Comments on: The Permaculture Master Plan – Permaculture Centres Worldwide

By: Willemien le Roux

Willemien le Roux — Mon, 07 May 2012 08:50:12 +0000

Hi am living on the banks of the Okavango river in northern Botswana and have a small farm which my mother and I want to use for permaculture training and inspiring better land use and food security in a (very fast) deteriorating pristine environment. We live 700 meters from the nearest village where people are struggling to make ends meet, therefore we have formed the Pabalelo Trust and have all the equipment and land available to make a permaculture demo site, as well as conservation agriculture (dry land) techniques. We have already done some training workshops (including beekeeping) to get local farmers involved and interested but with limited success, therefore we want to showcase a working, successful site to inspire mindset change. the soil is very marginal, we have occasional frost, we struggle to produce enough to feed us as well as the hippos, porcupines, monkeys, parrots and elephants, a constant battle. As we are both elderly and with limited funding, we are praying for a semi-volunteer to help us set up such a demonstration garden and to help design the courses we could offer. There is potentional funding for training in the pipeline, but the best we could offer for someone to come and help at the moment is free (basic) accommodation and a modest living allowance, use of the pick-up to get around and the boat for fishing! If we could be picked as a Permaculture Demonstration site by the PRI that would be first prize, of course!

By: James Reid

James Reid — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:42:09 +0000

Hi there, fantastic ideas. My wife and I completed our PDC at Djanbung Gardens with Robyn Francis in 2003 when we were in our early 20’s. We have since just bought a 8 acre property in NE Scotland and hope to teach Permaculture from the farm. It’s a beautiful south facing slope, with good water, ponds and areas of woodland but still heaps of ‘balnk canvas’ to design. We have a large old bothy we hope to bring back into working order which has many possible uses – classroom, workshop/kitchen space. We hope to get workshops and full pdc’s going soon,there’s just so much to do and not enough hours in the day!

By: Michael Littlejohn

Michael Littlejohn — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:12:31 +0000

Its almost here! In Oct of 2012 I will be heading for West Texas to break ground on a sort of ‘greening the desert’ type project in Presidio County (3 hours south of El Paso) which will run trials of arid land animal fodders. The first goal will be to create a new composite ecosystem that will survive on local rainfall which seems to be fast diminishing in this part of the world. The next stage will be to create underground housing which will remain cool in 110f weather and are invisible on the property. This will include housing, classrooms, aquaculture/ponics and horticulture labs. Visitors, supporters, curious guests and Earth-loving spirits are always welcome. Contact me at mikeeeebx@yahoo.com if you desire more information on the project. Thanks!

By: Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor

Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:50:19 +0000

Thanks Sunny. Also see this:

http://permaculture.org.au/help-drive-permaculture-into-mainstream-thinking-with-just-a-few-mouse-clicks/

By: Sunny Soleil

Sunny Soleil — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:10:41 +0000

PUTTING OUT THE WORD – Hey folks, please join with me in putting permaculture on stumble-upon. I see that this article had loads of facebook shares, but none in the stumble-upon category. Whilst we may all have a lot of f/b friends, my experience is that we are preaching to the choir.. and that very few of our many friends [I have nearly 2k] actually get the info.

We must make sure to post these articles on all of the article sites including stumble-upon and digg and reddit.

I’ve spent most of the morning doing just that.. so if you’re living on the edge, like me, and can’t donate dollars, please donate an hour of your time each week to PUTTING PERMACULTURE EVERYWHERE. I’ve written to stumbleupon and asked them to have a category for it. I’ve also changed my name in facebook to include permaculture ‘SunnyEmbracePermacultureSoleil’. If you truly believe, you have to do everything in your power to EVANGELIZE PERMACULTURE!!!!!!

By: Richard Tatai Kutemo

Richard Tatai Kutemo — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:49:14 +0000

Hi everyone

I am a Papua New Guinean who is interested in Permaculture to be introduce and establish by my people. All our forest, land, gardens, fish and everything that the mother nature supple for free is gradually vanishing. I am worried that my future generation might not be able to see and feel for themselves how it is like to be. Please anyone who is in the permaculture family willing to help me, here is my email: richardtkutemo@gmail.com

Your assistance will be highly appreciated
RTK

By: Beat Roelli

Beat Roelli — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:22:23 +0000

We bought last year a small farm in central Switzerland about 4.5 hectares of meadow and 5 hectares of forest.
We are in the process of setting up a permaculture education site and we consider to become a part of the Permaculture master plan.
What are the conditions and prerequisit of a Permaculture master plan site?
How is the procedure to become a member of the Permaculture master plan?

By: Skr

Skr — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:12:29 +0000

I am very interested in this project. I have a 5.5 has in Guanajuato 3 hrs north from México City. I would like to know the details for setting an Education center there. Here is the place:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=205983597677372039148.0004a702ea909abf7dc5e&msa=0

Please contact me.
luv

By: skr

skr — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:29:15 +0000

love the site
I am interested in The Permaculture Master Plan – Permaculture Centres Worldwide.

I have land in the center of México (Guanajuato, 3 hrs NW from Mexico city) 5.5 has, sem-arid, 1900 m high. Even though there is a very healthy soil, the desertification in the area is high. I want to know more about how this project works because this is also my goal there. It would be great if we can get this idea work there.

Big hug

By: Shuvo

Shuvo — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:05:18 +0000

I am representing an organisation which is working on a same project, we are building earthships around the world and using the land for permaculture, my organisation is the green circle allaince, we already have land in south africa and our work began in Sweden, we are hoping we could lso get involved with you and work as n allied organisation, we are also working towards complete sustainability i am representing bangladesh where one of our sites will be , but the problem is we cannot buy big land for the project because we Bangladesh has the highest population density in the world and land costs are really high, so do you think you can help us with our projects specially less land but fertile land if thats the case……