Join us for a hands-on, inspiring week where you’ll discover how permaculture can guide you toward a more sustainable and joyful lifestyle. Together we’ll explore how to set up an ecological garden or balcony, see what a mature food forest looks like, learn to make compost and natural fertilizers, try out natural building techniques, care for your health with herbs, and create your own eco-friendly cleaning products.
This course is practical, sensory and fun. Everything you learn can be applied directly in your daily life. And the best part? It takes place at Bogata Šuma, a lovely permaculture farm that is itself a living example of low-maintenance self-sufficiency and sustainable living.
This week is an immersive program to learn about practical permaculture in real life. What is sustainability, what is permaculture, how did we design our land and our life with permaculture ethics and principles as decision making tools. How to setup an ecological garden for self sufficiency, how to take care of yourself with herbs. It gives you an overview of "all" aspects of living a sustainable and independent life in the countryside.
Subjects that we cover in this week:
- What is sustainable living,
- What is permaculture,
- Ethics, principles, patterns, how everything is connected
- Growing food for self sufficiency and setting up low maintenance food growing systems
- techniques like mulching, composting and making natural fertilizers, seed saving, planting, pruning and propagating techniques,
- Natural building techniques: strawbale, cob, wood construction,
- Animals, their functions, food and care,
- Herbal health: finding, collecting, drying and storing herbs, making teas, making tinctures, kitchen herbs, herbal oil,
- Permaculture design, how to design for projects
Experience and enjoy permaculture in practice on our homestead Bogata Šuma!
Together we can discover how permaculture can be a solution to many (world) problems.
What is permaculture? What are the ethics and how do you live with them? How do you use permaculture principles as decision making tools?
For us, permaculture is a very inspiring way to design our land and life in a sustainable way. Growing almost all of our food, staying healthy with home grown herbal remedies (teas, oils, tinctures) and natural building techniques is part of that.
We love to use permaculture principles to develop our land and our lives. We take care of the earth, of the people around us and we love to share our knowledge, skills and good food from the garden.
Monday 20 - Friday 24 April '26
Where: permaculture farm Bogata Šuma, Vojnic, Croatia
€ 550,- bursary support
€ 475,- normal price
€ 400,- low waged, under 18 or over 70, or from former Yugoslavia
€ 100,- when you volunteer here afterwards for 3 weeks or more
The price includes all tuition, breakfasts, lunches and dinners, and a camping spot or a bed in a (2-persons) room.
Bring a friend and get 25% off
(not for voluneering spots)
More information: barbara@bogatasuma.com or call +385 (0)95 5555 677
47220, Karlovačka županija
HR
Teacher(s)
I live with my family on a 12 hectare homestead in the heart of Croatia. My vision is to live a simple, healthy, happy life in nature, with like minded people to share and celebrate.