Podcast appearances and mentions of robyn francis

We were proud to have our friend Robyn on again to discus her latest amazing cosplay. This time we were joined by her brother Cory who was also debuting a new cosplay. We also talk about Anime North and Robyn’s … Continue reading →

In this episode, I'm delighted to welcome Robyn Francis - my friend and true permaculture legend. Robyn has been a part of the permaculture movement since the very beginning, working closely with Bill Mollison, and is a leading international permaculture educator. She's initiated many projects around the world such as Djanbung Gardens, the accredited permaculture design training process, Jarlanbah Ecovillage and the Permaculture International magazine. When I was just starting out as a permaculture designer, I attended a number of workshops at her place!Tune in to listen to Robyn's story through permaculture and her insights on the process, reflections and hopes for the future of permaculture. This conversation is mix of stories of the very beginnings of permaculture and a practical look at how you can get accredited as a permaculture designer and educator. There's plenty to learn from this one!Support the showThis podcast is an initiative of the Permaculture Education Institute.Our way of sharing our love for this planet and for life, is by teaching permaculture teachers who are locally adapting this around the world - finding ways to apply the planet care ethics of earth care, people care and fair share. We host global conversations and learning communities on 6 continents. We teach permaculture teachers, host permaculture courses, host Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and offer free monthly film club and masterclass. We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet. You can also watch Sense-Making in a Changing World on youtube.SUBSCRIBE for notification of each new episode. Please leave us a 5 star REVIEW - it really it does help the bots find and myceliate this show.

A cosplayer interview  years in the making! For a few years we have been talking to  Robyn Francis about doing an interview. Her cosplays are always well executed and we have always been impressed with her work. At Niagara Falls Comic … Continue reading →

Why is lack of volunteers one of the biggest barriers to the growth of sailing clubs today? What needs to change? In this episode of Off The Water we return to the topic of volunteers and volunteering. As we emerge from the lack of formal activities brought about by the pandemic, alongside many other aspects of social change, finding, retaining and supporting volunteers has been brought into sharp focus. The recent launch of RYA Scotland's Volunteer Development Framework also provides a perfect opportunity to reflect on the overall impact people who volunteer have on the boating community. Our guest this episode include the Head of Volunteering for Marie Curie UK, Helen Keenan; Robyn Francis of Scottish Student Sailing and a volunteer as part of the Pioneer Project; and Liza Linton RYA Scotland's Development Manager. Bringing a depth of knowledge to the conversation around the motivations of volunteers, rewards and the massive impact they make all form part of the discussion that aims to help you, or your organisation reflect on your volunteering practices and ethos. Here are some of the Links discussed below: Volunteer Development Framework Marie Curie UK Volunteering sportscotland Volunteer info Pioneer Project Scottish Student Sailing Finally you can stay in touch with all the latest news from RYA Scotland via our website, http://www.rya.org.uk/scotland and of course, across our social media channels @ryascotland

This episode is dedicated to the people, trees, animals & land of Australia. The world is hearing a lot about the tyranny & division in Australia at the moment, but it's important to remember this unifying concept of Permaculture was born, has grown, and matured to resilience in Australia to inspire people and places all across the world. This episode explores just a small slice of the many voices throughout the region that have such beauty, innovation and regenerative cultures to share. Hope you enjoy and share some positivity with this episode with your friends, family & neighbors! Our hearts go out to Aussies on this one...keep living strong, resilient, wild & free!Learn more about the inspiring folks from this episode, watch the videos and read the show notes on this episode here >Hear from voices like David Holmgren, Rosemary Morrow, Geoff Lawton, Bill Mollison, Darren Doherty, Hannah Moloney, Nick Ritar, Robyn Francis & more…“Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.” ― Bill Mollison- - -Learn more about the inspiring folks from this episode, watch the videos and read the show notes on this episode here >- - -Disclaimer: This is another episode exploring different themes in Permaculture and related fields with audio clips, interviews & anything else we can find. All audio clips are credited and linked on our website. We seek to share content & information which is becoming increasingly hard to find, censored and/or deemed controversial. Opinions expressed by content creators, guests & interviews on Permaculture Freedom podcast do not necessarily reflect the views of Land by Hand. No human holds the whole truth and listening to many different perspectives helps to shape a critical informed opinion. Always do your own unbiased research before drawing conclusions or spreading others' ideas as the truth.  "It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle - - - If you enjoy the show, please subscribe and consider the following: Share it with someone else in your life  Leave a review or rating for the show Submit feedback, episode topic/guest ideas or a question at landbyhand.org/pfp Thanks for listening and your support! Land by Hand Permaculture education & media to live a natural, resilient lifestyle.-Learn more, watch the videos, and read the show notes on this episode here >

