Iraz Candaş attended a PRI (Permaculture Research Institute) Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course, instructed by Mustafa F. Bakır, with the organization of PRI Turkey on August 2012. After this course, she decided to work on permaculture in-depth.
With the reference of Mustafa F. Bakır, the founder director of PRI Turkey, has completed a 10-Week Internship Program at PRI Australia. During this internship, besides building up her field experience with a full-on labor, she specialized on diverse subjects such as, “PDC Teacher Training”, “Earthworks”, “Permaculture Urban Landscape Design”, “Permaculture Project Establishment – Permaculture Aid in Action”, “Food Security through Nutritional Resilience and Seed Saving” and “Sustainable Soil Management/Soil Biology".
To put the theoretical and practical experience into action in her own country, she went on a search for an appropriate land by April, 2013. On September, 2013, she started the design and application process for “Kızıltepe Permaculture”, a permaculture education, application and living site project in rural Turkey.
She attained an “instructor” position in PRI Turkey team on January, 2014 and has taught numerous courses on various subjects within the permaculture scope. From 2014 on, she has done consultancy work on several lands with altering scales and regions.
Iraz Candaş has finished “Introduction to Keyline Design” course with Owen Hablutzel in May 2014. On July, 2015, she attended a full “Holistic Management” Course held by the Turkish hub of Savory Institute.
October, 2017 onwards, as well as being assigned as the managing director of PRI Turkey, of which she was already a board member, she continues her professional permaculture design and consultancy practice.

Upcoming courses

An Introduction to Permaculture Course in January