| Pat Bowcock Dip.Perm.Des. |
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It reflected the lack of respect and consideration we show to each other and the land we are dependent upon. She gave up her job and lifestyle and looked for a piece of land to live in harmony with. Her aim was to create a haven for plants, wildlife, trees and people. She realized that she couldn't change the world alone, but she could take responsibility for what she ate, where she slept, her waste, and how she interacted with others. Pat traveled around Ireland & some of England looking for land & along the way attended many courses, including a Permaculture design course, a hedge-laying weekend, a growing mushrooms weekend, an organic gardening course & two woodland and willow weekends. She also visited many places, asked many questions & read books long into the night. Then in 1999, right on her doorstep she was offered five acres of water meadow to become guardian of, which has become Ourganics Evolving Systems. Her aim has been to demonstrate that Permaculture principles and Soil Association certification can work together to create a viable debt-free business. She grows seasonal salad, vegetables, herbs, fruit and flowers, selling them locally & now has an abundance of valuable experience to share with others wishing to follow a similar path. Ourganics Evolving Systems has become her portfolio of design work which in July 2006 earned her the Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design. |
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 have 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.
