Tagged: self sufficiency

Abundance in the garden: the backyard grocery store

Gardening / Plants / self reliance

13/08/2012

Abundance in the garden: the backyard grocery store

I love this time of year! Here on the Sunshine Coast, the sun shines brightly during the day, creating a wonderful 23 – 25 degrees C and then cooling down at night, which enables...

Tom Kendall of the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast.

Building / Courses / self reliance

29/07/2012

Wood Fired Hot Water Service

Self reliance skills: making a wood fired hot water service.

The new learning space at the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast

Courses / Food forest / Gardening

22/07/2012

Upcoming Permaculture Design Certificate course on the 19th August

The Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast has put several changes in place on site for the comfort of our Permaculture Design Certificate students.

Building the permaculture way: self reliant for most building components

Building / Courses / Earthworks / Farm animals / Food forest / Gardening / Nutrition / Recipes from the garden / Society / Wood harvesting

07/07/2012

Permaculture Life Skills Internship Curriculum

The curriculum for our 10 week long Permaculture Life Skills Internships, which will teach students practical permaculture and self reliance skills.

Tumeric tablets, dried, powdered and fresh from our permaculture gardens

Cooking hints / Recipes

04/07/2012

Turmeric

Easily get a healing dose of tumeric from your own permaculture garden by using this handy hint.

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.

End of the 12 day Permaculture Design Certificate course, during which an 18 day compost was started.

Courses / Gardening / Society

24/06/2012

Permaculture Design Certificate course 20 May 2012

The end of our Permaculture Design Certificate course shows us what steps must be taking in preparation for our next Permaculture Design Course.

Self reliance: Gluten Free Sour Dough Bread

Breakfast / Dinner / Gluten Free / Lunch / Recipes / Snacks / Vegan / vegetarian

20/06/2012

Gluten Free Sour Dough Bread

A recipe for Gluten Free Sour Dough bread.

Permaculture swale improvements by rockwall, result in improved garden beds with better edging.

Earthworks / Gardening

15/06/2012

Swale and garden bed improvements

Improvements to our permaculture swale resulted in improved edging for our permaculture garden beds.

Homemade sausage spice mixes, self reliance

Breakfast / Cooking hints / Dinner / Gluten Free / paleo / Recipes / scd

13/06/2012

Sausage spice mixes

Sausage mix spice recipes for homemade sausages.

Self reliance by making sausage casings from goat intestines

Farm animals / Recipes from the garden

10/06/2012

A romantic night in the kitchen

Making sausage casings from goat intestines.

Permaculture abundance in beans!

Farm animals / Gardening

03/06/2012

Creating abundance

By working towards a closed cycle on the property, and by using permaculture principles, we are becoming more and more abundant every day!

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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