Permaculture Design Warwick
Working towards a sustainable future
Recent Activities
Community Garden
Beginning talks with Southern Downs Regional Council regarding setting up a Community Garden in Warwick. Council response (so far) has been positive. I'll update this section as news comes to hand.
Permaculture Group
Along with the establishment of a Community Garden, the next step is calling a meeting to gauge the level of interest in forming a local Permaculture group. I'm just booking a spot on Rainbow FM,the local community radio station to start drumming up some interest. I'll update this section as news comes to hand.
Sat 5th June 2010
We had a stand at the World Environment Day event,held at the Warwick Town Hall .We were very pleasantly surprised by the turnout. Especially encouraging was the number of people who had heard of Permaculture, and were interested in attending upcoming workshops to improve their knowledge.
Good to see a lot of new faces to the district, many of them "tree-changers" - welcome to you all.
Off-site links
Upcoming sessions, workshops and courses
October - December 2010
Permaculture Design Warwick is seeking expressions of interest from people wishing to complete an extended delivery Permaculture Design Certificate Course, to be held in the Stanthorpe area this Spring.
The course has been designed to allow for people who, for various reasons, cannot commit to a single 14 day “traditional” course delivery.
The course will be delivered over a series of alternate weekends, through a three month period, from early October to December 2010.
More information here
August - September 2010
- Information session - Permaculture principles and practices
- Public meeting - Forming a local Permaculture group
Dates and times to be advised
Permaculture - what is it?
Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.
Permaculture design is a system of assembling conceptual, material, and strategic components in a pattern which functions to benefit life in all its forms.
The philosophy behind permaculture is one of working with, rather than against, nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless action; of looking at systems in all their functions, rather than asking only one yield of them; and allowing systems to demonstrate their own evolutions.
From Permaculture Research Institute of Australia