This year’s Festival of Permaculture programme is shaping up to be one of the most diverse, interesting and inspiring yet! We are putting together the programme schedule as we speak, but here is a taster of some of the confirmed workshops and speakers.
Did you know that all your meals are included in your ticket price? That is a whole weekend of delicious organic food to nourish you while you learn how to make impactful changes that benefit your community and the planet positively!
 

Headliners

  • Morag Gamble - Permaculture Education Worldwide
  • Gerald Jagwe - Amplifying voices from Africa
  • Huw Richards - Self Sufficiency on a half-sized allotment
  • Vicki Hird - Rebugging the Planet - Your land, your life, your politics
  • Pedrag B. Slijepcevic - Biocivilisations
 

Forest Gardens & Agroforestry

  • Jo Barker - Future Food Forests
  • Siobhan Stephenson - A Slice of Food Forest Garden
  • Chris Evans - Apple Coppicing
  • Pippa Downing - Engaging the public with forest gardening
 

 

 

 

Climate Action 

  • Katie Shepherd - Moving through climate grief to climate action
  • Steve Charter - Climate Coaches
  • Les Moore - Net Zero Neighbourhoods
 

 

 

 

 

Art & Music

  • Eliza Delf & The Wilderness Collective
  • Fireside Singing and Music
  • Rakesh Rootsman Rak - Cycle-powered sound system
  • Comedy of Change
  • Graham Truscott - Improv Comedy for the Soul
 

 

 

 

Practical permaculture 

  • Matt Ralston - Biochar Workshops
  • Jayson Byles - Seaweed in the Garden
  • Mark Shipperlee - A Walk with Trees in Hainault Forest
 

 

 

 

 

Permaculture Design

  • Brigid Sundaram - Simple and cheap ways to save water in the garden
  • James Piers Taylor- Genealogy & Permaculture: Tracing Our Roots Back to the Land
  • Liz Cussans- Designing for All Abilities (is just good design)
 

 

 

 

 

Equity, Diversity & Social Justice in Permaculture

  • Liba Ravindrin: Anti-Oppression Circle: creative writing and land justice
  • James Atherton: Queering Permaculture
  • Kayode Olafmihan - Permaculture and the indigenous: Holding an edge
  • Muzammal Hussain - Nature-Based Decision-Making for small groups: Beyond cultures of domination and individualism 
  • Looby Macnamara: Cultural Emergence
 

 

 

Home & Garden

  • Jo Barker - Everyday Permaculture
  • Jenni Lauruol - 17 Years of Permaculture Homesteading
  • Susannah Hall - A permaculture approach to living well in small spaces

 

 

 

 


Health & Wellbeing

  • Wenderlynn Bagnall - Active Resilience for Community and Earth
  • Sammuel Yisrael: Connect with Sound

 

 

 

 

 

Children & Young People

  • Forest School
  • Meet the Plants
  • Woodland Walks
  • Climbing Wall and Caving
  • Arts and Crafts
 

 

 
 

Regenerative farming, food and growing

  • Apricot Centre: Bowden Pillars Future - a brand new Regenerative Farm, Regenerative Settlement and Nature Recovery

 

 

 

 

 

Permaculture in Business & Organisations

  • Sarah Spencer- Think like a Forest
  • Alice Grey- Community Ownership - a path to empowerment!
  • Permaculture Business Forum

 

 

 

 

 

Biodiversity, Rewilding and Nature-based solutions

  • Navdeep Deol - London National Park City
  • Samantha Woods - Saving the Saffron Brook: Urban River Restoration in Practice

 

 

 

 

 

 

PLUS SO MUCH MORE......

 

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