All our courses at Applewood Permaculture Centre

8th – 11th October 2026 (arrive on 7th)
Facilitator: Chris Evans & Looby Macnamara
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK

Join us for our annual apple harvest and juicing volunteer week. Its great fun getting the fruit in the day and then gathering round the fire in the evening.

FREE Taster Session Friday 16th October 2026
Followed by 6 weekly sessions 10:30am to 12:30pm
Facilitator: Looby Macnamara
Location: Leominster, Herefordshire, UK

Uplift your spirits with song. Join Looby for a joyful morning of singing and connection. This series of singing circles is open to anyone – even those that think they can’t sing.

6th-8th November
Facilitator: Looby Macnamara
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK

Wintering is an experiential journey to finding peace, connection and preparing for the winter within ourselves. We will spend time relaxing, crafting, singing, in nature and creating community together. It is a space for deep rest

Coming Spring 2027
Facilitators: Looby Macnamara & Emma Gorbutt
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK

The course guides women through a nourishing reflective process. We explore what leadership means to us as mothers; leadership of ourselves, our families, in our community and in the wider world.

Coming Spring 2027
Facilitator: Chris Evans
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK

This 2-day introduction to the concept and techniques of forest gardening involves theory and practice from visioning to harvesting.

Coming Summer 2027
Facilitators: Looby Macnamara & Leona Johnson
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK

This module of the Cultural Emergence toolkit gives us the opportunity to deeply connect with ourselves, each other and the more than human world. It is an experiential journey to finding peace and empowerment within ourselves

2027 Dates tbc
Facilitator: Looby Macnamara
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK

This course is a wonderful opportunity to explore your own personal culture while being immersed in a field of encouragement, with Looby one of the co-founders and developers of the Cultural Emergence toolkit, in person at Applewood

2027 Dates TBC
Facilitator: Chris Evans & Looby Macnamara
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK

This Design Adventure is a way to begin your design journey or become more fluid, more creative, more imaginative, more visionary. You will learn to use the Design Web and discover your inner designer.