Community Gardens Design and Courses

I had the pleasure of meeting and working with Ewa in my previous role with local government. I engaged her to review and develop an updated permaculture redesign for one of our long-term community garden spaces as well as present a series of educational community workshops on a range of permaculture topics. Ewa’s design demonstrated excellent knowledge of permaculture design and our local conditions. Her workshops were well-prepared and well-presented making them engaging and very informative. Feedback by all attendees was positive, with many people signing up for more than one workshop.
I was especially impressed with the respect Ewa showed to the hard-working volunteers. She incorporated their ideas and wishes into the design which meant that they were part of the process. The outcomes were extremely positive and I would absolutely recommend Ewa and Permaculture Haven for permaculture design and educational workshops.
Tina Raveneau

Consultation

It was such a great experience having Ewa visit and tour our property. Having someone with her vast expertise in permaculture for our area and climate is amazing.
Being able to ask all the questions we had and getting simple easy to understand solutions and suggestions, gave us the confidence to move forward with our plans.
To have such an abundance of knowledge at hand is a godsend. Thank you so much!
The Laurie’s
Adam and Bree

Sustainable Permaculture Garden – How to Grow Abundance of Healthy Food All Year Round

Hi Ewa,
Just a note to let you know how much I enjoyed your course.
Not only was there heaps of info for experts and novices but to get to taste the plants you are growing in your food forest was a real treat.
Subtropical gardening is a little different to what I’m used to so it was really cool to see the variety of food you can grow in these hot & humid months.
Thanks for the cassava cuttings and the spinach (which is already settled in and growing). I’ve revamped the worm farm to make collecting the castings easier and am composting like crazy. Thank again for the inspiration,
Cheers,
Rachel
Rachel Mackey

Sustainable Permaculture Garden – How to Grow Abundance of Healthy Food All Year Round

This was a fabulous one-day course. The course is taught by Ewa, who has extensive qualifications and experience in permaculture and nutrition. The course was highly educational, starting with sustainability and the meaning of permaculture, and running through the basics of permaculture from soil and nutrition to water, swales and composting. The theory was backed up by lots of practical examples and recommendations from her own food forest. We were also supplied with a list of plants suitable for SE QLD, and lots of notes on the information in the presentation. Even though I have studied some permaculture, I still learned a lot. But the highlight of the day was a tour through her own food forest. This was the opportunity to see how all the theory was put into practice, and we received a detailed explanation on each plant, outlining both how to grow it and its benefits as a food or a medication. The information that she taught can be applied to all sizes of gardens and is suitable for gardeners at any stage of their development. In addition, we were able sample some of her tonics/teas and some home cooked goodies. We also sampled lots of leaves and berries as we toured the garden, and everyone got to take home a plant. It was a fabulous day, and I’ve already started to implement many of the things I learned on the course.
I can’t recommend this course highly enough.
Leo O’Reilly

Design Your Own Sustainable Edible Permaculture Garden

Absolutely fantastic course! The amount of gold level information that you can obtain from this is phenominal. Ewa has come up with excellent solutions that are practical, extremely down-to-earth, and inexpensive. She’s obtained a wealth of knowledge in her time obtaining her extensive qualifications, and by actually doing the practical of the theory herself. If you’re at all interested in how agriculture can become more sustainable, I cannot more highly recommend this course. We’ve already begun implementing the planning we were able to formulate during the course in our small scale garden. We will definitely be doing the same in a stage of life where we have more land too! -Caleb
Caleb Furler

On-site Consultation

I was amazed about the wealth of knowledge Ewa brought with her to my home. We just bought this property and I asked Ewa to inspect the front and backyard to give us her opinion about the existing plants and how can we convert the fairly small land we have into a functioning and easy to maintain food forest. Ewa gave me so many fresh and easy to do ideas! I made tons of notes! Thank you soo much! It was definitely worth it! The next step for me is Ewa’s online gardening course so I can start to grow my own veggies.
Connie M.

