After the great success of the Permaculture Design Course last September with Graham Bell,
Ermitaj Malin, together with the Romanian association of Permaculture, organize a new
Permaculture Design Course, this time with Pascal Depienne!
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Please download, fill out and return this form by email to contact@ermitajmalin.com
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“Be here and everywhere as if you were there forever” Pascal Depienne
Essentials
The PDC (Permaculture Design Course) is a course developed by Bill Mollison, co-creator of the term “permaculture” with David Holmgren. an entertaining, informative and life enhancing series of discussions, contemplating and practical exercises
Anyone participating to the full course will be awarded with internationally recognized certificates. These can be used as the starting point to go through a Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design.
The trainer
Pascal Depienne
was a teacher of English and French. He reoriented himself towards permaculture during one of his long stays abroad, notably during a six-month volunteering at the Panya project in northern Thailand in 2007, one of the permaculture centers in South East Asia.
Upon his return to France, he acquired a small piece of land in North-West France, where he has been experimenting for 9 years. He restored a small autonomous stone house in 2009, built a bioclimatic and autonomous straw house in 2011, and planted a few hundred perennials to grow an edible forest.
Founder of several associations related to permaculture, he is a Permaculture teacher and designer since 2009. He also designs for companies or individuals.
Some images are better than a long speech:
More about the trainer : his Youtube channel “Avenir Permaculture” and the website of his NGO “Terre-Paille & co”
The place of training
The Ermitaj has been a pioneering player for permaculture in Romania, since it is here that the first PDCs of the country were organized with Steve Read and Pascal Depienne at the beginning of 2010.
The land of almost 8 hectares is located on the slopes of a hill at the foot of the Carpathians in an idyllic setting. Its characteristics and potential make it the perfect place to train for permaculture. The place is off-grid: no water, gas or electricity coming from the city, just mobile phone. It is composed of a young forest, old orchards, pastures, a pond, small streams, a difference in height of one hundred meters: micro-climates and challenges are therefore numerous. Ermitaj is a non-profit association.
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Housing
There are three possibilities for accommodation: you can sleep in a dormitory (limited places), in a tent, or in Beclean (15km away) where many hostels exist. We strongly advise you to stay on site.
The price includes full board. We will be as much as possible attentive to individual diets.
Price
Between 550 and 825 euros (see the registration form)
Summary program of this course
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