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Richard Perkins
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Joined:
04/02/2011
Last Updated:
14/02/2011
Location:
Karlstad, Sweden
Climate Zone:
Cold Temperate
Gender:
Male
Web site:
www.ridgedalepermaculture.com/





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Gaia University Zaytuna Farm, The home of the permaculture Research Institute   The Panya Project Gaia University Northeast Grasslands, LLC Dehesa Felix WeTheTrees Crowd Funding Platform ridgedale PERMACULTURE
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PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE 1 - 13TH AUG 2015

Top notch training at Scandinavia's leading regenerative ag farm & training center. Learn design from leading professional practitioners. Earlybird rates available up until May 22nd 2015

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8 Week Farm Scale & Professional Permaculture Design

Aug 1- Sept 25th 2015 Unique immersion program at Scandinavias leading Permaculture farm & training center. If you wanting to develop a career in design or regenerative ag we feel the best way to learn is with experienced professional's at an active & in

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2015 Core Team at Ridgedale Permaculture

Application officially open for this life changing learning opportunity

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FARM SCALE & PROFESSIONAL PERMACULTURE 8 WEEK INTERNSHIP PROGRAM 9TH MAY - 3RD JULY 2015

A chance to accelerate your learning at the most comprehensive and broad reaching training currently available in Europe at a pioneering project. This 8 Week Certificate training includes 5 trainings

Posted about 10 years ago (0 comments)

Installing future- proof systems at Ridgedale Permaculture

ridgedale PERMACULTURE’S primary responsibility is regenerating landscapes, ecosystem processes and soils through resilient, replicable, scalable and profitable symbiotic farm enterprises. Our secondary responsibility is to educate, facilitate, inform and

Posted over 10 years ago (1 comments)

2 months of regenerative design at Ridgedale Permaculture

Good design, good team, good group and good process & learning at our Permaculture & Regenerative hub in Sweden

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Want a free copy of The Moneyless Man?

Continuing on the theme of money for our free book giveaway we decided to gift a copy of our friend Mark Boyle's Moneyless Manifesto. Mark is an awesome writer and speaker who has dedicated many years to writing & talking about our relationships & embedd

Posted about 11 years ago (0 comments)

Want a free copy of The Moneyless Man?

Continuing on the theme of money for our free book giveaway we decided to gift a copy of our friend Mark Boyle's Moneyless Manifesto. Mark is an awesome writer and speaker who has dedicated many years to writing & talking about our relationships & embedd

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Part 2, Keyline Design in Cold Climate Sweden

This is a 5 part article series about applying Keyline/ Permaculture Design to our flagship project in Sweden...

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Keyline Design in Cold Climate Sweden

First of 5 articles looking at wider design & considerations for our farm...

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6 Month Core Team Volunteer Positions open till end of year...

Want the learning experience of a lifetime?

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Want a free copy of Regenerative Enterprise?

To celebrate our pioneering new Permaculture site we're giving away a copy of Regenerative Enterprise...

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Excited to announce ridgedalePERMACULTURE

ridgedale PERMACULTURE is a pasture and perennial crop based beyond-organic local food producer and dedicated educational hub in Värmland, Sweden. A flagship project for the region, ridgedale PERMACULTURE is Scandinavia’s first Keyline designed farm and

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Last public PDC with Integralpermanence for 2013, Aug, Sweden

Last spaces on Integralpermanence's last 2013 public PDC... We have our Yeoman's Plow on site and this is shaping up to be an exciting training. It's been amazing fronting up the incredible Summerofsoil.se trainings here in Sweden, as well as running vari

Posted over 11 years ago (0 comments)

Crowd Sourcing for better building in Sweden!

Our community is using our friend Christian Shearer's AWESOME new PC crowdsourcing site to help initiate our build- the first reciprocal roofed strawbale building in Sweden, with full planning permission. You can help make this kind of living more availa

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4 weeks Dryland PC Design & Bio Construction, Oaxaca, Mexico

A fully charged 4 week action learning internship including two 5 day internationally renowned trainings. This training is limited to 12 participants. For info/ booking please email [email protected]

Posted almost 12 years ago (0 comments)

Low cost PDC with Integralpermanence in Portugal, March

We are excited to offer this low cost internationally certified training with an emphasis on action oriented learning establishing a professional consultancy. A chance to get a high calibre training at low cost in beautiful Portugal. Integralpermanence ha

Posted almost 12 years ago (0 comments)

International digital Diploma pathway offered

We are launching www.permaculturediploma.com as a dedicated online intensive diploma route for folks wishing to get a UK PC Association Diploma in Applied PC Design with a much higher level of support and functionality....

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PDC training, Sweden, July 8- 21st July 2013

A chance to take an internationally certified PDC (PRI Aus & PC Assoc UK) amongst the diverse workshops with experts around the globe for the awesome Summer of Soil program

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Advanced Design Course, Aug 2013 Wick, Nr Bristol, UK

A unique new course format to support PDC graduates to take their work to a more professional level

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Advanced Design Course, Jun 2013 Bristol, UK

A unique new course format to support PDC graduates to take their work to a more professional level

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Dryland Design- Specialist Course

An advanced design course focused on regenerating the regions dryland lanscapes, from brittle back to warm temperate is the mission!

