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04/02/2011 |
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Last Updated:
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14/02/2011 |
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Karlstad, Sweden |
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Cold Temperate |
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Male |
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www.ridgedalepermaculture.com/ |
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Richard is an internationally regarded teacher, innovative farmer and Permaculture leader, and author of Making Small Farms Work. He has worked professionally in every major climate zone across several continents consulting to projects, farms & industry, and has also led over 40 solo Permaculture Design Course's as well as dozens of other specialist courses, practicums and seminars, including pioneering trainings such as the 10 Week Farm Scale Permaculture Internship run from his farm Ridgedale. Richard's project work includes design & site visits on around 100 varied projects in various climatic zones as well as contributing to hundreds of course participants’ site plans. Richard is a certified teacher with the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia (Certified Trainer No. 24) and the Permaculture Association of Great Britain. Having studied up to MSc level (IESD- Gaia U), leaving to establish the effective Integralpermanence (Design Consultancy & Education) internationally. Richard also holds a Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design (UK), HND Organic Crop Production (UK) and has studied extensively in the fields of Keyline® Design, Holistic Management®, Ecology and Anthropology. After leaving Organic Crop Production studies at Agricultural College in 1999 with more questions than answers, Richard began studying Permaculture and other ecological design systems alongside bio-construction in various vernaculars’. Now focused primarily on helping others with Regenerative Agricultural design work, Richard has worked on varied farm and project design and implementation projects from CSA production to whole- farm planning; agroforestry to water catchment & irrigation systems; regenerative business design to Keyline planning, Holistic planned grazing/ decision making/ financial planning to community building work. Building up a very diverse & rounded experience over the years, Richard also had the honour to run the first internationally accredited PDC training programs in Dominican Republic, Poland & Luxembourg; introduced concepts of Regenerative Agriculture in Poland, Belarus, Latvia and Finland as well as pioneered Keyline Design and aspects of Regenerative Agriculture in cold-climate Sweden. Known for his dynamic teaching, down-to-earth pragmatism, efficient project management and organisational skills, he is now primarily focused on establishing Ridgedale PERMACULTURE. Richard is still sometimes available for trainings & consultancies internationally, especially in our winter season. Please be in contact well in advance to express interest.
Top notch training at Scandinavia's leading regenerative ag farm & training center. Learn design from leading professional practitioners. Earlybird rates available up until May 22nd 2015
Aug 1- Sept 25th 2015 Unique immersion program at Scandinavias leading Permaculture farm & training center. If you wanting to develop a career in design or regenerative ag we feel the best way to learn is with experienced professional's at an active & in
Application officially open for this life changing learning opportunity
A chance to accelerate your learning at the most comprehensive and broad reaching training currently available in Europe at a pioneering project. This 8 Week Certificate training includes 5 trainings
ridgedale PERMACULTURE’S primary responsibility is regenerating landscapes, ecosystem processes and soils through resilient, replicable, scalable and profitable symbiotic farm enterprises. Our secondary responsibility is to educate, facilitate, inform and
Good design, good team, good group and good process & learning at our Permaculture & Regenerative hub in Sweden
Continuing on the theme of money for our free book giveaway we decided to gift a copy of our friend Mark Boyle's Moneyless Manifesto. Mark is an awesome writer and speaker who has dedicated many years to writing & talking about our relationships & embedd
Continuing on the theme of money for our free book giveaway we decided to gift a copy of our friend Mark Boyle's Moneyless Manifesto. Mark is an awesome writer and speaker who has dedicated many years to writing & talking about our relationships & embedd
This is a 5 part article series about applying Keyline/ Permaculture Design to our flagship project in Sweden...
First of 5 articles looking at wider design & considerations for our farm...
Want the learning experience of a lifetime?
