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24th - 26th August 2012 Coed Hills Rural Artspace, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales WORKSHOPS PRACTICALS CASE STUDIES EXHIBITIONS GAMES PRESENTATIONS DIPLOMA ACCREDITATIONS ENTERTAINMENT NETWORKING FUN! CONVERGENCE Programme and information booklet c h a n g e y o u r wo r l d

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24th - 26th August 2012 Coed Hills Rural Artspace, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales

WORKSHOPS

PRACTICALS

CASE STUDIES

EXHIBITIONS

GAMES

PRESENTATIONS

DIPLOMAACCREDITATIONS

ENTERTAINMENT

NETWORKING

FUN!

CONVERGENCE

Programme and

information

booklet

change your world

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WelcomeHello and welcome to the UK’s 2012 permaculture convergence.Two years have rushed past again and it’s time for another permaculture get together. Its a good time to take stock and celebrate our collective achievements.

A lot has happened at the Association. The LAND network has grown to over 90 projects with many regional events and group visits and over 27,000 people engaged so far.

The Diploma has been re-launched and has 260 apprentices and 25 tutors. We’ve been able to employ a Research Coordinator and the research work is moving forwards nicely. Permaculture Scotland and Permaculture Wales have been launched, with both working towards developing their own LAND networks. We’ve attended international and European convergences, and helped play our part in the wider international permaculture network.

But that’s only a tiny fraction compared to what our amazing members have been up to. We’re hoping that this weekend we can find out a lot more about what everyone has been doing, what’s going well, what the challenges are, and put some faces to the names we see on all those emails!

Louise and the team, with help from our wonderful visiting German crew, have set everything up for a fantastic weekend - kids’ activities, delicious catering, a workshop programme that is bursting at the seams, with a ceilidh and a Saturday Night Cabaret - but there’s still one more vital ingredient to add to make this event come alive - and that’s you!

If it’s your first time at a convergence, an especially big welcome. If you’ve been before, you know the ropes - help where you can, let us know if there is something you need help with and try and get ‘round and meet lots of new folk. We want you to have a great time, so if you need something, do ask.

A big thanks to everyone that has helped set the event up, and thank you for helping where you can through the weekend. This is also a fundraising event, so do come and buy a cake at the cafe and a raffle ticket, get some books and talk to us about how you can get more involved in the work of the Association.

This is an amazing opportunity to get re-energised, inspired, informed, and just have a good old fashioned weekend of learning, fun and laughter with people who share your passion for making a positive difference to the world. Enjoy!

Andy GoldringCoordinator/CEO Permaculture Association

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Meals and refreshmentsAll meals will be served in “The Big Barn” - don’t forget to bring your own plate, cutlery and drinking vessel!

Your booking includes: evening meal on Friday, breakfast, lunch, and evening meal on Saturday, breakfast and lunch on Sunday. Food will be vegetarian and vegan.

If you have advised us of particular food needs we will cater for you.

The primary eating place will be in the big barn but you can eat wherever you feel the most comfortable!

There will be free hot drinks up to 9.00am on Saturday and Sunday – don’t forget your mug! Paid-for hot drinks, soft drinks, snacks and delicious home-made cake will be available throughout the day at the café.

From 6pm the Swale & Bunyip bar serving locally brewed beer (from just 10 miles down the road) and wine will operate in the Permaculture Big Tent.

Evening EntertainmentPlease join us in the Permaculture Big Tent for our evening activities. A Ceilidh on Friday night will get you dancing the night away with local band the Thingumijigs! Don’t worry if you don’t know your Fairy Ring from a Postie’s Jig, a caller will guide you every step of the way.

Saturday night stars you! Take over the microphone and entertain us with your ditties, exercise your singing voice, twang those guitar strings…

An auction of goods donated will take place during the Saturday evening cabaret.

Outline Schedule:

Friday

13.00: Arrivals 15.30: Workshops 18.00: Dinner 20.00: Ceilidh

Saturday

07.00: Iyengar Yoga 07.00: Qi Gong 07.30: Breakfast 09.00: Opening circle 10.30: Workshops 13.00: Lunch 14.30: Workshops 18.30: Dinner 20.30: Cabaret 20.30: Bat Walk

Sunday

07.00: Iyengar Yoga 07.00: Qi Gong 07.30: Breakfast 09.00: Morning circle 10.00: Workshops 12.30: Lunch 14.00: Workshops 15.00: Closing circle 16:00: Collective tat down 17.00: Departures

Raffle tickets will be on sale in the reception and at the cafe. The raffle will be drawn on Sunday lunchtime and details of the lucky winners will be displayed in the reception area.

Please take any donations for the raffle or the auction to the reception office.

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Event GuidelinesWe are a community for the weekend – this community is shaped by who is in it – this will be a unique experience as this group of amazing individuals have never been together before and probably never will again. We can make it ours and create for a short space in time, an idyll of how humans can co-exist in celebration, learning, co-operation and fun. However, there are the usual boring ‘don’ts’ that are listed below for absolute clarity…

No dogs, recreational drugs, smoking in any buildings or structures, or unauthorised sound systems. Anyone found doing any of these will be asked to leave immediately with no refund of their fee.