Permaculture Vegetable Gardening – Self-Paced Online Course for Beginners

This course is an ocean of information! Everything explained clearly and in details. I have already started to implement my design and I am amazed how everything I learned in this course, is coming together. Very happy! Ewa’s drawings are amazing!
Sharon

Design Your Own Sustainable Edible Permaculture Garden

This course was exactly what I was looking for as a backyard beginner gardener. Ewa offers a course packed full with both conceptual and practical information. She is highly qualified with vast experience, and delivers the content with wisdom and passion, along with a down-to-earth practical approach.
The garden tour was fascinating, showing us the extraordinary diversity of Ewa’s food forest and demonstrating transferable gardening practices suitable for gardens large and small, like the three bin compost system.
I came away feeling like I had a solid foundation to approach my project with. And I have been pleasantly surprised by the progress so far!
Highly recommend this course.
Sophia Cecilia

Permaculture Backyard Food Forests – What to Grow How to Grow – Practical Guide Workshop

Thank you Ewa for a wonderful hands-on experience on 12th December at your “Permaculture Backyard Food Forests – What to Grow How to Grow – Practical Guide Workshop”. I came away armed with knowledge and inspiration to build my own garden confidently (well, with more confidence at least!). I enjoyed walking through your own garden and harvesting food for our afternoon lunch while learning so much about edible foods and composting. Thank you for sharing some of your extensive knowledge, I highly recommend the course to anyone interested in growing their garden or expanding their knowledge in permaculture in our local climate. – Susanna Martin 🙂
Susanna Martin

Permaculture Backyard Food Forests – What to Grow How to Grow – Practical Guide Workshop

Hi Ewa
Thank you so much for hosting such a lovely day yesterday. I really do feel inspired and was most excited when I came home and checked my garden to see my Cassava looked the same as yours! Yummy! Seeing your garden was a great example of what is possible locally and has given me lots of hope that I can create such a thriving space on my own land.
Elicia Randell

Permaculture Vegetable Gardening – Self-Paced Online Course for Beginners

This online course included everything I could ask for! I am so happy that I found it. Now, after finishing it, I have a plan for my garden, I know how to build raised garden beds, I know how what to grow and when and all the home remedies for any kind of bugs ! All about composting and how to improve the soil was also a great topic! Thank you!
Dora L.

Permaculture Vegetable Gardening – Self-Paced Online Course for Beginners

Dear Ewa, I have just finished half of Module 1 and would like to compliment you on your style. you put things not only simply but also in an engaging manner. I’m very happy to have enrolled in this class. A little bit about me, I’ve been drawn to Permaculture since early 2018 and have been trying to find my way to THE land that will allow me to live sustainably and care for the earth. I did a PDC at the Food forest in Adelaide in 2019 which was a true awakening. Enrolling in your course is my attempt at putting dreams into action.
Alka J. Dc.

Permaculture Vegetable Gardening – Self-Paced Online Course for Beginners

Just finished the online-course and it was one of the best decisions in my life to do it! It was not only easy understandable but also exactly what I was after, learn how to grow veggies the permaculture way.
Very happy! Highly recommended to anyone who wants to learn how to become self-sufficient the easy way.
Sandra L.

Permaculture Vegetable Gardening – Self-Paced Online Course for Beginners

Really enjoyed learning simple and easy techniques to maintain healthy soil to grow a diverse range of edibles. Great to Learn how to put together your own compost and fertiliser and what edibles take or put back into the soil in order to rotate crops efficiently and keep production at a maximum.
I have not drawn a plan as my veggie garden is already in place however I appreciate the necessity of making keen observations and designing according to needs and water source.
Elizabeth W.

Permaculture Vegetable Gardening – Self-Paced Online Course for Beginners

This is a nice and easy to follow course, I’ve only been into growing for a bout 2 years and heard about permaculture only recently. I’d live to learn more on this. Thank you for sharing all these.
Simon L.

