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Advanced Self Sufficiency (II)

  “A step on from Self-Sufficiency 1 this course will develop your cooking, bottling and productive gardening skills whilst at the same time emphasising health and nutrition. Understand the importance of good health in a self-sufficient lifestyle and how to provide your own food.” - Adriana Fraser Cert.Hort., Cert.Child Care, Adv.Cert.App.Mgt., Cert 1V Assessment and Training, Adv.Dip.Hort. You learn about nutrition and how to balance your diet, as well as how to produce, process, store, and use different types of food. This includes berries, nuts, milk, cheese, eggs, bread making, preserves, & dried food. Cooking, freezing, drying, bottling, making bread, planning a vegetable garden to give produce all year round, and lots more are covered during the ten lessons.
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Beginners Guide to Self Sufficiency (I)

  Learn how to live self sufficently in this modern age! With this course, develop your understanding of self sufficiency. Learn about food and nutrition, and making the right decisions about changes in lifestyle; as well as showing you how to do a whole range of practical things such as mud brick building, making crafts, growing fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other crops; raising poultry, sheep & goats, extending the life of clothing, conserving energy, recycling, simple home medical care and first aid, and lots more. Content This course covers many aspects of self sufficiency, including the following: how to live with lower income identification of essential and non-essential services offered by society identification of services that one can be self sufficient with identification of self skills that can aid in self sufficiency skills that can be developed to assist in self sufficiency identify needs, wants and likes; and the purpose of prioritising needs identify items one can provide for oneself development of cost efficient meals identify purpose of fitness to self sufficiency
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Garden Design & Landscaping

  Interested in starting a career in garden design? Or maybe you would like to learn the skills so you can create your own piece of paradise? Whatever your goal, our Garden Design & Landscaping course is the perfect way to get started. Today's gardens reflect our changing lifestyles. A garden is not only a visual extension of the house itself, but a place to cater for a wide range of functions. Our Garden Design & Landscaping course teaches you how to create attractive landscapes and flourishing gardens, and is designed to help you become a garden designer. Whether you just love the outdoors and want to improve your own garden, or wish to earn extra income and make a change to a new career, this course can show you how. Plus, as it is delivered by correspondence, there are no timetables to adhere to so your study can fit around your current lifestyle. Entering this exciting and rewarding industry and start enjoying the wonderful lifestyle it can offer - enrol today!
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Landscaping Foundations (I)

  Explore your Creativity -Learn to Draw Garden Plans "This course contains the most essential aspects of a full professional landscape design qualification , condensed into 100 hours. If you are only going to do one short course, and you are really serious about garden design, this is ideal"   - John Mason  Dip Hort Sci, FPLA, FIOH, Landscape Designer since 1971, Garden Writer, Editor Your Backyard Magazine   At the end of this 100hour course you will be able to design a garden, and will have a foundation for further studies in specific areas of landscape design, development or management. Learn the principles that underpin all design. See how garden styles have evolved over the centuries, and broaden your understanding of how to use different garden components to create varying effects.
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Landscaping Home Gardens

  “I have found this course is great for the home gardener who wants to learn how to landscape their own garden. They can learn how to design and maintain their own creation themselves. It’s great - the cost of studying the course is nothing compared to how much it would cost to get in ‘The Professionals’!” - Tracey Morris Dip.Hort., Cert.Hort., Cert III Organic Farming.This course is designed to teach you how to design (or renovate) a home garden; and then, to maintain it. The subject aims above all to develop a solid understanding of the principles and procedures underlying the design and development of garden areas. The subject is relevant to both small and large landscapes, equally of value in developing a new home garden, or improving an existing one. Though consideration is given to both design and construction, the emphasis in this subject is on landscape design.
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Landscaping Styles (III)

  How do you Design a Mediterranean, Oriental or Formal Garden? The art of gardening is diverse, and gardens around the world will reflect respective cultures from the countries they originate in. The Chinese and Japanese have developed their own traditional style, as have the Europeans and Middle Eastern cultures. Over more recent times; modern styles of gardening have developed in Australia, America and even South America, to reflect the influences of culture, climate, art and fashion. This course explores the many styles of garden that can be found across the globe; and the ways in which a garden designer can recreate gardens that reflect a particular style. “There are so many wonderful styles that can be adapted to gardens today and this course outlines the most popular ones.”- Tracey Morris Dip.Hort., Cert.Hort., Cert III Organic Farming
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Managing Notable Gardens