Coed Hills is full of great places to explore. Please keep to the convergence areas.

We all know that at the convergence people fall in love, new friends are made, old friendships are rekindled and when you are in the thick of this a lot of talking may ensue… however we ask all participants to keep talking to a minimum when other participants are taking part in a workshop in the same space. Please also be aware of a midnight noise curfew. Main events will be over by this time, but acoustic revelry can continue in the fire circle.

Now for the ‘do’s

Give a hand if you see something that needs doing. We consider there are two parts of the fee to the convergence – one is monetary fee, the other is what you do or bring to the convergence – whether it is to help out for a couple of hours, to add some decorations, to scribe for a workshop or two etc. So volunteer, take part, be proactive, make the convergence what you will.

Ask for help if you need it. Not just of the crew but of each other. Permaculture people are notorious for wanting to help – its something about ‘peoplecare’ that they go on about.

We want your feedback - take notes, let us know. If it is something that can be responded to immediately please contact reception in the Old Barn. If it is an ‘even better if’ for next time, please send an email to [email protected] and we can get in touch with you when we get back to the office.

If you feel that any attendees are dominating a workshop or are being too forthright with their opinions, please feel free to remind them that permaculture events are about ‘Fair shares’.

Use the ‘edge’ spaces – the “de-frazzle zone” space, the open space venue (see venue descriptors)... they are ‘unmanaged’ and down to you to use.

Have fun, talk to people you have never met, scare yourself and do something in the cabaret, dance at the ceilidh, discover something new... Enjoy this weekend.

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Diploma PresentationsWe have four candidates going for their diploma accreditation this year. Each candidate will be doing a presentation on their work - see timetable for times and the following pages for a synopsis.

This is an excellent chance to find out about the design work they have been doing. In some cases, over a decade of work is covered. Please consider putting yourself forward to being on one of the accreditation peer groups.

Being in a peer group is a great experience for diploma apprentices and new or aspiring diploma tutors. However, it’s open to non-diploma practitioners too!

If you would like to peruse the presenting candidates portfolios, they will be available to look at beforehand at the reception desk.

The people presenting for accreditation are:

Lizz Roe - (Presiding Diplomate: Chris Evans) system 5Come along and enjoy a tour of a life transforming and community changing Diploma. After nine years, 35 projects, 10 write ups, 45,000 words, 14 folders, and 8 teaching spots on intro. courses, Lizz will be celebrating the completion of her portfolio. If you’re new to permaculture, have just done the 72 hour course, or are even on your way to Diplomat status this event will inspire, nourish and encourage you - there will be vegan and gluten free edibles, and celebratory pop.

Rachel Taylor - (Presiding Diplomate: Tomas Remiarz) system 4Roll up roll up to see the wonderous REJUICYNATOR! a solar and cycle powered smoothie bar with a difference. Come sample the delights of my allotment and share with me the creation of a secret woodland sculpture.

Margaret Linggood - (Presiding Diplomate: Jan Mulreany) system 5I will be telling the story of my journey into permaculture based on the seven land-based designs and three non land-based designs that make up my Diploma Portfolio. I live in a small village in North Bedfordshire and my designs all relate to this rural area. My presentation will include the four designs that are the basis of ‘Margaret’s Plot’ (my home garden, allotment and forest garden) which has recently become a certified LAND project.

Jasmin Saville: (Presiding Diplomate: Looby Macnamara) system 4For the last three years Jasmine’s work has been focused on establishing a low impact smallholding at the Lammas ecovillage in West Wales. Hear about the designing of a land based livelihood and a planning tool to transform the enforcement regime into a design process. Her diploma folder is a creative expression of permaculture and the presentation aims to be fun as well as informative.

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BiographiesWe have a fantastic line-up at this year’s Permaculture Convergence. Something that you will have come to expect over the years...!

Here’s a little more about our Permaculture Big Tent keynote speakers...

AranyaAranya first came across permaculture in the late 1980’s and has since become one of the countries leading designers and teachers.

Since completing his own Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design in 2003, he has become a core member of the Diploma development team and also delivers the training to tutors in the Diploma system in addition to supporting apprentices on their own Diploma pathways.

More recently, Aranya has also become a published author with his highly acclaimed book ‘Permaculture Design: a step-by-step Guide to the Process’. www.aranyagardens.co.uk

Andy GoldringAndy is the Chief Executive Officer of the Permaculture Association, helping people nationally and internationally to connect and engage with permaculture.

He has coordinated the Association for the last 13 years and has helped to design and create many projects including a manual for how the Board works, the LAND network, Diploma System 5,

Permaculture Scotland and Wales, and collaborative projects with other sustainability focussed organisations.

He teaches on design courses, leads workshops and facilitation sessions, and works as a ‘group design facilitator’. He edited the Permaculture Teachers’ Guide and is an active member of Leeds Permaculture Network.

Stefan GeyerStefan discovered permaculture in 1994 using it to renovate a forest in Bavaria, then travelled for a year wwoofing at permaculture farms across Australia.

