Bio
Richard Perkins is a Permaculture teacher and consultant in the UK and abroad, (Permaculture Teacher and Diploma Tutor under the Permaculture Association of Great Britain). He also mentors Permaculture Diploma students through an Action Learning based pathway developed from the existing UK Diploma framework. For more details of this work see here
Having studied up to MSc level (Integrative Eco Social Design- Gaia U), Richard holds a Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design, HND Organic Crop Production and Horticulture and has self- studied extensively in the academic fields of Anthropology, Sociology, Ecology and Philosophy. Passionately developing an ever broadening practical and digital skill- flex in diverse aspects of self reliance and regenerative eco- social design, Richard is currently concentrating on teaching PDCs in the UK and abroad, integrating strong elements of community building, NVC work and combined Action Learning Internships. His style integrates various design frameworks and methodologies aiming for a middle way between "heart" and "mind" styles of teaching, utilising the value of both.
With practical experience in food production, from small scale through to farm management and natural building with adobe, cob, straw-bale, timber and bamboo in temperate, semi- arid, sub- tropical and wet tropical climates, he also developed a yurt making business built around PC principles in the UK. He has worked on extensive system design and implementation from food forests to water cleansing and irrigation systems, business design to soil building, edible landscaping to keyline design, community building to integrative system development utilizing and integrating Permaculture, Holistic Management and Keyline design frameworks.
2008-9 was spent managing food production and community governance at the Panya Project (a sustainability and education site) in Northern Thailand whilst working towards a MSc in Integrative and Collaborative Eco Social Design and Communication with Gaia University. Currently based on the canals in UK with partner Michelle and baby daughter Grace, the couple are focused on an overland trip round the globe filming a PC based documentary on living and successful solutions, to be released fortnightly online.
