Sustainable Living courses available in Byron Bay and Mullumbimby
Do you dream of living more sustainably? Gain the hands-on skills and knowledge to make that dream a reality.
Learn to reduce your footprint on the planet in an affordable way, engage positively with your surroundings and help your community gain the benefits of sustainability too.
Choose from our nationally-recognised Permaculture certificate courses to one-day workshops and short courses.
Develop your interests in sustainability by enrolling, today.
Follow your passion and immerse yourself in this Modular Permaculture Design Course in the Beautiful Byron Shire. In this hands-on course you will discover how Permaculture principles can develop resilient systems, contributing to environmental, social and personal well-being. Through gaining a clear understanding of these principles you will be able to apply them to your everyday life and surroundings – from a small home garden to commercial production. You will learn how to...
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$1,169
Permaculture Design Course (PDC)
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Explore some of the latest innovations in green building techniques and materials, site layout, biophilic design, home ecology, house and village design, including tiny houses. Learn how to apply design methods to preserve foods, generate energy and heat, provide domestic drinking water, treat grey and black water, composting toilets and more. Topics covered include: Sustainable Housing Efficient Housing Design for your environment Passive heating and cooling New buildings/designs...
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$89
Settlements - Sustainable Housing And Appropriate Technology - PDC Module H
<p>Explore some of the latest innovations in green building techniques and materials, site layout, biophilic design, home ecology, house and village design, including tiny houses. Learn how to apply
Learn how to incorporate animals into the design of your garden or food production system to increase its overall abundance, simplify management and optimise the health and productivity of your chickens, cows and other animals. This workshop includes a field trip exploring local animal production systems where we can experience successful integrative animal systems that can be implemented at various scales from the backyard to commercial. Topics covered include: Integration not...
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Animals - Integrated Production Systems - PDC Module I
<p>Learn how to incorporate animals into the design of your garden or food production system to increase its overall abundance, simplify management and optimise the health and productivity of your
Learn the creative art of making tasty cheese without dairy – it’s easier than you think! We will make a spreadable cheese, a bechamel cheesy pasta sauce, parmesan and a feta style cheese as well as almond milk, and an almond flour. Discover how to add different flavours to your cheeses using cashews, walnuts, almonds, macadamias, Brazil nuts and seeds. We will sample what we make during the day and take home goodies too. What to bring 3 × 500ml jam jars with lids 3 × 250ml...
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$109Limited
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$98
Vegan Nut Cheeses and Milk
<p>Learn the creative art of making tasty cheese without dairy – it’s easier than you think! We will make a spreadable cheese, a bechamel cheesy pasta sauce, parmesan and a feta style cheese as well
Have you completed our Bamboo Basics course, or worked with bamboo before? Do you want to develop your bamboo skills further? Advanced Bamboo builds on the skills learnt in Bamboo Basics. In this short course you will make furniture, learn structural joints and the basics of designing to build with bamboo. Held at the Mullumbimby Community Garden with Julianne Hartmann. Julianne is a pioneer of bamboo building and craft in Australia and helped set up new industries in East Timor...
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Assessments are made against units of competency from the Certificate I in Skills for Vocational Pathways FSK10213.
Calculate with whole numbers and familiar fractions, decimals and percentages for work (FSKNUM14)
Use basic strategies for work-related learning (FSKLRG04)
<p>Have you completed our Bamboo Basics course, or worked with bamboo before? Do you want to develop your bamboo skills further?</p><p>Advanced Bamboo builds on the skills learnt in Bamboo Basics. In
Learn to identify and control a range of common weeds, pests and diseases of food crops through holistic, ecologically sensitive management techniques. This course will build an appreciation of the importance of soil management to nurture crop health for natural pest and disease resistance. Permaculture Design Course This course module is one of 14 which make up the internationally renowned Permaculture Design Course (PDC). You are welcome to attend just this module to learn the...
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Ecology - Weeds, Pests And Diseases In The Garden - PDC Module K
<p>Learn to identify and control a range of common weeds, pests and diseases of food crops through holistic, ecologically sensitive management techniques. This course will build an appreciation of the
Do you live near a creek or stream that looks in poor shape? Are you interested in caring for our water places? Sadly, many of our beautiful creeks and rivers are seriously degraded through development and historic land use practices. In this short course you will learn how to determine the quality of your waterway and gain knowledge and experience in the steps to fix it; in the process restoring aquatic plant and animal life, drawing down some carbon and healing the planet....
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Assessments are made against units of competency.
Read and respond to simple informal workplace texts (FSKRDG06)
Use digital technology for routine workplace tasks (FSKDIG03)
Caring for Water Places
<p>Do you live near a creek or stream that looks in poor shape? Are you interested in caring for our water places? </p><p>Sadly, many of our beautiful creeks and rivers are seriously degraded through
This course is for students completing the Permaculture Design Course only. You must complete all the other PDC modules before you can enrol in this subject. Feedback from Past Students “A Great and amazing way to finish off the PDC course. The PDC course has been an informative and positive eye opener, a wealth of knowledge has been past on.” Johnny Ivan Ripic
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Group Design Project - PDC core module
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This course is for students completing the Permaculture Design Course only. You must complete all the other PDC modules before you can enrol in this subject.
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This course is for students completing the Permaculture Design Course only. You must complete all the other PDC modules before you can enrol in this subject.
Learn about social permaculture design, supporting humans to be effective and thrive together. Explore ideas around collaborative governance and decision-making, social enterprise, localised community living, integrated permaculture lifestyles. Topics covered include: collaborative governance and decision-making holistic goal setting group ecology social enterprise localised community living deep ecology globalisation verse localisation Permaculture Design Course This course module...
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Community Design And Social Permaculture - PDC Module J
<p>Learn about social permaculture design, supporting humans to be effective and thrive together. Explore ideas around collaborative governance and decision-making, social enterprise, localised