He has particular interest in urban permaculture - especially in business, organisations, community and using permaculture to transform our society. He will be teaching the second People & Permaculture PDC in November with Looby Macnamara.

Stefan is currently the Chair of the Permaculture Association, one of the co-ordinators of the London Permaculture Network and the Permaculture Picturehouse.

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7Maddy HarlandMaddy and husband Tim founded Permanent Publications in 1990 and now publish many of the world’s best known permaculture books. In 1992 they launched Permaculture Magazine.

Maddy first discovered permaculture when watching the film ‘In Grave Danger of Falling Food’ about Bill Mollison. Unknown to her at the time, it was to completely change her life, her garden, her household and especially her job!

As well as setting up the publishing company, Maddy co-founded the Sustainability Centre (www.sustainability-centre.org) in 1995 and now chairs the Board of Trustees and also Gaia Education (www.gaia.education.org) in 2005. Tim and Maddy love wild places and their wild permaculture garden on the South Downs which is as biodiverse as it is edible. www.permaculture.co.uk

Pippa JohnsPippia’s main area of interest is garden and allotment scale permaculture design.

She has been a market gardener and has a specific interest in using annuals and perennials in combination to increase yield whilst also interested in the multi-functionality of small outdoor spaces and designing gardens that have strong aesthetics as well as being productive.

With 14 years experience teaching permaculture, Pippia has convened and tutored numerous courses and is currently designing courses for Transition towns.

As a parent, she is exploring how we raise children for an uncertain future; compassionate and empathic parenting and home education.

Looby MacnamaraLooby is interested in pursuing how peoplecare – one of the core ethics of permaculture - can lead to greater and more effective planet repair.

This has led to her recently publishing her ‘People and Permaculture’ book.

Being particularly interested in how we can use permaculture principles, ethics and design in all aspects of life, she included several non land-based designs as part of her Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design.

Looby now teaches on many courses and is a senior diploma tutor with particular experience in people based designs. www.designedvisions.com

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8Deano MartinDeano is a smallholder implementing his own permaculture design on 3.75 acres of former grassland in the Lincolnshire Wolds.

Fruit, soft fruit, vegetables , grain, and firewood are grown, whilst keeping chickens and bees.

The secondary function of almost everything that he plants is bee forage and every element in the design - and almost every individual

plant, has to support his bees.

Deano is also an apprentice on the Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design. http://deanom.wordpress.com

Hannah ThorogoodHannah has a BSc Environmental Studies from Manchester University & an MSc in Organic Farming from Scottish Agricultural College.

Her first experiences of permaculture were in New Zealand on a range of abundant, stunningly beautiful permaculture small

holdings. She then went on to assist her teacher on a teaching and design tour in Austria.

Hannah has been working full time in permaculture ever since, completing her TOT (Training of Permaculture Teachers) in 2004 and her diploma in 2005.

She is currently a Senior diploma tutor and Chair of the Diploma Working Group, helping to develop the current diploma system and teaches on many other courses.

After living off grid for two years with her young family, they are developing a field in Lincolnshire into a permaculture demonstration site and education centre, the Inkpot, which has just been approved as the latest LAND centre. www.designedvisions.com

Chris Warburton-BrownChris is the Research Co-ordinator of the Permaculture Association.

He has had a ‘strange’ but enjoyable career so far including jobs in organic farming, ethical food retailing, history and archeology teaching, community development, anti-poverty work and, most recently, completing a doctorate in Social Policy investigating the financial lives of low-income mothers.

He lives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne with his wife Susie and two wonderful daughters and spends much of the summer living in an off-grid cabin in Northumberland.

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Workshops and activitiesThe main timetable can be found in the centre pages of this programme but the outline schedule on page two gives you an overview of events.

In addition to the workshops there is:

Iyengar Yoga with Helen

Venue: Permaculture Big Tent

When: Saturday and Sunday 07.00 - 08.00

Qi Gong with Chloe

Venue: The Indian Tent

When: Saturday and Sunday 07.00 - 08.00

Bat Walk with Chris Warburton-Brown

Venue: The White Geodome

When: Saturday 20.30

Workshop 1 Friday 15:30 – 16:30Workshop: Parenting & Permaculture

Venue: Permaculture Big Tent

Leader: Pippa Johns

Raising the next generation is a sacred responsibility. How can we best follow nature’s patterns and parent our children so that they bloom into their best selves?

Are permaculture ethics and principles useful in our parenting journey? An open circle for parents to discuss these and other related questions, share ideas and support one another.

Contact: [email protected]

Workshop: Permaculture and Transition - what’s working in Australia

Venue: The Indian Tent

Leader: Ian Lillington

Urban permaculture: why ‘Permaculture Is More Than Gardening’.

What are Australian permaculture practicioners up to?

Workshop: Diploma tutor update

Venue: The Green Tent

Leader: Joanna Dornan

This is a session for diploma tutors only.

