PERMACULTURE & SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES

Practical info on living in harmony with the earth, with workshops, permaculture garden, and information sharing. Permaculture Area is a beautiful chilled out space with a garden to relax in and inspire your senses.

There are workshops and talks running throughout the day in the yurt and outside, with interactive demonstrations such as building an earth oven, willow weaving , children crafts, food preserving, Permaculture, seed saving and pole lathing. The stalls have help and advice on all areas of sustainable living and technology, with books for sale and free information to take away back to your community. The hemp cafe has wonderful healthy food and drinks with live music and a solar powered cinema and there's even a bakery and felt-making workshop. So come and join in or just hang out and watch everyone else!

Music in this Area

The Hempspace Cafe brings to Sunrise 2008 a new intimate stage situated in the Permaculture area. Fine food, great music, eclectic d.j’s, live bands and daytime workshops throughout the weekend. Confirmed acts include........ Circus of Sound, Jono Mccleery, Forcenra, No. 1 Station, Juilian Gaskell n’ the ragged trouser philanthorpist, Duncan and the nobodies, D.J Dub D- Jah Lion, Movement Sound System. Reading, D.J J T- Tesshuvah Hi Fi. Bristol.....plus resident D.J’s and more acts to be confirmed.

Workshops in this Area

	Maddy Harland Maddy is the editor of Permaculture Magazine. Talk and powerpoint presentation: Gardening the Permaculture Way. low cost, lower maintenance ideas for growing food organically and enjoying your own personal Eden
	Maddy Harland Interactive workshop: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it": with climate change and peak oil clearly on our horizon, how do you envisage our future? This interactive workshop explores the power of creative thought and travels in time to a future of simplicity, abundance and sustainable solutions.
	Rich Harbo How to finance and build a profitable wind farm, searching for and applying 4 construction grants, finding and using recycled materials, designs for wind generators, siting of wind turbines and selling the electricity to the national grid. Rich also is back with his wonderful solar powered shiatsu massage chairs and this year our own sauna!
	Sheila Robey Interactive Workshop: Making Spirit Callers
	Tammi Dalliston-Wood Workshop: The Ancient Art of Food Preservation
	Steve Nifton Workshop: Pole Lathing
	Naze's Creative Collective Kids workshop making Lanterns and sculptures from Willow.
	Ali and May Transition Town Interactive Talks and Joan Macy inspired talk on 'Deep Ecology'.
	David Ashwood Buddhism, Environmentalism and Permaculture
	Henry Dowell Pimp your Wheelbarrow!
	Ali Battye Talks on Transition Town Cardiff and Deep Ecology workshop based on the work of Joanna Macy; "THe Work That Reconnects"
	Stephen Watts Seeds; walk and talk
	Becky Tunrer From Steward Wood Community; renewable energy and low impact construction
	Sarah Pugh Tranistion Bristol and Permaculture
	Tabather Bessey Kundalini Yoga
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