The Northern School of Permaculture
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Northern School International PDC 2015 - course venues
The course will be run at a series of venues, allowing varied tours and visits, from the stunning natural beauty of upland Scotland to the post-industrial heartland of Manchester.
Wiston Lodge
The course starts in a Victorian hunting lodge in the Upper Clyde Valley in Scotland. Wiston Lodge is a residential outdoor centre run by an award-winning registered charity. Primarily an outdoor activity centre for young people, Wiston Lodge also hosts conferences, festivals and courses for adults. The Lodge has its own walled garden which supplies the kitchen. The surrounding estate is heavily wooded.
Tombreck
At the edge of the famous Loch Tay at the gateway to the Scottish Highlands, this is the site of a new eco-hamlet at the heart of a traditional upland farm. The award-winning buildings include The Big Shed, a beautiful conference centre where our course will be based. The existing farm is being developed along permaculture lines.
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Middlewood
Middlewood Trust is located in a beautiful valley that lies in the Pennine hills inland from the historic town of Lancaster in the North West of England. The area includes a small organic hill farm with species rich meadows, moorland, and an extensive area of native woodland that hosts courses in appropriate technology and permaculture.
Manchester
Arguably the powerhouse that drove the Industrail Revolution out into the world, by the turn of the millenium Manchester had, both literally and metaphorically, run out of steam. Frantically attempting to embrace a 21st Centrury "Knowledge Industry" (with some success) it is still wrestling with the 21st centrury issues that affect nearly every city around the globe.
Although described by the partner of one of Manchester's celebrity spanish soccer players as "looking like the back end of a fridge", Manchester, together with its twin-city Salford, is a typical post-inductrial landscape that has yet to succumb to "mega-city" status. It remains a a unique cultural centre, bristling with a sense of history that inspires a dynamic approach to shaping the future.
We will complete our course in the historic "Northern Quarter", formerly full of textile factories and small workshops at the heart of the City Centre. The final days of the course will be hald at The Wonder Inn, a "Grade II listed" (historic interest) building in the middle of Manchester. It is being transformed into a creativity, wellness & pop-up centre by singer Kirsty Almeida & sculptor Mari Oda, both rising figures in the Manchester's ever-evolving cultural landscape.
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