Contact: [email protected]

Workshop: Ecoworks Community Garden

Venue: Green Geodome

Leader: Paul Paine

A virtual tour of ecoworks community garden, looking at the site design and the straw bale building

Contact: [email protected]

Workshop: Permaculture Beekeeping: the Perone Automatic Hive

Venue: The White Tent

Leader: Andy Pearce & Hazel Tarragon

This is a beekeeping system based on natural design & minimal interference by the beekeeper. The Perone Automatic Hive is a sustainable way of beekeeping because it creates a space where honey bees can live & thrive, as they would in their natural habitat.

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10Workshop: Permaculture Cymru Networking

Venue: The Yurt

Leader: Welsh Working Group:

A session for individuals, projects, groups and networks working in Wales to meet and share.

Workshop: Functional Training

Venue: White Geodome

Leader: Lesley Wills

A practical workshop looking at how the human body can capture energy from the ground and how the body reacts to this energy. We will be exploring the spiralling 3 dimensional movement of the body.

Workshop: Fire with Phil!

Venue: The Forge

Leader: Phil

Workshop 2 Friday 17:00 – 18:00

Workshop: Research Update

Venue: Permaculture Big Tent

Leader: Chris Warburton-Brown

The Permaculture Association has exciting plans for future research on permaculture, and in April appointed Chris Warburton Brown as its first Research Coordinator.

In this workshop you can hear from Chris and members of the Research Advisory Board about what they are

doing, make suggestions and get your questions answered.

Contact: [email protected]

Workshop: Training of Teachers catch-up

Venue: The Indian Tent

Leader: Aranya, Chris Evans, Hannah Thorogood & Looby Macnamara

Workshop: Practical Renewables & Accreditation Culture

Venue: The Green Tent

Leader: Nic Dore

A theoretical and practical workshop introducing participants to the design, build and use of systems to use the sun to produce hot water.

Contact: [email protected]

Workshop: DIY Masonry Stove, what worked & what didn’t

Venue: Green Geodome

Leader: Tony Martin

What is a masonry stove? How I built mine. Living with it. What I did right, what I did wrong and what would I change?

Contact: [email protected]

Workshop: Personal Sustainable Transport

Venue: The White Tent

Leader: Witchhazel Wildwood

A workshop enabling participants to consider personal transport solutions. Includes demonstration of off-grid solar charging set up for electric tricycle plus

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Contact: [email protected]

Workshop: Forestry & Woodlands

Venue: The Yurt

Leader: Simon Maskery

Theory from mainstream Forestry and Woodland management which may be of use to permaculture practitioners. Take a walk through the woodlands and engage in discussion (the politics of Forest Management?) plus I will answer any questions.

Workshop: Deepening Nature Connection & Observation Skills

Venue: White Geodome

Leader: Peter Cow

An experiential session design to help us come to our senses, reawaken to the present moment and find a richer and deeper connection with the more-than-human world around us.

Deepen your observation skills, notice the beauty around you, learn what it does.

Workshop: Coed Hills Tour

Venue: The Forge

Leader: Jess Clynewood, Stephen Watts, Rich Wright

Workshop: Traditional Welsh environmental and social patterns of value to us all today

Venue: The Indian Tent

Leader: Chris Dixon

While most permaculture designers who work in other countries seek to embed themselves in the local culture and society, the heritage of Britain has been largely ignored.

The survival of traditional rural Welsh communities, rooted in over 2000 years of Celtic culture and society, is a remarkable tribute to the resilience of low impact, integrated societies that can provide us with many valuable lessons for permaculture design today.

Workshop 3 Saturday 10:30 – 11:30

Workshop: Systems & Patterns

Venue: Permaculture Big Tent

Leader: Aranya

Aranya looks at how a basic understanding of systems and patterns can help us to create more resilient designs and to identify the optimum places to intervene and produce the greatest effect for the least effort.

Workshop: Changemakers

Venue: The Indian Tent

Leaders: Steve Smith & Rosie Lonnon

You will be participating in a two hour facilitated workshop to support learning about how you could use the same methods to help you work effectively with community, recreation, business and work based groups to achieve meaningful change focussed conversations.

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12Changemaker draws on the theory and practice of recognised behaviour change approaches to achieve sustainable commitments to change at an individual and group level.

Contact: [email protected]

Lizz Roe Dioploma Accreditation Presentation

Presiding Diplomate: Chris Evans

Venue: The Green Tent

Workshop: Horse Boating into the 21st Century

Venue: Green Geodome

Leader: Adrian Lovett

An illustrated look at 250 years of horse drawn canal boats, the work of The Horse Boating Society and some recent trips they have made, including the first horse drawn boat trip, in 2012, from Leeds to Liverpool, for over 60 years.

With details of how you could get involved (training is provided) and a discussion about how best to harness this very sustainable transport technology into the 21st Century.

Contact: [email protected]

Workshop: What is permaculture?

Venue: The White Tent

Leader: Stefan Geyer

Have you been looking for a definitive answer? Many good people have tried and failed. Come and be part of this on-going conversation.

Ideas could feed into new publicity material for the Permaculture Association

Contact - [email protected]

Workshop: Localism & Permaculture

Venue: The Yurt

Leader: Andy Goldring & Rebecca Harris

Love it or hate it the new Localism Act will change the way communities work.

