on an organic 4ha permaculture property in Whiteman's Valley, Upper Hut which is almost completely self-sufficient.
• To book a place on the course, contact: Dee Turner: 0211252035 or derinatur@hotmail.com. Carolann Murray will be teaching the Upper Hut course. She has written the New Zealand guide to self-sufficiency, and has been teaching permaculture in New Zealand for 15 years.
• Check out the website for feedback on the courses, full details of the practical projects, and a complete rundown of the content – ‘permaculture’ tab - www.korito.co.nz