Category: permaculture training

offers and interests for 2025

January 14, 2025 By Lizzy

Here I am saying out loud what is alive for me right now and ahead… Offers Courses See the PEAS web page for current permaculture education offers https://peas-permaculture.com/peas Workshops Rapid design in place  – workshops designed by request The Next Event Offered… https://events.humanitix.com/introduction-to-permaculture-living-well-autumn-2025 The next event going to: Assembly 2025 – International Year of Co-operatives […]

Community Garden System

November 17, 2024 By Lizzy

Here I map out the inputs, elements and outputs and yields of a Community Garden as a system. What would you include? How does your local community garden operate? What Yields do your members gain from the Garden? View the system here (Canva) Community Garden System (PDF)  

timescaper’s privilege

April 20, 2024 By Lizzy

Making positive change in the world  – even in your world – is hard. Even the smallest idea for action may make us hesitate, leave it for someone else or second guess our right or capability to give it a go and learn from what happens next and build. Hearing a conversation today about choice, […]

Kitchen simplicity

November 13, 2023 By Lizzy

Showing my kitchen and household systems to our ‘intro to permaculture’ course participants is a bit nerve-wracking – it’s easy to wonder how judgemental people might be about hygiene, aesthetics, choices and detritus left by a shared household in the kitchen and ‘oh how pure are my principles’ for what is in the fridge and […]

frameworks for design with depth

November 13, 2023 By Lizzy

The more I listen to and read about designers talk about design as a process, the clearer it is to me that we work best from frameworks – the bigger perspectives and patterns. Having more frameworks (by that I mean theories grounded in truth/evidence) to draw on, gives you more edge and depth as a […]

Balcony on a Budget

August 27, 2023 By Lizzy

URBAN DESIGN 11 Tropical climate Climate zone 1 – High humidity summer, warm winter South east facing balcony ~2.5 x6m rectangle- one corner (SW) is shaded in the afternoon from building shadows, 2 aircon outlets facing onto balcony (Balcony facing aircon outlet not used in summer) Rental No budget to allocate, no transport – relies […]

holiday silence

August 1, 2023 By Lizzy

I have been filling my head up with noise. Mainly to avoid thoughts. Podcasts, netflix, work worries, family worries, end of earth worries. I have been filling my life with a virtual existence outweighing the real physical sense of place. Now I have stopped. mostly except for a few meetings and tech issues to fix […]