This session will give an overview of the Localism Act and the potential to use it to develop permaculture designs at a community / settlement scale.

We will explore the four new community rights, and the emerging plans to work with other networks (such as Transition Network) to develop new resources and support for local sustainability activists.

Workshop: Singing: A Community Connection Tool

Venue: The White Geodome

Leader: Peter Cow

An experimental session, with a little theory at the start about the mysteries of Oxytocin.

Come and sing, and notice what it does to your body, heart and mind.

Workshop: Composting Human Waste in Three Months

Venue: The Saw Mill

Leader: Richard Higgins

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Workshop: People & Permaculture

Venue: Permaculture Big Tent

Leader: Looby Macnamara

Looby will talk about her new book ‘People & Permaculture’ and how we can use permaculture to enhance all areas of our lives. Her book is the first to explore how to use permaculture design and principles for people - to restore personal, social and planetary well-being.

Contact: [email protected]

Workshop: Changemakers (continued)

Venue: The Indian Tent

Leaders: Steve Smith & Rosie Lonnon

Workshop: Oak Tree Low Carbon Farm CSA - Year 2

Venue: The Green Tent

Leader: Steve Marsden

A short presentation from a founder member followed by an open discussion so participants can learn what they need from this successful CSA.

Workshop: Principles in Permaculture Beekeeping

Venue: Green Geodome

Leader: Andy Pearce & Hazel Tarragon

Why beekeepers should keep the native ‘black’ honey bee, rather than an imported variety.

The issues raised are important & integral to the permaculture approach.

Workshop: Permaculture your Life. Designing for Abundance

Venue: The White Tent

Leader: Jo Barker

An opportunity to apply permaculture design to our lives working with core permaculture design tools.

Like the land, regenerative design can help bring us back into natural balance. We will observe ourselves and our life, explore our zones, analyse our energy flows and after setting an empowering goal, transform problems into solutions by applying permaculture principles.

Contact: www.dynamic-equilibrium.co.uk

Workshop: Wholistic Permaculture

Venue: The Yurt

Leader: Jillian Hovey

Not separating design into land and people-based, but looking at whole systems.

Contact: [email protected]

Workshop: Hatha Yoga

Venue: The White Geodome

Leader: Sophie Shenston

Workshop: Biochar making for small scale holdings

Venue: The Saw Mill

Leader: Richard Higgins

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18Lizz Roe accreditation peer group discussion

Presiding Diplomate: Chris Evans

Venue: Eating Marquee

Session is only open to people who have acted as peer group for corresponding diploma accreditation.

Workshop 5 Saturday 14:30 – 15:30

Workshop: Permaculture Outside the Box

Venue: Permaculture Big Tent

Leader: Maddy Harland

Permaculture Outside the Box: using permaculture principles to design businesses and social enterprises.

Workshop: LAND Project Update

Venue: The Indian Tent

Leader: Louise Cartwright

This session will outline what the LAND (Learning and Network Demonstration) Project is, how well the project is doing and focus on the Association’s plans for future developments.

Discover your nearest LAND Centre or LAND Learner, learn how easy it is to visit permaculture projects and how to make the most of the Skill Sharing Events.

She will also briefly outline the exciting developments in store for next year.

Contact: [email protected]

Jasmine Saville Diploma Accreditation Presentation

Presiding Diplomate: Looby Macnamara

Venue: The Green Tent

Workshop: International Alliance for Permaculture Development Cooperation

Venue: The Green Geodome

Leader: Kipper

do-ut-des.info shows many successful permaculture projects in developing countries. But the official aid sector is ignoring that great potential and is continuing to produce failures and create dependency.

Permaculture practitioners working in that field for bigger organisations often get frustrated, while grassroot organisations lack funding.

Oops is intended to fill that gap and to form an alliance to support these grassroot initiatives getting access to resources to implement permaculture solutions on a larger scale.

Workshop: Felting Workshop

Venue: The White Tent

Leader: Liesbeth Bos

Workshop: Permaculture & Farming

Venue: The Yurt

Leader: Aranya, Celia Ashman, Andy Goldring

There are some very exciting developments for permaculture at the farm and smallholder scale. Celia will report on progress made so far, Aranya will tell us about Regen Ag training

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19developments. Andy Goldring will briefly describe other developments and opportunities.

We will spend most of the session discussing how to take this further forwards, including creating a new working group.

Workshop: Wild food

Venue: White Geodome

Leader: Simon Maskery

Wild Food walk and identification.

Workshop: Knife making & using the forge

Venue: The Forge

Leader: Dominic

Workshop 6 Saturday 16:00 – 17:00

Workshop: Permaculture Association Strategy

Venue: Permaculture Big Tent

Leader: Andy Goldring

The Association is at a critical time, with huge opportunities ahead and growing awareness of the need for radical change.

This session will present the Association’s strategy for the next three years and gain member feedback on what else might need to be added and key priorities for future work. Its your organisation - come and tell us what you think!

