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Advanced Permaculture Course's

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Advanced Permaculture Course

 

Apart from teaching the Permaculture Design Course, Christoff Schneider will be facilitating a series of Advanced Permaculture Courses for those who would like to delve deeper into these areas of interest.

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Christoff will be hosting a 2 Day Soil & Composting Intensive, a 3-day Advanced Permaculture Design Course, a 4 Day In-depth  Gardening & Food Forest Systems course and a 4-day course on building a Pizza Oven, Rocket Stoves, Pyrolysis for making Activated Charcoal and an introduction to Mud Building.

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Christoff has experience of  working in professional composting units across Europe, has worked as a professional Permaculture Designer and designed many Permaculture spaces, on small-scale gardens & properties up to 1600 ha and large scale, he has successfully created many productive gardens, has been using activated charcoal in his experiments and work for a long time and has spent a lot of time creating and teaching different forms of natural design.

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He will be sharing his expertise over the 13 days of the Advanced Courses with more time to explore specific areas of interest. For beginners and advanced practitioners.

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SESSION 1: COMPOSTING & HUMUS BUILDING,

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  • Understanding the Living System, Humus & Soil

  • Soil & Humus & Edaphon versus Fertilizer & Mulch & Green Manure

  • The role & quality of hot composting, cold composting & quality worm farming in sustainable closed loop systems

  • Soil pollution & erosion

  • Creation and Composition of Soil

  • Soil pores and crumb structure

  • The Edaphon

  • Understanding the role of Main Nutrients and Trace Elements

  • Soil improvement

  • Soil Testing

  • Hot Composting with controlled microbiological carbonisation,

  • Cold composting, Soil Mixtures, Compost Extracting for gardens & farms, the use of perfectly activated Terra Preta

  • Hot Composting with future controlled microbiological carbonization, different ways and the advantages of cold composting, -VSA = Visual Soil Assessment

  • Worm farming

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SESSION 2: ADVANCED PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE, 

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  • 3 day Advanced Design, only for PDC graduates. A step-by-step guide, real-life approach to working with clients in the field including one-on-one mentoring with Christoff.

  • We fit this course to your personal needs and preference in the design process

  • Design process overview

  • Reading the landscape and natural patterns

  • Using Zones and Sectors-planning beyond landscape design to structure daily life, projects, companies and aid projects

  • Client interview and goal articulation -Practical collecting of information necessary

  • Creating a quotation

  • Laws: Finding out regulations and talking with administration

  • Planning exercises of given design tasks in groups and/or of your own personal project.

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SESSION 3: FOOD FOREST SYSTEMS & GARDENING IN DEPTH, 

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  • Food Forest, Forest Gardening, Agroforestry: We will go through all the steps on how to create highly energy efficient Food Forests, discuss Forest Gardening and Agroforestry systems.

  • The pattern language of a forest

  • Succession in natural systems

  • Planning, Design, and Maintaining of food forest systems

  • Water management small and big scale

  • Use of tools, machinery, and animals to prepare the land

  • Pioneer plants for regeneration

  • Improving soil-microbiology for better humus building

  • Suitable trees and plants

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BUILDING GARDEN BEDS –

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  • Explaining and building; planning, calculating, earthworks

  • Finding and best use of local resources

  • The advantage of ”good” tools.

  • Raised, mound, mandala, keyhole gardens, vertical gardens

  • Pot planting

  • Polyculture systems, planting regimes, green manure crops, perennial cropping systems

  • Water management

  • Integrated animal management

  • How to set up a simple greenhouse, walipini, nursery, winter garden

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SESSION 3: PIZZA OVEN, ROCKET STOVE WITH PYROLYSIS, BOTTLE WINDOW BUILDING, MUD BUILDING, MUD BRICKS(Adobe), CLAY PLASTER, 

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In this workshop, we learn how to

  • Find suitable clay-

  • Test clay mixtures for different purposes

  • Discuss several technical realization options for clay ovens, rocket stoves, lorena stoves

  • Build a foundation for our projects

  • Build simple but very functional pizza-oven & rocket stove with pyrolysis for harvesting charcoal

  • Make a bottle window

  • Make mud bricks and play around with clay plaster

  • Make simple pottery for having even more creative fun

  • Screening of movie about straw bale building before heading to the bonfire

  • Theory of how to build mud houses, getting an overview of different techniques and some hands-on experience.

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