Permaculture Year Round Fruit and Veges Day Course

YEAR ROUND FRUIT AND VEGES COURSE

A one-day course comprising theory and practical sessions to protect your garden with edible/non-edible shelter & espaliers, and planning for year-round fruit, vegetables, microgreens and herbs for your garden.
Espalier Fruit Trees

• Fruit tree training systems for pip fruit – espalier and candelabra
• Creating an espaliered fence and finishing off an espalier
• Spires, columns, and cordons, arches, stepovers and fruit fans
• Practical – how to erect an espalier structure or how to prune espalier trees/bushes/vines

Herb Spiral
• How to design a herb spiral and what scale to use
• Ingredients, orientation and positioning
• Laying, filling, planting and herb layout
• Practical – basic designing and laying out a herb spiral with bricks

Shelter and Fedges
• Solid fences and walls versus windbreak netting
• How a windbreak works, designing a windbreak – spacing and protection
• Native shelter trees and spacing of trees, fedges (food hedges)
• Practical – planning out a shelterbelt from scratch

Growing Food All Year Round (succession planting)
• Brassicas, beans and peas, rootcrops and alliums
• Cut and come again greens
• Direct sow and sowing in containers
• Non succession continual cropping
• Practical – direct sowing and transplanting of crops with tips and tricks

Microgreens
• What are microgreens – what varieties grow best at different times of the year
• Equipment – materials and upcycling containers
• Process and timing of crops and harvesting
• Practical – growing microgreens and tasting

Cost $100 per person. Places are limited to 12 – includes morning & afternoon tea.

Practical and theory sessions based on an urban permaculture property in New Plymouth which has a 7 year old food forest.

To book a place on the course, contact: Dee Turner: 0211252035 or derinatur@hotmail.com. Dee has been teaching permaculture in New Zealand for 20 years, having trained with Geoff Lawton and Joe Polaischer.

Check out the website for feedback on the courses, full details of the practical projects, and a complete rundown of the content – ‘permaculture’ tab – www.korito.co.nz