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Dates 2024: Mar. 16 & 17 | April 20 | May 25 | July 13* | Aug. 31 | Sept. 28
*Outing to Permaculture Farm in Brandenburg
Time: 14:00-18:00 – 6 x 4-hour workshops in Berlin + 1 x 4-hour workshop at our Brandenburg Farm
Location: GIDAK, Saarbrücker Str. 24, 10405 Berlin // Schorfheide, Brandenburg
Price: €539** for 7 workshops + 2 ‘garden check-in’s’ in June and early August
Workshops are limited to 12 placements, so participants have 1-on-1 time, as well as a good sized group dynamic.
**We offer two placements for those on a lower income at a reduced rate. This rate is decided case-by-case and on a first-come, first-serve basis, and still requires full commitment to the series. Please contact us at workshopsber@cityplot.org if this applies to you.
Registration & Cancellation Policy: here
Language: English (with German explanations if needed)
Guided By: Leonie Woidt-Wallisser and Delia De Simone
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Description:
This is a seven-part workshop series for beginner-intermediate gardeners, those new to or wishing to increase their knowledge on Urban Gardening / Permaculture / Culinary Nutrition.
These workshops encompass the whole cycle, from growing your own food to preparing it in the best possible way for both your own health as well as the environment around you.
Our instruction is very practical and hands-on in this year-training – which runs from from March to September. We begin with sowing seeds in the spring, growing our food throughout the months that follow, and end with harvesting and preserving foods in the autumn.
In the Sow It! Grow It! Eat It! (SGE) workshops we will learn how to produce food in city settings. Wherever you wish to plant – window sills, balconies, roof-tops, community gardens – all scales are possible. You will also be given the use of your own on-site one square metre raised bed to garden and learn from throughout the year.
Parallel to this, we introduce you to the world of culinary nutrition - preparing food together, learning how to incorporate our produce in seasonal recipes, along with their nutritional benefits.
The holistic concept of Permaculture is central to our learning and its application to our urban gardens, lifestyles & beyond.
Breaking it down…
16 & 17 March – SGE Modules 1 & 2 – Let’s Get Started
Garden Planning & Design, Companion Plants, Lunar Gardening, Planting in Systems, Preparing Our Raised Beds & Gardens, Growing Seedlings
20 April – SGE Module 3 – Garden Designs Implemented
Sowing Seeds, Transplanting Seedlings, Protecting our “Green Babies”, Intro to Culinary Nutrition
25 May – SGE Module 4 – It All Starts in the Soil
Building Healthy Soil, Composting, Soil & Gut Health Connection, Make a Seasonal Food Staple
13 July – SGE Module 5 – Out into the Country We Go!
Learning from a Permaculture Farm in Brandenburg, Balance in the Garden, Naturally Working with Garden Pests
31 August – SGE Module 6 – Seeds, Seeds, Seeds
Seed Saving, Sprouting & Growing Microgreens, Nutritional Benefits
28 September – SGE Module 7 – Fermentation, Food Preservation & Celebration
Fundamentals of Fermentation, Making Ferments & Discovering their Amazing Nutrition, Reflection & Permaculture Celebration
Sow It! Grow It! Eat it! workshop extras include:
Materials and supplies to get you started
Hands-on food preparation
Seasonal recipes & nutritional information
A workshop day at our Permaculture Farm in Brandenburg
A vibrant community, of which you are a part
Q&A’s + related information on demand, in this year and beyond
We invite you to see the world differently and put practical solutions to help our planet straight into action!
Check out what our participants are saying…
Please contact us at workshopsber@cityplot.org for more information.
Your instructors:
LEONIE WOIDT-WALLISSER
Leonie has a background in architecture, the fine arts and Permaculture. Since having left her family’s off-grid homestead and extensive garden in small-town South Australia, she has lived amongst the urban populations of Australia, Germany, the US and the Netherlands. Her theoretical research in restoration ecology in the cultural sector, undertaken as part of studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, triggered her to initiate Cityplot in 2007. She co-coordinates the workshop programme and gardens in Berlin.
Leonie has many years of experience teaching and consulting in multiple facets of permaculture: food growing systems; community building and social systems; architecture, urban and landscape planning; natural building and construction with up-cycled materials; nature connections and spiritual ecology; holistic and regenerative practices on all levels; and beyond. Life coming full-cycle, step-by-step she nears a self-sufficient lifestyle and delves ever deeper into the worlds of ethnobotany and deep ecology.
Leonie strongly believes that there is not a problem, which cannot be solved through tapping into the heartbeat of the Earth - and that even the smallest of garden plots will help get you there!
DELIA DE SIMONE
Delia is a Certified Culinary Nutrition Expert originally from Toronto, Canada and currently living in Berlin, Germany. She has a degree in Urban Planning and a master’s in Public Policy, and has worked on improving the environments around her, with the goal of making communities more liveable and sustainable. Delia’s passion for good food and her journey into the world of culinary nutrition stems from the emphasis on delicious homemade food in her Italian family, and the effects of food in her personal health struggles. Becoming a Culinary Nutrition Expert has given her a deeper understanding of the connection between food and the power it has to help build health, as well as to destroy it. She uses her expertise to demonstrate how to prepare delicious food which is healthy, seasonal and easy to make. Sharing knowledge on the health benefits of the foods we use plays an important part in the process. She believes that learning about where our food comes from, how it’s grown, prepared and consumed are all integral to building our health.
Delia’s approach is informative and fun! It’s all about learning and cooking together. It’s hands-on -combining wholesome food and simple know-how with a whole lot of good energy, and the passion to pass it on!