Pippa Downing – Runach Arainn Food Forest Garden

Runach Arainn is a sustainable eco glamping business based around a food forest garden with permaculture practices at its heart. The business was designed around nature, with sustainable practice at its heart. From day one they incorporated ‘green’ practices into both how the business itself works and in all areas on site for guests.

By investing in this way, they try to:

• lessen their environmental impact
• demonstrate sustainable practice
• enhance the environment around them
• create a beautiful, relaxing natural site and
• offer amazing sustainable holidays without compromising quality or luxury.

From their butterfly filled meadow and rare Arran whitebeam trees, to the abundant food forest garden and red squirrels around site, they hope you would enjoy staying and engaging with your surroundings. Lots of information is provided on what they do and tours that are available.

Learn more and come and stay: https://www.runacharainn.com/index.html

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Josie Redmonds – Malawi Schools Permaculture Clubs (MSPC) 

Malawi Schools Permaculture Clubs (MSPC) is a programme that supports primary school teachers in Malawi who want to run an after-school permaculture club at their school.

Permaculture clubs are held weekly during term time and utilise fun and practical activities. Children learn how to care for and regenerate their local environment, new ways to use and value local resources, practical methods to improve and maintain the health of soil, and how to manage and store water. They also learn how to produce their own diverse and nutritious food and other useful crops without the need for expensive chemical inputs.

Visit their website for more information: https://www.malawipermacultureclubs.com

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Andriy – Tepla Gora

In 2019 Andriy Grushetsky co-founded Tepla Gora, an eco-community and retreat centre in the mountains in the west of Ukraine. They own 5 hectares of land and they practice eco-living by collecting rainwater, using solar panels, wind turbines, and compost toilets.

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Tepla Gora has been providing shelter for refugees. This includes war veterans and people who have been displaced from their homes. They are providing food, shelter, and psychological and logistic help to anybody who needs it.

Visit the website for Tepla Gora

See the Tepla Gora guidebook

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Clement – Dream Village Project

Clement Mathorwmasen is from Ghana. He grew up on the streets and many people helped him to create a new life. He wanted to find a way to give back to the community and find a purpose. When Clement was assisting a local community to set up a water system, young people started coming to him, and Dream Village grew up organically.

Clement set up a college for young people who were left behind by the education system. They teach sustainable agriculture as well as business and marketing. They also train small-holding farmers in permaculture practices. Dream Village has built an eco-village using sustainable materials where they grow local crops using agroforestry.

Visit the website for Dream Village

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Rakesh – Roots ‘n’ Permaculture

Rakesh “Rootsman” Rak was born in the UK. He works around Europe and sometimes in India. He is the founder of Roots n Permaculture. The name comes from his background as a reggae DJ. Rakesh runs courses and workshops and has created Roots n Permaculture as a community of students that can support each other after their permaculture studies.

He is involved in trying to decolonize permaculture. Indigenous cultures already lived in harmony with nature and used their resources wisely. The colonizers, who have destroyed the natural world, have now repackaged indigenous values and branded them as “permaculture”.

Warning: this interview contains some expletives

Visit the website for Roots n Permaculture

Visit Rakesh’s other online content

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