To celebrate our pioneering new Permaculture site we're giving away a copy of Regenerative Enterprise...
ridgedale PERMACULTURE is a pasture and perennial crop based beyond-organic local food producer and dedicated educational hub in Värmland, Sweden. A flagship project for the region, ridgedale PERMACULTURE is Scandinavia’s first Keyline designed farm and
Last spaces on Integralpermanence's last 2013 public PDC... We have our Yeoman's Plow on site and this is shaping up to be an exciting training. It's been amazing fronting up the incredible Summerofsoil.se trainings here in Sweden, as well as running vari
Our community is using our friend Christian Shearer's AWESOME new PC crowdsourcing site to help initiate our build- the first reciprocal roofed strawbale building in Sweden, with full planning permission. You can help make this kind of living more availa
A fully charged 4 week action learning internship including two 5 day internationally renowned trainings. This training is limited to 12 participants. For info/ booking please email info@tierradelsol.org.mx
We are excited to offer this low cost internationally certified training with an emphasis on action oriented learning establishing a professional consultancy. A chance to get a high calibre training at low cost in beautiful Portugal. Integralpermanence ha
We are launching www.permaculturediploma.com as a dedicated online intensive diploma route for folks wishing to get a UK PC Association Diploma in Applied PC Design with a much higher level of support and functionality....
A chance to take an internationally certified PDC (PRI Aus & PC Assoc UK) amongst the diverse workshops with experts around the globe for the awesome Summer of Soil program
A unique new course format to support PDC graduates to take their work to a more professional level
A unique new course format to support PDC graduates to take their work to a more professional level
An advanced design course focused on regenerating the regions dryland lanscapes, from brittle back to warm temperate is the mission!
A week long cool/ cold climate forest garden and perennial cropping theory/ practical/ design intensive in beautiful Sweden
A new course format for post PDC folks looking to develop, extend and hone their professional skills...
To be fair, there is still some work to do in Spring, but amazing what you can do with little time and effort and friends whose waste you find value in!
Join us for the last of our Swedish practicum intensives building a beautiful, affordable and human scale home at the beautiful Karlberg community less than 1 hr from Stockholm...
A chance to join one of Europes most active Permaculture professionals with this hands on earthwork practicum creating earthbanked microclimate cropping zones...
Join us for a world class PDC training less than an hour from Stockholm. This course is in English language, an opportunity to take an internationally renowned PDC with one of Europes most active Permaculture professionals...
This is a primarily a practicum, weaving in elements of theory and design whilst we construct a year round regenerative glasshouse production system that pioneers the use of Jean Pains wood based compost system. The first of it's kind that we know of, th
Following a great intensive Dryland water management course in Portugal, we are lining up earthworks practicums, heres a little reflection on the initial 5 days...
As a full time Permaculture professional operating internationally through all major climate zones I am in need of the support of a very special person looking for a very unique opportunity!
It feels like Permaculture has been a little slow in establishing this far north, but things are set to change in a big way around here...
An updated look at the Krematahoff, now run by Sepp's son Josef for the last 3 years www.impermanencefilm.org
Integralpermanence is proud to bring the first PDC to Lux, over consecutive weekends from Oct/ Nov
Integralpermanence is proud to be teaming up with Julio Cantos, originator of PC and Agroforestry on Mallorca, and Ecoconvivencias for another awesome PDC in beautiful Mallorca...
Episode 2 of our trip venturing into Europe exploring solutions for a brighter future! www.impermanencefilm.org
World class PDC with Integralpermanence on a newly established farm scale PC project
Soon we wil release an updated film about the Krematahoff, Europes best Permaculture farm under the ownership and management of Josef Holzer. Heres a few pics for now... www.impermanencefilm.org
www.impermanencefilm.org
Taking a look at the water retention landscapes www.impermanencefilm.org
A trip to my original teachers new house in Spain www.impermanencefilm.org
Our journey has been revolving around water a lot recently it seems... www.impermanencefilm.org www.integralpermanence.org
www.impermanencefilm.org
We have promoted Jean Pains techniques for a long time now, and so on this trip we decided to find people developing these systems. We thought a good place to start was with Etienne Bonvallet, JP's nephew and technical collaborator
Follow our families global adventure in search of solutions for our future www.impermanencefilm.org
Follow the adventures here www.impermanencefilm.org
www.impermanencefilm.org
A meeting with Denis Flores, Vezenobres (France) on the www.impermanencefilm.org global family Permaculture trip!