Contact: [email protected]

Workshop: The Abundance Project

Venue: The Indian Tent

Leader: Stephen Watts

A talk and slideshow about the birth of Abundance Sheffield, a voluntary, non profit, urban fruit harvesting and distribution project, making use of a free resource that would otherwise be thrown away and the flowering of the idea across the UK throughout most UK towns.

We will look at how to set up similar projects in your own local area, and explore creative ways to engage people in expanding and spreading the abundance message.

Rachael Taylor Diploma accreditation

Presiding Diplomate: Tomas Remiarz

Venue: The Green Tent

Workshop: Permaculture Association Website Update

Venue: The Green Geodome

Leader: Debbie Jones

Workshop: Education Update

Venue: The White Tent

Leader: Joe Atkinson

Workshop: OBREDIMET for “Zone 000”

Venue: The Yurt

Leader: Steve Marsden

Neuro Linguistic Programming delivers practical results for business leaders, politicians, coaches, therapists and a myriad of other professions and callings.

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Workshop: An introduction to New Zealand Flax (Phormium tenax)

Venue: White Geodome

Leader: Jenny Chandler

An introduction to New Zealand Flax, its history, cultural significance in New Zealand, uses and possibilities for the UK - mixture of theory and practical.

Bring some craft scissors (not used for food).

Contact: [email protected]

Workshop: Knife making & using the forge

Venue: The Forge

Leader: Dominic

Jasmine Saville accreditation peer group discussion

Presiding Diplomate: Looby Macnamara

Venue: Eating Marquee

Session is only open to people who have acted as peer group for corresponding diploma accreditation.

Workshop 7 Saturday 17:30 – 18:30

Workshop: Regenerative Agriculture at the Inkpot, Lincolnshire

Venue: Permaculture Big Tent

Leader: Hannah Thorogood

Hannah & Daniel will be telling the story of their first two years of the Inkpot.

From 18 acres of nothing but poor grass and depleted, compacted clay to 3000 young trees, food production, a residential education centre and becoming a LAND project utilising Permaculture, Regenerative Agriculture and Holistic Managment.

Workshop: Setting up a community owned energy company

Venue: The Indian Tent

Leader: Howard Johns

Howard Johns is a founding director of OVESCO one of the UK’s first community owned energy companies and comes to share his experience, challenges and successes.

Contact: [email protected]

Workshop: Designs on the roof of the world: Himlayan Permaculture

Venue: The Green Tent

Leader: Chris Evans

A slide show that looks at the approaches and techniques applied by the Himalayan Permaculture Centre in remote upland areas of Nepal, using lessons learned over the past 20 years.

Contact: [email protected] www.himalayanpermaculture.com

Workshop: Permaculture Cymru Update

Venue: The Green Geodome

Leaders: Welsh working group

We will give an update on progress so far, especially the work to develop a LAND project in Wales.

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21Workshop: Diploma Introductory session

Venue: The White Tent

This session will be an introductory session for anyone considering registering on the Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design or simply wanting to find out more. Get your questions answered and it will help you to decide if the diploma is the thing for you.

Workshop: Reclaim the Fields

Venue: The Yurt

Leader: Pete Tatham

An introduction to Reclaim The Fields – an exciting movement new to the UK, which is attempting to create alternatives to capitalism through cooperative, collective, autonomous, real needs oriented small scale production and initiatives, putting theory into practice and linking local practical action with global political struggles.

Workshop: Regenerative Culture: Native tools to help a village thrive

Venue: The White Geodome

Leader: Mirka Hlavacova

The cultural design tools come from Wilderness Awareness School in Washington, USA, where I’ve lived and studied for the past 2 years.

I presented this workshop at the European Permaculture Convergence. I won’t cover everything that’s in the presentation, but go by people’s interest.

Workshop: Biochar results!

Venue: The Saw Mill

Leader: Richard Higgins

Rachael Taylor accreditation peer group discussion

Presiding Diplomate: Tomas Remiarz

Venue: Eating Marquee

Session is only open to people who have acted as peer group for corresponding diploma accreditation.

Workshop: Home Aquapoincs

Venue: The Indian Tent

Leader: Andre Weller

This workshop is the introduction of Aquaponics. I present one of my homemade window systems and will lead a discussion about the opportunities for aquaponics in permaculture.

Start time: 20.30

Workshop 8 Sunday 10:00 – 11:00

Workshop: Developing a Grain / Vegetable Polyculture

Venue: Permaculture Big Tent

Leader: Deano Martin

A description of a developing experiment to grow grain and vegetables in rotation, whilst providing all fertility from within the system.

Workshop: Research: What can you offer?

Venue: The Indian Tent

Leader: Chris Warburton-Brown

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22In order to carry out the plans in its Research Strategy, the Permaculture Association will need substantial help and support from its members.

Come along to this workshop to discuss how you can get involved and to suggest what you would like to see researched.

Workshop: Permaculture Men

Venue: Green Geodome

Leader: Stefan Geyer

Permaculture Man is the new Renaissance Man.

What does it mean to be a man in search of sustainability? Men only please.