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Forest Gardening Advanced Course

A week long cool/ cold climate forest garden and perennial cropping theory/ practical/ design intensive in beautiful Sweden

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Advanced Design Course, Mar 2013 Mallorca

A new course format for post PDC folks looking to develop, extend and hone their professional skills...

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Our 2 hour garden

To be fair, there is still some work to do in Spring, but amazing what you can do with little time and effort and friends whose waste you find value in!

Posted about 12 years ago (1 comments)

Natural Building, hobbit home construction

Join us for the last of our Swedish practicum intensives building a beautiful, affordable and human scale home at the beautiful Karlberg community less than 1 hr from Stockholm...

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Earthworks Practicum, Sweden May 2013

A chance to join one of Europes most active Permaculture professionals with this hands on earthwork practicum creating earthbanked microclimate cropping zones...

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PDC training, Sweden, May 2013

Join us for a world class PDC training less than an hour from Stockholm. This course is in English language, an opportunity to take an internationally renowned PDC with one of Europes most active Permaculture professionals...

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Building a Jean Pain Compost heated Glasshouse

This is a primarily a practicum, weaving in elements of theory and design whilst we construct a year round regenerative glasshouse production system that pioneers the use of Jean Pains wood based compost system. The first of it's kind that we know of, th

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Dryland Water Management

Following a great intensive Dryland water management course in Portugal, we are lining up earthworks practicums, heres a little reflection on the initial 5 days...

Posted over 12 years ago (1 comments)

Wanted: Multi Skilled personal assistant looking to commit full time to a career in Permaculture!

As a full time Permaculture professional operating internationally through all major climate zones I am in need of the support of a very special person looking for a very unique opportunity!

Posted over 12 years ago (1 comments)

Update from Sweden, Permaculture's kicking off!

It feels like Permaculture has been a little slow in establishing this far north, but things are set to change in a big way around here...

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Update from Europe's most well established Permaculture farm

An updated look at the Krematahoff, now run by Sepp's son Josef for the last 3 years www.impermanencefilm.org

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First PDC in Luxembourg

Integralpermanence is proud to bring the first PDC to Lux, over consecutive weekends from Oct/ Nov

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PDC Mallorca

Integralpermanence is proud to be teaming up with Julio Cantos, originator of PC and Agroforestry on Mallorca, and Ecoconvivencias for another awesome PDC in beautiful Mallorca...

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Episode 2 (IM)PERMANENCE Film

Episode 2 of our trip venturing into Europe exploring solutions for a brighter future! www.impermanencefilm.org

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PDC Thailand, Jan 2013

World class PDC with Integralpermanence on a newly established farm scale PC project

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The Krematahoff today...

Soon we wil release an updated film about the Krematahoff, Europes best Permaculture farm under the ownership and management of Josef Holzer. Heres a few pics for now... www.impermanencefilm.org

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The Agrandes, a good example of committed and creative inclusion

www.impermanencefilm.org

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A visit to Tamera

Taking a look at the water retention landscapes www.impermanencefilm.org

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Visiting Spain

A trip to my original teachers new house in Spain www.impermanencefilm.org

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Water on the brain

Our journey has been revolving around water a lot recently it seems... www.impermanencefilm.org www.integralpermanence.org

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Lakabe, Spain, Reinhabiting abandoned villages

www.impermanencefilm.org

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Jean Pain composting, can we power vehicles?

We have promoted Jean Pains techniques for a long time now, and so on this trip we decided to find people developing these systems. We thought a good place to start was with Etienne Bonvallet, JP's nephew and technical collaborator

Posted over 12 years ago (2 comments)

Permaculture documentary series begins...

Follow our families global adventure in search of solutions for our future www.impermanencefilm.org

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Permaculture based global documentary series- Part 1 here!

Follow the adventures here www.impermanencefilm.org

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(IM)PERMANENCE Film Episode 1 released for IPD!

www.impermanencefilm.org

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The oldest Agroforestry plot in France

A meeting with Denis Flores, Vezenobres (France) on the www.impermanencefilm.org global family Permaculture trip!

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Growing Mushrooms from the commercial waste stream

Adam Sayner, Social Entrepreneur and Mushroom Grower filmed on our global Permaculture film adventure www.impermanencefilm.org

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Seed Saving and a visit to KOKOPELLI

A visit to Kokopelli HQ on our global film adventure www.impermanencefilm.org

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Frances oldest Agroforestry site

A meeting with Denis Flores and his wife Virginie at their beautiful agroforestry site. www.impermanencefilm.org

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Lebensgarten, Resilience built on shadows of the past

Reflections on community stability @ Lebensgarten, Germany. An inspiring early ecovillage renewing the site of a WW2 forced labour ammunitions camp www.impermanencefilm.org

Posted over 12 years ago (4 comments)

How to live for Free!

A very nice and matured example of truly valuing the marginal! Follow our global family film adventure on www.impermanencefilm.org

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How to live for free!

