Do you seek to live compassionately without the unnecessary exploitation of people, animals and the environment? Are you concerned about climate change and future generations? Are you interested in changing how we interact with other species, ecosystems and our human communities? Then our Grow Beyond Vegan! Introduction to Vegan Permaculture Course is for you!

Grow Beyond Vegan! Reducing your intake of animal products is a powerful and positive step towards a more compassionate lifestyle, and greatly reduces your environmental impacts. Yet even a vegan diet can have a high carbon footprint if still reliant on processed foods from industrialised agricultural systems. These often remove trees and forests from land in order to grow fossil fuel dependent annual crops, or rely heavily on imported products, cash crops and exploited labour. The Vegan way combined with permaculture design systems can create a world that is not just ‘sustainable’ but truly REGENERATIVE, restoring forests, repairing ecosystems, building soils, increasing biodiversity, developing local economies and addressing issues of social justice and animal liberation! Our forthcoming weekend course held in the beautiful setting of Karuna Insight Design Forest Garden, Shropshire, is a unique opportunity to learn about Vegan Permaculture principles with instructor Graham Burnett, author of The Vegan Book of Permaculture and experienced Permaculture Designer. Places are limited, so don’t miss this amazing opportunity to apply Ecological Veganism to your life and world!

Venue: Karuna Insight Design, Shropshire. Set within an area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB) on the upper fringes of the ‘Long Mynd’, Karuna is an 18 acre low impact Permaculture and Forest garden demonstration site, where visitors, students and volunteers can directly explore and experience some of the possibilities that exist to help revitalise the British countryside (creation of a nature reserve) and to help the nation accommodate, feed and power itself in the most positive way. The project has become a highly valued unique working educational resource.

Led By: The course will be taught by Graham Burnett (Dip. Perm Des). Graham has been teaching permaculture since 1998, is a holder of the Diploma in Permaculture Design and author of Permaculture A Beginner’s Guide and the Vegan Book of Permaculture. He runs Spiralseed, an ethical venture working in partnership with others who share concerns around social environmental justice. He has been vegetarian since 1977 and vegan since 1984.

Dates: Friday 31 August – Sun 2 September 2018