Geoff Lawton – Online Permaculture Design 2.0
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Geoff’s new “Permaculture Circle” will walk you through the what, why, and how of permaculture.
There are over 70 films, animations, PDFs, and a 24/7 online community.
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INSTITUTE OF PERMACULTURE RESEARCH (PRI)
The Permaculture Research Institute (PRI) is led by Geoff and Nadia Lawton and is based on a Permaculture demonstration site near The Channon, NSW. We specialize in education and training all around the world. Permaculturenews.org also provides daily Permaculture news and information. The Permaculture Research Institute is a non-profit organization with a limited liability.
Bill Mollison, the originator of Permaculture, founded the first Permaculture Institute in 1979 to educate the practical applications of Permaculture design. It was situated on Tagari Farm, a 147-acre farmhouse in Northern NSW, Australia. Bill Mollison co-founded permaculture, which was initially detailed in the book ‘Permaculture One’ in 1978. Bill invited Geoff to develop and lead a new institute on the land after he retired in October 1997. Geoff consented and worked on the Farm for the next three years. During this time, Geoff founded the Permaculture Research Institute, which we all know and love today, and transferred it to Zaytuna Farm after three years.
Zaytuna Farm is located on a 66-acre (27-hectare) farm that fronts Terania Creek, near the hamlet of The Channon in Northern New South Wales. The property has 800 meters of stream frontage, multiple swimming holes, and plenty of wildlife. The environment is varied, with frost-free hilltops, hills, and valleys, as well as cleared paddocks and woodland sections.
Zaytuna Farm is a functional permaculture teaching and demonstration farm that is always evolving and changing on the ground research in practice; work is constantly in process to produce new more efficient and productive systems. It is located in subtropical Northern New South Wales and provides students with the chance to learn while working in a real-life permaculture farming and gardening scenario. In addition to classroom time, students will be trained and work on daily farm responsibilities such as engaging with and caring for farm systems such as animals, crops, trees, nurseries, aquatics, irrigation, renewable energy, garbage, and recycling. Other responsibilities include looking at landscape design, producing compost, natural fertilizers, testing soil, basic surveying, and completing design exercises.
The property has an integrated water collecting system with several dams, ponds, and swales, as well as gravity irrigation. All farm energy is off-grid solar with a generator backup, all toilets are state-of-the-art composting toilets, and all grey waste systems are gravel reed bed natural biological cleaning systems that have been certified by the local government.
On-site structures include a mud rendered lime plastered straw bale, a bamboo bale construction home, stylish upcycled shipping containers with passive solar aspect wind vented metal roofs, a commercial kitchen, a student launderette, and an internet cafe with a student kitchen, all of which enclose an open space classroom and dining area. The solar power station, main tool room, main farm workshop, machinery storage, farm office, camping shelters, feed stores, dairy preparation area, main crop tools and supplies, nursery tools seeds, and nursery stand alone pressure pump solar power station are all licensed by the local government.
All buildings have zinc-allum metal roofing, which collects rainwater and pumps it to a tank at the top of the property, where it supplies excellent pressure, high quality showering, washing, and drinking water to all of the built infrastructure on site, all of which has been approved by the local government.
The farm’s ongoing daily food production comprises a wide variety of mixed vegetables and herbs, aquatic crops, seasonal fruits, birds for eggs and meat, ducks, quail, turkey, rabbits, and fish, milk and dairy products from a small dairy house cow herd, and a small beef herd. All animals processed for food are slaughtered, butchered, and prepared for consumption on the farm with great care, precision, and humanity.
The farm features a wide range of bamboo production for food and lumber, as well as agricultural forestry and reforestation programs such as river bank stabilization.
The first Master Plan site was Zaytuna Farm, but thanks to The Permaculture Research Institute’s goal, many others have since developed.
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