Permaculture - Powerless To Powerful
with Shahara
Permaculture is often a mind-blowing discovery. With ethics based on people care, earth care and fair share, huge global problems that felt like they were unsolvable suddenly feel accessible - and as if you could be part of the solution.
Permaculture describes strategies for living responsibly on the earth. Many of us think we have to give things up - but is simply not true. But we do need to find alternatives to our most destructive habits. The good news is that many of these alternatives already exist - they just don’t have a voice in mainstream consciousness. My work, through permaculture, is to give those alternatives a voice and share them with you.
Come and learn how you can create a lifestyle - or even a new livelihood - around organic and sustainable food production, natural building and self-sufficiency - all of this while taking care of our much-abused planet and all of the other species that live alongside us.
Equipped with permaculture ideas and principles - we can move from powerless to powerful - and take real, active steps to help heal our planet in years to come. Join my workshop to find out how :)
GARDENER: Shahara Khaleque
After leaving my career of 13 years in the corporate world and financial IT, - which I enjoyed but it was not where I wanted to spend my future - I unexpectedly found my way into a Permaculture Design Course in May 2014. Permaculture opened my eyes to living responsibly on the earth with a sense of enhancing life rather than compromising it.
Following the life-changing course, I founded GrowingSmart - a Hong Kong based project which is centred around permaculture and education. I grow and sell food on Peng Chau island, run workshops to teach others about permaculture and how to grow their own food, and I also run school programs with the aim of reconnecting younger people to the environment.
I love sharing permaculture with others. I believe it genuinely has the potential to change the world by making important skills accessible to ordinary people. The global permaculture community that I am now part of, and you could be too, inspires me beyond words every single day :)