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FREE TERRA PERMA WORKSHOP NOTES:

We are continually revising our notes, below are notes from previous workshops.  For the latest news and learning's from us, you will have to come along and hear it from the horses mouth at our free and fee's workshops.

PERMACULTURE THE NATIVE PLANTS FIRST:

Design Ideas - Go Native First
Sustainable Native Gardens - Slide Show and extra notes and nursery and information links


FOOD FORESTS:
 Food Forest Workshop Video (2 hrs)
Garden Like a Forest Workshop 8 part series Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8
 Food Forest Seminar Detailed Written Notes.

Garden like a Forest

SCHOOL GARDENS AND PERMACULTURE
Waste Wise Schools - School Gardens and Waste Workshop Notes
Waste Wise Schools Teachers Resources -
Dropbox Zip Files - One , Two , Three.

PERMACULTURE:
Introduction to Permaculture
Gardening for Food and Ecology - Class Notes,
Power point slides - Permaculture Intro and Ecological Gardening

Introduction to Permaculture Booklet- City of Stirling Workshop
Permaculture Design Workshop at Lockridge CG


CHOOKS:
Keeping Urban Chickens

WEEDS:
Edible Weeds and Foraging guide for Perth - Revised 26-11-17

Edible Weeds Book - old link
Edible Weeds old link
Edible Weeds Talk - Part of (thanks Michelle)

WATER AND RETIC

Urban Water Design CoJ - Streets, Homes and Garden Slideshow
Urban Water Design CoJ - Home and Garden Notes
Reticulation Workshop - Urban Water

SMALL SPACE GARDENS

Gardening in Small Urban Spaces
Creating Small Space Food Gardens Notes.
Kitchen Gardens Workshop

WICKING BEDS:
Wicking Bed Workshop Notes
Wicking Bed Workshop Notes for Duncraig Edible Garden
Wicking Pots or Barrels (Video Segment) - The Couch
Wicking Olive Barrel Pots - How To Guide and Video Clip
Wicking Beds and More 18-06-2013 Presentation for HMA WA

SOIL:
Soil (Not so) Basics

Duncraig Edible Garden (DEG) WS Series - Soil Basics
Soil Food Web Discussion (Video) - Aug 2014
Rose Society of WA - Soil Intro

COMPOST AND NUTRIENT CYCLING:
Organic Waste to Compost - Nutrient Cycling
Compost Workshop - CCG 16-06-13

PESTS:
Pest Control - Working with nature

DEG WS Pest Control - Working with nature - Video.
Pest Management and IPM - A VV Ellenbrook CG WS

PONDS:
Ponds - Growing Water Veges, frogs and helpful native fauna

PROPAGATION

DEG WS - Plant propagation

SPECIFIC GARDENING TECHNIQUES:
No Dig Gardening  and  Extra Workshop Notes
Vertical gardening workshop notes and power point pdf'd.
Vertical Gardening Olive Barrel DIY Guide VIDEO
Square Foot Gardening Workshop

PERMACULTURE DESIGN:

Garden and Yard Planning Workshop Slides
Garden Design and Mapping
Garden Week Talk - Permaculture Design in Urban Edible Gardens
Terra Perma's - Permaculture Design Process Summary
Terra Perma's - Client Interview Sheet
Terra Perma's - Site Designer's Checklist
Terra Perma's - Site Design and Client Interview Checklist

SEEDS:

Vic Park Community Garden WS - Seed Saving in WA
Seed Saving Workshop Film Series. 6 Part Series.
Seed Saving Workshop Notes
Less is More Festival - Charles' notes - Detailed Seed Saving Notes

OTHER:
Edible Landscaping- Food production via a Food forest
Perth Edible Gardening Resource List
Summer in the Garden - VV Ellenbrook CG Workshop

Eat the Heat


2022
Pat Colby's Free Choice Mineral Lick Booklet

2021
Consult Questionnaire Template

2020
Regen in the Real World - 1 hr Presentation slideshow.


2019 NEW MATERIAL ADDED:

Edible Weeds Workshop - Manji Community Garden

Full workshop notes for reading
Colour slides for printing.


Warren Ag Show Workshops
Fruit Trees and Food Forests - Notes and Slideshow
Compost and Nutrient Cycling - Notes
Designing Ponds and Dams - Notes and Slideshow
Perennial Pastures Slideshow - Southhampton Homestead



2018 - Forest on Conte  journey shared here on facebook and we have a draft website here .

Edible Weeds and Foraging Guide for Perth Revision 3.

Water in the Perth Urban landscape - A 2 hr filmed workshop and supporting documents by Terra Perma.
Urban Water Design CoJ - Video Part 1 and Part 2
Urban Water Design CoJ - Streets, Homes and Garden Slideshow
Urban Water Design CoJ - Home and Garden Notes

Organic Veggie Gardening in Perth - A 2 hr filmed workshop and supporting documents by Terra Perma.
Part 1 - vimeo.com/240023544
Part 2 - vimeo.com/240042138
Powerpoint Slideshow - https://www.dropbox.com/…/Terra%20Perma%20-%20Thinking%20Gr…
Detailed workshop notes - https://www.dropbox.com/…/Terra%20Perma%20-%20Veggie%20Patc…
Charles Otway from Terra Perma presents on the boarder issues of Organic Veggie Gardening in Perth, Western Australia. This workshop takes you through a holistic look at your regions climate and our mental climates and shows how these main limiting factors will determine the backbone of your garden. We then look at some techniques and gardening for busy people gardening on beach sand.

