I'm (together with my wife Elena) learning permaculture trying to use it in our land at the west of Smolensk region (Russia).
We read books, articles about permaculture, view videos. Then we try to apply these knowledges on our land. Our permaculture experiments are quite moderate and we try to take into account local traditions and experience of local people who lives in that place. We are living in Saint-Petersburg now and have an ability to spend only couple of months in our land. But in a future we may be spend there a whole warm season or even start living there constantly.
There is also interesting the relations of permaculture with such social and philosofical concepts like "sustainability", "simple living", "bioregionalism".
We also trying to learn the possibility to restore old traditional way of living in russian village.