The Winter Permaculture Design Course explored topics of sustainable drainage, localised food production and community on Paulet Road Estate in Brixton, London.

We held our 2022 Permaculture Design Course at Roupell Park Estate community Centre on Brixton Hill, London. The course participants worked in groups to create designs for different areas of the estate. The following slides present a summary of the outcomes.

We were asked by BowTie Construction to engage the residents in a re-design of the greenspaces surrounding Treadgold House, which is undergoing a retrofit and will become the UK’s first zero carbon multi-unit.

On our return to Tribewanted Monestevole we had 10 people attend our Permaculture Design Course.

Here are some photos and testimonials from participants.

16 designers graduated with a Permaculture Design Certificate on the 2018 Permaculture Design Course at Loughborough Farm. We also visited venues such as Hazel Hill Woods, the Remakery, the Meadow Orchard Project and were grateful to have had guest teachers such as Linda Royles and Sam. The course was led by Michel Thill and assisted by Tish Vail and previous course participants Naomi Allen and Dre Ferdinand.

Social Landscapes worked with The Community Education Foundation, the Roupell Park Resident Management Cooperative and the Roupell Park residents themselves to come up with a design proposal for an disused green space on the estate.

Organising a Permaculture Design Course (PDC) is generally a great opportunity for a project or a community to integrate more of the Permaculture principles into their workings. This was the purpose of our full Permaculture Design Course at Tribewanted Monestevole.

16 designers graduated with a Permaculture Design Certificate on the 2017 Permaculture Design Course at Treadwell. We visited venues such as Sutton Community Farm, Hazel Hill Woods, the Remakery, the Meadow Orchard Project and were blessed with guest teachers such as Duncan Law, Linda Royles and Kathie Bishop.

On Wednesday 19th of October we planted a kitchen garden on Fenwick Estate in Clapham. The event started at 4 pm and by 6.30 a group of around 20 had planted 90 herb plants, including lavender, rosemary, tarragon, thyme, yarrow and more.

The event and the plants were funded by This Is Clapham Business Improvement District.

Michel supported residents on Egham Road to make a more beautiful, safer and useful space. The job was a big challenge, building a 25 m long planter, shifting 12 tonnes of soil and planting 60 plants along the pavement to create a border between the grass and play area and road. With a large group of corporate volunteers and residents, the job got done in a day and brought out the neighbourhood.

In 2016, we took another 12 people on an empowerment journey through a 84h Permaculture Design Curriculum exploring cutting edge design solutions relating to our most fundamental human needs, such as food, water, shelter and energy, companionship and community, livelihood and purpose.

Social Landscapes collaborated with St Martins of Tours to design an event aiming to bring together two diverse and disparate community groups located around Wilton Square, Islington. The event created included gardening and painting activities to spruce up the area, food and non-alcoholic drinks as well as live music. 

Social Landscapes was contracted by SCCoop (Streatham Common Cooperative) to run an event to increase membership and involvement of the pubic in the activities at the Rookery. After organising a series of pop-up events in the area, we concluded with a well attended afternoon filled with storytelling, a tour of the Rookery and gardening activities.

Together with Social Landscapes, Paula opens her 1 acre garden in Streatham Hill to vulunteers and ex-addicts, who she supports in their recovery. We joined up with the Permablitz London team to run an event that transformed the kitchen garden into an abundant Permaculture growing space.

In 2015 we put together a concept for Advance 360 using a tiny space at Woodlawns, Streatham Hill. The idea came from the original Men in Sheds idea, to create space for elderly men to get together and share skills with each other and others. The shed was designed to have a green roof with a skylight and a small growing space with hops growing up the walls.

Social Landscapes has brought the community together to plant a community orchard of 15 fruit trees, build vegetable planters and reinvigorate the community allotment in Hillside Gardens Park. There have been 55 volunteers involved in planting and volunteering sessions in the park.

This Permaculture Design Course is a 72h training accredited by the UK Permaculture Association. !0 participants learned about practical design solutions that make our cities and communities more resilient, can bring about transformation and abundance.

The sunken garden on Cale Street had been neglected for over a dozen years. Michel supported residents from the estates in sprucing up the space, planting wildflowers along the edges and in the middle, building new benches and planters for food growing, planting a soft fruit area and painting the railings.

In 2014 Social Landscapes supported a group of local residents on Wellfield Road to build their own planters - 3 for vegetable growing and 2 containing crab apple trees, herbs and flowers. The project was funded by Streatham Action and The Mayor of London.