Permaculture SA
Permaculture SA is a non-profit organisation whose purpose is to promote, practice, and represent permaculture in South Australia. We also support the South Australian permaculture community.
Biochar bonanza
Saturday 18 June 2022
Learn how to make biochar for soil improvement and carbon storage.
The day will cover:
- Benefits and uses of biochar
- Plants and timbers suitable for biochar
- Biochar baking (a live biochar bake will happen!)
- Biochar application
This event is in partnership with Permaculture SA, Folk of all Trades, and the Aldinga Arts Eco Village.
We want to acknowledge City of Onkaparinga for support.
Aldinga Arts Eco Village
Retrosuburbia Introduction Workshop
Saturday 2 April 2022
David Holmgren’s permaculture-based guide to sustainable urban living is revitalising communities, changing the way we live and how we interact with each other and our environment. It’s a comprehensive toolkit for 21st century resilient lifestyles, needing and using less whilst creating richness and abundance.
In this interactive, fun workshop:
- dive into the content
- start using the checklists
- be inspired by case studies
- learn practical techniques to apply
- create your vision for living
The Joinery
Southern Sustainability Session (Permaculture Gathering)
Sunday 6 March 2022
An opportunity for southern Adelaide and Fleurieu folk to get together, hear from 5 inspiring speakers, and take home knowledge and goodies from a further 3 demonstration workshops.
7 Min, 7 slide presentations
Garden design
Water storage and use
Propagating native plants (including some edibles)
Reuse of materials in the garden and home
Managing weeds
20 min live demos with takeaways
Growing garlic
Seed saving
Fermented foods (Sauerkraut, Kimchi, quick pickle)
Aldinga Arts Eco Village tour
The Sharing Shed
Retrosuburbia Introduction Workshop
Saturday 12 February 2022
David Holmgren’s permaculture-based guide to sustainable urban living is revitalising communities, changing the way we live and how we interact with each other and our environment. It’s a comprehensive toolkit for 21st century resilient lifestyles, needing and using less whilst creating richness and abundance.
In this interactive, fun workshop:
- dive into the content
- start using the checklists
- be inspired by case studies
- learn practical techniques to apply
- create your vision for living
The Joinery
Soils & Natural Fertilisers
Saturday 30 October 2021
Healthy living soil: the basis for all gardening, especially for growing delicious, nutritious food. This workshop, with presentation, discussion & practicals, will support you to:
- Understand your soil & the ‘Soil Food Web’
- Make amazing compost
- Setup and manage a worm farm
- Create a compost tea brew
- Manage & improve soil for raised beds or wicking beds
- Learn how good soil is connected to carbon sequestration, pest management, water efficiency, weed management & healthy humans
Bower Cottages Community Centre
Re-Greening your House and Neighbourhood
Saturday 23 October 2021
Trees and perennial plants play many important roles in human, community and planetary health, which are especially important in our current climate emergency.
This workshop includes:
- Perennials for climate-smart gardening and food production
- Design techniques for natural house cooling and creating micro-climates
- Successfully integrating vegies, fruit trees and other perennial plants
- Creating wildlife and beneficial insect habitats
- Practical tips for successful growing!
Glandore Community Centre
Seed Saving and Plant Propagation
Saturday 16 October 2021
Saving your own seeds and propagating your own plants are important techniques for growing a bountiful and diverse garden. This comprehensive full-day workshop will include presentations, discussions and practicals on:
- Plant reproduction
- Successful seed saving, including plant selection, picking, drying, storing and planting your seeds
- Propagation techniques including from root division, stem cutting, node rooting and more
- Different potting mixes for different plants and techniques
Trott Park Neighbourhood Centre
Permaculture for Families: Be a Seed Saver! (CANCELLED)
Saturday 31 July 2021
Want to find out how your family can build a love of nature together? How to make positive contributions to your community and environment? Interested in expanding your knowledge on Permaculture? Wondering how it fits in your family’s life to build resilience, empathy and generosity of spirit in a meaningful way?
Join Emily and Kate in a series of inspirational outdoor activities that can be shared as a family. Learn about tools and techniques you can use in and around your own home.
Craigburn Primary School
Permaculture for Families: Living lunchbox
Sunday 27 June 2021
Want to find out how your family can build a love of nature together? How to make positive contributions to your community and environment? Interested in expanding your knowledge on Permaculture? Wondering how it fits in your family’s life to build resilience, empathy and generosity of spirit in a meaningful way?
Join Emily and Kate in a series of inspirational outdoor activities that can be shared as a family. Learn about tools and techniques you can use in and around your own home.
