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Joined:
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08/02/2011 |
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Last Updated:
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08/02/2011 |
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Location:
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Elphinstone , British Columbia, Canada |
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Climate Zone:
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Cool Temperate |
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Gender:
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Male |
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Web site:
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www.visionarypermaculture.com |
(projects i'm involved in)
(projects i'm following)
Delvin grew up in the Elphinstone Rainforest of British Columbia before bringing nature education into the local elementary school system and setting up a series of community gardens. He has designed the Heart Gardens, a social permaculture demonstration site specializing in plants with a history of use by the Coastal First Peoples, located in a tiny village next to the Pacific.
He has completed a PDC, Diploma and Masters Degree with Bill Mollison and done advanced teacher trainings with Rosemary Morrow, Toby Hemenway, Larry Santoyo, Looby Macnamara, David Holmgren, Geoff Lawton, Patricia Michael, Robyn Francis, the Bullock Brothers, Tom Ward, Jude Hobbs, Scott Pittman, Michael Becker, Robin Wheeler, Robina McCurdy, Starhawk, Robina McCurdy and Robin Clayfield. He is an accredited teacher through the Permaculture Research Institute (Australia), Permaculture Academy (UK) and a Field Mentor through the Permaculture Institute (USA). He also completed a PDC in Portland with Toby Hemenway, one in Greece with Rosemary Morrow and a second Diploma through the Permaculture Institute. In 2019 Delvin completed a 7 year Doctoral path under the mentorship of Larry Santoyo. In 2020 Delvin completed a 5 year Diploma with the Permaculture Association under the Tutor Looby Macnamara.
Creating curriculum, making media and crafting free, open source learning and teaching tools has been focus of his current Post-Doc work in permaculture education.
Delvin is the Diploma Program Co-ordinator for the Permaculture Institute and a Diploma Tutor through the Permaculture Association.
Join Rosemary Morrow, David Holmgren and Delvin Solkinson for a release of Rosemary's new book 'Earth Restorer's Guide to Permaculture'
Permaculture Design Deck, a toolkit sharing principles, ethics, strategies, attitudes, tools and frameworks. A grassroots initiative to create a printed version of the deck and a free download.
A permaculture design elements game offered as a free download at printable resolution in black and white.
Design presentation slideshow formatted as online design class as delivered to to the Permaculture Association as a Diploma completion.
Working to make a printed book, game and card deck sharing permaculture design that is also available as a free download online. A volunteer project.
A short video and podcast with Geoff Lawton talking to his student Delvin Solkinson
Final moments of Conscious Crowdfunding for Permaculture Design Deck
Permaculture Design Deck sharing largest collection of principles and methods available.
Free Permaculture Design Core Concepts Card Decks
Free permaculture attitudinal principles deck in English, Greek and Serbian.
7 Ways to Think Differently : Free Permaculture Cards
A short video interview with Looby Macnamara about Social Permaculture.
Short videos with new interviews with Permaculture Pioneers.
Visionary Permaculture Best of Yesterday Mosaic Slideshow for the Applewood Permaculture Training of Teachers Summer 2015
A short video of Rosemary Morrow speaking about the potentials of permaculture.
Visionary Permaculture Best of Yesterday Mosaic Slideshow for the Applewood Permaculture Training of Teachers Summer 2015
A pilgrimage to the UK to learn from many Grandmothers and Pioneers of Permaculture.
A video featuring Rosemary Morrow made on the Planetary Permaculture Pilgrimage 2015.
A free open source permaculture learning poster. http://gaiacraft.com/core-model-poster/
Free Open Source Permaculture Design Game. http://gaiacraft.com/gaiacraft-permaculture-design-elements-deck/
interview with David Holmgren
A learning, teaching and consulting tool game for doing design charrettes. http://gaiacraft.com/gaiacraft-permaculture-design-elements-deck/
Principles, directives, strategies and attitudes from the permaculture toolkit. This is a booster expansion of the larger game. http://gaiacraft.com/permaculture-principles-design-deck/
A temperate rainforest permaculture site map and design vignette. http://gaiacraft.com/heart-gardens-campus/
A learning and teaching toolkit for cool climate food, medicine and tool plants. http://gaiacraft.com/heart-cards/
The documentation for my 2013 year of permaculture on my doctoral learning plan.
