Permaculture with Katka Špačková
A productive garden in the mountains or hilly terrain is a challenge.A productive garden in the mountains or hilly terrain is a challenge. If you want to grow as much of your own vegetables, fruit and herbs as possible — despite frost, wind and a short summer — your garden and growing methods need to adapt to the climate. This workshop will guide you through permaculture principles that work precisely where things are not easy.
We will look at how to adapt your mountain garden to make it more resilient and productive: how to work with a slope, how to protect your garden from frost, ho…We will look at how to adapt your mountain garden to make it more resilient and productive: how to work with a slope, how to protect your garden from frost, how to establish windbreaks, and how to make use of shaded spots as well as dry, sun-exposed areas. The workshop includes a short lecture, a practical outdoor session on an open meadow, and a plan for diverse beds that are naturally protected and productive even during a short mountain growing season. We will also touch on edible and ornamental shrubs suited to local conditions. Every participant will take home their own personalised bed plan.
Katka Špačková
An enthusiastic gardener, lecturer and designer of edible, natural, permacultural and sustainable gardens.
She helps enthusiastic and beginner gardeners transform their patch of Earth into an edible paradise. She sees a garden not merely as a space around the house, but as a living ecosystem. Her goal is to turn dull garden deserts into oases full of life, food and joy. She teaches how — through connection with natural principles — you can grow vegetables, fruit and herbs simply, ecologically, without unnecessary chemicals and without digging.
She lives with her family in the Orlické hory mountains at 590 metres above sea level, where she grows over 150 species of edible plants in her permaculture ga…She lives with her family in the Orlické hory mountains at 590 metres above sea level, where she grows over 150 species of edible plants in her permaculture garden and harvests their produce almost year round. She studied permaculture design by distance learning in Australia, directly under Geoff Lawton. She works in garden design, leads workshops and offers consultations.