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 If you have thought of building a mud brick building, this course may be an excellent starting point. Its very practical, with some hands on work to get you started; helping you begin experimenting and planning ongoing projects, whether they are a modest garden wall, or more complex buildings. Learn to test soil suitability for mud building, how to make a quality brick and how to test its strength. The course takes you step by step through the building process, showing how to plan a building, sorting through permits and other legalities, doing the site works & foundations, different construction techniques, laying bricks, frames and roofs, installing services, wall finishes and more |
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 Become more self sufficient and environmentally friendly- Spend less -supplement your needs with production from even a small home garden; or
- Become a permaculture Designer/Consultant
Learn to prepare plans for permaculture systems. (i.e. A unique landscape where plants and animals live balanced in a self sustaining ecosystem). It commonly involves developing a garden or farm where the plants and animals are put together in such a way that they support each others growth and development. The garden or farm may change over years, but always remains productive, requires little input once stablished, and is environmentally sound.
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 Develop a perspective about the broad range of alternative lifestyles that you might lead.
Depending on what/how you produce, you can be relatively self sufficient on a standard suburban house block.
You can produce some needs and be partly self sufficient, OR produce all of your needs and be completely self sufficient. An individual person may be self sufficient, OR a group (e.g. a family or community) can be self sufficient. Becoming self sufficient does commonly involves making compromises though.
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 Learn to be self sufficient with your food. You learn about nutrition and how to balance your diet, as well as how to produce, process, store, and use different types of food.
This includes berries, nuts, milk, cheese, eggs, bread making, preserves, & dried food. Cooking, freezing, drying, bottling, making bread, planning a vegetable garden to give produce all year round, and lots more are covered during the ten lessons. |
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