All our courses at Applewood Permaculture Centre

25-26th April 2026
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.

5-14th May 2026
Facilitator: Chris Evans & Looby Macnamara
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire, UK

This course will give you a grounding in how to teach and share permaculture in a variety of ways, from giving talks to running full permaculture design courses. It is also relevant if you wish to bring more permaculture and creative teaching techniques into your existing work.

2-7th June 2026
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

4th July 2026
Facilitator: Chris Evans
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK

Interested to learn about fruit tree budding? Didn’t know you could prune in the Summer? Come to a Budding & Summer Pruning Workshop with Chris Evans. You will learn about budding and Summer pruning, and take home a tree you’ve budded yourself.

16-19th July 2026
Facilitator: Chris Evans & Looby Macnamara
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK

Join us for our annual volunteer week, getting jobs done, creating community and then gathering round the fire in the evening.

24-26th July 2026
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

5-6 September 2026
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.

2026 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.

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.