Grow-Your-Own Food
Sat, 03 Aug
|Climate Action Campus
A 6-day mini course held over 3 wkd's within the PDC. It covers Soil & Water, the foundation of healthy nutritious food. Growing Soil & Food the how to, tips & techniques and starters to take away. And, Integrated Growing Systems, showing the different growing styles & ways to combine your plantings
Time & Location
03 Aug 2024, 8:30 am – 29 Sept 2024, 4:30 pm
Climate Action Campus, 180 Avonside Drive, Avonside, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand
About the event
Canterbury Permaculture Institute offers education through a range of hands-on sessions, presentations, theory-based learning and site visits.
This is a mini-course set within the PDC, focusing on the growing food aspects of the permaculture course
Soil & Water - 8:30am - 4:30pm August 3rd & 4th
The Nature of Water - Water in the landscape - How does water interact with the landscape, and how can we direct these interactions to promote biodiversity & support human needs.
Journey of Water - Water collection, filtration and distribution - How can we use our built landscape to collect drinking water, filter it for human use, direct it through our living spaces, and filter our greywater for irrigation in our outdoor spaces.
Earthworks - Designing water flow across and through our landscapes - Learn about landscape scale water management to slow and infiltrate water into our landscape rehydrating the land. We’ll be making…