Designing Your Green Space

Green Spaces Course – Day 7 

Designing Your Green Space 

10:00 – 10:30 Introductions. What is Permaculture? What Permaculture isn’t. What approaches have we taken to planning gardens and projects? What has worked and what hasn’t. 

Format: Open Discussion 

Facilitator Paul (Criafolen Permaculture) 

10:30 – 11:15 Design Approaches – Survey/Assess/ Design. Understanding people, place and resources. 

Format: Presentation & Questions 

Facilitator: Paul 

11:15 – 11:30 Coffee break and chat. 

11:30 – 12:15 The site: Slope; aspect and elevation. Zone and sector design. Urban considerations. 

Format: Presentation & Questions 

Facilitator: Paul 

12:15 – 13:00 Lunch & chat 

13:00 – 14:00 Principles of design: Holmgren’s 12 principles and the community garden 

Format: Presentation & Discussion 

Facilitator: Paul 

14:00 – 14:15 Tea break & chat 

14:15 – 16:00 Planning the Year in the community green space – design implementation 
Format: Presentation & Open discussion 

Facilitator: Paul 

Participants completing 75% per cent of the courses from the Swansea Community Green Spaces Training will be eligible for certification.

*These sessions will be free for participants on low incomes, on benefits, or who are students. Free places will also be available for members of groups which have previously been involved in the Swansea Community Green Spaces Project.

Participants outside of these groups will be asked to pay £20 for each day session.

Host or Publisher The Environment Centre