Wild Harvest School
Online Permaculture Course
Online Permaculture Course
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Grow More - Sustainably, with our Online Permaculture Course.
Learn on any device, at home, in your own time. Discover What Permaculture is and how, by modelling Mother Natures Methods you can grow more, for less. If you ever thought you were 'just not green fingered'?... then this is the course for you!
Who Is This Course For?
No pre-requisites are required for this course, it is suitable for those with an interest in managing a piece of land, whether this is a yard, garden or farm. If you would like to do this in harmony with Nature, learning to grow sustainably, whilst also obtaining the best yield possible, then you are in the right place!
What does our Online Permaculture Course Involve?
This course includes:
- 47 Written lessons to work through and complete
- Self-assessment quizzes
- Practical exercises where you go outside to complete a task
- 3 Hours of Videos
- Slide shows
- Downloadable Diagrams
- Downloadable Squared Paper
- Downloadable Theory Book
- Downloadable Project Planning Book
Students are also encouraged to add thoughts to the comments section of each lesson to get a dialogue going 'as if we were all in the class together'. So please do use the comments section to ask, to share, and to think aloud. We also aim to meet up on Google Meet for project planning discussions.
The course will culminate in you having drawn a base map of your plot and creating a permaculture design to lay over it.
FREE BONUSES: Download TWO FREE Permaculture E-Books!
Please remember to download and read the course books. There are two.
- The first is a 26 Page Theory E-Book which consolidates and adds to the information in the course and includes diagrams that are not included here. It's also sometimes nice to have something to read on paper too, and the book is included to support the learning in this course.
- The Second FREE BONUS E-Book is Your Project Book - Where the Fun Really Starts!
Overall Learning Aim of This Course
After learning to observe your land with a new perspective, you will analyse your observations and create a base map. Then, using permaculture design tools you will create a design on squared paper. You will discover how to implement this new design onto the land itself, using the practical permaculture methods outlined in the course. You will understand the need to subsequently evaluate and tweak the design to improve it as you continue implementing the design onto the land. Finally; maintaining and evolving your relationship with your own plot, Naturally.
Course Outline
Students Get 365 Days Access To ...
- Course Introduction
- Welcome to the CourseAbout Your Tutor
- Quiz - Permaculture and YOU
- The Fundamentals
- What is Permaculture?Permaculture EthicsPermaculture PrinciplesPermaculture Design ToolsPermaculture Methods
- The Principles Expanded (Di's Favourites and her take on them). Learn to Observe What is ThereAlways Obtain a Yield. Do an Input Output Analysis. Create Closed Loop Systems. The Ultimate Closed Loop System (Aquaponics). Small and Slow Solutions are More Sustainable. Encourage Diversity. Make the Problem the Solution. Value the Edge. Quiz - Your Favourite Permaculture Principles
- Practical Permaculture Methods - Composting MulchingNo DigRaised beds and Straw Bale GardeningWater Capture and Re-UsePlant Perennials and Heritage Self-Seeding Annuals3D plantingBiological methods
- It's all about the Base Map
- Turning your observations into a base map - Making a Base Map of Your Plot
- The Design Process and Tool Box
- Choosing elements to add to your design - how to efficiently place those elements into your design
- Put paths in last
- Designing YOUR Permaculture Plot.
- SADIME
- Summary
- Bringing it All Together
- Next Steps
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About Your Tutor
Di Hammill Page, got interested in Permaculture after she had her first baby 26 years ago. Concerned for the future of her new child she started reading all about how she could empower her new little family to live even more lightly on the Earth, to ensure children had a tomorrow that was worth inheriting.
After devouring Permaculture Magazine for a few years, she finally (two more children later), got time away from the home, to study at the Patrick Whitefield Permaculture Design Certificate Residential, where she says, her 'mind was blown'.
She had chosen well for her mentor and the location for his course. Ragmans Lane in Gloucestershire was a Permaculture farm, and the two week intense residential represented full immersion into Permaculture. She completed her PDC (Permaculture Design Certificate) with her final presentation in front of Patrick and the Ragmans Lane team in 2006.
After this, she travelled with the children to stay in various Permaculture Communities around the U.K and Europe, working for their keep. The youngest child strapped in a home-made sling, as they worked communally in the gardens, kitchens and the craft workshops.
Finally, she was ready to give everything up and live with her three children in an off-grid caravan, an experience she says was only possible because she had learned to Permaculture her life. She had learned to live with very little and as efficiently as Nature herself; Di believes without her knowledge of Permaculture principles and methods that parenting three small children alone, off-grid with nothing would have been much harder.
