Qualifications: Current
•Wyld Edges Community Interest Company, (previously North Devon Permaculture), permaculture/regenerative education, Hertfordshire - co-founder and director
•Garden Pro training - May 2022 [ Social Farms and Gardens, London residential], currently on Internship
•Studying towards my Diploma In Applied Permaculture Design - since 2013
Collaborating with other permaculture educators to build resources on Permaculture and Mental Health
Teacher Training 2010 - 2022
• Online Introduction To the Foundations of Steiner Waldorf Education Oct 2021 - June 2022 [Association of Steiner Waldorf Teacher Educators - ASWTE]
• BLAST Online Training of Trainers 20 – 21 November [BLAST partnership] (Blended and transformative learning for the socio-ecological transition)
• Children In Permaculture Permaculture Design Certificate [Lusi Alderstowe and Nim Robins]
• Training of Teachers [ online with Graham Bell and Rakesh Bhambri ]
• Introduction to Engaging Children in Permaculture [Landmatters, Devon, Lusi Alderslowe & Rakesh Bhambri]
• Resilience Practitioner Training [online with Chris Johnstone]
• Permaculture Educators Course [Friland, Denmark, Andy Goldring and Cathrine Dolleris]
• 7 Ways To Think Differently (Apprentice - People & Permaculture) [Ragman’s Lane Farm, Gloucs, Looby and Peter Cow]
• Introduction to Permaculture (Apprentice) [Karuna, Shropshire, Jan Martin ]
• People & Permaculture Facilitators In Training [Looby, The Fold, Bransford, Worcester]
• Permaculture Design Certificate (Apprentice) [Well End, London, Aranya]
• CTLLS - Adult education [Hertford Regional College, Hertfordshire, Debbie Perkins]
• English GCSE - Grade B [Hertford Regional College, Hertfordshire, Sonia]
• Psychology GCSE - Grade D [Hertford Regional College, Hertfordshire ]
Courses 2011 - 2022
• Mental Health Peer Support [Online MIND organisation]
• Youth Mental Health First Aider [Online MHFA England]
• Sociocracy (Rakocracy) [Online with Rakesh Rootsman]
• The Art of Invitation with Encounters [Plymouth] Creative Community Engagement
• Social Enterprise Training [Dartington Devon & Plymouth]
• Permaculture Livelihood [ Aranya, Ourganics, Dorset]
• 7 Ways To Think Differently [Looby, Gilwell Park, London]
• Permaculture Design Certificate [ Aranya, Ourganics, Dorset]
• Practical Permaculture Gardening [Brighton Permaculture Trust]
• Practical Horticulture skills [Capel Manor College, Hertfordshire, Level 1]
• Introduction To The Environment - [Open University module only, level 4 equiv]
Skills, technical expertise and areas of interest: Skills, technical experience
• Ethical business
• Community building
• Online teaching
• Off-grid resilience
• Mental health
• Project management
• Effective Communiction
• Alternative goverance
• Agroforestry
• Food Forest
• Producing and harvesting food naturally
• Hedgelaying
• Woodland management
• Scything
• No dig gardening
• Edible Garden Design and implementation
• Low maintenance and low cost gardening
• Propagation of unusual edible and useful trees and plants
• Working knowledge of Animal husbandry
• First flush diversion
• Rain water catchment
• Working knowledge of water collection and harvesting using ditches, swales and ponds.
• Regenerative living
• Upcycling
• Facilitation of community groups
• Facilitation
• Talks on edible gardening
• Talks on permaculture
• Creating a Permaculture livelihood
• Using solutions based thinking
• Community resilience and regeneration
• Managing a livelihood on a very low income.
• Fund raising
• Crowdfunding
• Disadvantaged youths and other marginalised groups
• Social entrepreneurship
• Reiki Master Practitioner
• Social Media
• Basic web design
• Online teaching
Areas of interest
• Introducing Permaculture into the national curriculum
• Mental illness/wellbeing
• Social Permaculture - specilising in networking and community building
• Growing edible and useful perennial plants
• Designing land based systems
• Garden/ land based design
• Edible Garden Designs
• The Design Web
• 8 forms of capital
• Systems thinking
• Building resilient and regenerative communities
• Localisation
• Decentralisation
• Devolution
• Regenerative and resilient living
• Gift economy
• Transition Towns
• Permaculture and mental illness
• Regenerative living
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Raising awareness that we are nature, we just need to find our way again.
• Holding on to the child within us all
• Herbalism
• Open seed pollination
• REconomy
• Non violent communication
• Right livelihood
• Using paganism in designing
• Social entrepreneurship
• Reiki
• Fund raising
• Volunteering
• Recycling - how to reuse just about everything!
Areas of Permaculture Design Experience: • Studying towards Diploma In Applied Permaculture Design
• Using the Design Web as inspiration for Visioning on group & community consultations for community garden design, promoting active listening and collaboration
• Running and living on an off-grid permaculture LAND learner project 2015 - 2020
• Teaching Introduction To Permaculture
• Children In Permaculture
• Food and Emotional Resilience
• I was a joint co-founder of Thriving Ways.
• Since 2013 I have created and co-created several private edible garden designs
• I am co-founder and director of Wyld Edges Community Interest Company, social enterprise.
• I used The Design Web to create the original North Devon Permaculture Network in 2014
• Co- designed a pilot project to create an edible garden for a local preschool
• Designing selfcare for mental wellbeing using Permaculture tools and techniques.