Name: 2 week Residential Permaculture Design Certificate course
Start: 2024-09-08T00:00:00+10:00
End: 2024-09-20T23:59:59+10:00
Location: Kendall Permaculture Farm

Photos added regularly, please visit again!

: Local river rock swale wall

: 18 day hot compost

: Start of the Food Forest

: Part of the vegie garden

: PRI-A Interns with Tom and Zaia

: 3108 gram sweet potato

: Banana tree with a covered bunch

: New bathroom, built with local river rock

: Native beehive in our garden

: Bunch of bananas

: King parrot stealing our bananas 😉

: Harvest of Yakon

: Bean harvest for the day

: Our abundant Beanstalk

: Students in session with Tom, PDC 20 May 2012

: Our propagation area

: Kitchen garden swale, with vetiver grass and sweet potato

: Kitchen garden

: Beginning the 18 day compost

: Halfway building the 18 day compost

: Final watering before covering for 4 days (18 day compost)

: Turning the 18 day compost (see article)

: Some of our chickens in the paddock

: Baby goats love to climb!

: Vetiver grass as rope to tie the dragon fruit to the post as well as mulch…

: Harvest bounty

: More green abundance, love the kale!

: Look at this feast!! Meal for PDC students August 2012

: PDC students August 2012

: Home grown fruit salad, muesli and homemade yoghurt

: Roast veg salad

: Green abundance

: In the kitchen garden

: Soil, fungal based

: Digging the dam for the earthworks course 2012

: Compacting the dam walls

: Making the dam

: Full moon dam, like a mirror

: First use of the new dam!

: Newborn goats, just standing, about 1 hour old

: Newborn goats being nurtured by their mum

: The tap is open: the milk runs into the centrifuge and separates the cream from the milk!

: Completing the hole by hand

: A pole in the middle to measure the inner circle (inside of the bio-digester). The outer circle will consist of the double brick wall

: Winter flush is coming into our kitchen garden!

: Bio Digester start

: Anne sowing ground cover and support species seeds on the swale mound

: Building the bricks to rest the plywood base onto to build the sand dome for the biodigester.

: Working the concrete to prevent cracking on the biodigester dome

: The hole in the seat was cut and sanded. The chute under leads into the Nature Loo compost bucket.

: The bench seat is finished and the doors attached to the compost toilet outhouse

: The Nature Loo compost toilet waste chute and bucket under the outhouse, accessible from the back.

: Intern Jess sowing carrots in the bed

: Herb circle

: grapefruit harvest

: Leanne Ejack, Canada

: Full Moon Dam, or “The Pond”, now has silver perch in it as well as being a swimming hole on hot days, greatly enjoyed by students, volunteers and residents!

: A choko and Goji berry vine cover the water tank at the residence at the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast.

: Entry to the kitchen garden at the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast. Paths are sawdusted using sawdust from the local sawmill, all beds are mulched using mulch cut on the property and beds are composted with compost made from ingredients from the property.

: Kitchen garden at the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast, new beds on the right where a pumpkin vine was dug up. Lots of madagascar beans on the trellice and strawberries in beds left and right. Variety of plants ensures minimal pests and disease.

: View into the food Forest at the permaculture Research institute Sunshine Coast, bananas in the background, arrowroot, sweet potato and pumpkin vines in the foreground.

: New chicken prepared garden beds, with sight of the Food Forest behind. At the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.

: Bathroom for students and volunteers at the Permaculture Research Institute “Maungaraeeda”, Sunshine Coast. Shower on the left, small sink to wash hands and face and brush teeth. Main sink is for dishes and kitchen use. On the other side is the wood heater to heat the water and the compost toilet.

: Path through the garden towards the poly tunnel / nursery area at the Permaculture Research Institute “Maungaraeeda”, Sunshine Coast.

: The nursery area at the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast is in a Poly tunnel, half shade house and half hot house. The bathtub in the hothouse is there to hold heat, it also has water chestnuts and fish in it.

: A look into the food forest at PRI Sunshine Coast. Bananas, Casava, sweet potato, arrowroot, citrus and olive trees and a multitude of support species.

: This path takes you alongside the Food Forest on the right and banana trees on the left. Support species support the fruit trees planted in the food forest, at the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast.

: Chickens, a biological resource, are preparing the patch of land where their own food will be grown in the future. The Permaculture Research Institute “Maungaraeeda”, Sunshine Coast currently has 7 different chicken areas.

: The cattle yard at the Permaculture Research Institute “Maungaraeeda”, Sunshine Coast holds the cows overnight. Milkers are milked morning and night time, and manure is collected in the morning to be put into the methane gas bio-digester.