After running Wild Harvest School for a decade she decided to add Permaculture to the list of teaching she offered. Attending Leeds Permaculture Network courses as a shadow tutor to learn how to format a course and how to create learning opportunities in Permaculture. She began offering day courses from Wild Harvest in 2015. Six years later this popular day course is now available online, right here!
Wild Harvest School is also an organisational member of the Permaculture Association and in 2019 got to attend their Christmas Dinner. Our site here, in the rural outskirts of York, U.K is a 'LAND' demonstration site.
On behalf of Wild Harvest Di has given talks on living by Nature; on BBC, Channel Four and at National Shows including at Alexander Palace for the Centenary show of the Womens Institute, where she was challenged to convert the W.I members to Permaculture.
In this Online Permaculture course you will learn not only the basics of Permaculture as taught by many books/courses but especially Di's unique interpretation of it, but mostly how you can apply that in your own landscape.
Some Reviews From Our Past Permaculture Students.
"Went on a permaculture course at the weekend - Di’s such a knowledgeable teacher, she’s the kind of person you’d like to mind-meld with… If you’re interested in sustainability I can only recommend Wild Harvest School of Self-Reliance"
Sarah M
"Had a lovely day learning about Permaculture .... from a smooth transaction to purchase and good instructions of how to find the location, to a warm-friendly welcome that greeted us; first impressions were already great. No matter what your level of knowledge, Di delivers engaging information in a way that captures your mind and leaves you wanting to get home and start creating your own haven of self-reliance. With a lovely cosy cabin to sit and learn, amongst a view where the practical element of Permaculture is becoming evident on the farm; it is a brilliant experience. We are looking forward to learning Foraging next"
Helen C 🤗.
"Thank you for yesterday, the day was a really interesting and I am hoping to change a few things in our garden if I can convince my husband. I think the first thing we will do is make a wild area. I will keep checking your site for other events. "
Carol B
I came on a permaculture course with Di, I can honestly say this really changed my way of thinking about the world completely and yes I would certainly say changed my life..I began to see permaculture not just as a method of gardening it is truly a way of life which is much a gentler and kinder way of living on our earth..I can certainly say from that day onwards I permacultured my whole life I had a new way of thinking about things..I came home with a hunger to know more and with my list of recommended books from di I lost myself into this new world of permaculture.. I can not highly recommend this course enough, Di is a great teacher who is passionate about sustainable living
Cheryl A.
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Can I Get Feedback From a Human Within the Course?
Yes for sure! Every single lesson has a comments box under it where you can drop your thoughts about the lesson, and how to implement it yourself. Myself or Julie will always reply. BUT this comments box is NOT JUST FOR TEXT. You can even upload photos of your project, pdfs eg plans, recipes or anything you want, even videos for feedback, not just from tutors but from other students too!
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How Long Do I Get Access For?
You get a whole year, that is 365 days of access. We didn't used to put an end date on but we found that it helps folk complete their online courses when there is a distant but absolute deadline.
Can I Do The Lessons in Any Order?
Yes, unlike some online course providers we don't fix the order of the course as we understand that folk learn in different ways. Some are dippers and like to dip into different areas that currently interest them, while others will go through in order of content. You can do Wild Harvest Schools online courses and lessons in any order you wish.
Why Choose Wild Harvest?
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Long Established
We have stood the test of time. Established in 2006 we are nearly 20 years old! We have survived pandemics and recessions and are still here. Read our reviews as testimony to how hard we work to keep you happy! Others have come and gone but we are still strong through our professionalism, quality of service for the price, and resilience. Having gone from making £50 a year and living off-grid in a caravan from this business to running two tipi site sustainable education venues accommodating 26 residential students and speaking at National Shows and on TV about the subjects taught at Wild Harvest School
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Support Female-Led Independent Small Business.
Wild Harvest was set up by a single mum of three... slowly building a business around her children, without any help. No grants, no Daddy's purse strings - just hard work and dedication and determination to provide affordable sustainable education.
By choosing to learn with us you are supporting a small independent not a big company or grant funded coop. You are supporting effort and self-reliance. We also regularly give back through our strong eco and social responsibility policy (see our blog).
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Authentic - Your Tutor has LIVED the subjects
Many teachers learn an interest and quickly go on to teach it. Here Di, your tutor actually lived the life of self-sufficiency raising her children alone and off-grid. In addition to being a qualified adult education tutor Di's experience teaching AND living the subjects shows through her courses and ebooks.
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Quality of Education Combined with Value For Money
Here you will find qualified thorough experienced tutors, yet we remain more affordable than our competitors due to our mission to provide sustainable education to ALL. This affordable quality in offering online learning that Don't Cost the Earth is what has kept us going for two decades!