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Seeds of Education

Each one teach one

 

 

 

Day and weekend workshops

 

 

 

Workshops are great fun, a great place to meet new friends, share ideas and get some practical skills in your head and hands.

In these photos you can see different work shops I have conducted since 2011- urban and ecological gardening, mud building, gray water systems with biological filters for irrigation, composting, hydroponics and aquaponics and philosophical views about permaculture principles and ethics.

The message that I try to pass through these workshops is to 'LIVE MORE WITH LESS', and so, most of the material used in these workshop are recycled and the students are encourage to develop a creative thinking to achieve their goals and live their life more aware.

The idea behind the Green apprenticeship (GA) was to 'barter' our knowledge and experience, and soup... in exchange with working hands and open minds of like-mind people that want to be a part of EkBicYeIc doing. The participants were eager to learn and implement the skills they learned during this very practical program.

The GA's learned and fiscally practiced  how to build and maintain hydroponics and aquaponics systems, introduction to permaculture design and principles, working with tools, urban gardening, and gardening technique plant biology.

"Give a person a fish, and you feed them for a day. Teach them HOW to fish, and you feed them for life"  

Green apprenticeship  

Giving a PDC in an urban environment has been on my mind for a very long time, in this course Idil Akdos and I with help from guest speakers, will make the most of our available 'live example' projects and connections with people and places around the city and region that are active in the ecological movement of Turkey.

 

The syllabus will have relevant subjects and focus especially on Urban Permaculture and how to implement ecological principles in to a sustainable life style in the city.

Course is modular and drop off days are possible

URBAN  PDC

Istanbul 2017

The permaculture kiddie camp.

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In this crazy fast time we are living in, we don't pay enough attention to consequences... 

What our kids are exposed to, what aren't they exposed to.  High technology can be very good for the world, BUT IS IT ALL GOOD?

In my permaculture kids camps, i want to take them out side of the screen, and give them a chance to experience the simple out door life, to breath fresh air, and to touch nature from close, with a lot of added value to this Innocent process.

To give them basic tools to approach nature with the respect it deserve,

to acknowledge the damage that is done, 

and to think positively about finding solutions to our disconnection from nature, and from our self's. 

 

Together we talk about importance of renewable resources and energies, learn how to observe and then interact, practice cooperation with friends, they learn practical skills that are bringing them to an awareness of where and how they live, how to adapt and except changes and more about permaculture principles.  

 

These issues are approached as an open debate, also during practical experience with gardening, composting and mud building.   

What do they learn: 

Growing food and composting our waste is the most direct interaction we can have with nature, this is the complete cycle, no broken chains, no energy lost.  

Together with the kids, we build a small vegetable garden, that can be implemented even in urban environment.

Connecting to what we eat is our control over our own body, eating organic is good, but growing your own food, is a powerful satisfying healing process.

 

Natural building.

In the Native American cultures, every kid knows how to build a house at the age of 16. This knowledge is disappearing and the importance of manual skills are neglected. Building with earth is fun, healing, creative and very useful, together we make mud bricks, and experience with a building of a bread oven combined with new technology, the 'Rocket oven', an officiant double burning ecological stove.  In the camp i want not only to give the kids theoretical knowledge, but also to make their hands dirty with earth, and their eyes filled with live working examples.

To give them that confidence, so they can be apart of that change we are looking for.

In one hand to make them strong as a group, but also to encourage the individual to learn these practical skills so they don't have to 'call the technichen' for every little mail function in the house.

To develop a self thinking through observation and communication

Permaculture Internship Program

 

 

The idea for this program came from my colleague and diploma mentor gilad margalit https://sites.google.com/site/giladmargalitpermaculture/diploma/faqwhohe

In may 2013 i helped him as a co-teacher to conduct a one month 'green internship program' in Kadita, Zefat, north of Israel, on mt. Merons forest, in camping condition (compost toilets, vegan kitchen, out door cooking). 

In the course the student came from a very diverse background and age.. 18-60 year old, from the city and the country side of Israel.. During the program we lived as much as posibble by all permaculture principles, valueing renewable resources such as burning wood more efficianlty for cooking in a 'Rocket stove' or using a solar oven. Then, in between theoretical classes about designing and planing methods, water management and composts, we built a small raised bed garden, light straw wall , a compost toilet, pizza oven, stone wall for a terrace and more practical things the people of Kadita needed for their ‘OFF GRID’ life style. We also had some spiritual guidance from bon fires, the forest and ‘Amud’ stream. All and all , it was a wonderful learning experience for every body, defiantly for me too, i found new friends and improved my teaching skills. Active learning at its best! ;)

School lectures and day activities 

 

Another fun option to work with kids is daily workshops and activities. Short lecures about bio construction with a couple of hours of playing in the mud, introducing them to this primal material. Acitivities like nature walks, hand crafts, gardening and other related activities for verius ages.

If you have a kid in school, or for a birthday party, i can plan a nice active permaculture day or half day with games and green activities.

Can suyo  Water of life

 

 

Can suyo (Water of life) is the Turkish name for the first water you give to a plant after transplanting or seeding, its a small blessing absorbed by the plant through the water. at the 2nd design Biennal in Istanbul, we are giving Can suyo of knowledge to kids from all over the city, visiting our garden library and seeing growing plants that can feed them. They learn how to plant a seedling in a pot that they take back to their school to keep and care. They listen to a short explanation about                    , get splashed and happy from our drip irrigation system filled with rain water, they ask questions, and they love it. The feed back they write at the end of their day is amazing, the work shop is not more then 10-15 minutes, yet their excitement is noticeable, and the first knowledge is absorbed by the mind and heart through the eyes and hands.

GROW YOUR OWN FOOD!    

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