Mapping Permaculture Convergences – Robin Clayfield

Robin Clayfield is a Permaculture Pioneer and acknowledged Permaculture Elder who’s lived at Crystal Waters Permaculture Ecovillage in SE Queensland, Australia since its inception in 1988. Over 43 years of living and evolving Permaculture has seen her become an international educator, group facilitator and best-selling author specialising in creative, interactive facilitation, group leadership, Permaculture, Deep Ecology, Social Permaculture and social change. Her legendary book ‘You Can Have Your Permaculture and Eat It Too’ has sold over 6000 copies and ‘The Manual for Teaching Permaculture Creatively’ that she co-authored is used in over 80 countries and supports Permaculture teachers to make learning fun, empowering and memorable.

Robin has developed her own learning methodology which embeds Permaculture at its foundation and has created many educational card games, community governance and decision making resource kits, learning resources and facilitation support tools to equip educators and group leaders globally. Robin has attended every Australasian Permaculture Convergence (APC’s) and five International Permaculture Convergences (IPC’s). She is preparing to attend and present at the IPC in Thailand in November 2026.

CoLab Podcast with Robin Clayfield © 2026 is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International 

The creation of this podcast episode was made possible through funding received from the Emergent Festival.

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