The Permaculture Research Institute of Australia

In 2009 at the final inch of my studies I was fortunate to come across to Geoff and Nadia Lawton and study and train with them at Permaculture Research Institute of Australia for three months as part of the practical training of my university degree, BSc in Environmental Engineering. This combined with another six months of experience in farm forestry, tree planting, biological landscape restoration and erosion repair around NSW transformed my whole world view and offered an entirely new approach to practical sustainability as well.

Currently I'm based in Finland. During the dark winter months I've been writing a permaculture blog in Finnish to provide reading material to people in my mother tongue and the light summer months are devoted to gardening and some permaculture teaching. Together with other permies we're organising events and giving introductory workshops and courses to introduce permaculture in Finland.

I'm particularily interested in cold climate permaculture strategies, and developing practical skills to put them in practice!