Applewood Permaculture Centre
Regenerating lifestyles, landscapes and livelihoods
Our big vision & how we are making steps towards it
Welcome to Applewood Permaculture Centre
Our big vision is for an abundant and fair world where Earth and people are treated with respect.
Our mission (i.e. our positive steps to reach this big vision) is to provide inspiration, motivation and tools to enable people to be proactive in growing the ethics of Earth Care, People Care and Fair Shares.
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What is Permaculture & Cultural Emergence
What is Permaculture?
While permaculture is often thought of as just a gardening and farming methods, it has many more applications for our well-being, effectiveness, community building, social structures, education, health-care and businesses.
What is Cultural Emergence?
It is a toolkit and book written by Looby Macnamara Emergence initiates breakthroughs that expand our thinking and enable us to build personal and collective resilience, and embody new ways of being and interacting. It nourishes and empowers us to design the world we want to live in.
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Meet the Applewood Team
Looby Macnamara and Chris Evans own and run Applewood Permaculture Centre. They are highly experienced facilitators, designers and authors, who have dedicated their lifetime's work to developing and sharing regenerative solutions for people and the planet.
Looby has published 5 books; Design Adventures, Cultural Emergence, People & Permaculture, 7 Ways to Think Differently and Strands of Infinity and also has created the CEED Deck - Cultural Emergence Empowerment & Design Deck.
At Applewood we create learning environments that enable and empower people to bring forth their own gifts and wisdom to manifest positive change in their lives and communities. We run courses at our training and demonstration centre, Applewood Permaculture Centre as well as online and internationally.
Our Current Courses
Here is our Course List for - online & in person
You can see our in person 2025 list here
And our 2026 courses course programme here
To let us know which course you would like to attend please email Emma at applewoodcourses@yahoo.com
Or Check out our FAQ page here https://applewoodcourses.com/applewood-faqs/
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Online Courses
We have 7 online courses: ongoing, starting in 2025 and in 2026
2025: In person Courses
We have 3 amazing in person courses and free volunteer weeks left coming up at Applewood in 2025. Click above to see the full list including all the information you need to help you choose your next learning adventure with us.
NEW Design Adventures book
Discover a Creative Framework for Effective Change
Get your copy of Design Adventures
By Looby Macnamara
Special Offer only £12 (RRP £12.95)
Order signed copies of Design Adventures directly from Looby
Looby's new book will unlock your creativity, gifts and potential with the Design Web, a flexible, holistic, dynamic framework that empowers you to improve all aspects of your personal and professional lives.
Cultural Emergence Empowerment & Design Deck - The CEED Deck
Looby has created a hand drawn card deck that shares thinking tools, design tools, connection tools and reflection tools. Each of the 96 cards has beautiful artwork and wisdom for playful engagement and easy access. While it is a great companion to Looby’s books, People and Permaculture and Cultural Emergence the deck is also accessible for those completely new to Cultural Emergence and permaculture.
The card deck is here and you can now order it directly from Looby!
What is Permaculture?
What is Cultural Emergence?
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