Seasonal update (don’t ask which season)
30 Nov 2011 Leave a Comment
in education for sustainability, permaculture
I know, I know: slow worms aren’t actually slow. It seems this one might just be the exception!
It’s been too long already. But the permaculture activities haven’t stopped; it’s just the recording of them that’s been hibernating for a while.
This is due in part to another house move (driven not by the shrivelled vegetable crop at the last place, disappointing though that was, but by the opportunity to live for a while in a stunning Elizabethan house on a river) and in part to the fact that I 
have started so many things in parallel that actions have taken over (good) but documenting said actions has fallen by the wayside (not so good).
I shall make amends here with, as a start, a dull but concise, bullet-point run-down of my summer 2011 achievements — not to suggest anyone is likely to be in the slightest interested in these — but simply for the record. More
Disheartened but determined
17 Jun 2011 4 Comments
So, the vegetable patch is doing what vegetable patches do. 
It’s always a delight to see the edibles bursting into life.
But things don’t always go as expected. More
Magical location for launch of Permaculture Cymru
16 May 2011 Leave a Comment
in permaculture Tags: permaculture
I attended the launch day of the Welsh Group of the Permaculture Association, which was held on 14th May at the beautiful and inspiring venue of Sych Pwll on the banks of the River Vyrnwy near Llandrinio, Powys. It was uplifting to see so much energy and to meet so many interesting, warm and talented people. More
Now what?
30 Apr 2011 1 Comment
in permaculture Tags: permaculture
So the next big question is what to do with all this permaculture inspiration. Ideas have been forming steadily over recent months, though; I will set them out as far as they’ve evolved, right now. More
Visit to Primrose Earth Awareness Trust
20 Apr 2011 Leave a Comment
in permaculture Tags: permaculture
As a follow up to our permaculture course we were invited to visit one of the most productive plots of land in Britain (so I hear): the market and forest gardens at Primrose Farm near Hay-on-Wye. More
Permaculture Design Certificate: got it!
27 Mar 2011 1 Comment
in permaculture Tags: PDC, permaculture
A turning point in my education and my working life: I have completed a full permaculture design course, taught with passion, talent and skill by Steve Jones of Sector39, and am now setting out plans for building on this new knowledge and putting it to best use. More
Permaculture plans
17 Jul 2009 Leave a Comment
in permaculture
I’ve discovered permaculture – a landscape design system that follows natural patterns to allow lifecycles and ecosystems to function as effectively as possible with minimal human intervention while providing food, fibre, fuel and energy for the human inhabitants. More
