Permaculture Food Forest, Vegetable Garden and Water Retention
Landscape Strategies for a dry Mediterranean Ecosystem
This workshop will cover the basics of permaculture principles and
design, companion plant vegetable gardening, food forest creation, fruit tree planting, soil building, mulching, and WRL strategies. Together we will work to start planting a food forest with fruit trees and shrubs.
Poretsou Monastery is located between the two village settlements of Agrabela and Platanitsa, at an altitude of 800 m. by the Erymanthos River, in the Kalavrita Municipality of North Peloponnese. You will find a peacefully remote mountainous and pristine natural forest setting. It is a place to rest, restore, ground and recenter.
If you are interested in creating ecologically resilient and healthy food systems and water cycling strategies for your home and community, come and join us!
The workshop will be held in English.
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COST
150€ per person - includes Material, Accommodation and Food
The cost of participation includes participation in the workshop, accommodation for 2 nights in a double or quadruple room at the Poretsou Monastery including breakfast, lunch and dinner vegetarian meals (arrival on Friday afternoon 10.10.2025 and departure on Sunday afternoon 12.10.2025), the provision of materials, protective equipment, as well as tools.
Travel expenses to and from the Poretsou Monastery and other personal expenses are covered by the participant. Car-pooling options will be given amongst the participants.
In order to reserve your place, you need to make a deposit of 50€ through this link, mentioning your name:
https://pay.vivawallet.com/anotherway
For any additional information you may reach us at:
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WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Friday Oct 10
14:00 Arrive
16:00 Orientation, Introduction and tour
18:00 – Dinner
19:00 – Presentation – Biography / Permaculture Basics / Project examples
Saturday Oct 11
8am – Breakfast
9am – Warm-up and Meeting in Courtyard
9:30-13:30 Planting Hügelkultur Fruit Trees
14:00 – Lunch
Break
16:00 Presentation – Food Forest Principles and practice
18:00 Dinner
Evening Activities – Offerings from group
Sunday Oct 12
8am – Breakfast
9am – Warm up and meeting in courtyard
9:30 – 12:00 Planting and fencing Hügelkultur Fruit Trees
12:30 – Lunch
14:00 pm – 15:00 Presentation - Water Retention Landscaping
16:00pm - Closing Circle
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About the Facilitator:
Holly Gardner
Regenerative Land Steward, Landscape Designer, Farmer, and Horticulture Educator
For almost three decades Holly has been a practitioner of ecologically regenerative land stewardship in several countries, creating living landscapes that are dynamic, biodiverse, sustainable, edible, and beautiful. Her expertise encompasses a wide range of modalities in permaculture, organic and biodynamic horticulture, syntropic agroforestry, ecosystem
regeneration, water cycle landscaping, and regenerative landscape design. Recently she has been working on several ecosystem regeneration projects in the Mediterranean specifically related to creating small-scale permaculture homestead gardens, to encourage regional food Security. She has also been focused on developing best practices for post-wildfire reforestation and water cycle landscaping to reestablish natural hydrological cycles. Holly is from the Hudson Valley of New York Up-State in the US. She holds a BA in Environmental Studies from Bard College, USA, a PDC from the Center for Bioregional Living, USA, and a Biodynamic Horticultural Certificate from Oaklands Park UK. “I am most fulfilled when I can co-create with others in community, to facilitate ecosystem resiliency, with nature as our leader. For me this is the meaning of life, and the work I am here to do”
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