Practical Food Forests and Permaculture

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1 Practical Food Forests and Permaculture Live and learn a week on a permaculture farm in France Go home fully inspired with a design for your own garden or land May 2019 Simply Permaculture in France Theory Practical Permaculture Cooking with Nature Applying your Knowledge

2 Practical Food Forests and Permaculture Live and learn a week on a permaculture farm in France Go home fully inspired with a design for your own garden or land You discovered permaculture and dream of implementing it on your own land. But where to start? Come and live a week at the Farm of Simply Canvas & Permaculture in France. During the workshop you can enjoy an extensive menu of experience and education in the field of food forests and permaculture. Experience and Knowledge Together with Martijn Aalbrecht, Sandra and Santi have bundled their knowledge and experience in the area of food forests and permaculture. Martijn owns one of the oldest food forests in The Netherlands on 1 acre of ladn. He build his own house including a mass rocket heater and is currently building a climate battery greenhouse. Sandra and Santi have been living for 10 years on their farm in France where they design their 12.5 acres of land according to the permaculture principles. In 2015 they mounted their non profit organisation Simply Permaculture. The land is a demonstration site for permaculture projects and open to the public. You can observe many different subjects in practice like swales, an aquaponicssystem, the trio s of Sobkowiak (a system for a commercial permaculture orchard), water management systems, flower spirals and a good selection of edible flowers, herbs and trees. Martijn, Sandra and Santi followed a long list of workshops during the last 10 years in the field of permaculture, plant knowledge, food forests and more. However more important than that is that they tested the theory and put it into experience by implementing many different projects on their own land. So no matter if you want to start a small garden, a food forest or a commercial permaculture orchard for income, this week Martijn, Sandra and Santi are there for you to share their expercience in a.o. the following fields: Food Forests Commercial permaculture orchard Vegetable garden in permaculture Aquaponics system Water management systems (both in case of drought or too much water Swales Edible herbs and flowers Cooking with nature Farm animals in permaculture for a small holding Different soil in permaculture Flower spirals Reed filter systems Rocket mass heater Biodynamic beekeeping Climate battery greenhouse Living in a community Using less energy

3 Practical permaculture Permaculture can be seen as a way of living because of the many subjects belonging to permaculture. Within gardening you can explore many directions already, but also energy use and mindful living have their place at the permaculture table. It is so vast that it is sometimes difficult to know where to start. We aspire to send you home with a design for your own garden or land and that you can make an inspired start. Therefore the program is not yet fully known. Of course we will discuss several basic subjects, but the rest of the program will be dedicated to fit your needs and experience. Before you come we will send you an extensive questionnaire to understand what your wishes and needs are. The program will be made to fit these needs. Knowledge level You don t need extensive knowledge in the area of permaculture, but of course it is ok if you have some. The program is accessible for both beginners and the more knowledgable people who look for applying their knowledge on the land. If you don t have land yet you can practice your design on a piece of our land or on a fictive piece of land. The farm The roots of the farm where you will be staying date back to 1780 when it was a mixed farm of cows, vineyards and grains. In 2009 Sandra and Santi came to live here (by then the land had not been cultivated for over 10 years). They made it into a small scaled ecological holiday destination with 6 safari tents and 3 cottages. The land is a work in progress and gets new plantations and permaculture projects every year. The program We start the mornings with 1.5 hours of basic theoretics. After this we will go more in depth into a specific subject. Because of the many demonstration projects present already on teh land, much of the teaching will happen outside. After lunch the afternoons will aternate with different choises like working on the land, go more in depth on a specific subject that you have asked for in the questionnaire, work on your design or we will go on a outing. The week has a nice balance between practical knowledge, relaxation and theoretics. Language The workshop is in English and Dutch (translation to either language where needed) Price The week is 795 euros per person including all meals, the activities and a shared 2-person accommodation (per persoon inclusief volpension, een gedeelde tweepersoons accommodatie 150 extra for a 1-person accommodation). Excluding your trip to Simply Permaculture (you can come by train or plane to Bergerac where we come and pick you up). Your stay, food and surroundings You stay in a cottage or safari tent surrounded by the rolling hills of Southwest France close to Bergerac (Dordogne). This is a small corner in France where life is still at a slower pace. The daily farmer s markets are filled with local and organic produce. Local and organic meat is easy to come by and people shake each other s hands when they meet. Sandra and Santi cook with local/organic produce, where possible from their own land. Of course we will also visit one of the farmer s markets, you cannot miss out on coffee and croissants. Your teachers Martijn, Sandra and Santi have integrated permaculture and food forests for many years into their lives. For several years they teach workshops and show people around their land in The Netherlands and France. Most important is that they apply their knowledge directly on their own land.

4 Background Martijn Starting over 10 years ago with a permaculture vegetable garden he bought an acre of land in 2012 where he started his food forest. His food forest is now one of the oldest and most complete food forests in The Netherlands. Besides thousands of trees, bushes and groundcovers he also has bees which he keeps in a biodynamic way. Last year he build his own house with rocket mass heater. His latest project is a climate battery greenhouse. This greenhouse is 30 x 20 feet. It is very well insulated and in the ground there are hundreds of meters of drainage pipes with ventilators. This so called climate batttery technique regulates the temperature in the greenhouse in which he then hopes to create a (sub) tropical climate without external heating. Martijn lives with his family in the East of The Netherlands. Inmiddels is zijn voedselbos één van de oudste en meest complete voedselbossen van Nederland. Workshops and trainings 2012 forest gardening course;martin Crawford 2013 yeartraining biodynamic beekeeping; Wim van Grasstek 2014 workshop humisme; Mark Siepman 2015 advanced forest gardening; Martin Crawford 2016 training building rocket mass heaters; Fire and Cobb 2018 forest garden greenhouse course; Martin Crawford 2018 year training causes of health; Birgit Sporenberg 2018 advanced biodynamic beekeeping; Albert Muller Background Sandra and Santi Santi was born in Laos and grew up in France, Sandra comes from a family of treegrowers close to Amsterdam. Both have over 25 years of meditation experience and lived many years in a spiritual community. Because of this experience mindfulness is integrated in their daily lives. When arriving on their farm in France in 2009 the permaculture adventure started acres is a good amount of land and Sandra and Santi love to try out different projects. Their main income comes out of their glamping holiday destination situated on about 2.5 acres of land. The other 10 acres are dedicated to the development of permaculture projects. Workshops and trainings 2013 permaculture design course; Stephen & Fiona Hanson 2014 workshop building rocket mass heaters 2014 workshop edible herbs 2015/2016 training organic beekeeping 2015 advanced forest gardening; Martin Crawford 2017 workshop commercial permaculture orchards: Stefan Sobkowiac 2017 workshop grafting 2018 cursus forest garden greenhouse; Martin Crawford

5 Practical information Date: May 2019 Place: Simply Permaculture, Bonac, Saint Jean de Duras (vlakbij Bergerac), France. Price: 795 including meals, workshop and transfers Subscribe: Mail to / Stay: You stay in a cottage or safari lodge tent on a permaculture farm of 12.5 acres. Surrounded by the rolling hills of SW France close to Bergerac (Dordogne). Travel: Fly to Bergerac or take the high speed train to Bordeaux and then onwards by train to Sainte Foy la Grande. We come to pick you up from Bergerac or Sainte Foy la Grande. 2015

6 Stone cottage Safari tent Local food Safari tents White b&b cottage Pool