4 – 13 June 2025
Facilitator: Chris Evans & Looby Macnamara
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire, UK

This course will give you a grounding in how to teach and share permaculture in a variety of ways, from giving talks to running full permaculture design courses. It is also relevant if you wish to bring more permaculture and creative teaching techniques into your existing work.

5th July 2025
Facilitator: Chris Evans
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK

Interested to learn about fruit tree budding? Didn’t know you could prune in the Summer? Come to a Budding & Summer Pruning Workshop with Chris Evans. You will learn about budding and Summer pruning, and take home a tree you’ve budded yourself.

17-20 July 2025
Facilitator: Chris Evans & Looby Macnamara
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK

Join us for our annual volunteer week, getting jobs done, creating community and then gathering round the fire in the evening.

25-27 July 2025
Facilitator: Looby Macnamara
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK

Join us for the first ever Cultural Emergence Gathering and connect with others on their journey. This gathering is a wonderful opportunity to connect with Looby Macnamara author of Cultural Emergence and others on their Cultural Emergence pathways.

19 – 21 September 2025
Facilitators: Looby Macnamara & Delvin Solkinson
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK

*** Earlybird offer – £50 off before end June 2025 ***
Deepen your applied understanding of design frameworks, tools and principles from Cultural Emergence & Permaculture with a focus on the Design Web. Discover your inner designer.

27- 28 September 2025
Facilitator: Chris Evans
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK

This 2-day introduction to the concept and techniques of forest gardening involves theory and practice from visioning to harvesting.

9th – 13th October 2025
Facilitator: Chris Evans & Looby Macnamara
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK

Join us for our annual apple harvest and juicing volunteer week. Its great fun getting the fruit in the day and then gathering round the fire in the evening.

2026 Dates TBC
Facilitator: Looby Macnamara & Kate Gathercole
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK

This course is a wonderful opportunity to explore your own personal culture while being immersed in a field of encouragement, with Looby one of the co-founders and developers of the Cultural Emergence toolkit, in person at Applewood

Dates 2026 TBC
Facilitators: Looby Macnamara & Leona Johnson
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK

This module of the Cultural Emergence toolkit gives us the opportunity to deeply connect with ourselves, each other and the more than human world. It is an experiential journey to finding peace and empowerment within ourselves

2026 Dates TBC
Facilitator: Chris Evans & Looby Macnamara
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK

Join us for our annual volunteer week, getting jobs done, creating community and then gathering round the fire in the evening.

2026 Dates TBC
Facilitators: Looby Macnamara & Emma Gorbutt
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK

The course guides women through a nourishing reflective process. We explore what leadership means to us as mothers; leadership of ourselves, our families, in our community and in the wider world.