Technical Tutorials

As part of the Diploma, alongside your design skills, you are required to develop appropriate 'technical skills'.

The PDC is really only the beginning of one's education in permaculture design and in all the useful skills that can support better design.

Below are links to more information on the technical tutorials I have chosen to do as part of my diploma pathway and ongoing permaculture education:

RegenAG Advanced Design Course - October 2011

Living Roofs & Ecosystem Services Course - Sept/Oct 2011

Wild Craft course Aug '11

Living Landscape April 2011

Woodcrafty April 2011

Training for Transition March 2011

Natural Navigation Feb 2011

Sustainable Woodland Management Course

PDC Jordan Oct/Nov 2010

Green Building - October 2010

Scything Workshop Sept '10

Wine Making - Oct '09

Training of Trainers - Sept '09

Forest Gardening - May '09

Grow Mushrooms - Dec '07

Woodland Weekend Oct '07

Herb Walk/Talk - Sept '07

Compost Bin Workshop - Apr '07

Rocket Stove Workshop - Mar '07

Permaculture Designer’s CV

Experience and Skills:

MSc Human Ecology (Centre for Human Ecology/University of Strathclyde, 2009)
Permaculture Design Course (Naturewise 2006 - taught by Graham Burnett & Mark Warner)
Permaculture Design Course (Permaculture Institute of Jordan 2010 - taught by Geoff Lawton)
Regenerative Agriculture, Advanced Design Course (RegenAG 2011 - taught by Darren Doherty)
Certificate in Project Management (APM, 2010)

I have also studied Forest Gardening with Martin Crawford, Sustainable Woodland Management with Ben Law, Green Building with Adrian Leaman of Wholewoods, Living Roofs and Ecosystem Services with RESET (taught by Dusty Gedge, John Little and Gary Grant) and completed the Permaculture Training of Teachers Course run by Designed Visions.

I have taught Permaculture with Naturewise and Spiralseed, I founded and run the London Permaculture Flickr site, and I'm an admin of the London Permaculture Ning and Founding Secretary of the London Permaculture Network. I regularly volunteer at the Naturewise Forest Garden and at the Meadow Orchard Project where I'm a member of the Management Committee.

By day I'm also a curator of archival film and video and the co-editor of the book 'Shadows of Progress' (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010). This has been my recent work life: