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Wales Permaculture Festival 2024

This year I taught a permaculture design workshop at the Wales Permaculture Festival on the last weekend of September 2024. I’m making a habit of late September trips across to the UK, having attended the UK Permaculture Association Festival at Lambourne End just outside London in 2023. I had a great time there last year meeting wonderful people including Nim Robins of Cynefin Farm in Wales. This year Nim and her Wales Permaculture colleagues organised the festival and invited me to get involved. Last year I taught a swing dance class at the London festival, which was to be repeated this year, along with (more importantly?) a serious permaculture and keyline design workshop. I had a pretty crazy week leading up to the trip, with suspected food poisoning hampering my preparations and putting everything in jeopardy. During the week leading up to the trip I did some intermittent fasting which Continue Permaculture Story

Permaculture Events: Macroom Food Festival and Permaculture Festival Wales 2024

It’s busy in the vegetable garden, I’m finishing summer orchard pruning for customers across County Cork and new permaculture design projects are coming in. I’ll also be speaking at two sustainability related events over the last two weekends of September – busy time! Macroom Food Festival 21st -22nd September 2024 First up is the Food Festival in my home town of Macroom in County Cork, Ireland. I’ll have a stall with permaculture information and business leaflets and will be on a panel with other food sustainability experts at the Good Vibes forum on Saturday the 21st in the Town Hall 10am to 1pm. It’s a cool weekend and lovely to have Macroom town square busy with people enjoying themselves. https://www.macroomfoodfestival.com/ Festival of Permaculture Wales 27th – 29th September 2024 The following weekend I’ll be off to Wales to the Welsh Permaculture Gathering at Three Pools Farm near Abergavenny. I’ll be Continue Permaculture Story