Tagged: Animal

dairy / Farm animals / Nutrition / Permaculture / self reliance

18/03/2013

Separating cream

We currently have 2 Jersey cows in milk, having had their beautiful babies not so long ago. As breastfeeding mums can attest, the more the babies feed the more the mums produce, which is...

biogas / Building / Courses / self reliance

24/02/2013

Biogas project at PRI Sunshine Coast

For some years now we have been looking at minimising our energy consumption, and at alternative forms of energy creation in order to produce the energy we need. As we have animal systems in...

Permaculture / self reliance

24/02/2013

Gallery

A collection of photos taken here on the property. A mix of outdoor, indoor, courses, people and animals at PRI Sunshine Coast!

Farm animals / Gardening / Permaculture / self reliance

10/12/2012

A day in the life of Tom Kendall

We recently had a photography student named Matt on our property who had chosen us as his project for an assignment at Uni. Matt needed to portray “A day in the life of…” with...

Farm animals / Permaculture

02/12/2012

Natural pest control

Tom and I were absolutely stumped when we saw an ad on tv (we were away, we do not have television at home, so we are a bit out of touch in regards to...

New additions to the goat family

25/10/2012

New additions to the goat family

After a pregnancy of around 4 months, our grumpy Saanen goat Marigold had two male kids, named Pheelix and Phanjo by my 11-year old.

Unexpected extra-curricular activities at the PDC course

Courses / Farm animals / Society

30/08/2012

Unexpected extra-curricular activities at the PDC course

Some of our PDC students were very happy to be asked to help get a donkey off the main road by our neighbour. It became a little adventure that was subject of many talks...

A rich dark compost from chook manure for our permaculture gardens

Farm animals / Gardening

01/07/2012

Chook poo hot compost

A happy accident led to a beautiful compost from chook manure, which fed our permaculture gardens.

Permaculture animal systems and animal routines, extremely important for health and wellbeing of the animal.

27/05/2012

Creatures of habit

Routines are vital for animals and humans alike!

Course feedback

“I would recommend Tom Kendall’s PDC to anyone looking to learn or become part of the Permaculture Community. I really enjoyed the course. It was also an excellent opportunity to learn from someone who has always worked with the land and who has spent a long time developing that relationship into what it is now. I learned a great deal about the agricultural systems from a practical and solutions based perspective. And yes, they are lovely people too.
It means a lot to me that they offered the course as pay-as-you-can and as self catered. I am in the position where I can only find sporadic work and rather than waste my time feeling stuck I was able to learn and find new opportunities with this course. The sense of community it gives was also really important to me and I am great full to them for being generous with their time. It is something that will give more value as time goes on and I hope to return this fully when I’m able. ”
Marni, PDC 02/2020

“ Unlike all the other students I had no previous knowledge in permaculture and it far exceeded my expectations. I was happy to see the ethics related to this topic were one of your criteria. I would highly recommend this course and have done so already multiple times and will continue to refer people to you in all my travels
To be able to do the course by donation has meant to me that I’ve been able to upskill myself for an affordable amount in a time of current unemployment.
It also meant I could please my curiosity on this topic and dip my toes in the water with the little knowledge I had in this field where as a full price course would have not lead me down this path. I thank you both so kindly for your contribution in getting this knowledge out there in our current global situation.”
Todd Dent, PDC 02/2020

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