The course is certified by Permaculture Association (UK) & Roots 'n Permaculture. It will help you delve deeper into how we can use permaculture to create rich and beneficial relationships between people, communities, and the environment around them. This includes how to grow food, build homes, and create economies while enriching and caring for nature.
Special emphasis will be placed on creating a temporary community for the duration of the course, in which we will use social permaculture tools — especially sociocracy — to ensure that everyone's needs are taken into account. This way, we can all enjoy living together in a joyful, supportive and inspiring learning environment.What is "permaculture"?
Permaculture is a design system for creating abundance in all aspects of our lives. Permaculture teaches us how to build natural homes, grow our own food, restore diminished landscapes and ecosystems, catch rainwater, build communities, take care of waste and much more.
The word 'permaculture' historically comes from 'permanent agriculture' and has evolved into 'permanent culture' - it is about living lightly on the planet, and making sure that we can live in harmony with nature while sustaining human activities for many generations to come.
Permaculture is a rigorous and systematic set of tools, ecological principles and methodologies, underpinned by ethics, which help us to design and create this culture of permanence. A culture that allows us to design how we cater for all our needs and the needs of the planet and all its creatures, without exploiting or depriving other humans or creatures of their needs.
The ultimate goal is to create systems that create abundance for all humans, creatures and mother earth, without exploitation of humans, animals or earth’s non renewable resources.
With permaculture insight we can design our inner tranquility, it can be applied to creating integrated and supportive communities, building or retrofitting houses to be more energy efficient, creating ethical businesses and livelihoods, as well as creating rich abundant low maintenance food growing spaces.
What is "sociocracy"?
Sociocracy is a whole system governance and decision making method which is based on and encourages equivalence, transparency, and effectiveness in an organisation. It encourages collaborative innovation, minimises lengthy governance meetings, and helps everyone participate in shaping the decisions that affect them.
During the PDC we will put sociocracy into practice on a daily basis. The first day of the course we establish what every person wants from the course, from which we derive a common vision. We then create a mission and aim on how to achieve our vision. We then embed a feedback mechanism to check if we are meeting these aims, so we can keep adjusting our collaboration every day.
Sociocracy ensures everyone's voice is heard and all our individual and collective needs are met.
Program
The course will from day one put into practice social permaculture. We will learn sociocracy to create a community and practically explore how we ensure everyone's needs are met, and how everyone can safely express themselves, without conflict.
Having found our inner balance within our newly forged community, we then move into exploring the traditional permaculture syllabus, including environmentally friendly food growing; soil generation; water management; house building; alternate economics and livelihood, etc.
Having explored the theory of permaculture ethics, principles and approach to challenges, we will then move on to in depth design work and practicals (hands-on work), which solidifies the theory.
The emphasis remains on learning the patterns and concepts that are applied in permaculture, so you can apply this to all aspects of your life after the course has finished. Hence the practicals will be a way to reinforce the theory and design work that we cover.
Where and when appropriate we will visit nearby intentional communities and projects that integrate permaculture in their design (subject to consent by the students).
The curriculum will cover the following areas:
Principles of natural systems Sustainable design methodologies Patterns and regularities in nature Relying on the land and understanding natural processes Water collection and use techniques Design principles for sustainable human settlements Grey water recycling Natural Building Design Strategies Food forests, plant guilds and self-sufficiency gardens Energy saving technologies Urban permaculture and transition towns Wildlife management and biological pest control Community activism Invisible structures: people, community, economy, eco-villages Sociocracy and good community governance Community-supported agriculture At the end of the course, participants work on a group design project.Course objectives Identify and understand the basic principles and ethics of permaculture and nature-based systems. Developing key skills, mastering a variety of land-reading tools, and creating analysis of various systems, while taking into account client needs.
Strengthening skills in creating certified projects and gaining experience in designing for a better future.
Our hosts Sharena Fabrika
Sharena Fabrika is an educational campus for culinary arts and crafts located near Sopot Dam in Golyama Zhelyazna village.
The culinary program is developed in partnership with the prestigious French culinary academy FERRANDI Paris. The three main programs are French and Balkan Cuisine, Bread and Bakery, and French Pastry.
In keeping with the school’s “Roots to table” philosophy, the Sharena Fabrika campus features 12-decare gardens, serving both as a source of fresh seasonal produce for the culinary school and campus restaurant, and as the teaching space for the Permaculture Design Certificate courses.
RequirementWelcome to anyone 18 and over, whatever your experience level.
Certificate
Permaculture Design Certificate by Permaculture Association of UK
Certified teachers Rakesh Rootsman Rak Daniel Dimov Apprentice teachers No apprentice teacher places available on this course Course type Permaculture Design Course Engagement style Face to face Postal address of venueSharena Fabrika Golyama Zhelyazna Bulgaria
Course contact email hello@sharenafabrika.com Contact name Daniel Share this course Copied to clipboard- Log in to post comments