
Saraya
Advanced Permaculture Course's

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
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Soil & Humus & Edaphon versus Fertilizer & Mulch & Green Manure
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The role & quality of hot composting, cold composting & quality worm farming in sustainable closed loop systems
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Soil pollution & erosion
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Creation and Composition of Soil
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Soil pores and crumb structure
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The Edaphon
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Understanding the role of Main Nutrients and Trace Elements
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Soil improvement
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Soil Testing
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Hot Composting with controlled microbiological carbonisation,
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Cold composting, Soil Mixtures, Compost Extracting for gardens & farms, the use of perfectly activated Terra Preta
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Hot Composting with future controlled microbiological carbonization, different ways and the advantages of cold composting, -VSA = Visual Soil Assessment
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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.
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We fit this course to your personal needs and preference in the design process
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Design process overview
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Reading the landscape and natural patterns
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Using Zones and Sectors-planning beyond landscape design to structure daily life, projects, companies and aid projects
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Client interview and goal articulation -Practical collecting of information necessary
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Creating a quotation
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Laws: Finding out regulations and talking with administration
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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.
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The pattern language of a forest
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Succession in natural systems
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Planning, Design, and Maintaining of food forest systems
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Water management small and big scale
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Use of tools, machinery, and animals to prepare the land
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Pioneer plants for regeneration
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Improving soil-microbiology for better humus building
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Suitable trees and plants
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BUILDING GARDEN BEDS –
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Explaining and building; planning, calculating, earthworks
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Finding and best use of local resources
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The advantage of ”good” tools.
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Raised, mound, mandala, keyhole gardens, vertical gardens
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Pot planting
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Polyculture systems, planting regimes, green manure crops, perennial cropping systems
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Water management
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Integrated animal management
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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
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Find suitable clay-
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Test clay mixtures for different purposes
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Discuss several technical realization options for clay ovens, rocket stoves, lorena stoves
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Build a foundation for our projects
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Build simple but very functional pizza-oven & rocket stove with pyrolysis for harvesting charcoal
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Make a bottle window
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Make mud bricks and play around with clay plaster
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Make simple pottery for having even more creative fun
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Screening of movie about straw bale building before heading to the bonfire
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Theory of how to build mud houses, getting an overview of different techniques and some hands-on experience.