- teaching a sustainable approach to life using whole systems thinking
permaculture matters facilitators:
jed walker
Jed Walker is both a permaculturalist and an experienced educator. He has taught permaculture and conducted teacher trainings in Australia, India and Bangladesh. Jed has worked across a range of settings and climates, from lush backyards to arid and monsoonal farms. He is currently involved in supporting permaculture projects for refugees in Africa and Asia.
rachel gould
Rachel has always had a strong connection to both nature and people. When Rachel heard about Permaculture a few years' ago, her intrigue was sparked, and soon after, she followed her curiosity and completed her PDC with the Blue Mountains Planetary Health Initiative. A dedicated Permaculturist ever since, she shares with friends and family the things she has learnt! In her teaching, Rachel aims to create learning environments that grow hope, passion and curiosity!
sesi devine
Permaculture permeates Sesi's life. To her, systems informed design is a no brainer and she brings this to her work in resource recovery and community organising. Sesi's first permaculture teacher was the legend, Lis Bastian whom she is constantly inspired by. She loves to look to ecological systems for answers to common human challenges including food growing. She is exploring lessons from ecology in her ongoing passion for town planning. Sesilia also channels her love of ecology and cosmology through song.
ryan hoàng
Ryan Hoàng is a graphic designer and illustrator with a growing passion for edible gardens. It was August 2022 when he discovered the word Permaculture through conversation with a friend. Ryan then went on to complete a PDC offered by the Blue Mountains Planetary Health Initiative and Lithgow Transformation Hub. The experience expanded his mind with systems thinking, renewing his curiosity and enthusiasm for everything around him. He enjoys connecting with the community and continues to explore how each individual can easily integrate Permaculture into their life.
jen hall
Jen started permaculture in 1999 creating her own garden with Rowe Morrow at her side (in exchange for yoga lessons!). Jen completed a PDC (Permaculture Design Course) [2010] and Permaculture Teachers Training [2024] with Rowe Morrow and Lis Bastian through the Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute.
Jen is passionate about living sustainably and brings this into all areas of her life. You may see her round and about the mountains, on her bicycle or on the train.
sarah daniel
Sarah Daniel has been practising Permaculture since she stumbled across it in 2003.
She has worked with Permaculture on the road while travelling, in share houses, in community gardens and in schools and has discovered, for her, it is best to do permaculture with friends!
Sarah is passionate about learning to think like mycelium and making friends with water. She currently lives with Dharug and Gundgurra ngurra and teaches at Kindlehill School.
natasha lee
Natasha became increasingly interested in permaculture after finding it answered a lot of questions and solved a lot of problems she was wrestling with in her own garden space. The more she read and learnt, the more things made sense. She finally did a PDC in 2023, and followed it up with permaculture teacher training soon after. When she's not working on projects in her home space, she works in the education sector.
rebekah norton
Rebekah's first formal study in permaculture was a PDC with Supapon Raffan 25 years ago. Then again with Rowe Morrow and Liz Bastian in 2010. However Rebekah credits her love of design and reading of landscape to her mother- the daughter of an old fashioned dairy farmer, who passed on the old sensibility of site orientation: where to grow and build according to the climate and elements.
Her most recent project has been to design and build a Light Earth House and food garden on a shoestring budget. She says" permaculture is about creating a community that nourishes and ignites the possibility of sustainable living through connection to people and the natural world."