Permaculture in Schools - School Garden Development
Session details
| Session type | Lecture |
| Permaculture flower | Education & Culture |
| Duration | 60 Minutes |
Teacher
 | Jorge Barbosa | Permaculture designer and educator based in Berlin, working mainly on the development of school gardens. |
This a session about my experience with school garden development, converting part of the PDC curriculum into something that may have sense in urban permaculture applied to school gardens.
- My professional profile
- Urban gardening through the ages
- From city garden to school garden
- The ethics and principles of permaculture in the school garden: From theory to practice
- The evolution of consciousness: From EGO to ECO and into action (SEVA)
- The Permaculture Flower: A holistic approach
- Understanding ecosystems: Learning from nature
- Zoning: Directing energy intelligently
- Cultivation methods: Ground-level vs. raised beds
- Raised beds in the school day: Layering, construction & materials
- Understanding soil: Particle size, soil types & practical soil analysis
- Soil regeneration techniques: building humus, managing & protecting garden beds
- Cultivation strategies: Companion planting & crop rotation
- Water: Abundance, scarcity, and virtual consumption (water footprint)
- Water: management & storage strategies
- Water: "social care" networks & the "sponge city" concept
- Designing microclimate zones and fostering niches for wildlife
- Cross-curricular Lessons, Safety & Organization, Funding & Resources
- Pitfalls & Summer Plan
- Next Steps
- Q&A and Feedback