Feedback from a Trainee Teacher
‘Thank you so much for these great opportunities! Just writing up the Trainee Teacher Scheme stuff so far – what a lot I’m learning. Love the vision you all have – very inspiring and encouraging’
A snowy Brighton Permaculture Trust plot
Other parts of the country have, predictably, ground to a halt with the snow they have had. In my garden, we had barely a flutter. So I was not expecting all the snow that I found up at the plot. The snowy plot It was hard to walk up there, and I was very glad … Continue reading
Permaculture Tool Box
I just read Beth’s post about a reference I made to permacultre and a permaculture toolbox. She has gone off to developed her own permaculture toolbox, and I thought it was worth sharing mine. I made this toolbox when I was teaching a permaculture design course. I wanted to emphasis these different things we introduce … Continue reading
Update on the Permaculture Trainee Teacher Scheme
We have been running out Trainee Teacher Scheme since November 2011, and we have had three Introductions to Permaculture observed by our six trainees. Each course we have three trainee teachers. The structure of the scheme is: The first course they observed they did an unthemed observation. They were just observing it, without observing it … Continue reading
Re-designing Educational Resources for our Introduction to Permaculture
If I want to improve the design of our educational resources, the first step is observation. The Introduction to Permaculture course that we ran this weekend was a good opportunity to observe as much as possible. It was interesting to be observing it and having trainee teachers also observing it. Here is a gem, my … Continue reading
Mentoring Trainee Permaculture Teachers
A little bit one of the trainee teachers wrote, from this really interesting post about the narrative about becoming a permaculture hero ‘I’m particularly interested in the mentor aspect. They are the hardest part of the whole thing to put in place. A cool project will easily attract willing collaborators, but finding someone who can … Continue reading
Introduction to Permaculture
One of the most invigorating things that I do is to regularly teach the Introductions to Permaculture for Brighton Permaculture Trust. I have the privilege to share my passion with a bunch of people that want to learn about something inspiring, grounded and empowering. How brilliant is that? Brilliant. The last four Intros that we … Continue reading
Some permaculture days are just packed with PTLLS and trainee teachers
Some days are just packed. Not just for Calvin and Hobbes, but for permaculturalists as well. I had a meeting in the morning with some of the people from the Training of Teacher course, so that we could reflect a bit on the course as well as get to grips with the PTLLS written assignments. … Continue reading
Teaching Permaculture at Grow Heathrow
Yesterday I had the privilege to go and teach a session about permaculture at Grow Heathrow. I responded to a request for a permaculture teacher to come and do a session introducing permaculture to the group of artists that were staying there for a residency. I loved the idea of combining permaculture with art and activism. What … Continue reading
First half of ToT done
Just as I was expecting, it was a pretty intense few days with early mornings, late nights and few breaks where I wasn’t talking to someone about the course. The Rivers of Life were used right at the beginning, as a more indepth way to introduce ourselves, and they were pretty diverse in format and … Continue reading
hedvig's permaculture adventures 