A very nice bit of PC design from Plukrijp, Belgium. Follow our global trip at impermanencefilm.org

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The need to produce DATA!

A very nice model for small PC farm producing valuable data... Follow our global film adventures at www.impermanencefilm.org!

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PDC Romania June 2012

A chance to get a world class PDC at one of the cheapest prices on the planet. Held at a beautiful family project in a traditional Romanian village.

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(IM)PERMANENCE Film- Agroforestry expert Martin Wolfe

www.impermanencefilm.org

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(IM)PERMANENCE Film- WET Systems at Permaculture Magazines base..

Our global family film trip seeking out regenerative solutions www.impermanencefilm.org

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(IM)PERMANENCE Film- Self Builds in the urban jungle

impermanencefilm.org- a global family PC film trip!

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(IM)PERMANENCE Film- Forest Gardening with Martin Crawford

Our families epic global PC film quest!

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(IM)PERMANENCE Film- Fungi Futures

Follow our family around the globe on an epic PC journey!

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(IM)PERMANENCE Film The Lammas Ecovillge of Tir-y_Gafel

A family global Permaculture based documentary journey/ series

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(IM)PERMANENCE hits the road!

Our family crowd sourced global film trip has embarked in Humbug, our peppermint green van- seeking solutions and strategies in all aspects of eco agro social regeneration...

Posted almost 13 years ago (0 comments)

Sweden PDC with Maria Svennbeck and INTEGRALPERMANENCE

Permaculture offers a practical approach to all aspects of creating a sustainable future. Whether your interest is gardening, farming, planning, building homes, community work, economic regeneration, business or green lifestyles, the application of per

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Last UK PDC with Integralpermanence

A last chance to get certified at one of our awesome courses at some of the cheapest rates worldwide...

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Permaculturists in Sunday Times

(IM)PERMANENCE film was noticed by the Sunday Times who featured our family in an article regarding "living fluidly"

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(IM)PERMANENCE Film, 10 weeks away from embarking...

Co creating and sharing our epic film journey documenting the best regenerative agriculture/ permaculture/ community reliance solutions across the planet...

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NVC training Bristol

Michelle, my partner, is teaching compassionate communication as a transitionary tool for community building and zone 00 development!

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First PDC in Dominican Republic!

We are set to run a full power PDC early December with additional Non Violent Communication training. At beautiful Taino Organic farm, this PDC will establish a core group and training facility on the island...

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10 weeks in and new Diploma students rocking out great work!

16 students have helped co- design a new and updated approach to the Diploma. Great energy, support and motivation and great results and feedback coming through already...

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Full 72hr PDC between Bath/ Bristol- March 2012

A fully up to date and integrative PDC at a beautiful PC demonstration site situated half way between Bath and Bristol

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Diploma in Applied Permaculture Re Design!

We got together as a 15 strong working group and re designed the way we are going about our learning!

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PDC Mallorca with Darren Doherty, Julio Canto and Maria Svennbeck

Full PDC announced Sept 27 to Oct 12

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Facelift feedback?!

(IM)PERMANENCE got a makeover- what do you think?

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Last week to help (IM)PERMANENCE film project

Our crowd sourcing campaign for our global Permaculture film project is coming to an end. If you can help please step up!

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A lots been going on!

Catch up with the Free PDC, (IM)permanence film project and more....

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New PDC announced in Thailand!

To conclude filming for the Free PDC event...

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Service is the greatest gift...

Clarity as the fuel...

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Free Full PDC course online for all!

Open Source project to kickstart the (IM)PERMANENCE film project...

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Free full PDC online for all!

We are super excited to announce a landmark open source project that is emerging as the official beginning of this whole (IM)PERMANENCE project...

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Co- Created film launch...

The official launch of our family film project- please spread far and wide and help co- create this open source resource stream!

Posted almost 14 years ago (0 comments)

(IM)PERMANENCE film project

(IM)PERMANENCE film project is travelling 40 000 miles overland through 40 countries creating an online documentary series about all aspects of truly abundant, healthy and integrative ways of living to share with you and the world in this time of great tr

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PDC courses for 2011

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My Badges
Consultant Aid worker PRI PDC Teacher
My Permaculture Qualifications
Other course verified
RegenAG
Type: Other
Teacher: Darren J. Doherty
Location: Cowdray Hall, UK
Date: Nov 2011
Other course verified
Diploma in Applied PC Design
Type: Permaculture Diploma
Teacher: Rod Everett
Location: UK
Date: Aug 2008
Verified
Full PDC
Type: Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course
Teacher: Rod Everett
Location: Isle of Man
Date: Aug 2006
Other course unverified
Gaia EDE
Type: Other
Teacher: Pracha Hutanuwatr
Location: Wongsanit Ashram, BKK
Date: Jan 2009
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Richard Perkins has permaculture experience in:
Polar
Alpine
Cold Temperate
Cool Temperate
Warm Temperate
Mediterranean
Island
Sub tropical
Wet/Dry Tropical
Wet Tropical
Arid
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