Narsanna Koppula is a pioneer Indian permaculture designer, an energetic and enthusiastic teacher, passionate nature-lover, and a staunch feminist. Padma Koppula is the other hand of this pioneering permaculture couple, whose quiet, behind-the-scenes organizational skills, calm demeanor, superlative patience, local farming knowledge and social skills hold the joint reins of this couple's life of service. Together, the Koppulas founded 'Aranya Agricultural Alternatives' in 1999, an organization focused on permaculture advocacy and education in India and worldwide; and set up the Aranya farm as a demonstration site for permaculture at around the same time. Permaculture, a portmanteau of the words 'permanent agriculture' or 'permanent culture', is a design science that seeks to design landscapes, be they ecological farms or gardens, social systems, or personal emotional landscapes, using ethics and principles derived from the observation and mimicry of Mother Nature. The three core ethics of permaculture are earth care, people care, and fair share/future care (that is, returning surplus yields to nature). Narsanna Koppula was first introduced to the concept of permaculture by his late mentor, Dr. Venkat with whom he was working in Deccan Development Society (DDS), one of India's premier agriculture-based, grassroots NGOs, in the 1980s. Dr. Venkat arranged for the first PDC (permaculture design course) to be conducted in India in 1987 by Bill Mollison (a co-originator of permaculture) and Robyn Francis (a senior teacher and close collaborator of Bill's), and Narsanna participated in that historic PDC. That was the beginning of a lifelong love affair and commitment to the permaculture way for Narsanna, and he has never looked back, since then! The Aranya farm was designed as an archetypal dry-land, fully rain-fed, mature permaculture food forest, providing diverse yields for humans and other creatures throughout the year. Its lush greenery, biodiversity, rich top soil and abundant water resources have to be seen, for one to believe what is possible in terms of design, in landscapes that receive a meager 650 mm of annual rainfall. The Aranya farm has served as an example for local and national farmers of what is possible when committed to the permaculture way of living and farming. And since 2014, the Aranya farm has been the site of residential PDCs, where students from all walks of life are introduced to the various layers and intricacies of permaculture design. It took a pandemic to stop Narsanna and Padma in their tracks and world-record-setting commitment of hosting a PDC every single month, since 2018. Not to be fully outdone by the covid-19 virus, they have since resumed their monthly PDCs, with appropriate precautions in place that ensure physical distancing on their large farm. A heart-warming feature of Narsanna is his open and generous acknowledgment of his lifelong teachers of indigenous natural farming techniques – the local women farmers of Bidakanne and other villages in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, which have been his primary sites of activity. He is quick to clarify that he is an outsider to the village and region Aranya farm is located in since he hails from Adilabad – he stayed since he was explicitly requested by the local women farmers to do so and he respectfully accepted their request. Narsanna is also a fiery defender of India’s last-remaining natural forests and a staunch conservationist who has not been afraid to raise his voice and his fist, and mobilize local villagers to prevent destruction of reserve forests. The reserve forests in the vicinity of Aranya were saved from their fate of illegal conversion to monoculture Eucalyptus plantations by his relentless activism, and their quiet regeneration provides a ray of hope in a country poised on the precipice of climate change catastrophes. Another aspect of his work has been as a crusader for the rights of the landless poor, often belonging to the marginalized castes. For example, in Bidakanne, the village adjoining Aranya farm, almost every household currently has access and rights to a piece of farmland, as compared to the 1990s when about sixty percent of them were landless. Padma Koppula is the co-founder of Aranya Agricultural Alternatives. Previously, Padma worked for 10 years with DDS, where she and Narsanna first met, and their lives intertwined subsequently. Padma helms several permaculture outreach programs, on behalf of Aranya. For example, as lead facilitator for the Andhra Pradesh drought mitigation project, which seeks to aid 165,000 households of small and marginal farmers to establish water security, Padma works with farmers to harvest rainwater and diversify cropping patterns, gently nudging them towards the holistic permaculture way of life. She also works with tribal communities who have been displaced from their ancestral forestlands, aiding them in re-establishing their ancestral practice of permaculture-led natural farming on the farmlands that the government has allocated to them. Padma gives trainings in and extensively uses the participatory rural development approach to work with villagers.  She teaches seed preservation of local and native seeds and has helped establish seed banks in many villages. She’s worked with 3000 women farmers empowering them to access natural resources, on legal issues, financial decisions and also creating awareness on child marriages and women’s rights in this area. To see her in action, mediating and anchoring conversations and consensus-based decision making amongst villagers is a master-class in human resource management, done the permaculture way! Join us this weekend in conversation with Narsanna and Padma, a powerhouse permie couple, moderated by one of their permie design students and ServiceSpace volunteer, Gayathri, as they talk about permaculture, its ethics and principles and how to design lives of service to the Earth and all its creatures.

