UK Permaculture and related groups: Off-Line
This is a rather out of date list. I hope to rework the links section in the next few months.
In the meantime heres the old links pages.
These are mainly UK based organizations, and not all of them are
completely up to date. Please send SAE to all organizations as many
are completely skint.
Please note this page was created in '95 and has not really be changed since,
so many addresses may be out of date.
See also UK permaculture orginisation Online and
Communities and Eco-Villages.
The Permaculture Association (Britain)
They publish a quarterly Permaculture Magazine. There's 60 local groups as well.
Telephone / Fax: +44 (0)7041 390170 / 0113 2621718 Postal address: BCM Permaculture
Association, LONDON, WC1N 3XX. E mail: office@permaculture.org.uk
The Permaculture Magazine published by Permanent Publications (see below),
Lots of articles on permaculture, details of design
course and more contacts.
Permanent Publications
The Sustainability Centre, East Meon, Hampshire,
GU32 1HR England. Tel: + 44 (0)1730 823311, Fax: + 44 (0)1730 823322, email hello@permaculture.co.uk.
Publish the UK based Permaculture Magazine. The site contains details of the
mag, their book catalogue, and UK Forrest Gardening projects and
regular permaculture news.
Their Earth Repair Catalogue contains 230 permaculture and related books.
Eco-Logic Books 20 Gastard Lane, Garstard, Corsham, Wilts, SN13 9QN.
Tel (01249) 712749 Distribute 'Permaculture One & Two' and
'Permaculture - Designers' Manual' the essential guides written
by Bill Mollison et al.
A big list of Local Permaculture Groups in the UK can be found on the Permanent Publications
web site.
BUG magazine Biological Urban Gardening,
Rm 6, P.O. Box 206, Worcester WR1 1YS
Henry Doubleday Research Organization National Centre for
Organic Gardening, Ryton on Dunsmore, COVENTRY, CV8 3LG. Tel. (01203) 303517.
Publish the HDRA news, packed full of useful stuff and lots of leaflets and
books. They also have
a demonstration garden showing many organic techniques, there's one
at the above address and another one planed in the South-East.
They also run a
Heritage Seed Program
(
alternate link) which collects seeds of many unusual varieties
of vegetables, due to UK law its actually illegal to sell such varieties
and we're limited to a few registered varieties limiting the genetic diversity.
An Events List
Can be found on MidNet.
Organic Gardening P.O. Box 4, Wiveliscombe, Taunton, Somerset,
TA4 2QY, Tel 01984 623998. A monthly magazine.
Biodynamic Agricultural Association
The Secretariat, Woodman Lane, Clent, Stourbridge, West Midlands
DY9 9PX, England. Tel: 01562 884933.
Vegan-Organic Horticulture And Agriculture Network,
Anandavan, 58, High Lane, Chorlton, Manchester. M21 9DZ.
Telephone 0161 860 4869. A groovy bunch who co-wrote the
Vegan-Organics leaflet.
The Soil Association
Bristol House,
40 - 56 Victoria Street,
Bristol
BS1 6BY
Tel: 01179 290661.
Best known for is symbol guaranteeing that products are organic.
Web site has lots of press releases.
Irish Organic Farmers and Growers Association. (IOFGA)
56 Blessington Street, Dublin 7, Tel: 018 - 307996, Fax: 018 - 300925.
Working Weekends on Organic Farms, 19 Bradford Road, Lewes,
East Sussex, BN7 1RB. If you wants to go WWOOF-ing get in touch.
MidNet Organic
UK based WWW site, have info on UK organizations, and some hints and tips.
Plus an organic garden tour. And other UK based resources. Also run
a UK based Organic Gardening discussion list
organic-l@steamradio.com
The Middle Wood Centre Roeburndale, West Lancaster, LA2 8QX.
Tel (015242) 21880. They've got a lovely patch of land, including
a wooded valley being preserved in its natural state (they let
any fallen wood rot down which helps build up the soil). They have
a resource center, a barn to hire and also run some permaculture courses.
The Centre for Alternative Technology
Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 9AZ, Tel 01654 702400, e: cat@gn.apc.org.
They publish an Organic Growing Resource Guide (70p Ref F6), with lots more
addresses, etc. You can also get a lot of organic &
permaculture books from them.
Agroforestry Research Trust, 46 Hunters Moon, Dartington, Totnes,
Devon, TQ9 6JT. Have a newsletter and produce a number of publications in the
'Useful Plants for Temperate Climates' series. Also have seed an plants
for sale.
Some more UK orgs are listed on
MidNet Organics.
West Yorkshire Organic Group
One of the oldest groups about, run weekly local produce markets
and The Organic Vegetable Show.
And finally Liverpool Organic Gardeners, 7 Childwall Bank Road,
Liverpool, L16 7PH. Tel (0151) 722 7561. My local group who'd probably
be dead chuffed to find they got a mention.
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