The summer of Društvo za permakulturo Slovenije (DPS) passed by in preparations for the biggest agricultural fair that happened in the last week of August in Gornja Radgona, in North-East of Slovenia. Already in July we spent a week at the venue of the fair where is also our little straw bale building. Families […]
Project “A Year in the Garden” The new project called “A Year in the Garden” was started by Tereza Velehradská and Tomáš Smrž in collaboration with a class of 9 year old children from the school ZŠ Máj in České Budějovice, in the south of the Czech Republic. Children visited Cassiopeia’s garden four times between […]
17 people from around Europe travelled over land, air and seas to a remote part of southwest Scotland to participate in a peer-to-peer training course in engaging children in permaculture. The first of its kind, this course enabled educators to firstly familiarise with the local landscape, weather and culture, then to deepen their understanding of the […]
We will host the first ever international conference about engaging Children in Permaculture, in Prague on the 4th and 5th of May 2018. This will be the final main event of the CiP project, where the results of our work will be shared with the international community. One day will be dedicated to presentations and […]
Transnational Meeting in Scotland The last transnational meeting of the Children in Permaculture project took place in September 2017 in Gatehouse of Fleet in Scotland, just after the end of the Children in Permaculture Advanced peer-to-peer training. The main topics to be discussed were the manual, database and the Conference in Czech Republic in May […]
A Czech nonprofit NGO, Centrum ekologické a globální výchovy Cassiopeia (Centre of Ecological and Global Education, Cassiopeia) is located in České Budějovice in south Bohemia. Cassiopeia cooperates with schools for children of all ages more than 20 years about environmental, multicultural and social education (sharing the permaculture ethics of Earth care, People care and Fair […]
NEWS FROM CIP What have we been up to? Our lovely CiP team had a 2nd transnational meeting in the middle of September, straight after the European Permaculture Convergence. Placed on a hillside above lake Bolsena we were enjoying magnificent views and impressive thunderstorms while discussing progress of work in our project. We were […]
NEWS FROM C.I.P. Now you can download our Resources Survey of Resources The Children in Permaculture (CiP) team are happy to share our “Survey of Resources” published online and freely accessible for all. The Survey of Resources is a very thorough review of existing resources of appropriate content about engaging children in permaculture. It reviews […]
Growing up in a small town in the Southern US, I would spend all day outdoors. Our house was next to hundreds of acres of corn and, beyond that, dense forests. My parents would give me a machete and tell me to be home by dinner. Sometimes I would be gone for 8, 10, even 12 hours. […]
Janet Millington is the co-author of the book Outdoor Classrooms that is coming together with Carolyn Nuttall in May 2016 to Europe to hold a series of workshops on how to engage children in permaculture. Where do you see the highest value of permaculture? Permaculture has gathered together, trialed, refined, and improved practices that can […]