Contact: [email protected]

Workshop: Diploma Surgery / Q&AVenue: The White Tent

Leader: Joanna Dornan

A chance to ask Joanna, the diploma support worker at the Association, any specific queries about your diploma or the diploma in general.

Contact: [email protected]

Workshop: Permaculture & the Art of MentoringVenue: The Yurt

Leader: Peter Cow

A discussion around the growing UK AoM movement, which has great edge potential with the permaculture community.

AoM explores indigenous, regenerative cultural tools, mentoring each other (especially in nature connection), and personal growth work.

Workshop: Sing Your Heart Out!

Venue: White Geodome

Leader: Louise Hall

Singing is our birthright, through it we can connect to ourselves and each other, whether or not we have ‘a good voice’! A warm up, action songs and divine harmonies, no music reading needed.

Contact: [email protected]

Workshop: DIY Solar Thermal

Venue: The Saw Mill

Leader: Nic Dore

A theoretical and practical workshop introducing participants to the design, build and use of systems to use the sun to produce hot water.

Contact: [email protected]

Workshop 9 Sunday 11:30 – 12:30

Workshop: People-based Designs

Venue: Permaculture Big Tent

Leader: Looby Macnamara

Looby will introduce a new design framework that she created for people based designs.

The design web features in her new book ‘People & Permaculture’.

Contact: [email protected]

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Venue: The Indian Tent

Leader: Andy Goldring

There are three aims for this workshop: 1. There is growing consensus that we need a more sophisticated international network. This workshop seeks to gain people’s views on what we might want from an international network.

2. The next International Permaculture Convergence (IPC) is in Cuba next year and we are keen to see if anyone wants to help raise funds for delegates and to help prepare the Association’s contribution.

3. We are also announcing that the Permaculture Association will be hosting the IPC in 2015 and are keen to see who wants to be part of the organising team.

Contact: [email protected]

Margaret Linggood Diploma Accreditation Presentation

Presiding Diplomate: Jan Mulreany

Venue: The Green Tent

Workshop: Politics of energy and the Renewables Revolution

Venue: Green Geodome

Leader: Howard Johns

An insight into the energy politics of the coalition government; extreme fossil fuels, fracking, nuclear, and efforts to build a renewable future.

From Howard Johns CEO Southern Solar, former chair Solar Trade Association and leading member of Cut don’t Kill feed-in-tariff campaign.

Contact: [email protected]

Workshop: Poo Garden, a composting toilet garden

Venue: The White Tent

Leader: Judith Henning

Poo Garden, a composting toilet garden, Judith developed and built a prototype with a friend in San Francisco.

Workshop: Sacred Economics, Charles Eisenstein style

Venue: The Yurt

Leader: Steve Marsden

A short summary of Charles Eisenstein’s recent Schumacher course “Ecology, Scarcity and the Gift Economy”, followed by an open discussion of Charles’s healing approach to economics.

Workshop: Anaerobic Digestion for Small Scale Food Producers

Venue: The White Geodome

Leader: Richard Toft

Anaerobic digestion has the potential to provide zero carbon energy, and fertilizer that can benefit crops and the soil. Richard will discuss a demonstration project that has been set up to explore this potential at Ourganics, a LAND site in West Dorset.

Contact: [email protected]

Workshop: DIY Solar Thermal

Venue: The Saw Mill

Leader: Nic Dore

A continuation of the workshop from the previous session.

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24Workshop 10 Sunday 14:00 – 15:00

Workshop: Design Process Clinic

Venue: Permaculture Big Tent

Leader: Aranya

Bring your questions and ‘designs in progress’ and Aranya will answer them if he can!

This will be a ‘fishbowl’ session, so bring questions about design challenges you don’t mind sharing with the rest of the group.

Workshop: 2 Brookside Cottages - a thriving family permaculture garden

Venue: The Indian Tent

Leader: Pippa Johns

A presentation following our small family garden from design through implementation and nine years of development.

The no-dig garden is a tranquil haven for adults, children and wildlife with an abundance of perennial fruits, greens and annuals grown in an open forest garden style.

Contact: [email protected]

Workshop: A Forest Garden – Learning and Growing

Venue: The Green Tent

Leader: Bryony Huntley

The Westfield Farm Forest Garden project was an idea in the head for a long time before anything happened on the ground.

Bryony will talk about the stages she planned, and then lived, to create a productive garden and LAND Learning Centre from a field of grass.

Contact: www.westfield-farm.co.uk

Workshop: Permaculture Wales / Permaddiwylliant Cymru

Venue: The Green Geodome

Leader: Chris Dixon / Welsh Working Group

We have an aim to offer bilingual materials and encourage bilingualism generally.

A session for people living and working in Wales to discuss the development of new bilingual materials to support permaculture’s adoption in Wales.

Workshop: Speaking Circles – the basics of speaking with confidence and impact

Venue: The White Tent

Leader: Millie Baker

Circlework is about the magic that happens when you speak as your authentic self.

This simple practice supports people to rest in the moment when speaking, hold the audience’s attention, speak with more impact and get their message across.

