Practical Permaculture projects help contribute to the enhancement of the environment, thereby promoting a sustainable planet.

Every person has the ability to empower ourselves to reduce our daily impact on the environment and facilitate real change in the real world.

By encouraging sustainability in the education system the children (and indirectly their parents) are taught that although they may be just one little person sharing a big planet with lots of other people, if they do their “little-bit” then others around them will do likewise.

Simply by modifying our own behaviour whether at school, at work or at home by reducing our energy consumption, generating less waste and increasing recycling we will develop a better understanding of the environment.

Permaculture links the concepts ‘permanent’, ‘agriculture’ and ‘culture’, and suggests that it is not possible for any culture to survive for long without sustainable gardening systems being followed.

Use a diverse range of plants, use multi-use plants, use raised no-dig garden beds – enables plants to grow in deep layers of organic matter without disturbing the sub-soil and requires less physical effort to create and maintain.

Sustainability is addressed in many ways such as organic growing methods (no chemical treatments are to be used), how to make and use compost, how to farm worms and use their “worm wee”, how to keep chickens and what to do with their by-products and the importance of “seed-saving” from one harvest to the next.

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