Regrarians Platform® Katanning - Workshop Notes, Videos and Links
Powerpoint Slideshow as pdf - https://www.dropbox.com/s/y9se5oqmf7muyk4/Regrarians%20Platform%20RP%20%40%20Katanning%20-%20Workshop%20Slideshow.pdf?dl=0
Revision Notes as pdf - https://www.dropbox.com/s/8g5zovu4h24w56k/Regrarians%20Platform%20RP%20%40%20Katanning%20WS%20Notes.pdf?dl=0
Video Clips - (Note these are large downloads in total more than 1000 megabytes so download/stream according to your internet data allowances)
     Part 1 - vimeo.com/237852311
     Part 2 - vimeo.com/237869875
     Farm Design Example - vimeo.com/237894587
Google Earth Pro - A interactive application for mapping your farm and measuring catchments etc. - https://www.google.com/earth/download/gep/agree.html
NR Info and Landgate - Maps with contours to import into GoogleEarth as jpegs as a layer (you will need to adjust its scale/shape to layer over the aerial of google earth.
NR Info Maps - NRInfo map application (remember to use Chrome or Firefox) - https://maps.agric.wa.gov.au/nrm-info/
Landgate Maps - https://www0.landgate.wa.gov.au/maps-and-imagery/interactive-maps/map-viewer
Farm Mapping Example - Shape file to be opened with google earth. Save the layers to your computer if you want to access them without the shape file next time.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pyxbns70b8im12h/WA_KatanningRPGoogleEarthProDemo.kmz?dl=0

Seed Saving Workshop Video from Bullsbrook - Video
Seed Saving Workshop Video from Altone Part 1 and Part 2
Seed Saving Workshop - City of Swan - Slideshow
Seed Saving Workshop - City of Swan - Workshop SlideShow

Introduction to Permaculture 1 Day Intensive - Perth City Farm -Notes
Introduction to Permaculture 1 Day Intensive - Perth City Farm - SlideShow

Brighton Community Garden - Veggie Patch from Scratch Notes
Introduction to Permaculture - Slide Show - Avon Valley Permies

Intro to Permaculture - Video - Avon Valley Permies

Property Planning SJ Landcare - Plant Systems Layer
Document with Links for Land Planning

Perth Garden Week Talks Slide Shows
Eat your Weeds
Food Forest Design


OTHER LOCATIONS FOR INFORMATION:
PermacultureWest
has much of our earlier fact sheets on Food and Vegetable Gardening, Sustainability and Permaculture, so check that site out.

Green Life Soil Co has an amazing website full of basic gardening and soil growing information, they are a great permie business so why re-invent the wheel I say.
Tass1Trees - Best Fruit Tree Supplier in Perth,
http://www.urbanfoodgarden.org/ is also a great site full of gardening information with a permie logic bent.

Great Eco - Sustainability - Permie Centric Perth Businesses
http://www.greenlifesoil.com.au/

https://www.urbanrevolution.com.au/
http://www.envirohouse.org.au/
http://www.weatherworks.com.au/
http://www.thegreenhouseorganic.com/
http://www.absolutelyorganicwa.com.au/
http://www.small-farm-permaculture-and-sustainable-living.com/
http://foragerpreserves.blogspot.com.au/p/home-page.html
Urban Locavore has lots of Local Foodie Stuff -http://urbanlocavore.com.au/producers/
http://touristradio.com.au/agritourismwa/    - Connecting consumers to farmers.

We want to expand this list, so if you are a small family local business with thing to offer to the permie related community please let us know.


Best Organic Living Guide in Perth by Jude Blereau - Whole Food Genius
http://www.wholefoodcooking.com.au/06-resources.html

Terra Perma PDC Manual - EXAMPLE SECTIONS (Try before you buy ! We are confident you will agree its a great resource)
Understanding and Designing for your Bio-regions Climate and Landscape - TP PDC Module 6
Edible Landscape Design  - TP PDC Module 5
Edible Plants Websites
The best Edible Weeds Website (international) - http://www.eattheweeds.com/
The best edible and medicinal Plant database - http://www.pfaf.org/user/default.aspx
What to Plant When for Conventional Veggies - http://www.greenlifesoil.com.au/When%20to%20plant%20guide.pdf
                                                                                    http://www.gardenate.com/zones/Australia%2B-%2Btemperate
The Best Seed Saving Book - http://www.seedsavers.net/seed-savers-handbook
Perth (WA) Permie Blogs and people worth following.
PermacultureWest has a combined local permie community blog (which includes many of the below Permie Champions)
Peacetree Permaculture - Harry Wykman - http://www.ptpc.com.au/
Fair Harvest Permaculture Venture - Jody and Do - http://www.fairharvest.com.au/
Edulis Gardening - Sam James - http://www.edulisgardening.com.au/
Everscape - Julia Skinner - http://www.everscape.com.au/blog.html
The Soil Hugger's Journey -
https://thesoilhuggersjourney.wordpress.com/


Facebook Only Folks and Groups - Yes its worth joining facepalm just to be involved in these online groups, they are excellent.
Jettos Patch - Best displayed and blogged edible polyculture in Perth - http://www.facebook.com/groups/JETTOSPATCH/
While there ask for an invite to Perth Edible Gardeners - PEG - http://www.facebook.com/groups/150389471684428/
Permaculture Perth Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/groups/Perthpermies/




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