‘ TERRA-KHAYA HOGSBACK is hosting a 5 Day Intensive Permaculture course Facilitated by Tim Wigley Friday 17th – Tuesday 21st Aril 2015 The focus of this course is RECONNECTING WITH NATURE. Tim believes that it is when our decisions are inspired by a love of nature and a desire to be in step with her potent regenerative processes, then techniques like Permaculture Design become powerful tools with which we can transform the face of the Earth. In these workshops Tim transmits his deep love for nature. It was this love for nature that in 1980 drove him to seek ways of farming with nature rather than working against nature, the way industrial agriculture does. Shocked into action by the damage he saw being done to the soil by the use of agricultural chemicals; Tim spent the next twenty years establishing his farm Ikhwezi Lokusa into a highly advanced Permaculture system that has been an inspiration for people who have visited there from all over the world. Later another crisis of conscience drove Tim to focus on sharing Natural Farming with people in villages in the former Transkei and Ciskei. This crisis was also inspired by a love of nature. When Tim saw the environmental degradation occurring in the areas where he was working, he was driven to resign his job as a development coordinator, and form Earth Harmony Innovators. This work has seen the establishment of resilient and productive homesteads in a number of rural villages. And this is the essence of what this workshop at Terra-Khaya will be about: creating a deep appreciation for the way ecosystem processes work. The course will be assisted by Shane - Earth Guardian @ Terra-Khaya. Hogsback in general and Terra-Khaya (Earth Home Project) in particular, is an ideal setting for us to fire up our love for this beautiful planet. We are hoping that the people who attend will leave with both a deep sense of connection with nature, as well as an understanding of how natural processes work. We hope you leave inspired and ready to live abundantly in a way that enhances all life around us. These topics are the basket of tools we would like to present and use as we seek to work with nature in a regenerative way. • Life of the Soil • Mulching • Compost Making • Succession and Productivity • Communities of Plants (Guilds) • Permaculture Principles • Natural Farming • Organic Gardening Methods • Listening, Observing & Allowing the Land to tell you! • Design Principles • Water Cycle • Sun Energy • “Pests” and Protection • Tree Planting • Food Forests • Seedling Production • Herbs and Healing • Sacred Eating • Living Fences • Eight Laws of Health • Local Exchange Trading System • Mycology • Water-harvesting & Keyline Principals • Living Off-Grid Other events included in the course Morning Yoga / Exercise and / or Meditation Sundowners at Hogsback’s Secret Waterfall A Forest Walk A ‘Council of All Beings’ Foraging Forest mushrooms Learning from Terra-Khaya’s recycling unit 5 DAY INTENSIVE COURSE COSTS OPTION # 1 This includes the course fee + vegetarian breakfast, lunch & refreshments. Excludes accommodation. R1325.00 per person Dinners at Terra-Khaya optional extra @ R70.00pp OPTION # 2 6 Nights Accommodation at Terra-Khaya This includes the course fee + 3 vegetarian meals & refreshments. Choose from:Double Room R2507.50 per person sharing Dorm Beds R2395.00 per person Camping R2045.00 per person For BOOKINGS contact Shane at Terra-Khaya www.terrakhaya.co.za [email protected] 082 8977503 For course information contact Tim Wigley - [email protected] - 083 287 4308 Tim has his homestead at Khula Dhamma Retreat Centre and Eco Farm www.khuladhamma.org Things to do in Hogsback Walk the Labyrinth at the Edge & enjoy delicious carrot cake Visit the Eco-Shrine R20.00pp Visit Mirrors Photographic & Crystal Gallery + walk their Labyrinth Starways Pottery Visit various Nurseries