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NEWS – COURSES IN ENGLISH – NEWS

This year we invite you to a INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE
course in English with Katka Horackova in Ekocentrum Divočina

This summer we a partners to a Central European Convergence RESILIENCE 2025
28/7 – 1/8 2025 in Žito v sýpke, Moravské Lieskové, Slovakia

About the Czech national Permaculture Association Permakultura (CS)

The mission of Permakultura (CS) – founded in 1996 – is to bring the principles of permaculture into practice. We do this by observing, analyzing and designing permaculture systems and techniques in the local conditions. Our activities are educational and networking. We organize lectures, conferences, courses and practical workshops for wide public, and we issue publications on topics of permaculture design and sustainability.

As we celebrated 30 years in 2024, here is a link to our history-pathway on website (in Czech lingo).

CONFERENCE in November

Every year we organise a Permaculture conference in Prague. The weekend programme is filled with presentations, discussion, networking and experience sharing, seed-exchange and celebration. Since 2012 the number of atendees has gradually grown up to around 100+. Since 2020 we also offer an on-line option to participate on the conference.

group photo during Konference 2024
presentation of demonstration sites
Permaculture conference in Prague

CONVERGENCE in summer

Every summer we hold a weekend or week long meeting in one of the permaculture demonstration sites with about 20-60 people attending. The set up is family friendly, low cost, programme gets put together by the participants and allways has some hands-on activites, cooking together, planting or harvesting, focused on inspiring and face-to-face meeting of people. The location varies every year.

Every few years we také part in international permaculture convergence, often with our Slovakian permaculture allies www.permakultura.sk. In 2025 we put together an international convergence of Central European countries with topic of RESILIENCE www.resilience2025.eu.

MEMBERSHIP

We have about 80 members who support us with annual membership fee, and many dozens of supporters who follow us online and také part in our events. Most of our members are active in their regions and gardens, communities, schools and promote the idea of permaculture in a common principle „

LIBRARY in Prague and Brno – two biggest towns and University towns full of students. We have a library of permaculture books and also a place to meet up and share seeds, plants, ideas. Open every other week for a few hours, both are placed in community centre/cafe, to inspire meetings with people from other backgrounds. Members of PermakutluraCS can borrow books home, others can read them in the cafe.

NEWSLETTER we send out monthly to over 3000 contacts – with news from our NGO and our partners, calendar of live and oline events, tips for reading, listening podcasts, videos, and hands-on activities.

MAP OF DEMONSTRATION SITES

We have created a Czech Network and Map of Demonstration Permaculture Sites (similar to the British LAND), which you can find here : https://www.permakulturacs.cz/projekty/

The network is similar to the British LAND and was inspired there. The Czech network started in 2013 and to this day has over 80 projects of various size and kind (school gardens, nurseries, educational centers, small family farms, urban projects, intentional communities…). We apply basic criteria for any project which applies for inclusion in the network: to have a connection with food growing, willingness to share skills and relevant information with other permaculture projects, receive volunteers and visitors at the site. We use a complex questionnaire with about 100 questions on various aspects of the project: garden and growing, buildings, flows of energy, use of local resources, connection to local community, education. Every year we get contacted by more interested people to be a part of this network. The certification visit is more of a freindly stroll and talk with at least 2 people who attened a PDC course. They fill in the questionnaire with the hosts, make photographs and write a report for the website.

There are three cathegories of the projects: A) demonstration permaculture sites (red icons on map) and B) sites with permaculture elements (orange icons on map) – these venues are in the process of being fully representative and are already worth visiting. The blue dot represents a Regional Demonstration site C), where event happen regularly – courses, permablitz, guided tours, etc. The whole project is running without any funding and is based on volunteer work.

COURSES AND EDUCATION

For teaching purposes we have founded AKADEMIE PERMAKULTURY (the Academy of Permaculture) in 2014, and run full PDC (permaculture design certificate) courses, several IPC (introduction to permaculture courses) and some advanced courses every year, including Training of teachers. The website has a extensive on-line library of study materials, open to everyone, and with a section open just for PDC students.

Every year we organize one or two international courses or workshops in English – Introduction to permaculture course (IPC), Training of Teachers, or Forest garden workshop with teachers from abroad.

In November 19 – 24th, 2024 we invite you to a PERMACULTURE TRAINING OF TEACHERS – international course with Tomas Remiarz in Prague.

PERMACULTURE DIPLOMA – DAPD

We have renewed Permaculture Diploma pathway – structure and support for getting the DAPD (diploma of applied permaculture design), together with Permakultúra Slovakia (Slovakian permaculture association).

„COMPOST PRESS“ PUBLICATIONS

We publish 2 booklets annually on permaculture related subjects, invite authors from academic, commercial, social and cultural backgroud. Since 2014 we have published 21 books. We also translate books on permaculture subject – Arnaya’s Permaculture design step by step, Toby Hemenway’s Gaia’s Garden, and Forest gardening in practice by Tomas Remiarz. We also translate

FILM „STORIES OF A FOREST GARDEN“

In 2020-2023 se filmed a documentary film about forest gardens on four different locations, based on a book Forest gardening in practice from Tomas Remiarz, which we translated to Czech. The film brings basic understanding on how forest gardens are variable according to the location, size, and the people who live in them. We screen the film with a discussion afterwards in libraries, schools, local communities, cafes, and stregthen local communities this way. More can be found here www.lesnizahrady.cz.We have renewed Permaculture Diploma pathway – structure and support for getting the DAPD (diploma of applied permaculture design), together with Permakultúra Slovakia (Slovakian permaculture association).

Courses in English we organised so far:

  • 2015 – PDC permaculture design certificate, 2 weeks residential course in Slunakov ecocentre – teacher Tomas Remiarz and co-teachers
  • 2016 – Introduction to permaculture, weekend residential course in Merboltice – Katka Horackova
  • 2016 – Teachers course on permaculture, 5 day advanced course in Prague – George Sobol
  • 2017 – Introduction to permaculture, weekend residential course in Merboltice – Katka Horackova
  • 2017 – Forest garden in practice, 5 day residential course in Merboltice – Tomas Remiarz
  • 2018 – Introduction to permaculture, weekend residential course in Merboltice – Katka Horackova
  • 2019 – Introduction to permaculture, weekend residential course in Merboltice – Katka Horackova
  • 2019 – Changing the urban landscape with forest gardens, 5 day residential course in Prague – Tomas Remiarz
  • 2021 – Introduction to permaculture, weekend residential course in Merboltice – Katka Horackova
  • 2022 – Introduction to permaculture, one day course in Merboltice – Katka Horackova
  • 2023 – Introduction to permaculture, one day course in Merboltice – Katka Horackova
  • 2024 – Training of teachers, 4 day course in Prague – Tomas Remiarz and Katka Horackova
  • 2025 – Introduction to permaculture, weekend course in Divočina Malešov – Katka Horackova

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