Kate Hamilton

I've been learning and reading about permaculture for many years, and finally did the design course in 2009, in Brighton. Since then I've been exploring ways of bringing permaculture ideas into the work I do - mostly research and consultancy for organisations involved in international development - and meanwhile have done a permaculture ToT with Designed Visions, am got involved with teaching permaculture.

In 2011 I moved from Sussex (where I was involved with Brighton Permaculture Trust and Lewes Transition Town) to North Wales (where I am still finding my feet!). In 2012 I took up a role as a Lifelong Learning Tutor for Aberystwyth University, charged with doing introductory courses on Permaculture in North Wales, and in 2013 started working with Coed Lleol, a woodland charity promoting healthy activities in local woodlands - a really good mix of earth care, people care and fair shares. Meanwhile we have found our permanent home here in Snowdonia and are learning to live with the tension between my impatience to start producing food and nature's need for time to get diverse life and fertility back into the garden.

I'm currently on my Diploma pathway, where my main focuses are on permaculture's edges with other sectors/approaches/disciplines - 'reaching out beyond the permaculture bubble' is how it got described in one meeting - and exploring non-land-based applications of permaculture (invisible structures and all that).