Permaculture in New Zealand

Introducing the culture, craft and science of farming water flowing through the landscape

9-13 April 2010
Taranaki, Aotearoa New Zealand

Dao terraquaculture, the world’s most productive farming system, has thrived for over 5000 years in the Asia-Pacific realm - achieving levels of sustained productivity beyond the reach of agriculture.

This 4 day practical workshop will expand your skills and capabilities in productive farming and forestry systems to enable sustainable rural livelihoods in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Key skills and capabilities developed include:
- Building rural skills and team capabilities
- Reading landscape and mapping watershed habitats
- Enhancing watershed systems, role of ecostructures
- Sustainable development of rural properties

Practical and applied field trials~site visits~studio presentations
Case studies of operating systems~learning-by-doing training

The Team
Trainer Haikai Tane, Professor of Sustainable Development (China India Oceana)
Host Kama Burwell (Taranaki)
Coordinator Sheryl Miller (Twizel NZ)

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