Training that becomes practical responsibility.

Permaculture principles and ecological growing practices.

Connect the principles to a school, homestead or community garden.

Complete a practical task and agree useful next steps for the site.

Permaculture, regenerative agriculture, ethics, principles and a teaching-site tour.

Site assessment, zones, sectors, contour work, bed building and climate responses.

Living soil, compost, worm farming, natural fertilisers, diversity and pest management.

Agroforestry, food forests, conservation agriculture, preservation and year-round food.

Nursery practice, cuttings, seedlings, pricing, quality, marketing and course closure.

Course orientation, homestead permaculture, a teaching-site tour, ethics and principles.

Garden planning, element analysis and preparation of the site.

Bed types, earthworks, rainwater and greywater systems, storage and irrigation design.

Companion planting, rotation, pest and disease control, and a tyre-pond practical.

Soil analysis, soil building, compost, plant nutrition and soil-enhancer demonstrations.

Kitchen and staple gardens, food forests, chickens, bees, agroforestry and seasonal planning.

Nursery practice, propagation, medicinal and indigenous plants, and alien-invasive management.

Sprouting, fresh preparation, preservation, fermentation and other ways to use garden produce.

Seed saving, energy efficiency, green building, water systems and renewable energy.

Complete practical outputs and, where formal assessment is contracted, portfolios of evidence; then feedback and closure.

Open-pollinated, heirloom, hybrid and other seed types; food security and agrobiodiversity.

Choosing parent plants, flower biology and methods for keeping varieties true.

Dry and wet processing, cleaning, drying, labelling, packing and safe storage.