December Newsletter - Thank you to all our supporters...

The December Newsletter went out this morning. You can find it here with numbers, testimonials and stories from 2017, upcoming permaculture and growing workshops and more...

Permaculture changes lives - here some testimonials:

"The course gave me direction and the opportunity of transforming a passion into a job"
- Anonymous Permaculture Design Course participant

"I feel like I know a secret and want to share it with the world" 
- Natasha after completing the Permaculture Design Course

"It has completely changed my perspective towards every aspect of my life: my health, my relationship with family and friends, my relationship to the planet." 
- Anonymous Permaculture Design Course participant

"The experience was transformative, thought provoking and life changing." 
- Anonymous Permaculture Design Course participant

"Building my confidence, embedding resilient ways of thinking and inspiring healthy ways of interacting with my surroundings." 
- Anonymous Permaculture Design Course participant

A recent quote from Anna, community gardener at Clapham Manor Estate, after attending a gardening session at Bandstand Beds:

"It was inspiring and very useful – we learned so much and will put that knowledge to good use by planting four crops in the next week or so – garlic, onions, broad beans and spring cabbage. The course was really well organised with a very friendly bunch of people, and the course leader did a great job with a light touch."

Upcoming workshops and courses
Permaculture Design Course - Creating Resilient Communities - South London
Apr 7
Permaculture Design Course - Creating Resilient Communities - South London

7 weekend between April 7th and July 8th 2018 - At various venues around South London

The Permaculture Design Course is a 72-hour often life-changing experience, accredited by the UK Permaculture Association. Over the period of 7 weekends we will explore practical and creative solutions for building resilient communities and designing abundant eco-systems.

Casalinho's Permaculture Design Course - Spring - Portugal
May 25
Casalinho's Permaculture Design Course - Spring - Portugal

We're excited to be working with Casalinho, a Permaculture Project in Central Portugal, to offer two fully certified Permaculture Design Courses in 2018. On completion you will receive the internationally recognised Certificate in Permaculture Design, accredited by the UK Permaculture Association. 

Social Permaculture - Spain
Jul 28
Social Permaculture - Spain

The Social Permaculture course will explore permaculture as a tool for designing communities and organisations. It will help you to understand things in terms of connection – between people, economies, and governing structures – and how to create the conditions for humans to flourish on a societal level, as well as how to develop beneficial relationships with the ecosystems which sustain us.

Casalinho's Permaculture Design Course - Summer - Portugal
Aug 17
Casalinho's Permaculture Design Course - Summer - Portugal

We're excited to be working with Casalinho, a Permaculture Project in Central Portugal, to offer two fully certified Permaculture Design Courses in 2018. On completion you will receive the internationally recognised Certificate in Permaculture Design, accredited by the UK Permaculture Association. 

Tread Well on Earth - A 2-Day Introduction to Permaculture
Sep 29
Tread Well on Earth - A 2-Day Introduction to Permaculture

Learn the basics of Permaculture Design on this two-day Introduction to Permaculture and be ready to try it out in your garden, your workplace and your life.

Monestevole's Permaculture Design Course - Italy
Oct 7
Monestevole's Permaculture Design Course - Italy

The Permaculture Design Course (PDC) is a 72-hour internationally recognised training engaging head, heart and hands of participants to discover the principles and techniques of Permaculture.

At Tribewanted Monestevole in Umbria, Italy, we bring learning about Permaculture into its right context. At our sustainable community, not only will you become an accredited permaculturist, but you'll be able to put in practice all the theories on the permaculture gardens, urban gardens, with the animals and in the local kitchen.

Monestevole's Permaculture in Practice Week - Italy
Oct 21
Monestevole's Permaculture in Practice Week - Italy

Following on from Monestevole's Permaculture Design Course, we do a week of practical work in Monestevole's gardens, vineyards and orchards. This week is open to anybody, participants of the full Permaculture Design Course as well as those who would simply like to explore the practical application of Permaculture techniques.

