1. Elemental Permaculture
Daniel Deighton (BLArch, Dip PC, PDC) ~ 0411 490 340 ~ Sunshine coast hinterland, QLD
Aaron Sorensen (BEd, Dip Arts, PDC) ~ 0424241881 ~ Illawarra bioregion, NSW
elementalpermaculture2012@gmail.com www.elementalpermaculture.wordpress.com
ABN: 36 889 392 418
Our Vision
To conserve & regenerate the natural & cultural landscape through the creation of
beautiful, abundant, bio-diverse & harmonious human settlements.
Our Mission
To empower individuals & communities to develop transformative strategies & solutions to
create landscapes that sustainably integrate the cultural & natural environment.
How we do this
We facilitate participatory planning, design, building and training in Permaculture principles
and practices to empower individuals and communities to develop solutions and strategies
that are appropriate to their place, culture and environment.
“Permaculture is the harmonious integration of the built & natural environment that
provides human settlements with food, energy, shelter & other material and non-
material needs in a sustainable way.
The philosophy of Permaculture is one of working with nature; of protracted &
thoughtful observation; of looking at systems in all of their functions & allowing systems
to demonstrate their own evolutions”
(Mollison, B. Permaculture a Designers Manual 1988)
What we do
Planning, Design & implementation
We facilitate people to design and create gardens and landscapes that demonstrate
Permaculture principles and practices in action. We do this with individuals and groups of
people in their homes, schools, organisations and communities.
Training & Education
We build the capacity of youth and adults to practice Permaculture though creative hands on
learning programs that inspire individuals and communities to lead change locally and
globally.
We work with
Tenants and homeowners
Developing detailed designs that integrate the home and garden to create sanctuaries that
sustain and rejuvenate people’s physical & emotional, practical & spiritual, personal & social
wellbeing.
Community Groups and Organisations
Facilitating the visioning, planning, design and building of Permaculture demonstration
gardens on public and private land.

2. Primary & Secondary Schools
Establishing outdoor ‘Living Classrooms’ to support and inspire student growth, and lifelong
learning through ‘hands on’ experience in Permaculture principles & practices.
Urban planners & developers
Master-planning existing and new urban environments to create eco-neighbourhoods &
villages, and reclaim the role of the ‘commons’ in growing community life and cultural
development.
Our gardens elements include
o Productive annual food gardens and perennial food forests
o Biodiversity and wildlife habitat
o Soil conservation & regeneration with no dig gardening & deep mulch earth bandages
o Organic waste composting
o Rainwater harvesting & surface water runoff conservation
o Freshwater ecology aquaculture & integrated greywater gardens
o Integrated animal systems
o Therapeutic garden bathrooms, gyms, creative art, play & contemplation spaces
o Social hubs of the outdoor kitchen, wood fired oven & gathering circles
o Local, natural, renewable, recycled, repairable building materials and structures
o ‘Low-tech’ appropriate technology for food, energy, water, waste & structures
About us
Elemental Permaculture synergizes the professions of Landscape Architecture, Education &
Creative Learning, Environmental Restoration, Community Development & the Creative Arts
with the guiding ethics, principles & practices of the Permaculture profession.
Practicing professionally since the mid 1990’s Daniel Deighton and Aaron Sorensen have been
engaging individuals & communities in Australia and abroad in the design and establishment
of Permaculture projects for two decades.
‘Permaculture as a design system assembles & integrates the natural, cultural, social,
material & structural components in patterns and functions to benefit all life………….The
pattern is design and design is the function of Permaculture.’
(Mollison,B. Permaculture a Designers Manual, 1988)