Permaculture Workshop

A great way to find out more about permaculture this one day 'taster' will provide an opportunity to learn about the principles and ethics of permaculture, and how to apply these in a variety of settings. If you need a bit of inspiration on how to live a greener life this course is for you.

The permaculture framework has three important ingredients:

1. Ethics

The values and behaviours that are so important, Earth Care, People Care, Fair Shares.

2. Lessons from nature

With 3.5 billion years of learning and experimentation, living systems are incredibly successful and give us so many different examples of how to live in a more harmonious way. Permaculture has turned some of these lessons into principles that make it really easy to apply them in everyday life.

3. A design approach

Taking time to observe what is going on around us, identifying our resources, getting people involved and finding a way to bring it all together into a plan of action that will meet our needs and benefit nature.

Click on this link to find out more What is Permaculture? | Permaculture Association

Workshop details

Your host will meet you outside the main gates on Ransom Road, so please wait there.

The workshop takes place indoors at St Ann's Allotments.

Tickets: The ticket price includes materials, tea and coffee.

Clothing: Although we'll be indoors, please wear plenty of layers and comfortable footwear as we may need to walk on muddy paths.

Parking: There is plenty of on street parking along Ransom Road.

Contact: If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact the organiser Kayleigh at info@staa-allotments.org.uk

About Paul

The workshop will be facilitated by Paul who manages Ecoworks community garden and has a diploma in Permaculture design.

He has many years experience teaching permaculture courses and has applied the principles to the Ecoworks community gardens. Ecoworks has been open for nearly 25 years working with the local community to take part in a range of opportunities and activities including organic gardening, green build, permaculture, seasonal garden cooking and more.

He believes that learning should be fun and loves learning about new plants.

St Ann's Allotments

St Ann’s Allotments are the oldest and largest area of Victorian detached town gardens in the world, and are Grade 2* Listed by Historic England. The site covers 75 acres, has 700 gardens, and over 30 miles of hedgerow.

STAA is a small charity based at the historic St Anns Allotments site, just a mile from the bustling city centre of Nottingham. STAA manages a number of highly regarded projects across 30+ plots at St Anns Allotments providing community benefit & offering a wide variety of volunteering opportunities.

Our projects make a significant contribution to the upkeep of this amazing Grade 2* listed heritage site and the preservation of habitat and wildlife in the urban oasis at St Anns Allotments.

STAA was initially established in 1997, from a local campaign group that came together with the prime objective of saving and protecting the St Anns Allotment site (Hungerhill Gardens, Stonepit Coppice Gardens and Gorseyclose Gardens) from redevelopment.

The STAA sites are managed by a team of volunteers and staff inlcude The Community Orchard, The Heritages Garden and The Nursery. To find out more click here to visit our website.