The art of a good question to create change
How does change happen?
How does change happen? It happens with the question? Why? Is it true that? What would happen if? How about? Could it work? What you think about? Change happens with an invitation, an invitation to a new space. It doesn’t necessarily need to be a big step, you don’t have to … Read more
Connections
How to grow a forest
This title might seem the complete antithesis to the focus of the last blog which was on meeting your own needs. On the afternoon of the second day of our course, Steve showed us how mycorrhizal networks support trees and how forests grow from lichen through a series of … Read more
Earth care, people care, fair share – and why being needy can be creative
Permaculture ethics
These are the principles of Permaculture that we covered on the first morning of our first day of our first ever integrated Permaculture Design Course (IPDC) at Treflach Farm.
Ceri, Steve and I have known each other for years. We know and understand each other’s work to some extent but have never collaborated … Read more
A new Permaculture Design Course (this is a longer than usual read so grab a cuppa)
Permaculture in the pandemic
It was the year of the pandemic. Living on the Wales and Shropshire border meant that our experience of that time was schizophrenic. When England was not wearing masks, Wales was. When England was free to travel, Wales was in lockdown. One village had the pubs in England opened while the … Read more
Water runs down hill….
Children don’t do what I did in my twenties with Clare. Do not hitch hike to France and find yourselves in an isolated house with a hoard of hard drinking male truck drivers. Do not. We survived unharmed and emerged into the daylight wiser and saved by two nice guys who had stopped the rattling, … Read more