Other posts
Spring Newsletter 2018
Spring Newsletter 2018

Permaculture your life with us this year... Courses in London, Portugal, Spain and Italy.

First round of Lambeth Grassroutes cycle tour
First round of Lambeth Grassroutes cycle tour

For some time now, Social Landscapes has been developing the idea of a bike tour to raise awareness of these projects, tell the stories of the people behind them and get people thinking differently about city living.

Autumn Newsletter
Autumn Newsletter

What have we been up to? Cycle tour, Permaculture Courses, gardening sessions, blog posts. What is coming next?

Coming Home - Rediscovering Time & Place
Coming Home - Rediscovering Time & Place

When did it happen that time became a forward line? When did the idea of an inevitability of progress settle in the psyche of the western mind? When did we as human beings set ourselves apart, thinking that we are at the head of the parade? And how does all of that affect our relationship to place and planet? These are questions I have been asking myself for a while, questions I might never have the answers to.

Permaculture tells a different story...
Permaculture tells a different story...

In a time that often seems dominated by conflict, economic deprivation and environmental destruction, Permaculture points into a different direction and offers opportunity.

Designing Edible Landscapes at Spires
Designing Edible Landscapes at Spires

This summer we are running a Permaculture inspired 24-hour Designing Edible Landscapes training course at Spires in Streatham. The course is funded by Lambeth and supported by Incredible Edible Lambeth and therefore free to attend for anyone who can make it.

May Newsletter - Head Heart Hands
May Newsletter - Head Heart Hands

The May Newsletter is out with upcoming gardening sessions, volunteer opportunities, blogposts and stories, pictures and more... Find it here.

Small and slow...
Small and slow...

Small and slow solutions is one of my favourite Permaculture principles. Not only does it relate to the type of interventions that a designer makes on a piece of land, it describes a helpful attitude to life.

Sarah reflecting on the 2-day Permaculture Course
Sarah reflecting on the 2-day Permaculture Course

First time novelist, Sarah Kisielowski, joined the Introduction to Permaculture weekend to find out how its principles might apply to creativity and writing.

Permaculture is an intuitive framework for change that reconnects us to each other, the natural world, and ourselves.

This was the opening definition...

Social Landscapes featured in this quarter's Green Spirit on Spiritual Activism
Social Landscapes featured in this quarter's Green Spirit on Spiritual Activism

There is a short profile and some additional Q&A by Social Landscapes founder Michel Thill in this quarter's Green Spirit Magazine.

February Newsletter - 2017 Opportunities & Permaculture Design Course
February Newsletter - 2017 Opportunities & Permaculture Design Course

Today, we sent out our first newsletter of 2017, including updates on the Permaculture Design Course, links to the Permaculture Association blog post, Mich's latest post exploring a permaculture principles, opportunities to collaborate and volunteer and more..

Permaculture Volunteering Opportunity in South London
Permaculture Volunteering Opportunity in South London

Do you want to learn about Permaculture and improve your gardening skills? Are you looking for opportunities to do Permaculture designs, maybe implement them?

Come and do some gardening at Treadwell, a private home in the process of being turned into a Permaculture demonstration site. Over the next months we're hoping to transform this disused and trashed piece of land into an edible refuge.

Short version of PDC stories published on Permaculture Association blog
Short version of PDC stories published on Permaculture Association blog

This week, the UK Permaculture Association published a short version of our 5 stories of Permaculture Design Course participants on their blog.

Find the full post here.

Every Element Performs Multiple Functions
Every Element Performs Multiple Functions

This is the first of a series of short blog posts exploring the core permaculture principles and relating them to our work at Social Landscapes. 

Lately, in my work as well as on Permaculture courses, I have been exploring the topic of livelihood. Livelihood is often described as “that which sustains us” and for us in the west, more often, “that which brings in an income”.

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