Permaculture Grow and Eat Workshop

This course is a great combination of learning about the huge range of edibles in the food forest and harvesting, cooking and eating them. Ewa is a fabulous host, friendly and very knowledgeable. She answered all of our questions patiently and ensured everyone had a great day.
Highly recommended!
Lorna Haig

Permaculture Design for a 5 Acres Property Sunshine Acres QLD Australia

Great design with the intent to become sustainable. Ewa and Seb have worked their magic to create an awesome food forest. Best part is our rain water doesn’t run away anymore and fills swales that feed the various trees.
Jacob

Permaculture Haven Food Forest Tour With Free Tea Testing

The guided tour was very informative. Ewa is very knowledgeable and takes the time to answer all questions. Eula and Paul.
Eula and Paul

Permaculture Design for a 35ha Property at Woodgate QLD Australia

Thank you for your design. Looks very interesting. Will help me a lot to get me on my way to self sufficiency.
Thanks
Craig

Design Your Own Sustainable Edible Permaculture Garden – Workshop

This course is a great insight and tool for anyone who wishes to start their own form of a sustainable edible garden be it small or large! Ewa was very informative and introduced us to a whole new range of plants, and assisted in determining the best plan for our individual properties. Plus the range of plants available to get started was huge, and we will most definitely be back for more in the future. We are super excited to get cracking on bringing the plan we developed into a reality, and even more excited to get our own produce into our bellies – smacznego.
Chelsea Larner

Permaculture – Grow and Eat Workshop

The course was wonderful. Not only was the content of the course extremely informative, the hosts and the other course participants were very friendly and helpful. I learned a lot about Permaculture that I didn’t know and have been able to implement in my own food forest. To top it all off the meal at the end of the course was delicious. I had heard about all these wonderful foods but to taste them was divine. I have no hesitation in recommending this course to anyone who is interested in growing their own food forest.
Michael Rawlins

Permaculture – Grow and Eat Workshop

Thank you for a very informative day learning a lot about permaculture gardening.It was very interesting to learn about all your edible plants and animals at your property,about mulching and composting. After a very informative morning we finished the workshop preparing and eating a delicious meal with food from your garden.I loved your homemade cookies,tea and real sauerdough bread.I went home with heaps more knowledge and ideas how to improve my own garden at home.
Corrina

DESIGN YOUR OWN SUSTAINABLE EDIBLE PERMACULTURE GARDEN – WORKSHOP

Great day. Very informative and a plan to run with.
Helen Foster

Permaculture Sustainable Vegetable Gardening – The Complete Guide – Self-Paced Online Course

An excellent course! Clear and objective. It addressed the most important and basic points and allows the person to develop his own garden alone.
I really liked the videos, which help to get an idea of how things are and the very beautiful drawings. I didin´t know the permaculture philosophy and love it because I love Mother Earth.
Now the desire to meet all in person and enjoy the place!
Tania Orlando

Permaculture Sustainable Vegetable Gardening – The Complete Guide – Self-Paced Online Course

Excellent! I just completed this course and I want to thank Ewa for this huge amount of information and practical “how to” instructions in each lesson. I really loved the fact that Ewa explained it all so clearly and guided me to get a clear idea of where to start, how to set up my edible garden and how to grow healthy food.
The design I had ready at the end of this course was something I didn’t expect I will be able to do myself!
Emma

Permaculture Grow and Eat Workshop

What a great insight on how well permaculture works! Thanks Ewa for sharing information on your wonderful food forests. Also, for showing us how to make wonderful food from the fresh produce. It’s fantastic to see sustainability done so well and something to aspire to!
Cheers
Angela
Angela Profke

Permaculture – Grow and Eat Workshop

A real journey into a food forest!
Surprising how you can eat all what you see in there, the good taste everything has, and the power of natural cycles.
Ewa is a good guide, the garden is very rich, the techniques are interesting, the “get the food-cook it- eat it” is a nice experience and there’s a lot to learn.
Thank you!
Giulia

Permaculture Grow and Eat Workshop

I learned soo much within one day! Soo happy! Ewa has so much knowledge and is so patient. The combination of learning in the classroom and going outside to see how everything what we learned really work in the garden was a great way to remember all the information. I loved the cooking and eating part as well. Thank you soo much!
Amanda

Permaculture Haven Food Forest Tour With Free Tea Testing

Ewa was very informative and a great hostess. With a wealth of information, she inspired us to grow our own food.
Petrina

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