The Permaculture Research Institute of Australia

Kenton is a permaculture designer, consultant and educator who believes in being a catalyst for positive change in the world through people education and action on the ground. He has experience working in Australia after doing what could be called a "permaculture pilgrimage." While in Australia Kenton worked with some some of the leading advocates of permaculture.

Before Kenton encountered permaculture he had already made education his passion and purpose. However, after taking a university course on the History of Curriculum Kenton was left questioning the very educational system he represented. Were we preparing the next generation for tomorrow? Soon after that I came across and registered for a PDC with Rob Avis, a student of Geoff Lawtons. After the PDC Kenton started a permaculture club at his High School. The experience was a good one but it didn't even scrape the surface for the level of impact Kenton knew he could potentially have. As soon as his teaching contract was over he flew to Australia to do a 10 week internship with Geoff Lawton. This later lead to working with Geoff creating and implementing permaculture teaching materials and a myriad of other amazing opportunities.

Kenton is currently building up experience teaching and consulting while travelling. He has aspirations to reach more and more people and hopefully mulch himself by teaching teachers. Then he will semi-retire from teaching and build a strawbale house, a food forest and a community.

At the forefront of the new generation of Permaculture teachers Kenton is working on the edge of what peace and harmony can look like for individuals, for communities and for landscapes that comprise this planet.