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Teaching Children Permaculture

18/07/202518/07/2025 Paul LynchLeave a commentCourses and WorkshopsBilbao, cork, drought, Dunmanway, flood, keyline design, microclimate, permaculture, rainfall, skills, Spain, sunshine, teaching children, temperature

Permaculture farm in Dunmanway County Cork hosts summer language students from Bilbao It’s all happening around Dunmanway County Cork these days. Since I began my professional permaculture design practice, the area between Drimoleague and Dunmanway County Cork has shown to be a consistent hot-spot for permaculture projects. A few years ago I worked on a farm permaculture design for the Kingston family near Coolkellure, now known as Nowen Rock Regenerative Natural Habitats. Recently John Kingston and I have been collaborating on the build of another local permaculture project in that area. Teaching Children Permaculture John asked me if I spoke Spanish and if I would do a day teaching permaculture for a group of English language students coming from Bilbao to visit his farm. Of course I was delighted to get involved and do more teaching. It was quite a new challenge however as I had not taught children permaculture Continue Permaculture Story

Garden Design Talk for the Kenmare Gardening Group

25/06/202525/06/2025 Paul LynchLeave a commentCourses and Workshopsdesign, gardening, group, kenmare, kerry, keyline, permaculture, sustainability, vegetable growing

Sustainable landscape design solutions for gardening and climate problems Earlier this month I was delighted to give a presentation on permaculture design to the Kenmare gardening group at the Gateway Methodist Church in Kenmare Co. Kerry. The church setting was fitting as I had some biblical analogies regarding creation, gardens, fruit, floods and sustainable landscape design. I put extensive research into this lecture and went as far as to write a whole article on my preparatory thoughts, partly as an exercise in putting my thoughts in order and partly to give an insight to my readers on this process. You can read this article here: https://permaculturedesign.ie/2025/05/30/sustainability-talks-for-local-groups/ In particular that article focuses on “design” as a cleavage term in society. When we hear that word, some people envisage a something pleasing to look at or behold in an aesthetic sense, while others think of something being “well designed” when it functions Continue Permaculture Story

Sustainability Talks for Local Groups in Ireland

30/05/202502/06/2025 Paul Lynch1 CommentCourses and Workshopscourse, creativity, design, gardening club, ireland, kenmare, kerry, lecture, permaculture, pirsig, robert pirsig, sustainability, talk, workshop, zen, zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

In my permaculture design practice I have often noticed a parallel phenomenon: the most difficult, most constrained project sites are invariably the easiest to design and the best sites, in a conventional sense, are the hardest, requiring the most careful observation to design well.