A new website for Equine Permaculture!!

Earth Care – People Care – Horse care

By Mariette van den Berg, BAppSc. (Hons), MSc., RAnNutr.

The idea to launch an online Equine Permaculture platform (www.equinepermaculture.com) has been in the pipeline for a while, but it was just a matter of timing to get a better idea of what purpose it could have for the equine community. Even though I have been practising and integrating Permaculture principles in my pasture management and property design consulting and education for the last 5 years, its only been recently  (2014) that I visited the Permaculture Research Institute at the The Channon in NSW to complete my Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course. This has given me more insight into how I could further promote permaculture in my education and designing of horse properties. In addition, I felt that all horse and land owners could contribute to the movement so that we can all learn from our experiments and results!

This blog website with educational articles, research reviews and personal stories and the book shop is just the start, in the near future we hope to extend this with certified (Equine) Permaculture courses and we also hope we can promote/support research projects that focus on equine and pasture health. So follow our blog!

About the website/ movement:
Equine Permaculture unites like minded horse people that want to learn about the principles and implementation of permaculture (design) and other sustainable  farming strategies on their own properties. Our new website is an international platform for all horse and land owners that want to share principles, experiences and education. Anyone can contribute to the website!!

This platform works in a similar way as the Permaculture Research Institute Newsfeed were you can find all the latest posts listed below. With time we hope to build a database for different categories/ topics, which will serve as an open library. But what makes Equine Permaculture different? On this blog site we aim to collect those articles and information that is of particular interest to horse owners. However, we will also touch on livestock, small farm animals, kitchen gardens, house designs, earth works! Anything that is of interest to improving human settlements and responsible integration of horses on properties.

Why join and share your experiences and views?
To build a sustainable future we need to implement new ways of farming and managing pastures. But more than ever we need a paradigm shift, we need creativity. “Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.” Although science can guide is in the right direction, there is still a lot to be discovered about how complex adaptive systems function such as soil, plant behaviour, plant-animal interactions, animal behaviour etc.  Sustainability or balance in complex systems can not be found without trial and (mostly) error! On the large scale of time, we are only for a short time custodians of the land, why not share your trial and errors and change the way people manage their land and horses!

Join the movement towards responsible horse keeping and sustainable living using permaculture!

Do you want to tell your story (can be as small or as large as you want)- just contact the team and email us your story with some pictures or videos and we will post them on this website. For more information see our “become an author/contributor“ page.

Equine Permaculture – courses: “Introduction to Permaculture”

Equine Permaculture will hopefully in the near future be involved with full PDC courses. At this stage we provide introduction to Permaculture  (with an equine focus) workshops and seminars (1 or 2 day events).

The seminars integrate a number of principles such as  Permaculture, Keyline Design, Holistic Management^® (HM) and Behavioural Education for Human, Animal, Vegetation and Ecosystem Management (BEHAVE). Our Regenerative Horse Property Design and Pasture Management workshops and seminars are for all horse and land owners, small and large acreage, that want to learn more about how to restore their land, improve soil carbon, regenerate pastures, drought proof their farm and close the input cycle of chemical based fertilisers by developing their own compost (tea) alternative and reduce supplementary feed cost.

Please event page for more information about workshop locations and dates.

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