Dates: Saturdays - 20.03, 17.04, 15.05, 19.06, 04.09, 02.10
*optional Summer Outing - end July, date tbd
Time: 14:00-18:00 - 6x4 hour workshop, 1x weekend (optional)
Location: GIDAK, Saarbrücker Str. 24, 10405 Berlin // Schorfheide, Brandenburg
Price: €449* ( €399 early bird rate for full payment before 21.02.21 EXTENDED! )
*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
Description:
This course is for beginner-intermediate gardeners, those new to or wishing to increase their knowledge on Urban Gardening / Permaculture / Culinary Nutrition – and the infinitely curious!
In the Sow it! Grow it! Eat it! workshop series, we will learn how to produce food according to nature’s cycles in city settings. Wherever you wish to plant - window sills, balconies, roof-tops, community gardens - all scales are possible.
This year-training runs from March to October – beginning with sowing seeds in the spring, growing our food throughout the months that follow, and ending with harvesting and preserving in the autumn.
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.
Sow it! Grow it! Eat it! includes:
Introduction to Urban Gardening, Permaculture / Social Permaculture & Culinary Nutrition
Garden planning for full-year production
Materials and supplies to get you started
Your own, on-site, one square metre plot
The essential building blocks of soil health/soil ecology
The soil health, gut health connection
Hands-on food preparation
Seasonal recipes & nutritional information
Food preserving and celebration
Excursion day/weekend to 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
This will offer you the chance to see the world differently and put practical solutions to many of the issues we currently face straight into action!
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 upcycled 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!
Please contact us at workshopsber@cityplot.org for more information.