Part four of four permaculture map and design books for the heart gardens permaculture demonstration site. Includes permaculture design notes. http://gaiacraft.com/free-books/
Part three of four permaculture map and design books for the heart gardens permaculture demonstration site. Includes plant lists and calendrics. http://gaiacraft.com/free-books/
Part two of four permaculture map and design books for the heart gardens permaculture demonstration site. Includes garden maps and plant lists. http://gaiacraft.com/free-books/
Part one of four permaculture map and design books for the heart gardens permaculture demonstration site. Includes zones and sectors. http://gaiacraft.com/free-books/
A collection of worksheets summarizing key aspects of the permaculture post-paradigm. http://gaiacraft.com/gaiacraft-workbook/
A card deck sharing principles, design methods, directives, strategies, attitudes and ethics of permaculture. http://gaiacraft.com/permaculture-principles-design-deck/
Here is my two year Diploma Report for a study in permaculture educational media development. http://gaiacraft.com/free-tools/
Here is my masters thesis as presented to Bill Mollison and the Permaculture Academy. http://gaiacraft.com/free-books/
Here is my diploma report presented to Bill Mollison and the Permaculture Academy. http://gaiacraft.com/free-books/
Inspired by biodynamics and sheet mulching, this is an adventure into learning about community veggie beds.
A 32 card learning-teaching tool of permaculture principles.
A free permaculture education toolkit of worksheets. http://gaiacraft.com/gaiacraft-workbook/
Books sharing documentation from my permaculture process. http://gaiacraft.com/free-books/
This is the first Diploma I did through Bill Mollison and the Permaculture Academy. http://gaiacraft.com/free-books/
Free permaculture learning and teaching tools. http://gaiacraft.com/free-tools/
The remaining half of my learning adventure doing advanced courses and teacher trainings. This could be useful to anyone teaching or interested in permaculture education.
A journal about permaculture teacher trainings in Australia.
A once in a lifetime opportunity to do advanced study with many of the greatest teachers of permaculture.
Here is an example of an approach on the west coast of Canada for helping anchor peoples Permaculture Diploma process.
Here is an illustrated copy of my Masters Degree Thesis in Permaculture Education. http://gaiacraft.com/free-books/
Here are some examples of permaculture design media and articles intended to inspire people to get creative in representing their own project, sharing their curriculum and participating in the global media stream.
A second vignette on new permaculture paradigms, a marriage of advanced permaculture work and sustainability skills.
An educational vignette on the Localizing Model of PDC course development.
| Permaculture Design Certification |
| Type: Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course |
| Verifying teacher: Geoff Lawton |
| Other Teachers: Bill Mollison |
| Location: Melbourne, Australia |
| Date: Oct 2010 |
| Permaculture Design Course |
| Type: Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course |
| Teacher: April Sampson-Kelly |
| Location: online |
| Date: Jun 2002 |
| Permaculture Design Systems |
| Type: Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course |
| Teacher: John Mason |
| Location: online |
| Date: Nov 2003 |
| Advanced Permaculture Teacher Training |
| Type: Teacher Training |
| Verifying teacher: Jude Hobbs |
| Other Teachers: Tom Ward |
| Location: Aprovecho |
| Date: Jun 2007 |
| Permaculture Teaching Certificate |
| Type: Teacher Training |
| Verifying teacher: David Boehnlein |
| Other Teachers: Michael Becker, Doug Bullock, Sam Bullock |
| Location: Bullock Brothers Permaculture Homestead |
| Date: Aug 2007 |
| Advanced Permaculture Principles and Planning Tools |
| Type: Teacher Training |
| Teacher: David Holmgren |
| Location: Melliodora |
| Date: Sep 2010 |
| Diploma of Permaculture Design in Education and Community Service |
| Type: Permaculture Diploma |
| Teacher: Bill Mollison |
| Location: Elphinstone Rainforest, BC |
| Date: Jun 2002 |
| Masters Degree in Permaculture |
| Type: Other |
| Teacher: Bill Mollison |
| Location: Heart Gardens |
| Date: Jan 2006 |
| Permaculture Teacher Training and Facilitators Course |
| Type: Teacher Training |
| Verifying teacher: Robyn Francis |
| Other Teachers: Penny Livingston-Stark |
| Location: Commonweal Garden, Bolinas, CA |
| Date: Jul 2011 |
| PDC Teacher Training Course |
| Type: Teacher Training |
| Teacher: Geoff Lawton |
| Location: Zaytuna |
| Date: Nov 2011 |
| Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning |
