Robina Mc Curdy
Robina is a founder-member of the Institute of Earthcare Education Aotearoa, and Tui Land Trust and community in Golden Bay. For the past 25 years she has been a Permaculture and Organic Growing educator, evolving her own educational methodologies which focus on practical outcomes whilst building community and empowering local leadership. During her time as the Victory Community Garden Co-ordinator in Nelson, she ran a home garden coaches training, and produced the ‘Grow It’ series for home gardeners. She has also written a NZ Treecrops Compendium, a community facilitators manual and several children’s environmental education booklets. She is currently writing a local food resilience manual, drawing on her work in this field with households, neighbourhoods, schools, farms, villages and bioregions, NZ and globally.
Susie Lees
Susie Lees has campaigned with GE Free New Zealand since 1998 being instrumental in Nelson's campaign to be GE Free. Producing food on a small organic farm in the Moutere promoting biodiversity and education, she has passed the skills of cheesemaking, preserving and growing in a sustainable way to wwoofers from around the world. The farm has produced vegetables for the Nelson market and bred dairy goats alongside rarebreed sheep and suckler cows.
A keen advocate of seed saving, she has been involved in Seed Saving groups in and around Nelson and sees this as the only certain way of preserving genetic diversity for the future.
A keen advocate of seed saving, she has been involved in Seed Saving groups in and around Nelson and sees this as the only certain way of preserving genetic diversity for the future.
Ross InnessMcLeish
Ross, a 20 year old Victoria University student, who is passionate about making a documentary on local food resilience and organic food production, will be filming the South Island leg of the tour. He has made award-winning team competition documentaries (see below):
Zara Mann
Zara completed a BDes with Honors in Digital Media at Massey University, Wellington in 2012. In her final year she explored how immersive installation design can reconnect people with the natural world. She grew up on Wolfgang Mann’s Organic Market Garden in Nelson and has a resulting respect for the love and time taken to grow organically.
Laurence Boomert
Laurence has a long history in contingency planning, green business development and community up solutions. In early 90s he founded the NZ Environmental Business Network, he currently runs the Bank of Real Solutions, an online database of community can-do success stories. He was a co publisher and writer for the book "Fleeing Vesuvius: Responding to the effects of economic and environmental collapse" published in 2011 by Living Economies with whom he is a board member. Ph 027 2588807
South Island Tour only.
South Island Tour only.
Jon Foote
Jon has extensive experience in IT and as a Permaculture educator, mostly consulting and facilitating the building of suburban scale food gardens and orchards in Dunedin – video-clip examples documented on his blog. Jon completed his Permaculture Design Certificate in January 2012 in Australia taught by Geoff Lawton.
Jon has recently returned from overseas, where he visited and number of Permaculture and Urban organic gardening sites and events throughout Europe.
Click here to watch Jon's video about a Permablitz project near Auckland.
South Island Tour only.
Jon has recently returned from overseas, where he visited and number of Permaculture and Urban organic gardening sites and events throughout Europe.
Click here to watch Jon's video about a Permablitz project near Auckland.
South Island Tour only.
Robbie Lawton
Robbie Lawton is a consulting civil engineer who has specialised in environmental engineering. Where ever possible, since attending the 2011 Permaculture Design Course run by Robina McCurdy and the Earthcare Education Trust, he has used permaculture design to inform his engineering activities. His particular interest is in water reuse and recycling.
He is currently furthering his understanding of permaculture practice by working as a WWOOFer in various parts of NZ.
He is currently furthering his understanding of permaculture practice by working as a WWOOFer in various parts of NZ.
Annaliese Hordern
Annaliese is an inspiring, passionate Permaculture educator, activist and gardener, breathing life into her work. Residing in Northern NSW Australia, Annaliese has lived amongst numerous communities globally, many off the grid, contributing to edible gardens, food forests, wildlife corridors, building structures, composting toilets and water harvesting.
Annaliese has a degree in Environmental Resource Management, specialising in waste management and human impact in wild spaces. She has a commitment to progressive activated adult education, evolving a dynamic interactive teaching style, fostered by some of the great Permaculture pioneers Rosemary Morrow, Robyn Francis, Robin Clayfield, Robina McCurdy, Gary Williams and Geoff Lawton.
Currently, Annaliese is tutoring at Djambing Permaculture College Australia, teaching PDC’s with Robyn Francis and facilitating workshops for community participation in Eco themes. Annaliese offers Eco consulting and Permaculture design and works with an international Permaculture team Gaiacraft, creating interactive teaching resources. Annaliese believes Food Security is an important issue for us all to consider and personally participate in.
“Food Security and emergency response is a critical element required to prepare every community for continued resilience and independence, turning
emergency into opportunity. Permaculture provides the kind of solutions not offered by the mainstream approach”.
www.gaiacraft.com
Annaliese has a degree in Environmental Resource Management, specialising in waste management and human impact in wild spaces. She has a commitment to progressive activated adult education, evolving a dynamic interactive teaching style, fostered by some of the great Permaculture pioneers Rosemary Morrow, Robyn Francis, Robin Clayfield, Robina McCurdy, Gary Williams and Geoff Lawton.
Currently, Annaliese is tutoring at Djambing Permaculture College Australia, teaching PDC’s with Robyn Francis and facilitating workshops for community participation in Eco themes. Annaliese offers Eco consulting and Permaculture design and works with an international Permaculture team Gaiacraft, creating interactive teaching resources. Annaliese believes Food Security is an important issue for us all to consider and personally participate in.
“Food Security and emergency response is a critical element required to prepare every community for continued resilience and independence, turning
emergency into opportunity. Permaculture provides the kind of solutions not offered by the mainstream approach”.
www.gaiacraft.com
Gordyn Hamblyn
Gordyn lives in Gricklegrass Community just outside of Oxford, Canterbury, where he is implementing Permaculture systems on the Community's 30acres of pastoral farmland. He has 17 years experience of living in diverse Communities; as well as time working on mixed farms of varying scales and in exotic forestry. Gordyn holds a lifelong interest in ecological networks and their interactions. He also has 15 years experience in facilitating both social and personal development within groups which helps guide his current commitment to strengthening local food networks.
Birgit Baader
For the past 26 years Birgit has been working as a free lance journalist, editor, book translator and author for book publishers, print and TV media. She studied business management and social behavioural psychology in Munich as well as Systemic Communication Therapy, Living Dance (with Anna Halprin) and Healing Tao.Birgit has worked as a screenwriter and director for TV documentaries such as New Ways of Evolution, The Gentle Power of Water, Children of the New Millennium, We are All One, People People, And My Heart is Still Singingand published a series of children's and adult books (non-fiction & fiction). She is passionate about raising awareness of the interconnectivity of all life.
Supporting this tour is one way of supporting a change towards a more sustainable future where humans move away from exploitation to a more balanced and gentle relationship with themselves/the planet/the universe. Hopefully, more and more people will be inspired to learn how to tune into the earth and all her amazing expressions of life, re-treating life with respect and awe.
Supporting this tour is one way of supporting a change towards a more sustainable future where humans move away from exploitation to a more balanced and gentle relationship with themselves/the planet/the universe. Hopefully, more and more people will be inspired to learn how to tune into the earth and all her amazing expressions of life, re-treating life with respect and awe.
Leah McBey
Leah McBey was the national coordinator for the tour.
