Permaculture Food Growing 101

Learn to grow your own food and medicine.

With Dr. Angela Durante, PhD

$300

Hi, I’m Angela! Welcome to Homestead Haven.

I’m a homesteader and food grower here in Ontario, Canada, where I live with my family. We produce almost all of our own food and medicine and we’re crazy about sustainability and food security. If you’re here, you already know that quality food is a cornerstone of health and knowing how to grow food no matter the circumstance is valuable skill. Permaculture is a fabulous guide for learning how to be more observant, how to integrate systems (in the garden and in your life!) and how to keep the sustainability wheel turning so that we no longer need to rely on outside inputs like fertilizers, seeds or excessive water.

The principle goal in our season-long course interaction is to grow as much healthy food and medicine as possible for our families and our communities and to regenerate the landscape while we do it.

The MARCH - APRIL session of PERMACULTURE FOOD GROWING 101 is going to run slightly ahead of the growing season in our hemisphere, so it’s great timing for anyone eager to get their hands dirty and learn to grow food with others.

FORMAT

7 wks: Mar 6 - April 17, 2024

Wednesdays 10am-12pm EST and/or Wednesday 7-9pm (Online)

This course includes:

• Weekly 2-hr classes online with open discussion and time for questions/problem solving.

• Separate Q&A session running Wednesday evenings for those who can’t attend live lectures to ask questions.

• All classes are recorded and available for playback.

• A private chat group for reading and video material that will introduce you to some of the key players in permaculture. Also a place for us to share and ask questions and troubleshoot as we ramp up for the growing season.

• A private group with by-weekly online meetups to carry us all the way through to late fall!

• Apply your learning by growing food and medicinals alongside the session. By the time this course finishes, you’ll be ready to launch your growing season!

COST: $300 CDN

OUTLINE

CLASS 1: PERMACULTURE IS YOUR NATURE

What is Permaculture? Working with what you’ve got; timing in the norther hemisphere; orientation and layouts; frost dates & growing days; finding good seed; seed-starting, succession planting.

CLASS 2: WORKING WITH THE SUN

Micro-climates; thermal mass; cold frames; coverings, four-season growing.

CLASS 3: FOOD TODAY & FOOD FOREVER

Designing for annual crops; perennial crops; food forests; considering next year & the next generation.

CLASS 4: SOIL BUILDING & FERTILIZATION

Exploring methods of organically enriching your soil and building soil with or without animals.

CLASS 5: SEED-SAVING

Not all plants make seed in the same way. We’ll review the main ways plants reproduce, how to save seed and planning for biennial plants which take more than one year to seed.  

CLASS 6: PRESERVING FOR WINTER

Storing; drying; freezing; fruit preserving; pickling; fermenting; oil preserves; medicine making.

CLASS 7: MEDICINE MAKING

Growing plants that heal; harvesting; processing; making salves, tinctures, teas, poultices etc.