PermaDyanmics Syntropic Food Forest Course

Food Forests In Syntropy
Course

with Klaus Lotz

14th - 15th December
10am - 5pm Saturday : 10am - 5pm Sunday

This course focuses on the design, implementation and management of a food forest, contour and off contour terracing, hugle and swale systems as well as species identification, use and management.

You will be learning the philosophy of syntropic forest gardening in a permaculture food forest in its one to fourteenth year sequence.

Klaus Lotz has over 30 years of international permaculture consulting and implementation experience . This course is designed to empower you to transform any soil, slope, vegetation to its full natural potential through syntropic principals that can be applied anywhere in the world.

Location: PermaDynamics Farm, Matapouri, Whangarei
Free camping available

10 am - 5pm

Morning
Lecture: Introduction to Permaculture design principals.

Food forest design layout
Role of nitrogen fixing plants
Observation of climate and soil
Plant requirements and use
Water recycling and retention design
Economic comparasons

Afternoon
Practical: Introduction to permaculture practical design principals.

Plant species identification
Soil observation, soil preparation and
amendments
Tool selection and skills
Hugle Beds
Guild planting
Banding
Observation of nature to gain understanding of the environment and how to work with it.

10 am - 5pm

Morning:
Lecture: In depth discussion on the principals of succession dynamic and stratification.

Syntropic farming
Design feedback
Diversification
Soil condition, fertilization and Biodynamics
Microbial inoculation and biochar
Animal incorporation

Afternoon:
Practical: Implementation and management of an established food forest and permaculture system.

Pruning and stratification
Plant identification and propagation
Disease identification
Harvest equipment, timing
Management skills
Maintaining Syntropy in a Food Forest

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15% group discount on groups of 4 or more!
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Cancellation policy:
Cancellations 7 days before the course date, 85% refund. Cancellations after this time 50% refund. No refunds given with less than 48 hours cancellation notice.