Applewood Permaculture Centre
Regenerating lifestyles, landscapes and livelihoods
Celebrating 10 Years of
People & Permaculture
Designing personal, collective and planetary well-being,
It’s been 10 years since Looby published People & Permaculture - Designing personal, collective and planetary well-being, in March 2012.
People & Permaculture is a pioneering book, it was the first book globally to explore how to use permaculture design and principles for people. It widened the definition of permaculture and takes it into the heart of our own lives, relationships and society. It helped launch and evolve the social permaculture movement.
People & Permaculture
Designing personal, collective and planetary well-being,
By Looby Macnamara
RRP £21 – buy signed copies at discounted price of £17
Over 300 pages filled with stories, illustrations and activities
Courses and Events Coming Up
FREE Leading Mother Nature Circles Course
Winter Course Starts 30th January 2023
Spring Course Starts 1st March 2023
This FREE online course course is designed to enable anyone to lead Mother Nature Circles with the Mother Nature Cards. A combination of pre recorded videos from the Mother Nature Team, activities to do in a course handout, plus 3 live Calls with Looby Macnamara and Emma Gorbutt. 
Online CEED Course
Enrolments Open until 31st Januray 2023
Facilitators: Looby Macnamara and Jon Young.
The CEED (Cultural Emergence Effective Design) online course is open for enrolments
Join Looby and Jon Young for this moving and invigorating design adventure, where you will learn how to use the Design Web. Find out more here
Our big vision & how we are making steps towards it
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.
Cultural Emergence Card Deck Kickstarter
Coming Spring 2023
Help us Bring the Cultural Emergence Card Deck to Life
This spring Looby will be launching a Kickstarter Campaign to fund the creation of the FIRST Cultural Emergence Card Deck. If you want to find out more about the Kickstarter Campaign and Card Deck when it is launched, please click the link below to fill out our expression of interest form and we will let you know when it goes live.
Courses Available Now
2023 Online Courses
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- Group Diploma Adventure with Looby & Delvin January 2023
- CEED - Cultural Emergence Effective Design with Looby and Jon Young January - March 2023
- Cultural Emergence Taser Course with Looby FREE & ongoing
- Leading Mother Nature Circles Course with Looby & Emma FREE 30th January 2023
2023 Courses
- Fruit Tree Grafting and Pruning Workshop with Chris at Applewood 4th March 2023
- Forest Gardening Course with Chris at Applewood 13th-14th May 2023
- Practical Permaculture Volunteer Week with Chris & Looby 26th-31st May 2023
- Permaculture Teacher Training Course with Chris & Looby 13th-22nd June 2023
- ACE - Activating Cultural Emergence Course with Looby 30th June-2nd July 2023
- Fruit Tree Budding and Pruning Workshop with Chris 8th July 2023
- PEACE - Peace Empowerment And Cultural Emergence Course with Looby & Leona 8th-13th August 2023
- Forest Gardening Course with Chris 2nd-3rd September 2023
- Mothers as Natural Leaders Course at Applewood with Looby & Emma 16th-17th September 2023
- Apple Picking and Pressing Volunteer Week with Chris & Looby Early Autumn 2023
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Applewood Permaculture Learning Adventure
A PDF Publication
Explore Cultural Emergence, Design Web, Permaculture, 8 shields and 7 Ways to Think Differently in this Applewood Adventure Folio.
Download this amazing resource of inspirations, photos, artwork and learnings created by one of our collaborators Delvin Solkinson.
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in - what more could they ask? A few flowers at their feet and above them the stars.
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