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Permaculture Mandala garden at Dunhill Eco-Park June 14, 2009

Posted by Graham in : General , trackback

I returned to the Dunhill Eco-Park in Waterford at the weekend for a follow-up to the permaculture course I did there last September.

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This time we were joined by 20 participants who learned about permaculture gardening techniques and forest garden design.

We then constructed a Mandala Garden based on the design by one of Bill Mollison’s students described in the Permaculture Designers Manual.

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The area was mulched with newspaper and straw, and herbs and shrubs were planted in.

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The mandala will still need a lot of plants to go in it to make it more beautiful and productive, but I think we all agreed it looked very fine by the end of the day.

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Many thanks to all the course participants for their enthusiasm and hard work; and especially to course organiser Samantha Richardson and the staff of Dunhill for making it all possible.

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