Woodend Primary School
Introducing Permaculture to Your Life (Hills)
Saturday 19 June 2021
Interested in expanding your knowledge on Permaculture, wondering where it fits in with your life? Want to find out how you can apply Permaculture to an urban scale, rental or acreage?
Join Keri (DARED) & Lachlan (Permatil Global) to introduce you to the concepts of Permaculture, how it applies to your lifestyle & learn from their mistakes!
With their practical experience within the Permaculture space, they will also give you many practical examples of Permaculture.
Mount Barker Waldorf School + Duck Flat Community Garden
Introducing Permaculture to Your Life (Aldinga)
Saturday 29 May 2021
Interested in expanding your knowledge on Permaculture, wondering where it fits in with your life? Want to find out how you can apply Permaculture to an urban scale, rental or acreage?
Join Dani (Folk of All Trades) & Chris (Every Day Sustainable Living) to introduce you to the concepts of Permaculture, how it applies to your lifestyle & learn from their mistakes!
With their practical experience within the Permaculture space, they will also give you many practical examples of Permaculture.
Aldinga Institute Hall (start) and Aldinga Arts Eco Village
Permaculture in SA Gathering + AGM
Saturday 14 November 2020
'Stories of Permaculture in SA’ + info-sharing about permaculture activities/inspirations across SA.
Discover best practice in sustainable living + demonstrate how permaculture can bring about positive changes in people’s lives, the environment + offer solutions to the inevitable changes that are taking place in the world right now.
Plus! Seed + plant swap, Screen printing workshop. Tea + cake.
We promise our AGM will beshort + sweet, reporting back on the past year’s actions + future visions
The Joinery
Building Amazing Soils Permablitz: Fleurieu Peninsula
Sunday 18 August 2019
A permablitz is a day of practical actions, implementing ideas, transforming areas and providing a brilliant hands-on learning opportunity for all participants. All activities on the blitz revolve around on creating a regenerative system based on permaculture design. Following on from the soil workshop we will put many of these ideas into practice, with a focus on soil development and improvement for climate resilience. The best way to learn is to do it!
Jagged Crow Farm
Climate Resilient households & communities: Permablitz
Sunday 4 August 2019
A permablitz is a day of practical actions, implementing ideas, transforming areas and providing a brilliant hands-on learning opportunity for all participants. All activities on the blitz revolve around on creating a regenerative system based on permaculture design.
Cost: FREE, please bring plate of food to share for lunch.
Sera's Place
Perennial Plants & Resilient Human Habitats Permablitz
Saturday 3 August 2019
A permablitz is a day of practical actions, implementing ideas, transforming areas and providing a brilliant hands-on learning opportunity for all participants. All activities on the blitz revolve around on creating a regenerative system based on permaculture design.
Fulham Community Centre
Climate Resilient households & communities: Workshop
Sunday 28 July 2019
We are facing a climate emergency. On a household level it is vital that we create and implement plans for ‘climate positive’ houses, gardens and neighbourhoods. We also must become more resilient to issues that we will face from living in a changing climate.
This workshop explores these issues through permaculture design, focusing on house/garden integration, energy, water, waste, food production, disaster risk reduction and more. Results include a more enjoyable, locally-focused lifestyle.
Sera's Place
Perennial Plants & Resilient Human Habitats Workshop: Fulham
Saturday 27 July 2019
Trees and perennial plants play important roles in human, community and planetary health, especially in our current climate emergency. Re-greening our neighbourhoods with appropriate plants using permaculture design techniques enables us to be more resilient and to act to quickly reduce carbon emissions.
In this workshop you will learn about designing and creating more sustainable, productive and climate-resilient outdoor areas, integrating the huge variety of perennials we have available.
Fulham Community Centre
Building Amazing Soils Workshop: Fleurieu Peninsula
Saturday 20 July 2019
This intensive workshop delves into all things soil! There is more and more evidence pointing to healthy living soils being at the heart of quickly reducing the climate emergency we now face and for us to be resilient to the climate change impacts we already face. In the workshop we will discuss to following topics, using living examples and demonstrations, many photos and illustrations to clearly explain how to build and maintain healthy, living and productive soils.
Crystal's place: Victor Harbor
Waterwise living Workshop and Permablitz: Yorke Peninsula
Between Saturday 13 July 2019 and Sunday 14 July 2019
Waterwise Living: Permaculture for Climate Action
In the driest state of the driest habitable continent on earth, being waterwise is central to every part of our lives. This is all the more important with being resilient to the impacts of the climate change. Waterwise land management is a vital part of solving our climate emergency.
13 – 14 July 2019
Yorke Peninsula
Jess and Dean's place