The Hancock Permaculture Center was established in 2004 by Andrew Leslie Phillips, journalist, writer and garden designer specializing in natural stone, and a certified permaculture practitioner. A native of Australia, Andrew spent seven years in Papua New Guinea as patrol officer, radio journalist and filmmaker before coming to New York in 1976.

He produced award-winning investigative radio documentaries and film documentaries on a wide range of environmental and political issues for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio and later for WBAI Community Radio in New York City where he was program director (1989-93). He taught journalism, radio and “sound image” as an adjunct professor at New York and other universities for 15 years.

Andrew has two PDC courses under his belt; with Geoff Lawton and Andrew Jones, New Orleans, 2004 and Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton, Melbourne, 2005.

Andrew hosts and produces "Talking Permaculutre" a 30 minute radio program distributed through the Pacifica Foundation to community radio and beyond. http://www.pacificanetwork.org/radio/content/blogcategory/49/76/

Andrew teaches the PDC course at Hancock Permaculture Center - http://www.hancockpermaculture.org

Andrew consults in permaculture through his consulting organization: Permaculture Design Solutions. http://www.permaculturedesignsolutions.com