====== Plukrijp Permaculture Course 2013-2014 ======

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//**Aim of the course**//

  - to introduce permaculture as the alternative to western “culture”
  - to encourage (mostly young) people to develop more authentic life designs, more adapted to post-capitalist economic & social reality
  - to pass on agricultural & horticultural permaculture techniques to people who are starting up collective gardens, CSA's, Eco villages
  - to share group experiences with people so they get the taste of open dynamic purposeful community life

//**Concept**//

  - Plukrijp functions on a “circles of interest” mode
  - we encounter each other on a free, non-sectarian base, where scarcity of money, shelter or information are transcended
  - Plukrijp facilitates this exchange
  - through membership fees & free donations the costs of the infrastructures are met
  - meals, lodging, administration, websites, mailing lists, travel expenses, are paid for from this “magic hat”
  - there is an open accountancy, members can participate in the decision making, yearly meetings & can call for extra meetings
  - for meetings we practice the “love-unity” method, incorporating many of the new communication techniques

//**Practical arrangements for the permaculture course 2013-2014**//

  - membership fee = € 50 or free donation
  - each member tries to come to the 7 weekends
  - costs for each weekend = € 50 or free donation
  - at the end each member gets a CD with the texts of the course
  - weekends from Saturday 10 a.m. till Sunday 5 p.m.
  - meals & lodging are included
  - no alcohol, drugs or violence in words or deeds please
  - be on time, forcing others to wait for you is not nice
  - communication=REDACTED 

**Weekend 1 //: //**initiation weekend + garden practice

  * the 3 principles of permaculture
  * the flower of Holmgren, interactive exercise
  * our wiki at permabook.brozkeff.net, an introduction to the wide implications of perma
  * practice in the Plukrijp garden: a first visit to 15.000m² of 30+ years of perma

//French **5 & 6/10/2013** – Dutch, English **12 & 13/10/2013**//

**Weekend 2 //: //**fertility + techniques in permaculture gardening (part 1) + practice

  * soil life, compost, minerals
  * a forest or a garden; how to feed 7 billion humans ?
  * a short history of man's relationship to nature
  * food yearround from the permaculture garden ? How ? Why ? Tools ?
  * practical : synergy, resources, tools, techniques, systems in perma garden part 1



//French **2 & 3/11/2013** – Dutch, English **9 & 10/11/2013**//

**Weekend 3 //: //**social dynamics + design your project (part 1)

  * why/how groups ? + practical exercises

  * situational authority, flexibility, dependance games often played in groups
  * proximity vs exclusivity, a short history of the last 60 years
  * value = alternative money systems
  * the transition town movement
  * practice = design your life project part 1



//French **4 & 5/01/2014** – Dutch, English **11 & 12/01/2014**//

**Weekend 4 //: //**water + life design + design your project (part 2)

  * water in the permaculture garden-field
  * water as healing
  * the science of water anno 2013
  * fractals, spirals, waves : beyond the linear view
  * life design, a systemic approach to YOUR life
  * practice= design your project part 2

//French **1 & 2/02/2014** – Dutch, English **8 & 9/02/2014**//

**Weekend 5//: //**design, tools, techniques in permaculture gardening (part 2) + practice

  * design for gardens : tools, techniques, systematic approach in time & space
  * tools : what you need + how to keep it working
  * techniques : false seedbed, superficial cultivation, line seeding, mixed crops, edible cover crops, nursery plants, plant propagation, seed saving & exchange
  * practice: create a warm bed for early planting

//French **1 & 2/03/2014** – Dutch, English **8 & 9/03/2014**//

**Weekend 6 //: //**utopia, why not ? + design your village/town/community

  * some more & less realistic utopias from past & present
  * the story of debt, or the artificial creation of scarcity
  * deep ecology, modern slavery, tribal solutions to live a meaningful good life
  * practice = redesign your village, neighbourhood, household, town towards...

//French **5 & 6/04/2014** – Dutch, English **12 & 13/04/2014**//

**Weekend 7 //: //**cycles in nature, life, cosmos + techniques in permaculture gardening

(part 3) + PARTY !!!

  * in nature, the year, life, the cosmos
  * ancient (forgotten) civilisation: fiction or reality ?
  * practice = seeding, weed control, to mulch or not to mulch, that is the question, cover crops, combinations, ….
  * practice = party

//French **3 & 4/05/2014** – Dutch, English **10 & 11/05/2014**//

//**Keywords for the course**//

aerobic bacteria - co-creation – coherence - compost toilets – CSA – design - dry farming – durability - eco-villages - ecological footprint – ecosystems - edible crop cover - false seedbeds – flexibility – fluidity - food collective – give-away-shop - harmony - homeostatic dynamic balance - life design - low-impact – microbiology - microclimate - money alternatives – mulching – nomadism - paradigm change - peak everything – polytunnels – proximity - re-use/re-cycle/re-pair – resources – synergy – together – transition – value - water clusters - yin/yang