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Here are short biographies of associate tutors who regularly teach courses with us. |
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Pat Bowcock Dip.Perm.Des. |
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 Pat
grew up in the Gloucestershire countryside, with a beautiful garden, an
orchard, open fields, streams & ponds around her. The sound of a
working mill wheel could be heard day and night.. Her love of growing
things, trees, water, making fires and building shelters (which always
leaked) started early. Over the last twenty years she has been saddened
to see whole woodlands cut down and not replaced, and old hedgerows
taken out to create fields for large machinery. This and many worldwide
catastrophes alarmed her.
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After being involved in the direct action protest movement in the
1990's for several years, Peter became inspired by the idea of
'Positive impact living', and went to the first Natty Gathering at
Brickhurst farm in August 1998, where he did his Permaculture Design
Course. He then co-founded the Steward Community Woodland sustainable
living project in Devon, where he lived for seven years, learning to
live in community, and learning how to grow, build, compost , let go
and manage a woodland. He
completed his Permaculture Diploma in May 2007, which included
designs for events, buildings, land management and perennial
gardening. He left the community in late 2007 to move to London, and
now itinerantly divides his time between Southern England and
Portugal - teaching, learning, mentoring, designing, singing and
cycling.
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Klaudia van Gool Dip.Perm.Des |
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 Klaudia has had an interest in growing things as long as she can remember and has incorporated Permaculture ideas for the last twenty, since accidentally picking up Bill Mollison's book in the library. She did the Sustainable Land Use and Permaculture Design Certificate at Ragmans Lane Farm with Patrick Whitefield in 2006. She completed her Diploma in Permaculture Design in January 2009. She has a degree in Environmental Science from University of Plymouth and has worked advising and training businesses on environmental improvements. The last few years she has become increasingly interested in wild foods and she is learning beekeeping.
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