Adam Sayner, Social Entrepreneur and Mushroom Grower filmed on our global Permaculture film adventure www.impermanencefilm.org
A visit to Kokopelli HQ on our global film adventure www.impermanencefilm.org
A meeting with Denis Flores and his wife Virginie at their beautiful agroforestry site. www.impermanencefilm.org
Reflections on community stability @ Lebensgarten, Germany. An inspiring early ecovillage renewing the site of a WW2 forced labour ammunitions camp www.impermanencefilm.org
A very nice and matured example of truly valuing the marginal! Follow our global family film adventure on www.impermanencefilm.org
A very nice bit of PC design from Plukrijp, Belgium. Follow our global trip at impermanencefilm.org
A very nice model for small PC farm producing valuable data... Follow our global film adventures at www.impermanencefilm.org!
A chance to get a world class PDC at one of the cheapest prices on the planet. Held at a beautiful family project in a traditional Romanian village.
www.impermanencefilm.org
Our global family film trip seeking out regenerative solutions www.impermanencefilm.org
impermanencefilm.org- a global family PC film trip!
Our families epic global PC film quest!
Follow our family around the globe on an epic PC journey!
A family global Permaculture based documentary journey/ series
Our family crowd sourced global film trip has embarked in Humbug, our peppermint green van- seeking solutions and strategies in all aspects of eco agro social regeneration...
Permaculture offers a practical approach to all aspects of creating a sustainable future. Whether your interest is gardening, farming, planning, building homes, community work, economic regeneration, business or green lifestyles, the application of per
A last chance to get certified at one of our awesome courses at some of the cheapest rates worldwide...
(IM)PERMANENCE film was noticed by the Sunday Times who featured our family in an article regarding "living fluidly"
Co creating and sharing our epic film journey documenting the best regenerative agriculture/ permaculture/ community reliance solutions across the planet...
Michelle, my partner, is teaching compassionate communication as a transitionary tool for community building and zone 00 development!
We are set to run a full power PDC early December with additional Non Violent Communication training. At beautiful Taino Organic farm, this PDC will establish a core group and training facility on the island...
16 students have helped co- design a new and updated approach to the Diploma. Great energy, support and motivation and great results and feedback coming through already...
A fully up to date and integrative PDC at a beautiful PC demonstration site situated half way between Bath and Bristol
We got together as a 15 strong working group and re designed the way we are going about our learning!
Full PDC announced Sept 27 to Oct 12
(IM)PERMANENCE got a makeover- what do you think?
Our crowd sourcing campaign for our global Permaculture film project is coming to an end. If you can help please step up!
Catch up with the Free PDC, (IM)permanence film project and more....
To conclude filming for the Free PDC event...
Open Source project to kickstart the (IM)PERMANENCE film project...
We are super excited to announce a landmark open source project that is emerging as the official beginning of this whole (IM)PERMANENCE project...
The official launch of our family film project- please spread far and wide and help co- create this open source resource stream!
(IM)PERMANENCE film project is travelling 40 000 miles overland through 40 countries creating an online documentary series about all aspects of truly abundant, healthy and integrative ways of living to share with you and the world in this time of great tr
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| RegenAG |
| Type: Other |
| Teacher: Darren J. Doherty |
| Location: Cowdray Hall, UK |
| Date: Nov 2011 |
| Diploma in Applied PC Design |
| Type: Permaculture Diploma |
| Teacher: Rod Everett |
| Location: UK |
| Date: Aug 2008 |
| Full PDC |
| Type: Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course |
| Teacher: Rod Everett |
| Location: Isle of Man |
| Date: Aug 2006 |
| Gaia EDE |
| Type: Other |
| Teacher: Pracha Hutanuwatr |
| Location: Wongsanit Ashram, BKK |
| Date: Jan 2009 |
| 57 PDC Graduates (list) |
| 32 PRI PDC Graduates (list) |
| 54 Other Course Graduates (list) |
| have acknowledged being taught by Richard Perkins |
| 6 have not yet been verified (list) |
| Richard Perkins has permaculture experience in: |
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| Polar |
| Alpine |
| Cold Temperate |
| Cool Temperate |
| Warm Temperate |
| Mediterranean |
| Island |
| Sub tropical |
| Wet/Dry Tropical |
| Wet Tropical |
| Arid |
| Semi Arid |
