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Introductions and preparation for your PDC
- Permaculture is about working with Change
- Climate change
- Cycles and patterns
- Exploring your own life journey
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Ethics and values. Introduction to Permaculture
- Earth care
- People care
- Fair share – return surplus
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- Permaculture is not belief, it is built on observation and experience
- Nature is our teacher
- Turning problems into solutions
- Principles of natural systems
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- Soil and water
- Slow down the passage of resources through a system
- Strategies to trap energy in the system
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- Growing systems
- Forests and energy interactions
- Short-term, medium and long term yields
- Diversity of yields
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Limits and feedback – systems thinking
- Ecosystems and trophic cascades
- Everything is connected to everything else
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Designs
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- Compost
- Energy return
- Inputs and outputs
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Designs
Day at Treflach farm