Contact: [email protected]

Workshop: Fibre to Yarn

Venue: The Yurt

Leader: Michelle Bowling-Johnson

We will use scoured (washed) sheeps fleece, card it (comb it) and using drop

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We’ll be photographing and videoing adults and kids at the event and the results may be used on our leaflets, website, displays, facebook page, flickr or other publications.

If you’ve got specific concerns contact Jay Ashton on site or email: [email protected] to discuss.

Your confidentiality will be respected.

spindles, spin it into yarn. I will show how to card, draft, then spin and ply to create yarn ready for dyeing, knitting, crocheting or weaving.

Contact: [email protected]

Workshop: 400 home eco village/ school project

Venue: The White Geodome

Leader: Humayun Khan

Exciting news about a 400 acre site in Devon on which to site a high specification eco village, school and green business centre.

All the homes are to be self built, of local materials and to be PassivHaus, or close to PassivHaus standard. The school is to be based on the Russian Kins School, where children co-teach in mixed age groups of 12 students.

Margaret Linggood accreditation peer group discussion

Presiding Diplomate: Jan Mulreany

Venue: Eating Marquee

Session is only open to people who have acted as peer group for corresponding diploma accreditation.

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VenuesWhat’s on and where?There are 11 workshop spaces here at Coed Hills; eight ‘standard’ spaces and three practical spaces. The map on the opposite page should help you to navigate:

“The Green Geodome” “The Yurt” “The White Geodome” “The White Marquee” “The White Tent” “The Green Tent” “Permaculture Big Tent” “The Indian Tent” “The Sun Lodge”

All have timetabled workshops within (see centre pages) except for The White Marquee which is an Open Space.

The Open Space is the place for you to hold ad-hoc workshops, meetings or discussions. There’ll be a board outside to book a slot on the day or pop in if there’s something happening that interests you. Perhaps you would like to carry on conversation from a workshop you’ve just been to or just want to hang out...?

“The Saw Mill”, “The Forge” and “The Bodging Tent” are all practical spaces.

A new addition for this year is the “Sick bay and de-frazzle zone” where you can recharge. Call in there at any time.

We do have a qualified first-aider on site – Louise Cartwright. Should you need her, grab anyone in a high-visibility jacket or go to reception who will then be able to contact her.

“The Sun Lodge” is the area where there’s fantastic and fun activities for 5’s and up. You are encouraged to join your kids in the activities so please plan to do this at some point during the day. You’ll come and collect them at mealtimes and they will be offered healthy snacks throughout the day.

We will ask you to sign them in and tell us about any health issues. Parents remain responsible for their childrens’ well-being and behaviour at all times.

We are not able to supply a crèche for babes in arms – babies and small children are welcome at every workshop.

“The Old Barn” is the reception area and book stall. This will be staffed throughout the day and should be your first port of call if you need any assistance.

The camping is split into three zones – Earlybirds and Family (quiet after 10pm), General camping and Night Owls - only be warned, the Kids Activities next to this area starts at 9.30am!

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Thank you! Rawley Clay plus all at Coed Hills, Permaculture Association Board of Trustees, Andy Goldring, Joe Atkinson, Harriet Walsh, Louise Cartwright, Debbie Jones, Chris Warburton-Brown, Celia Ashman, Joanna Dornan, Helen White, Nicola Bell, Leanne Wenham, Anna Schmidt, Jay Ashton, Johanna Damm and the rest of the kids crew from Atlantic College, Justin Moran, Hannah Thorogood, Rosie Larking, Daniel Bos, Rebecca Frank, Monika Frank, Petra Sigund, Ute plus all of the crew members from Germany, Rosaline Early, Barbara Hampson, David Jennings, Michaela Richter, Rory Argyl, Pete Tatham, Rachel Taylor, David Petty, Angie Polkey, Maireed Lineen, Tony Martin, Julie Nutchey, Neal Stanley, Simon Philpott, Victoria Sullivan, Heather Ware, Catherine Tonge, Jenny Oates, Ian Pitzpatrick, Frankie Faun, Sharon Dismore, Rooh Star, Sarah Nutchey, Pippa Johns, Ian Lillington, Aranya, Chris Evans, Looby Macnamara, Nic Dore, Paul Paine, Andy Pearce, Hazel Tarragon, Witchhazel Wildwood, All of the Welsh Working Group, Simon Maskery, Richard Wright, Stephen Watts, Jess Clynewood, Chris Dixon, Chloe Anthony ,Steve Smith, Rosie Lonnon, Lizz Roe, Adrian Lovett, Stefan Geyer, Peter Cow, Richard Higgins, Steve Marsden, Jo Barker, Jillian Hovey, Kipper, Maddy Harland, Jasmine Saville, Michael Beck, Eric Puro, Lisbeth Bos, Jenny Chandler, Howard Johns, Humayun Khan, Sophie Shenstone, Deano Martin, Martine Drake, Louise Hall, Margaret Linggood, Lynda Lumb, Richard Toft, Bryony Huntley, Millie Baker, Michelle Bowling-Johnson, Stephen Smith, George Sobol, Ed Tyler, Jan Mulreany and many more including you for attending and being part of the Permaculture Association.

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