Skills, technical expertise and areas of interest:
Specialising in:
*Urban permaculture,
*Children in Permaculture
*Teaching Permaculture
Also interests and skills in:
*Transition Towns,
*community,
*the Work that Reconnects,
*ecovillages,
*human ecology,
*herb spirals, and
*generally working on the edge!
Areas of Permaculture Design Experience:
Design Experience mainly in Scotland - lots of urban design, and lots of designs with/including children.
Children-centred designs have included:
Nurture in Nature (an outdoor playgroup for adults and children); a Housing Association garden in Castlemilk; a child-friendly allotment; Gatehouse School's playground and food growing.
Other design experience includes: forest gardens; herb Spirals; Teaching permaculture; The Work that Reconnects workshops; Permaculture Scotland; Transition Towns; Bodhi-SCI Ecovillage; and my permaculture life.
My current design is creating a Peace Garden in Gatehouse School.