In this episode we talk with Raya Cole about her work with permaculture and water harvesting in many villages of rural India. Raya has worked with Aranya Agricultural Alternatives for five years on the ground teaching, designing, and organizing community efforts to restore water tables and improve nutrition. Raya has a lot of insight into the complicated dynamics of making lasting changes in a region where water, food, and soil have all been critically degraded over the last half-century. Now at a breaking point with depleted water supplies and the failure of chemical agriculture, many rural poor are open to the possibilities for sustenance that permaculture provides. Raya's links: https://livingecology.org/ https://permacultureindia.org Raya full bio: Raya Cole has been involved with organic agriculture, permaculture, and sustainable systems and social justice since 1996. She developed two of her own farms with permaculture principles in California, and the farms were used as training centers. She has provided permaculture consultancy and implementation on farms in the United States, Costa Rica and India. She teaches wilderness, primitive and nature awareness skills at 4 Elements Earth Education. She is an herbalist with a medicinal herb product business, Simply Being Botanicals for which she grows and wildcrafts the herbs. In 1995, with the One World Global Education project, Raya had her first involvement in international development. It was a transformative experience to her perspective on the world and social justice. Since then she has focused on living gently on the Earth while giving equal respect to all living beings; human, plants and animals. She contributes her knowledge of permaculture, group and community collaboration skills to the intern program at Living Ecology. Joyed to be working on a project that aids the work of an incredibly effective development organization, she provides advanced mentorship and training to permaculture students. Raya is the contact person for volunteers and interns who wish to participate in the practical application permaculture programs in India through Living Ecology and Aranya Agriculture Alternatives. Permaculture Instructor’s Qualifications An extensive advanced education in permaculture makes Raya the cornerstone of Living Ecology project outcomes. Her Permaculture Design Course was completed in 2003 in the Earth Activist Training. She has worked with professionals and permaculture instructors all over the world. Educational highlights include a 10 week internship with Geoff Lawton at The Permaculture Research Institute in Australia and 8 months at The Regenerative Design Institute in the Cultural Mentoring Program where she helped train the first year students in the Regenerative Design and Nature Awareness program with Penny Livingston-Stark and Jon Young. She also completed Aquaponics Design with Max Mayers, Holistic Management with Kurt Gadzia, Holistic Orchard Management with Michael Phillips, Keyline Design and Land Management with Darren Doherty, Advanced Permaculture Design Consultancy with Robyn Francis, and Soil Food Web training with Elaine Ingham. Her work and study have been remarkable.

Today's conversation was recorded back in the last few weeks before I left Guatemala when I had a chance to sit down with my good friend and fellow permaculture educator, Mordur G'ott, but we all call him Moli.Mörður or Moli is a permaculture pioneer in Iceland who has been travelling between countries to learn and share what he knows. In Iceland he has hosted multiple events and PDS's with legendary teachers like Albert Bates and Robyn Francis among others. In this session Moli and I speak about the more problematic aspects of the permaculture pedagogy that we've found in practice. As with any teaching methodology, permaculture can become dogmatic and even cult-like when practitioners take certain teachings as gospel and forget the essential aspects of observation, reassessment, and flexibility when techniques don't apply to your context. Moli offers great insights from his years as a permaculture educator and project coordinator on some of the aspects of permaculture that he feels need deeper explanation and clarification to help avoid pitfalls and misunderstandings, especially from people who are new to the concepts and often don't have any experience working directly with nature to draw from. Many of you may find that you disagree with some or all of Moli's conclusions or maybe know of elements of permaculture teaching that weren't mentioned in this episode that you think are essential to include in a conversation about the shortcomings or undesirable aspects surrounding permaculture. If that's the case, I would love to hear your opinions. You can comment in the threads below or email me directly at info@abundantedge.com. This is a controversial topic that I'm looking forward to exploring further Resources: Permavillage.net Reach out to Moli on Facebook Moli's Patreon For years now, I've been hearing feedback and questions from listeners of this podcast. Many of you out there have been piecing together your education. You've taken your PDC, you may have taken some other gardening or more advanced design courses, and though you're passionate about ecological work, many of you still lack the confidence to break out on your own and start working as professional designers. That's why I'm really excited to tell you about the new Digital permaculture design course, taught by Dan Halsey, the founder of Southwoods Ecological design and United Designers Intl. In just five days this online intensive will guide you through every part of the design process from client intake to the final presentation with specific focus on digital design and drawing. You'll also get a year of access to the Permaculture Plant Database, live interactive online classes, access to the United designers symbols library, files, professional templates and much more. This course is a fast track to working as a professional on the cutting edge of ecosystem regeneration and for a limited time, listeners of this show can get $100 off the course by entering the code AEpodcast at checkout. The course starts on July 29th so hurry to reserve your place at permacultureprofessionals.com And if you want to learn more about Dan Halsey and his work, checkout the interview I did with him about running a professional design company in episode 117 or by clicking the link in the show notes of this episode We need professional ecological designers more than ever. Sign up for the Digital Permaculture design course today at permacultureprofessionals.com

