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Helen  Perks
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Joined:
11/11/2012
Last Updated:
27/11/2012
Location:
various, various, Portugal
Climate Zone:
Mediterranean
Gender:
Female





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Quail Springs Permaculture Gaia University Maya Mountain Research Farm finca de los Perezosos "lazy man´s farm"
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Astrid Bohnel Cara  Schuster Jehan de Maille Luis Alberto Martinez Macias MADRIGAL LYDIA Nicholas Burtner
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Astrid Bohnel Christopher Nesbitt Daniel Gair Geoff Lawton henrik haller john douglas Ludovic Bourdon Matt Powers steve cran
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About Helen Perks

Originally from the UK, I left 30 years ago and I've been travelling, living and working in other countries, mainly in the Global South, for the past 20 years. I started out in academia, researching and teaching global environmental change, oceanography and climate change. After fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea, I left academia to travel widely and then worked in "rural development" and "international conservation". I spent over 6 years working in Papua New Guinea in local conservation organisations, community environment projects, coral reef conservation and community agriculture.

I left Papua New Guinea in 2010 and, after working with a food justice group in Oakland California, in 2011 I started training in permaculture, mainly at sites around Mexico and Central America. After an IPC gathering in Cuba, I lived there for 2 years and learned more about their food and agriculture systems.

In 2016, I began to focus more on edible landscaping, then spent a year living in the Peruvian Amazon, which all led to me specalising in successional agroforestry/syntropic farming and its application to sustainable livelihoods in the Global South and ecological regeneration.

I work on projects around the world, with a focus on Spain, Portugal and West Africa.

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PDC

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Organic agriculture in Mexico

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My Badges
Aid worker
My Permaculture Qualifications
Unverified
PDC
Type: Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course
Verifying teacher: Ronaldo Eleazar Lec Ajcot
Other Teachers: Juan Nelson Rojas
Location: La Esperanzita, Nueva Guinea, RAAS, Nicaragua
Date: Feb 2013
Other course unverified
Organic Agriculture, Microbiology, Chromatography, Keyline and Introduction to Permaculture
Type: Earthworks
Verifying teacher: Eugenio Gras
Other Teachers: Jairo Restrepo Riviera, Jesus Ignacio Simon
Location: Suelo Feliz, San Juanico, Jalisco, Mexico
Date: Dec 2012
Other course unverified
Analog Forestry
Type: Other
Teacher: Milo Bekins Faries
Location: Londres, Quepos, Costa Rica
Date: Apr 2013
Other course unverified
Food Forest Gardens
Type: Other
Teacher: Ricardo Romero
Location: Huatusco, Veracruz, Mexico
Date: Jun 2013
Other course unverified
Earthworks and Food Forests
Type: Earthworks
Teacher: Doug Crouch
Location: Cádiz, Spain
Date: Dec 2016
Other course unverified
Syntropic Farming
Type: Other
Teacher: Ernst Goetsch
Location: Granada, Spain
Date: Oct 2018
Other course unverified
Syntropic Farming
Type: Other
Verifying teacher: Felipe Pasini
Other Teachers: Dayana Andrade
Location: Mértola, Portugal
Date: Apr 2019
Other course unverified
Syntropic Farming
Type: Other
Teacher: Jua Pereira
Location: Brasilia, Brazil
Date: Sep 2019

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