4. Learning Pathway
Highlights
• Getting drunk at the NDG
• Design Support Intensives with
Aranya
• ‘Potato vagina’ at London
Permaculture Fest
• Training of Teachers Course
• South West Permaculture
Convergence
• RegenAG making me more of a
militant vegan than ever
• World’s first Vegan PDC with Graham
Burnett
5. Learning Pathway Tips
• Self-educate/forage…. but find
opportunities for application
• Embrace design projects (especially
complex & challenging ones). But give
them an end date.
• Regular courses, workshops, events,
gatherings… stay connected to the
network!
• Cultivate a support web - people that
inspire you, help you, who you can
collaborate with…
• Design a low-input documentation
system
6. Brook End
• Enjoy the journey (because it
will be a long one)
• Get others to do the work for
you - tap into collective
intelligence
• Be humble, interact minimally
• Take photos, celebrate what
you have achieved
• Share with others!
20. Campaign & Network
Designing
• Observe/think/plan… be
strategic
• Think resilience
• Think long term. Pro-active
rather than reactive
• Be committed to re-distributing
power, sharing skills, draw from
a large grid - be as
decentralised as possible
• Evaluate & re-design regularly
22. A skill set that I can apply to everything, forever.
• Skills & Qualifications
• Livelihood!
• Job with Somerset Community Food (now quit!)
• Feed Avalon CIC Workers Cooperative
• Nourishment. Beautiful, productive garden
• Kicked UK Methane’s ass
• Diverse yields for clients
• New friends/comrades/contacts
• Personal wellbeing!
• Self care
• Confidence
• Integration - politics/permaculture
• Healing
Obtain a Yield
25. Ideas & Questions
• Privilege?
• Existing patterns of oppression?
Class? Race? Gender etc etc?
• Power relationships?
• Systemic change?
• Nonhumans?
• Limitations of lifestyle choices?
• Culture of resistance?
26. Is permaculture political?
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever
human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We
must always take sides. Neutrality helps the
oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the
tormentor, never the tormented.
!
- Elie Wiesel (Holocaust Survivor)
27.
28. Tips for other apprentices
• Design your documentation
systems at the beginning
• Connect with others as much as
possible
• Small & slow solutions
• Its the journey, not the destination
• Nonhumans?
• Limitations of lifestyle choices?
• Culture of resistance?
