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 – by request Interests Article Reading https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2024/07/how-is-concern-about-climate-change-taking-a-toll-on-young-people The IR classroom: Ethics of tourism to authoritarian states Slowly Gregory Bateson’s ecology of the mind […]

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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)

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Gathering energy for regeneration

October 3, 2024 By Lizzy

As the spring equinox passes for us here we are gathering energy to emerge into the light!! PEAS is setting up the next tranche of workshops and courses. You can book on Humanitix. All programs are in the Canberra region – Southern Tablelands. Intro to permaculture weekend – give yourself a gift of abundance […]

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Soil Experience Design

May 18, 2024 By Lizzy

Theory, Immersion, Affective Experience Drafting lessons in theory of soil was drying me out So today I lay listening to humus under a mother tree Amongst friends of all nature My soiled wet hands shaped a humus ball Wonder and awe absorbed Sounds of soil Mother tree, and us, soil, we pulses breathe rhythm soil […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Reflect/training

April 25, 2023 By Lizzy

Permaculture educator training 2023 Each day had its own challenge and surprise for how I interact with others. How we affect, prompt and provoke each other towards a new greatness. I felt drained at times. I was equally energised and educated. I admired those who do this teaching gig for a job and I also […]