Very Edible Gardens we’ve just hosted our first Advanced Design Course with Dan Palmer. It was good. Really good.
Anton, Dan, me (Hannah) and baby Frida – who pretty much slept the whole weekend. Bless her socks.
It’s hard to describe what happened over the weekend. Sure, we had a class schedule which we stuck to, covering everything from holistic management, business structure, reading the landscape, implementation of designs and using design software.
But it was the bits in between, underneath and around the edges which really rocked our boat. Dan designs (and teaches) from the heart. He doesn’t just teach you practical skills to refine your design practice, but he encourages you to ask the big questions of what you want from your life and how design can help this happen. It’s hard to describe, but lets just say we walked way with the drive to become better designers for both our clients AND our lives.
As always, the group of students who came together were diverse, hard working and so so interesting, bringing their own strengths to the course and forming tight networks at rapid rates. Here’s a sneak peak into the weekend…
Dan… Working the room
Students working hard
Lisa and Wendy reading the landscape
Nick, Kylie and Simon also reading the landscape
Kirsty telling Terry (L) and Jared (R) how it is
We held this course at the Reseed Centre in Penguin, NW Tasmania. This place is an old school and is now owned by 6 people who re-directed their super funds into this community facility to make a space for sustainability and community to thrive. It’s an incredible space which oozes opportunity and potential, and fruit – so much fruit…
Camping amongst the orchard
Us (minus Anton who took the photo). A group of committed, excited permaculture designers feeling pretty pumped
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