Hey Lawrence
Our team is working on several projects right now in China.
Our main
project is our own 10 acre mountain homestead, now two years old. This is our
Permaculture education center and testing grounds outside of Hangzhou. We practice natural building,
earthworks, greywater cycling, alleycropping, forest
gardening, coppice forestry, hugelculture, heavy mulching etc. We offer weekend classes, weeklong hand-on workshops, formal PDCs and longer term internships. We do
profit sharing with project managers, which we are always on the lookout for. We mostly speak Mandarin, but people are usually happy to translate, if they can.
We’re working with a newly forming Buddhist ecovillage near the Thousand Island Lake, helping them with some design and management issues. They currently welcome anyone with previous permaculture or related
experience for work exchanges. Hopefully we’ll get some more permaculture principles at work there over the next few months.
We’re also setting up an eco-farm and restaurant outside of Nan’tong, Jiangsu. Some major activity will start there in the spring. We’ll be looking for people who want to learn natural building, garden design,
aquaculture and animal husbandry while we run a few hands-on courses in the first half of next year. Ideally, we could find a project manager or two with experience to take the lead on the production front while the owners get the restaurant up and running.
I
should mention you can look out for the occasional permaculture teacher coming over from Taiwan or other places. Sites that host their courses (Beijing, Fu’zhou, Cheng’du) might have a few demonstration projects, but I’m not sure if they are kept up or have any ongoing activities.
As far as I know, there isn’t much else going on project wise. We’ll be touring southern China this winter, giving lectures, teaching workshops and interviewing practitioners, trying to find any and all permaculture related projects. What part of China are you in?
Thomas
Hangzhou Permaculture
Contact@HZPumen.com
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