• Permaculture
    Permaculture

    Turn your passion for gardening into a thriving venture

Urban Kitchen & Market Gardening: The Permaculture Way

This immersive 8-day course is designed for anyone who wants to turn a passion for food and sustainability into a rewarding lifestyle or business. With a balance of hands-on gardening, classroom learning, and kitchen masterclasses, you’ll gain practical skills in everything from soil health and crop planning to food preservation and market preparation. Daily sessions are complemented by farm visits, expert workshops, and excursions that showcase real-world approaches to permaculture and sustainable farming.

Some of the Skill Sets you’ll be learning

  • Sustainable and profitable market/kitchen gardening techniques
  • Harvest and Market preparation
  • Annual, Perennial, Bi-annual Food Production (Vegetables, Salads, Fruit, Herbs and flowers)
  • *Maximum of 8 spots per course available.

*Prices are all inclusive full room and board, handouts, vegetarian breakfast, lunch and dinner, tea/coffee, treats, all excursions and transport and shared three star accommodations at the Cape Dutch Quarters.

Subjects Covered every season

  • Garden philosophies – values & principles (theories)
  • Growing Systems
  • Types of produce
  • Soil and its inputs
  • Food garden design principles
  • Pests & Diseases
  • Nursery & Propagation
  • Orchard Husbandry
  • Apps, Technology, Tools & Implements
  • The business of Market Gardening
  • Kitchen & Culinary Skills
  • Food Preservation

Average Daily Routines

Morning Sessions:

Our Morning Sessions are focused in the Nursery & Garden. Here we hone in on what is needed in order to  gain success & the needed skills required to make sure your Produce growths healthy & organically!

Afternoon Sessions:

We do  Classroom Style Learning in the gardens to sharpen our knowledge by seeing things in action. Workshops and educational farm visits are also done during these sessions to give you a huge exposure to different methods and approaches used by various Experts.

Evening Sessions:

Our Kitchen Master Classes will surely be a huge bonus in showing you how to do Food preparation and develop preservation skills to make sure that you get the MOST out of your organically grown Produce!

Excursions & Workshops Covered in the year

  • Foraging for Food
  • Growing mushrooms
  • Growing & harvesting nut trees
  • Cut flower & Protea farms
  • Tulbagh Dried Fruits – processing plant
  • Tulbagh Honey Farm
  • Vindoux Organics – Tulbagh based organic commercial vegetable farm
  • Eikelaan Farm – Tulbagh based organic commercial vegetable farm
  • White Mountain Farms – Worsley based organic commercial vegetable farm
  • White Bridge Farm – Worsley aquaponics organic salad production
  • Porterville Farmers Market
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