Courses

Join Fungi Feastival’s mushroom growers of the NSW far south coast at Pip Magazine HQ in Pambula to learn how to grow exotic mushrooms at home.

Fair Harvest Permaculture Teachers with Rosemary Left to right Back row Jeff Nugent, Jema McCabe, Jodie Lane, Rosemary Morrow Front row Rod Hughes, Tamara Clements, Brenna Quinlan, Patrick Shannon After hosting an amazing week of Permaculture Training I asked one of our teachers Rod Hughes to write about how this week influenced our two week live in Permaculture Design Course […]

Reducing your intake of animal products is a powerful and positive step towards a more compassionate lifestyle, and greatly reduces your environmental impacts. ;

This past June of 2021, we presented our first in-person PDC in over a year. It was an intimate course of 8 compared to the 24 person online courses we had been administering over the winter and spring. The change of pace was wonderful. We had the joy of hosting this course at Bending Oak …

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Permaculture Design Certificate September 2020 Thank you to another amazing group of individuals who chose to spend two weeks of their time here atFair Harvest. Thank you also to our clients who’s property was used for the design project. and who gave their time so willingly. Here are two write ups from students who joined us on the course. The […]

An important aspect of permaculture design is to always consider the whole system and the relationship of the elements which combine together to make it. This idea of “whole-and-its-parts” is relevant whether you are cooking a meal, designing a productive vegetable garden or coordinating a permaculture design course (PDC). While food and location are important parts of PDC preparation, the […]

How much hands on gardening is in a PDC? This is a question that has been debated by PDC (Permaculture Design Certificate) teachers quite often. We get so much feedback from students that they love the “hands on” elements and that many of them feel that they learn best this way. On the other hand the PDC is not a […]