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Permaculture - For People & Planet. With Charlotte Prud'Homme [Walkers Reserve]
FromWe Are Carbon
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Length:
74 minutes
Released:
Feb 21, 2023
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Podcast episode
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Episode Links:Walkers Reserve: http://walkersreserve.com/vision/The Episode Video: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/podcast-episode/permaculture-for-people-planet/Call out to stakeholders in a local and / or 'regenerative' food system: Fill out my 'Know Your Food' survey!- https://forms.gle/h9uV841n8BgyCLjZ7-----------------------Through the restoration of a sand quarry in Barbados we learn about the principles of permaculture and how they support the regeneration of land, community and help build a local circular economy.Spanning over 300 acres Walkers Reserve stretches across low lying coastal land and gradually rises inland to provide opportunity to regenerate a range of habitats.The site is being transformed from a highly extractive process to a multifaceted project that offers huge potential for biodiversity and healing of both the land and community.From recontouring and rewilding to establishing food forests, apiaries, dune and wetland restoration, developing an education and research institute and tackling the concerns of food security through involvement with the local community.And they're addressing all of this on a site based on sand with the coastal challenges of salt and winds.Charlotte has experience from a range of different project across the globe and so she helps us to understand the general concepts of permaculture alongside some of the more specific learnings and approaches used at Walkers.Watch a video version of this episode at the website: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/podcast-episode/permaculture-for-people-planet/
Released:
Feb 21, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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