B2SB

Our course will have two sections:

1. A theoretical cours (the official PDC)
This course gives you a base knowledge of permaculture
- Principles and ethics of permaculture
- Sectors and Zones for design
- Water management, water harvesting, …
- Soil regeneration, soil consistency, carboncycles
- Plant identification, polycultures, …
- Social permaculture
- Eco-construction
- And many more

you will get all the tools needed to make a design of your own for a client, friends or your own space.

We believe that permaculture is one of the stronger ways to get through this climate crisis we are currently facing as a human species. It is a way to build resilient ecosystems that can nurture human beings and their environment. The ethics of permaculture teach us that there is more that one type of valuable knowledge, and to value the traditional practices that have been created throughout time, as well as the power of combining our forces.

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a PRACTICAL permaculture Course

This part of the course is open for all people and has no mandatory implications.

Our goal is:

- To visit already existing permaculture sites
- Learn to make cutting
- Grafting
- Composing
- Make a plant nursery
- Go foraging …

All of this are skills useful to maintain your permaculture site

We organise this part of the course alongside/ in addition to the official course, because we believe that earth regenerative work has to be grounded in a practice, it is a way to make accessible and to digest the knowledge accumulated and find allies in our earth regenerative ambitions.

Dates to be announced

NEW PERMACULTE DESIGN COURSE

We are very happy to present to you our new permaculture course hosted by Back2SoilBasics (B2SB). We are an earth regenerative collective focusing on putting decolonial ecology into a grounded practice. Our goal is to make all ecological and permaculture practices accessible for all and create a network of permaculture applicants in Belgium and beyond.
Feel free to share this information to your friends or other people that might benefit from this course. We have limited places, maximum 24!

In the school year of 2023-2024 we are offering a year-long Permaculture Design Course (PDC), organising workshops over the course of multiple weekends. The session will focus on Permaculture in an urban context.

Yau Fan is a permaculture designer, facilitator, sound engineer in the field of bio-acoustics, and musician..

After working for ten years in the music industry, he founded the openlab for bioacoustics in order to raise awareness on species diversity loss and ways to solve it through acoustics, field recording and sound art.
He did his first PDC in 2017 and afterwards took courses with Lesley Martin, Hugo Oliveira, Mirka Faya Hlavacova, Patricia Pereira, Helder Valente, Geoff Lawton, Daniel Halsey, Oliver Roberfroid, Gerard Ducerf, and Elaine Ingham. He has completed courses with Soil Food Web (soil microscopy) Natagora (Botanics, Entomology, Ornithology) and volunteers for CNB (Cercles des Naturalistes de Belgique), Natagora and Pépinière Citoyenne. He is currently employed by MVB (Maison Verte Bleu) as coordinator and facilitator, teaching syntropic forestry in a social context. He has worked as a Designer for Food Forest Abundance, United Designers and has done designs in Malaysia, Hawaii, Senegal, Northern and Southern Europe, North America, Jordan, from zone 5 to zone 13.

After taking the teacher training with Alfred Decker, he has taught 3 PDC as lead facilitator, 2 teacher training together with Alfred, and other permaculture courses for refugees in Brussels. Yau is in the process of designing a PDC for refugees together with Alfred Decker, Rosemary Marrow and the Permaculture for Refugees (P4R) working group.

Oscar Cassamajor is an artist and educator. They did their first PDC in 2021.
They specialise in participative design and are researching how to make Permaculture accessible in an Urban Context. Oscar is the founder of Back2soilsBasics and part of the Trans Local Alliance. They love to make designs with and for people. They finished their Permaculture teachers training with Alfred Decker in 2023 and are looking forward to facilitating their first PDC in BXL to tessellate a strong earth regenerative network.

Matilde Quiñoá Iglesias came to Brussels 6 years ago to work as European project manager and researcher in the field of social economy. Previously, she worked in different countries (Spain, Chile and Honduras), developing projects related to sustainable development, community capacity building and migration. She has also worked as a legal and policy advisor for several organisations.
She studied her first degree in law, then her master's degree in international cooperation and development, and is currently preparing a second degree in sociology. She did her first PDC in 2021 and she finished the teacher training with Alfred Decker in 2023.

Marta Muñoz Marti works with Erasmus+ educational projects. She is passionate about non-formal education and all forms of horizontal and integrative learning.
She followed the PDC course in 2021 in Brussels and it changed her understanding of the world. Not only did it allow her to settle her basic knowledge of ecology, but also to embrace a philosophy of life that is much more coherent and natural. Since then, she continues practising and learning and enjoys helping other people to have that experience, because as long as there is education and sharing, there is hope for change.

Korenbeek is an alternative neighbourhood house/community space facilitated by Toestand VZW.

Here, the B2SB collective recently did a demineralisation action. This was a big participative design. The site has been the main space for B2SB to experiment and organise their community building events. In winter we aspire to go further with the design by expanding the food forest/ playground that was initiated this summer.