15 New Graduates!

We have just concluded another Permaculture Design Course (PDC) at the Nature’s Gift Permaculture Training Center.  Kristof was the lead facilitator on this course and was supported by the Nature’s Gift Permaculture staff and volunteers.   The course was designed to meet the needs of participants who work in or near the Lilongwe area and have difficulty taking large amounts of time off from work.  To accomodate these people, we ran the course for one weekend a month over the period of six months.  This was a big committment for all involved, but well worth the effort.  We now have 15 new PDC certificate-holders from various organizations and walks of life.  Good luck to the graduates with all your new Permaculture endeavors!

Now that we’ve got our website sorted out we have finally gotten around to posting some pictures of the International Permaculture Convergence (IPC9) that was held at the end of last year in November.  Please visit our new page on the convergence by clicking here.

Nobody has ever accused Nature’s Gift of moving too slowly!  Within the last month the Training Center has mangaged to hold a course in thatching and complete a brand new (and extremely beautiful) outdoor classroom.  We had hoped to use it for this last weekend of training (weekend #5 of a 6-weekend PDC), but the floor was just being finished with the natural “mudding” process…but we should be able to hold our certificate presentation there this coming month.  Congratulations to Nature’s Gift, their staff, and to all those who are benefitting from all of the hard work that is being put into the development of the center!

For more information about the training center and on training schedules, please visit our page that is dedicated to the Center, or go to www.naturesgiftpermaculture.org

The new classroom

Hi everyone!

We’ve been trying to work on getting the site updated.  We have added a page on Malawi’s new Permaculture Training Center, click on the “Nature’s Gift Permaculture” page under activities, or click here.

We would also like to direct your attention to an article that has recently been published in the American Bar Association’s Human Rights Magazine (The Global Hunger Issue) authored by Kristof.  Follow the link at the bottom of the page for the “Human Rights Magazine”, or click here.

Thanks to everyone for their continued support!

More to come…

Hello again everybody!

After a bit of a technical hiatus we are now up and running again!  A HUGE thanks to Mike McKay for hosting our original site and helping to get all of our pages and information transferred over to the new host.  Another HUGE thanks to Chris Darts who has been working with us untiringly to get the site working again with its new look and new features!

Fortunately, Permaculture activities have continued to move forward in Malawi despite of our “down time”.  In November of last year, Malawi hosted the International Permaculture Convergence (IPC9). It was a great success with almost 50 countries represented.  We will try to get a new page set up for that event.

The School Health and Nutrition project continues to grow with its Permaculture efforts…we will try to get you an update for that.

We have also had a great deal of publicity and a growing awareness of Malawi’s Permaculture efforts for which we will try to get links and examples posted very soon.

Note:  We are still working to get some of the old pictures back on-line, but should have everything sorted out shortly.  Please stay with us as and visit often as we continue to grow and share our work and lives with all of you!