Integralpermanence is the umbrella for the Permaculture design services and courses offered by Richard Perkins. From designing smallholdings to broadacre farm systems, teaching natural building or Permaculture Design Courses, Richard is passionate about spreading knowledge of regenerative design systems and strategies based on the regenerative and observable laws of nature. Richard is studying MSc Integrative Eco Social design at Gaia University, and is working in community building and resource design besides broadening an already wide practical skill/ knowledge base. Richard also holds a Dip. Applied Perm. Design. and is certified in Organic Horticulture and Crop Production.
In todays climate of shifting weather patterns, dwindling resources, downturned economies, community disfunction and disempowerment, rediscovering the knowledge of our ancestors and applying the latest scientific and technological systems thinking has never been more relevant.
Nature has been steadily regenerating entire systems for millenia, and with an understanding and deep respect for these processes we shall find all the solutions to meeting our needs whilst caring for the earth and maintaining and extending our relationship to it.
With years of experience in the field from professional crop production, system design and management and work in the Organic food sector, through to facilitating Action Learning in all aspects of Permaculture and regenerative design, Integralpermanence offers positive solution based design to any system, as well as teaching, implementation, project management and community building work.