  Learn to:1.      Discuss appropriate management strategies to ensure the long term survival of plants and garden features.2.      Identify and evaluate sources of funding and associated issues.3.      Identify and discuss the issues concerned with the presentation of a site to visitors. A designed landscape can be described as parks, gardens or grounds that are pre-conceived, designed and constructed for artistic effect. Parklands, woodlands, water and notable formal and informal gardens are included. Some may have significant wildlife, archaeological and scientific interest; they are also often the grounds in which buildings of historical significance are situated. Notable designed landscapes, of important heritage value occur in the city, in towns and in the countryside - they include: Archaeological remains The grounds and gardens of large houses Notable smaller gardens Urban and rural small parks Notable parks and green spaces that may have historical significance ie. refer to a particular historical figure or event Old parks and gardens which may be representative of the period or a style, or can be attributed to a certain designer Parks and gardens which may be of value as part of other notable landscapes or buildings  Large public parks Community gardens and allotments Civic landscapes Churchyards, cemeteries and grounds surrounding public buildings such as hospitals and universities Urban green corridors and other green spaces including village greens New landscapes
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Natural Garden Design

  Design Natural Gardens, Bush Gardens, Sustainable Landscapes. “This course is great if you want to create gardens that flow with the natural landscape.Using plants native to your area and blending them with the landscape is perfect for today’s environmental needs.” -Tracey Morris Dip.Hort., Cert.Hort., Cert III Organic Farming. This course develops your ability to design a bush garden (totally native, or using a mixture of both indigenous and other plants). After developing an understanding of the workings of natural environments you learn to create innovative plans for low maintenance bush gardens.It is ideal for the modern garden as it encourages the use of minimal maintenance and allows for habitats to grow without the need for trimming and hedging. You will find more birds and insects coming back into your garden.
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Permaculture Systems

  Learn to Design a Permaculture Garden “In this intensive and practical course you develop the fundamentals required to implement permaculture principles, and to produce a design for a large or small property.” - Adriana Fraser Cert.Hort., Cert.Child Care, Adv.Cert.App.Mgt., Cert 1V Assessment and Training, Adv.Dip.Hort. Learn to prepare plans for permaculture systems. (i.e. A unique landscape where plants and animals live balanced in a self sustaining ecosystem).  It commonly involves developing a garden or farm where the plants and animals are put together in such a way that they support each others growth and development. The garden or farm may change over years, but always remains productive, requires little input once established, and is environmentally sound. This is an "intensive" foundation course. If you are only going to do "one" permaculture course do this! This course overlaps with our Permaculture I - IV courses. If you do this, do not do Permaculture I, II, III or IV as well (Permaculture Systems contains parts from the others)
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Certificate In Garden Design

  This course provides effective training for people working, or wishing to work, in the landscape industry; either in their own business, or at a supervisory level for someone else. It is a course which both develops the students design skills, as well as basic knowledge in other areas of concern to the landscaper (eg. horticultural practices, management, plant identification and use, and marketing); and on completion of this course the student should be able to draw landscape plans, compile specifications, and prepare cost estimates. There are thirty lessons taking around 600 hours to complete. The main difference between this Certificate In Garden Design and the Certificate in Horticulture (Landscaping and Garden Design) is the emphasis on the various styles of garden design, such as cottage, playground and bush garden design for example.
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Certificate In Horticulture (Permaculture)

  “The principles of permaculture and the fundamentals of horticulture are covered in this extensive course. It creates opportunities to work as a consultant or to set up sustainable productive gardens for others.” - Adriana Fraser Cert.Hort., Cert.Child Care, Adv.Cert.App.Mgt., Cert 1V Assessment and Training, Adv.Dip.Hort. This course was developed for people working or wishing to work in Horticulture with a particular emphasis on the design, development and management of productive natural garden systems. The course was developed in liaison with both the Permaculture Institute and the Queensland Rural Training Council. Half the course involves Permaculture systems, Advanced Permaculture, and one relevant elective eg: Organic plant culture. The other half provides a broad, general foundation in Horticultural practices.
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