‘In light of your strengths, your weaknesses, your successes and failings, how could you design your business in a way that is more effective, more efficient and hopefully more ethical too?’ - Delvin Solkinson Welcome to the tenth episode of the ETAPP podcast, hosted by Sven Goyvaerts. In this episode we travel to New York State to meet up with up with Delvin Solkinson, the Yoda of permaculture. Delvin is a permaculture teacher and community gardener. He works for CoSM, a non-profit arts organisation, as a full-time volunteer on the Board of Directors and in the media lab. He is the Senior Editor of the CoSM Journal for Visionary Culture. Delvin has completed a PDC, Diploma and Masters Degree with Bill Mollison and done advanced teacher trainings with Rosemary Morrow, Toby Hemenway, Larry Santoyo, Looby Macnamara, David Holmgren, Geoff Lawton, Patricia Michael, Robyn Francis, the Bullock Brothers, Tom Ward, Jude Hobbs, Scott Pittman, Michael Becker, Robin Wheeler, Robina McCurdy, Starhawk, Robina McCurdy and Robin Clayfield. He is an accredited teacher through the Permaculture Research Institute (Australia), Permaculture Academy (UK) and a Field Mentor through the Permaculture Institute (USA). Recently he completed a PDC in Portland with Toby Hemenway, one in Greece with Rosemary Morrow and a second Diploma through the Permaculture Institute. Currently he is doing graduate work under the mentorship of Larry Santoyo and Looby Macnamara. Creating curriculum, making media and crafting free, open source learning and teaching tools has been focus of his current Doctoral Degree in permaculture education. AppleSeed's Regenerative Enterprise: www.appleseedpermaculture.com/8-forms-of-capital/ Permaculture Design Certificate Course 2019: https://www.visionarypermaculture.com/permaculturedesigncertificate Delvin's Permaculture Design Deck: www.visionarypermaculture.com/designdeck Permaculture Design Notes www.visionarypermaculture.com/notes Watch INHABIT, a film about permaculture: http://inhabitfilm.com/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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This week, we welcome to the show the legendary Robyn Francis. Robyn is one of permaculture’s leading teachers and proponents. We talk about the movement's early days, some reasons for optimism today, interconnectivity and building stone circles in the subtropics. Note: This episode was recorded on location. You can view the video version on YouTube. Show Notes Permaculture College Australia (Djanbung Gardens) Permaculture College Australia on Facebook. Robyn's Personal and Artist Site.

In this episode Dan from Making Permaculture Stronger enjoys a conversation with permaculture elder Robyn Francis from Djanbung Gardens. Amongst other things Robyn shares on: Her recent return to India (having in 1987 co-taught India's first permaculture design certificate or PDC course alongside Bill Mollison) What she was up to before hearing about permaculture When and how she got involved in permaculture Her own impressions of Bill Mollison's character having worked alongside him How she got started in permaculture design Her approach to permaculture design process including the roles of Visioning / strategic planning Restraint overlays Her work with communities including Jarlanbah Community Her view on the state of the global permaculture movement A taste of all the amazing projects she is currently involved in, locally, bio-regionally, and abroad (including PDCs in China)  A short video about IPC India 2017 featuring Robyn

