The permaculture design process for a sustainable lifestyle

We invite you to spend a day at Doris & Bob's, experiencing how permaculture can help you design more than just your garden! Applicable in all situations of life, no need to own your own place.

Doris will share her journey of integrating the permaculture design approach into her life's questions, her diverse home and community projects in Paekakariki (eg. PaeCycle, a food scrap collection set up and Pataka Kai, the public cupboard to give and take food abundance), and as Trustee of Toru Education: Motivated by an sense of urgency and responsibility to take care of our finite resources and to care for our environment with all its diverse wildlife and each other. Through storytelling and practical examples, we'll explore how these principles can help shape our lives and communities for the better, and how we all can contribute as individuals. Every choice we make matters.

We also will take a stroll through Doris's garden and engage in some hands-on activities to experience some of the principles in action. Of course, we will spend some time at the various compost heaps (Compost is Doris' middle name!). Regenerating soil with home made compost! Making compost involving food scraps (closely predator managed) or from garden waste (free standing heaps). 

Lunch will be provided—feel free to bring a small contribution to go with the homemade bread if you'd like (but not expected).

After lunch, we will explore the design process of creating a base map for your specific setting, whether it be a your home garden, personal question such as 'What's next?' or a community project.

No prior experience in permaculture is needed. We hope you will leave with new ideas and connections, practical inspiration for your own compost making and an enhanced understanding of how many ways you can apply the permaculture design process and create community, one compost heap at the time!

There will also be a crop swap table where we practice the permaculture approach of reciprocity of 'give and take'; you might enjoy bringing seeds, seedlings, produce from your garden, and walk away with something unexpected (again, don't feel obliged to contribute).

Spaces are limited to 15 spaces to fit into our living room, so make sure you reserve your spot. We are at 59 Wellington Road, up the driveway on your right. Don't follow google directions as that would take you down to the beach. Just come on down Wellington Road, and we are up on your left. Please park below by the lay-by and walk up. We have a friendly little Cavalier type dog called 'Honey' as part of our family.