Welcome to the “Geoff Lawton – Online Permaculture Design 2.0” course. In this comprehensive online program, you will dive deep into the world of permaculture with Geoff Lawton, a renowned expert in the field. Get ready to explore advanced permaculture design principles, techniques, and practices that will empower you to create sustainable and regenerative systems. Let’s embark on this journey together and unlock the potential of permaculture design.
Exploring the Essential Features of “Geoff Lawton – Online Permaculture Design 2.0“
Geoff’s newly-launched “Permaculture Circle” will guide you through the what, why, and how of permaculture.
Key Features:
- 70+ videos, animations, PDFs
- 24/7 online community
- 100% Free Access
About the Permaculture Research Institute (PRI): The Permaculture Research Institute (PRI) is located on a Permaculture demonstration site in The Channon, NSW, and is headed by Geoff & Nadia Lawton. We specialize in education & training worldwide and provide daily Permaculture news and information via permaculturenews.org. The Permaculture Research Institute is a not-for-profit organisation, limited by guarantee.
History: Permaculture founder Bill Mollison established the first Permaculture Institute in 1979 to teach the practical applications of Permaculture design. It was housed on a 147-acre farmstead named Tagari Farm in Northern NSW, Australia. Bill Mollison is the co-founder of permaculture, which was first described in the book ‘Permaculture One’, in 1978. Upon his retirement in October 1997, Bill asked Geoff to establish and direct a new institute on the property. Geoff agreed and continued developing the Farm over a three-year period. During this time, Geoff established the Permaculture Research Institute we all know and love today and after three years he moved it to Zaytuna Farm.
About Zaytuna Farm: Zaytuna Farm is situated on a sixty-six acre (27 hectares) property that fronts Terania Creek opposite the village of The Channon, Northern NSW. The property contains 800m of creek frontage, numerous swimming holes, and abundant wildlife. The landscape is diverse, covering high frost-free hilltops, ridges, and valleys with both cleared paddocks and forested areas.
Zaytuna Farm is a working permaculture education and demonstration farm under continuous development and with ever-changing and evolving on-ground research in practice. Work is consistently in progress to develop new, more efficient, and productive systems. Situated in subtropical Northern New South Wales, it offers students the opportunity to learn while experiencing a real-life permaculture farming and gardening live-in working experience situation. In addition to classroom time, students will train and work on daily farm duties interacting and caring for farm systems, which can include animals, crops, trees, nursery, aquatics, irrigation, renewable energy, waste, and recycling. Other tasks include looking at design in the landscape, making compost, natural fertilizers, testing soil, basic surveying, and completing design exercises.
Sustainable Infrastructure: There is an integrated water harvesting system of multiple dams, ponds, and swales, with gravity irrigation throughout the property. Farm electricity is all standalone off-grid solar with generator backup. All toilets are state-of-the-art composting toilets, and all grey waste systems are gravel reed bed natural biological cleaning systems, all approved by the local government. Zinc-alum metal roofing on all buildings harvests rainwater to water tanks and is pumped to a tank at the top of the property, supplying excellent pressure high-quality showering, washing, and drinking water to all the built infrastructure on site, all approved by the local government.
Diverse Agriculture: The continuous daily food production on the farm includes a large diversity of mixed vegetables and herbs, including aquatic crops, fruits in season, chickens for eggs and meat, plus ducks, quail, turkey, rabbits, and fish. Milk and dairy products come from a small dairy house cow herd plus a small beef herd. All animals that are processed for food are very carefully, precisely, and humanely slaughtered, butchered, and prepared for consumption on the farm. The farm has a large diversity of bamboo production for food and timber, plus farm forestry and reforestation, including river bank stability projects.
Expanding Mission: Zaytuna Farm was the first Master Plan site, but with The Permaculture Research Institute’s mission, many more have since flourished.
Intriguing Updates from Geoff:
- “Bike comeback: One of the ultimate retro approaches”
- “CALIFORNIA DROUGHT, GEORGIA HOPE, AND EARTHSHIPS…”
- “WEAR YOUR TRASH?”
- “Food-as-medicine: Hippocrates”
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