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Accessing Permaculture

I have created several separate resources designed to help and support improving access to permaculture, (and other activism type work/events), for people with chronic illness and/or disability. Much of the content would also be useful for folk who are neurodivergent. Each article is available as a blog post and as a PDF. Please share and use in your own projects if helpful. 

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Accessing Permaculture for people with chronic illness and/or disability - positives, challenges and suggestions for a more inclusive permaculture

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Since becoming very unwell and disabled in 2017, I have learnt very quickly about what it means to be a person with disabilities attempting to navigate everyday life – and within that life, being unable to access many of the things I had previously taken for granted. Given that permaculture knowledge, experience, events and demonstration sites were previously a big part of my life, I have become increasingly aware of how difficult it would be for me to now access many of these things; in some cases it would be impossible. If I can’t participate in these events that are so important in my life, I wondered how many other people are also struggling to engage and connect with permaculture because of chronic illness and/or disability -

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Accessing permaculture for people with chronic illness and/or disability - top tips

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The "top tips" for permaculture events/courses facilitators and permaculture demonstration sites, arising from the article above -

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Accessing Permaculture - Course & Event Information & Marketing

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In this short post I share some suggestions, from the linked post, of information to include in general permaculture course and event descriptions and marketing. This in turn will then help more people with chronic illness and/or disability and neurodivergent people to access and then utilise permaculture design -

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