Siyakhana Food Garden, Bezuidenhout Park, Observatory Road, Observatory, Johannesburg.

Investment R1,850 for the weekend includes refreshments, a vegetarian lunch and a 180 page coloured manual.

Have you ever wondered if there is an easier way of growing highly nutritious vegetables than the traditional or even organic way, one that eliminates virtually all of the toil and ongoing maintenance of the garden, the very thought of which may be stopping you from starting your own vegetable garden? If this is the case, or even if you are a keen vegetable gardener already, you can learn what this way is and how to apply it in practice to grow your own vegetables that have a much higher nutritional value than even organically grown vegetables with very little effort in comparison with the effort required to grow veggies the traditional or organic way by coming to a Permaculture Design workshop at the Siyakhana Food Garden on the weekend of the 21st and 22nd of April, 2012.

ABOUT PERMACULTURE GARDENING

So what exactly is ‘permaculture’, you may well be asking yourself? The word 'permaculture' is derived from the words 'permanent' and 'culture' and describes a set of design tools and gardening techniques that can be used to create sustainable systems that empower human beings to live in harmony with the natural world, which is permaculture's underlying philosophy and aim.

A properly designed and laid out permaculture food garden grows vegetables in harmony with nature by facilitating natural symbiotic bonds between different plant species, animals, bacteria and fungi. The main benefits derived from this food production method are the elimination of:

 The costs of external inputs inherent in normal agriculture or even organic gardening, such as
fertiliser, compost and pesticides;
 Unnecessary labour and human interference in natural seasonal yields and productive capacity, which can be hundreds of times greater by volume as well as nutritional quality than is the case with commercial agriculture or organic gardening.

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Visit
http://www.permaculturegarden.co.za to purchase a copy of Jamie Sheperd's Permaculture e-book for R40