Hi Folks Info regarding courses and workshops coming up in the Djanbung Gardens Spring program. Please circulate and spread the news. Aug 29-30 Bamboo Workshop Cost $90/$70 Construction & crafting techniques Hands-on workshop with Robyn Francis. Sep 3-14: 2 week intensive Sustainable Settlements & Ecovillage Design Cost: $890/$750 This course is for people involved or interested in planning, designing & creating sustainable human settlements: ecovillages, intentional communities, co-housing, ecological developments and revitalising existing rural and urban communities. Creative solutions for sustainable community development through participatory planning and community facilitation based on permaculture and the principles of social ecology. Tutors: Robyn Francis and guests Sep 28-Oct 5: 7-day intensive Training And Assessment (TAA) Cert IV Cost: Part 1 & 2 intensive course $950/$850, Part 3 assessment $200 This TAA Cert IV course presents a creative facilitation approach to vocational training and adult education. Delivered in three parts it completes the AQF qualification TAA40104 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, required by trainers of AQF accredited courses nationally. This TAA course is ideal for those working in creative, community, healing and sustainability industries and for those wanting to teach the Accredited Permaculture Training™ (APT). Part 1 and 2 of the course is conducted as an intensive 8-day training program, at Djanbung Gardens with Robyn Francis and Robin Clayfield. Part 3 involves homestudy completion of assessment projects October 22-24: 3-day workshop Grow Your Own Gourmet Mushrooms Cost $130/$95 how to get started with mushrooom cultivation including setting up a small low-cost home laboratory and process from from spore to fruiting. All participants will receive a basic culture library to take home. Tutor: Will Borowski Enquiry and booking contact details: Djanbung Gardens Permaculture Education Centre & Demonstration Farm PO Box 379 Nimbin NSW 2480 02-6689 1755 / 0429 147 138 https://www.permaculture.com.au -- Pathways to sustainability through Accredited Permaculture Training™ Certificates III & IV and Diploma of Permaculture Erda Institute Inc Robyn Francis International permaculture design and sustainability consultant, educator & facilitator