| Type: Teacher Training |
| Teacher: Robin Clayfield |
| Location: Crystal Waters, QLD, Australia |
| Date: Nov 2011 |
| Creative Community Governance and Decision Making |
| Type: Other |
| Teacher: Robin Clayfield |
| Location: Crystal Waters, QLD, Australia |
| Date: Nov 2011 |
| Permaculture Design Certificate Teacher Training |
| Type: Teacher Training |
| Teacher: Rowe Morrow |
| Location: Crystal Waters, QLD, Australia |
| Date: Nov 2011 |
| Advanced Permaculture Principles and Reading Landscapes |
| Type: Other |
| Teacher: David Holmgren |
| Location: Melliodora, Hepburn Springs, VIC, Australia |
| Date: Nov 2011 |
| Food Cycles |
| Type: Gardening |
| Teacher: Robin Wheeler |
| Location: Sustainable Living Arts School, Roberts Creek, BC, Canada |
| Date: Feb 2010 |
| Turning Your Garden into Gaia's Garden |
| Type: Introduction to Permaculture |
| Teacher: Toby Hemenway |
| Location: Calgary, Alberta |
| Date: Mar 2012 |
| Permaculture Design Certification Course |
| Type: Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course |
| Teacher: Toby Hemenway |
| Location: Portland, Oregon |
| Date: May 2012 |
| Permaculture Design Diploma in Education |
| Type: Permaculture Diploma |
| Teacher: Scott Pittman and Larry Santoyo |
| Location: Canada, USA, Australia |
| Date: Sep 2010 |
| Permaculture Teacher Training |
| Type: Teacher Training |
| Verifying teacher: Scott Pittman |
| Other Teachers: Larry Santoyo |
| Location: Rolling Earth, Roberts Creek |
| Date: Nov 2012 |
| Permaculture Teacher Training |
| Type: Teacher Training |
| Teacher: Michael Becker |
| Location: Calgary, Alberta |
| Date: Jun 2013 |
| Urban Permaculture Workshop |
| Type: Introduction to Permaculture |
| Teacher: Toby Hemenway |
| Location: Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Date: Jul 2013 |
| Social Permaculture |
| Type: Other |
| Teacher: Starhawk Starhawk |
| Location: O.U.R ecovillage |
| Date: Aug 2013 |
| Permaculture Teacher Training |
| Type: Teacher Training |
| Teacher: Larry Santoyo and Scott Pittman |
| Location: Synergia Ranch, New Mexico |
| Date: Apr 2014 |
| Permaculture Training of Teachers |
| Type: Teacher Training |
| Teacher: Rosemary Morrow, Looby Macnamara |
| Location: Applewood Permaculture Center |
| Date: Aug 2015 |
| Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning |
| Type: Teacher Training |
| Teacher: Robin Clayfield, Looby Macnamara |
| Location: Sustainability Center |
| Date: Aug 2015 |
| Social Permaculture Course |
| Type: Other |
| Teacher: Robin Clayfield, Robina McCurdy, Looby Macnamara, Starhawk, Peter Cow |
| Location: Sustainability Centre, UK |
| Date: Sep 2015 |
| Permaculture Design Course |
| Type: Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course |
| Teacher: Rowe Morrow |
| Location: Nea Makri, Greece |
| Date: Sep 2015 |
| Advanced Permaculture Design Course |
| Type: Other |
| Verifying teacher: Doug Bullock |
| Other Teachers: Sam Bullock, Dave Boehnlein |
| Location: Bullock's Permaculture Homestead |
| Date: Sep 2016 |
| Master Class Teacher Training |
| Type: Teacher Training |
| Verifying teacher: Larry Santoyo |
| Other Teachers: Scott Pitmann |
| Location: Oahu |
| Date: Jul 2017 |
| People Permaculture Facilitator Training |
| Type: Teacher Training |
| Verifying teacher: Looby Macnamara |
| Other Teachers: Peter Cow |
| Location: Applewood Permaculture Center, Herefordshire, UK |
| Date: Sep 2017 |
| Permaculture Teacher Training |
| Type: Teacher Training |
| Teacher: Robyn Francis |
| Location: Djanbung Gardens, Nimbin, Australia |
| Date: Mar 2018 |
| Advanced Permaculture Planning + Design Process |
| Type: Other |
| Teacher: David Holmgren |
| Location: Melliodora, Hepburn Springs, Australia |
| Date: Apr 2018 |
| Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design |
| Type: Permaculture Diploma |
| Teacher: Looby Macnamara |
| Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre |
| Date: Apr 2020 |
| Registration Level Tutor Training Permaculture Association |
| Type: Teacher Training |
| Teacher: Looby Macnamara |
| Location: Online |
| Date: Jul 2020 |
| CEED - Cultural Emergence Effective Design |
| Type: Other |
| Verifying teacher: Looby Macnamara |
| Other Teachers: Jon Young |
| Location: Online |
| Date: Jun 2021 |
| 19 PDC Graduates (list) |
| 0 PRI PDC Graduates (list) |
| 3 Other Course Graduates (list) |
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| 0 have not yet been verified (list) |
| Delvin Solkinson has permaculture experience in: |
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| Alpine |
| Cold Temperate |
| Cool Temperate |
| Warm Temperate |
| Mediterranean |
| Sub tropical |
| Wet/Dry Tropical |
| Arid |
