[MonashCommunityGarden] Fwd: Permaculture course

[Tim Scott]

Hi everyone.  I sent this email to Terry re. the upcoming permaculture course
<http://www.southerncrosspermaculture.com.au/pdc-courses/>at Southern Cross
Permie Institute <http://www.southerncrosspermaculture.com.au/> in Sth
Gippsland.  Anyone who was interested should give me a yell to sort out
whether it's viable for them n their uni subjects, figure out what
fundraising may need to be done if/after the Uni gets behind the idea, and
oh yeah, to get really excited about 2 inspiring, fun weeks of learning by
doing.

Cheers,
Tim

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tim Scott <timscott97 at gmail.com>
Date: 20 March 2010 00:06
Subject: Permaculture course
To: Terry Hogan <terry.hogan at adm.monash.edu.au>


Hi Terry,

We'd love some help trying to get up to 3 students to an upcoming 2-week
permaculture course.  The cost is ~$1000 each.  We think it would be of
great benefit to the Monash Permaculture Garden community's skillset, the
culture and student experience of integrated learning on campus, and the
quality of the garden on campus (food production yield, biodiversity,
aesthetics, ...)

Some more information...

Southern Cross Permaculture
Institute<http://www.southerncrosspermaculture.com.au/>(SCPI) in South
Gippsland is running a Permaculture Design Certificate
course <http://www.southerncrosspermaculture.com.au/pdc-courses/> very soon,
from March 26th-April 10th.  It is an intensive 2 week residential course
held near Leongatha, which expands from theoretical principles to lots of
hands-on experience and includes a couple of trips to other local
demonstration properties.

We have previously had external permaculture designers consult with us on
the Monash Permaculture Garden (MPG), and we feel that it is now time to
more rapidly gain skills *within* the community of [largely student]
gardeners on campus.  With this in mind, we would like to send up to 3
people on the upcoming course, with an expectation that they will share
their skills with other MPG members through working bees and workshops.

Rick Coleman from SCPI in fact assisted the Monash Permaculture Garden in
its formative stages, and recently gave some sage advice about effective
community engagement & volunteer management.  Kat Lavers, who has taught an
MSA short courses class in our garden, will be teaching a section of this
course, and has also been assisting us with the garden recently.

It would be wonderful if we could arrange some kind of Uni-funded subsidy
for the course.

Any ideas, questions, and support would be fantastic.
Regards,

Tim  (for the Monash Permaculture Garden)

-- 
Tim Scott
timscott97 at gmail.com
0411 345 983



-- 
Tim Scott
timscott97 at gmail.com
0411 345 983
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