In this episode Dan from Making Permaculture Stronger enjoys a conversation with permaculture elder Robyn Francis from Djanbung Gardens. Amongst other things Robyn shares on: Her recent return to India (having in 1987 co-taught India's first permaculture design certificate or PDC course alongside Bill Mollison) What she was up to before hearing about permaculture When and how she got involved in permaculture Her own impressions of Bill Mollison's character having worked alongside him How she got started in permaculture design Her approach to permaculture design process including the roles of Visioning / strategic planning Restraint overlays Her work with communities including Jarlanbah Community Her view on the state of the global permaculture movement A taste of all the amazing projects she is currently involved in, locally, bio-regionally, and abroad (including PDCs in China)  A short video about IPC India 2017 featuring Robyn

Pip editor Robyn Rosenfeldt chats with permaculture pioneer and bush foods enthusiast on all things native Australian foods.

SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM In this episode we hear from the husband and wife team who have grounded Permaculture in India for the last 30 years. Narsanna and Padma Koppula are the hosts of the upcoming International Permaculture Conference and Convergence in Hyderabad, India in November of 2017 (http://ipcindia2017.org/) and have an incredible wealth of experience working throughout the Indian subcontinent, particularly in the South. They have worked training farmers through their organization Aranya Agricultural Alternatives in the arid Deccan Plateau, the wet tropical coastal regions of India, in mountainous tribal areas, and through government programs, gaining an incredible wealth of practical knowledge from the many tens of thousands of people they have impacted over 3 decades. In this episode we discuss the history of Permaculture in India, starting with Bill Mollison and Robin Francis's first design course there in 1987. We discuss the work that Narsanna and Padma are doing there, and then go on to deeper questions of the challenges that Indians face today, and how Permaculture fits in to a society with a rich agricultural and social legacy that is still practiced today. Please enjoy. If you are not familiar with the accent of Indians speaking English, then you may have to pay extra attention to understand everything that is said, and there is a little bit of terminology that is not used in American English, but if you stick with it, your interpretation will get better as the interview progresses. Narsanna and Padma's links: http://ipcindia2017.org/ http://permacultureindia.org/ https://vimeo.com/72176775 Full Bio: Narsanna Koppula is a permaculture pioneer in India. His environmental-humanitarian work has been empowering rural communities for the past two and a half decades. Narsanna is a Permaculture Consultant, Designer & Teacher and a campaigner of permaculture practices all over the world. He is a post graduate from Osmania University and received his Permaculture Certificate from Permaculture International Institute, Australia He is a student of Dr.Venkat who invited Bill Mollison and Robyn Francis to India to further permaculture. Narsanna was on the Board of the Permaculture Association of India and served for 12 years (1986 to 1998) as Director and General Secretary of Deccan Development Society, a premier NGO working on sustainable agriculture. He is a designer and professional guide in ‘efficient water use techniques in command irrigation’. He is actively engaged in implementing Tree Based Farming Systems (TBFS) and planting 100,000 fruit plants and 3 lakh mixed forest species on 1000 tribal families’ lands under Tribal Development Program. He is a project evaluator for various natural resource management projects and networks with several national and international organizations. Narsanna is committed to ecological and sustainable agricultural livelihoods through permaculture farming practices to create a greener planet. He believes the forest is the future and he spreads his message through his non-profit organization “Aranya Agricultural Alternatives” presently operating in the rural and tribal areas of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, India. Narsanna also leads a three month internship through the Permaculture Patashala where students implement projects in rural areas for poor farmers. Padma Koppula (CEO) is a committed social worker since nearly 20 years of work with rural farmers , Institutional development expert, irrigation expert & Gender specialist ,Her past services include advisory member for Andhra Pradesh Farmers Water Management Committees Association (FWMCA) ,Secretary for the Bodhi Education Society, Deccan Development Society coordinator , consultant to the Govt of AP –Irrigation projects;Promoter of sustainable agriculture practices & Permaculture.

Robyn Francis talks about permaculture's role in Cuba and CAPE: the Cuba-Australia Permaculture Exchange. Francis, an internationally renowned Permaculture teacher and designer speaks with Jill Cloutier of Sustainable World, and Margie Bushman and Wes Roe of the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network.

Award winning international permaculture pioneer, teacher, designer, and educator Robyn Francis speaks about sustainable aid and permaculture for the 2/3 World. Robyn is the creator of Djanbung Gardens, Australia's leading permaculture center. Interview by Jill Cloutier of Sustainable World Radio and Wesley Rowe and Margie Bushman of the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network.