Having spend two weeks looking at other people’s permaculture projects, I arrived home and pretty much my first job was to take a group of German permaculture visitors around Lackan. With the European Permaculture Convergence a week away they were taking the opportunity to visit permaculture sites around Ireland. Although at that point I was […]
Although I’ve been involved with permaculture for nearly a decade now, and on site here at Lackan for six years, practising permaculture on a daily basis, I had never done my PDC (Permaculture Design Certificate). When I was offered the chance to do a PDC at Carraig Dulra in Wicklow, led by friends Suzie Cahn […]
As I summarised in my introduction, there are many opportunities here at Lackan for potential designs. I am fortunate to have existing designs for a number of projects completed here on the farm, and I may use some of those, but there are plenty of new elements that I will be designing and they will […]
Although I have only recently taken my PDC course at Carraig Dulra in Co.Wicklow, my involvement with permaculture goes back many years. In 2010 I began volunteering at the Quarries Farm in Bangor, Co.Down, on their Growing Connections project, which was an experiment in social farming. It was here that I first encountered the concept […]
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