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Family Permaculture Course
6 - 10 August 2014
Allanton World Peace Sanctuary, Dumfries, Scotland
The Families' Permaculture course is going to be a great learning adventure with loads of nature-time, fun & games, songs, activities, permaculture workshops, stories, cooking on a fire, learning about nature, circle time and lots more.
As most of us will be camping, we will get to spend lots of time as a whole family, learning, cooking and being together, and time in small groups, doing age-appropriate learning (if you want to!).
Allanton World Peace Sanctuary offers families the opportunity to explore the beautiful woodland, two acre walled garden, labyrinth, old mansion house, bothy, camping area, & campfire – whilst learning about permaculture.
Teachers
James Chapman, Lusi Alderslowe, and Niamhue Robins
bring a wealth of experience & knowledge to this course. Offering various teaching methods, styles and expertise, which means a fully rounded and holistic experience.
James and Lusi are experienced permaculture teachers, who both completed their permaculture diplomas in early 2011.
James has many years experience living with and applying permaculture principles and ethics, having been involved in woodland management, woodwork & timber framing and a time working in a Community Compost Project. James will be leading the adult workshops. www.jameschapman.org.uk
Kids leaders - Lusi is a Forest School Leader, co-founder of Nurture in Nature (an outdoor playgroup in Glasgow featured in the Permaculture Magazine) and contributed to the temperate edition of the book 'Outdoor Classrooms; A Handbook for school gardens'.
http://www.permaculture.org.uk/user/lusi-alderslowe/profile
Niamhue is aiming to complete her permaculture diploma this year, and has lots of experience working with kids, including as a school teacher. Niamhue is passionate about alternative education, natural crafts, wild foraging, medicinal plants and raw food cooking http://muddyfingers.weebly.com/
Sliding scale prices: £100 - £460
Book your place
email: courses@jameschapman.org.uk
Tel: Tracey 07561883097
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Venue Information
Allanton World Peace Sanctuary is a warm and tranquil place for events that fit in with our way of living. Inside the beautiful old stately home is a conference room, peace room, reception, kitchen, dining room, as well as twin, double, and family rooms.
Food
All meals will be vegetarian. If you have special dietary requirements, then please let us know when booking. Food will be included in the price of the course and we will take turns to prepare and cook the meals.
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Course details
We would like to offer families the opportunity to learn about:
• Observation / Surveying tools
• Making maps
• Tree ID
• Making fires
• Seeing and using patterns in nature and design
• Noticing and using micro-climates
• Working on a small design project
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Certificate
We will issue our own certificate of completion of the course for attendees. In addition, the course can count as between 1 and 2.5 modules of a full permaculture design course . If you would like to do the full design course, accredited by the Permaculture Association (Britain), then you can complete the course in Scotland, on any of the modular courses run in Scotland, such as those run in Glasgow, Edinburgh,
Kilmartin or Coldstream.
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