On The Permaculture Student:

Something Can Be Done

Permaculturists teaching children, in and out of schools, have long desired dedicated materials for children in high school. Carolyn Nuttall gave us a teacher’s book for primary school and now Matt Powers, an experienced and passionate teacher, has given us The Permaculture Student for early high school. It comes with a text whose strengths are that it is: well written , attractive drawings, very catching examples, and references. A student’s workbook accompanies the main text. The formatting is attractive.

Matt Power’s book draws heavily on Bill Mollisons’ Manual and as such, the curriculum is reliable and comprehensive. It stands in many ways as a text book of applied science for environmental repair. Teachers can use it to learn permaculture, and smart students will read it avidly. There is room for teachers to add specialised local knowledge. As an equal partner with an environmental, or natural, science curriculum it provides understanding of human impacts, positive and negative, on Earth. It takes students on a journey of earth repair which is a meaningful mission for the young generation who need this knowledge and these skills, and, hope.

Matt’s book, investing in the young, as it does, does not hide from the problems that we face jointly as we continue into the 21 century. It takes permaculture as the starting place and end for real repair and hope of earth restoration.

Rosemary (Rowe) Morrow

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mattpowers/the-permaculture-student-1