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For 6 weeks you will live a permaculture life! Learn to think in permaculture ethics * solutions and learn to design projects.
This course not only teaches you to design for land and garden (or balcony and patio), but also for people and projects: social permaculture.
Join our 6-week hands-on Permaculture Design Course at permaculture farm Bogata Šuma and learn by doing, designing, and living permaculture every day!
20 hours of help per week
Social Work: Help with volunteer work in local projects and communities.
Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.
Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
Amount: € 300 Per week
Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers, Materials for volunteer activities, and Donation to project
Description: This is a 6 weeks practical Permaculture Design Course for which you get a certificate. The price includes: - the course and workshops on specific subjects (4-6 hrs daily), - 3 meals daily (with organic ingredients from our land), - a comfortable bed, - an unforgettable experience. We have > 20 years of experience with permaculture and where better to learn than on a permaculture farm!
2 days off per week
Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.
Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.
Team Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other people.
Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.
Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.
Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.
Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.
Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!
Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!
Get free drinks or beverages.: Drink up! Get free and tasty drinks for yourself.
Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.
Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.
Holistic Therapies: You can take part in any of our therapeutic activities for free.
Permaculture Course: Take part in our Permaculture course for free.
Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.
Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely
Fluent English
Between 18 and 80 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Academy Course Eco Certificate for Volunteers: Basic Concepts
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Permaculture thinking gives practical solutions to many of the challenges in our world; from soil degradation and food security to community resilience and climate change. It teaches us how to design systems where people and nature do really well together.
Join our 6-week Practical Permaculture Design Course at permaculture farm Bogata Šuma and learn by doing. Instead of sitting and listening to theory, you will work directly with the land; observing, designing, planting, building, and experiencing permaculture in everyday life.
If you want to deepen your skills, get more confidence in designing regenerative systems, and immerse yourself in real hands-on learning, this course is for you. Come learn, experiment, and grow with us!
"This PDC doesn’t just teach permaculture; it behaves like it"
This course is hands on and interactive. It is 6 weeks community living in our chosen group culture, with Cultural Emergence, sociocracy and other great tools being practiced. Permaculture design will be explained, demonstrated, explored and experienced.
We will start with an overview of what permaculture is, how ethics and principles help you with decision making, reading the landscape, how to setup ecological food growing systems, including several ways to build healthy soil, make compost and fertilizers, companion planting. We will find permaculture solutions for micro-local problems.
You will learn about soil, water, setting up a food forest, companion planting and tree guilds, animal care, natural building techniques, metal working, textiles, waste cycling, food preparation & preservation, wild foraging, how to take care of your health with herbs, how to make natural cleaning products and other ways to apply permaculture thinking in life.
We start the day at 10 with a morning check-in and a little bit of theory. Then we will bring this theory into practice, and connect it to real life.
??:?? free morning time, breakfast in own time, clean up
10:00 morning check-in
10:15 session 1
11:00 session 2
12:30 prepare lunch and fresh food for animals
13:00 lunch, clean up
14:00 break
15:00 session 3
16:00 session 4
17:00 free time/design time
19:00 dinner, cleaning up
20:00 free evening
Monday mornings: plan for the week
Friday afternoons: closing of the week, celebration
Weekends: free time.
An important rule in our household is that you are able to laugh.
We welcome you as you and we don't appreciate advocates for a battle that doesn't need to be fought here. Who you are matters for us; not what colours your skin has, what gender you identify with or who you prefer in your bed. That is not an issue here. We have hosted warriors who dominate the atmosphere with what others can or cannot say. We enjoy a light atmosphere and we might not be \"politically correct\" because we don't believe in politics. We believe in us all being humans and caring for the world.
We eat locally sourced, delicious meals that are varied and will keep your body well nourished. We do not cater a vegan diet.
