food forest

food forest map — After 12 days of tuition, study, reflection and practical work the groups are finally ready to present their design ideas. The PDC gives participants the opportunity to work on a real design, giving them real hands on expereince. To me this feels an essential component of the course, albeit a […]

Day 11: Use edges and value the marginal. Presentation day

5 Jun, 2017 in permaculture courses / permaculture East Africa / Uganda tagged busoga / food forest / PDCUG17 by pdcug17

Day 10 was a day of study and hard work by the teams as they worked on their design ideas. We were all working on the same task, to design forest garden for Busoga High school in the area we had surveyed last week. It is a hard task to […]

Day 10: Use and value the diversity of plants, people ...

4 Jun, 2017 in permaculture courses / permaculture East Africa / Uganda tagged Busoga high / design project / food forest / PDCUG17 / Sector39 by pdcug17

Today was all about forest gardens and more importantly systems. With a guest lecture from Paul M. a key member of Dolen Ffermio and a lecturer of agro-ecology at Busoga University. Paul is an experienced gardener, farmer and community grower and shared his experiences from his own small holding near […]

Kamuli PDC Day 4, Apply limitations and accept feedback. Systems ...

6 May, 2016 in permaculture courses / permaculture East Africa / Uganda tagged agro ecology / agro forestry / dolen ffermio / food forest / najma dharani by steve jones