Designing Edible Spaces & Regenerative Design for Small Farms Courses in Bristol & Devon

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Designing Edible Spaces

Bristol - Feed Bristol, 181 Frenchay Park R, ,Unit 1, BS16 1EL

30th June & 1st July

Price: from £80 (sliding scale)

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Productive, low maintenance, edible spaces

Would you like to be:
* Growing your own food but feel you don’t have space or the time?
* Eating more organic food but think it’s too expensive?

This course will give you the design skills and knowledge to transform your garden or urban space into an abundant, edible garden, that is full of food, friendly to wildlife, looks good, and needs little maintenance.

Regenerative Design for Small Farms 

Musbury Village Hall, East Devon

5th & 6th July 2018. 

Price: from £70 (sliding scale)

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Skills and knowledge to redesign your farm or land holding into an agroecological, productive and regenerative system. Over the course we will be designing the layout of a real farm. 

Frameworks Used:
Regenerative agriculture (RegenAg), agroforestry, Keyline planning, soil health principles, Holistic Management, permaculture design.

Course Format:
• Learn by doing - participatory/hands-on design session and facilitated discussions. 
• Learn rote information in a digestible and easy to absorb fashion.
• Experiment with design options and create example plans in an informal, supportive setting. 
• Discuss the different design & management options available to us as farmers/land managers, through the medium of a site specific design.
• Gain confidence in design and decision-making through group discussion and by making placements 
• Create a synthesis of complementary elements on a farm.
• Relate new knowledge and thinking to your own farm or holding.
• Create an indicative design of a generic small farm that is to scale, show casing the options and opportunities for regenerative agriculture.

This course is suitable for:
• Farmers/farm managers & landowners
• Consultants and advisors
• Smallholders
• Those looking to buy/rent land
• Those looking to do a One Planet Development (but please note the course does not cover specific information on the OPD planning requirements or process)

What topics will be compared and presented? 
• Principles, frameworks & methodologies
• Site/microclimate analysis
• Agroforestry systems
• Windbreaks & shelterbelts
• Keyline design & cultivation patterns
• Dams, ponds, water harvesting in the landscape
• Constructed wetlands, living barns
• No-till, min-till & cover crops 
• Cropping systems and cash crop alternatives
• Holistic management, mob grazing, freeranging
• Fencing systems and water provision
• Mushrooms, biochar & biomass production
• Nurseries, propagation and breeding
• Woodland management
• Pasture management and reseeding
• Soil and plant management
• Tree establishment
• Case studies and examples