GROUNDED Permaculture Retreat at Earth Frequency 2021

Adapting and responding to change - Earth Frequency Festival is proud to still offer the Permaculture Retreat in partnership with GroundeAdapting and responding to change - Earth Frequency Festival is proud to still offer the Permaculture Retreat in partnership with Grounded Permaculture Action Party Inc. and Peak Organics at Ivory's Rock.

This carefully curated and gracefully facilitated Permaculture Retreat gives a small group of participants a solid grounding in a broad range of regenerative topics based on projects happening on site. It is designed for those who are ready to take action and gain the practical knowledge and skills required to sink their roots deep into radical self-determination and productive land regeneration.

Annaliese Hordern: Propagation & Seed Saving
Drawing upon two decades of Permaculture experience, Annaliese has a strong focus on ethnobotanical research and plant based lifestyle. Her lived experiences in Eco-communities around the world and working alongside many of the original pioneers in the industry have provided a solid grounding for Annaliese's interactive facilitation practice and education programs.

Anita Greenwood: Certified Organic & Biodynamic Farming
As the farm and volunteer manager at Peak Organics, Anita enjoys getting dirt under her fingernails while producing organic food for herself and the local community. During Anita’s session on the farm.

Ross Higgins: Leaky Weirs (Natural Sequence Farming)
Learn about the simple yet progressive technique of Leaky Weirs (a technique of Natural Sequence Farming), transforming damaged landscapes around Australia. Leaky Weirs help eroded gullies become thriving waterways by maintaining conditions that help retain water and reestablish vegetation and broader ecologies.

Thiago Barbosa: Syntropic Farming
Syntropic Farming follows the practical theories of Ernst Gotsch, a Swiss/Brazilian plant biologist that has over 30 years’ experience in reading forests to design regenerative systems. Over many decades of observation and practice, Ernst Gotsch has formulated agricultural systems based on natural succession, creating ecosystems with similar structures, functions and dynamics to natural and localized biomes.

Bushtekniq: Holistic Bush Care
We are tali & Jono, a sister-brother duo committed to assisting natural bush regeneration, using ethical perspective & holistic technique. Based on Brisbane's northside, we have worked for over a decade as bush regenerators throughout the region and beyond - in coastal dunes, wetlands, waterways, paddock, scrub and ancient forests. Along the way, we love to share our learnings and inspire others to care for the country too.

Lynda Maybanks: Wirrinyah Conservation

“Wirrinyah” means coming back in Yugara language. It represents the ongoing revival of Yugara ways of being and doing through caring for country. With strong connections to South East Queensland namely, Yugara (Yerongpan, Gungin-jin, Miguntyin, Gatteebil clans) and Yugembeh (Mullunjali, Wangerriburra, Koombumerri clans), Wirrinyah is a 100% indigenous owned Land Management Organisation. Lynda and the Wirrinyah team aim to regenerate our natural areas, conserve our native species and protect Aboriginal cultural heritage sites for the enjoyment of all Australians.

Leah Corey: Daily Mindful Movement Meditation

As we humans are the ones that must do the work to regenerate our connection to the land and our communities, it is of utmost importance that we do so whilst taking care of our mind, body and soul. Every Grounded event includes a morning practice mix of Mindful Movement Meditation to ensure each participant has the opportunity to fully receive all of the information and practices from a healthy state of being. Healing, sound expression, song circles and Zenthai Shiatsu.

Daniel Rodgers: Retreat Host

Daniel is the Secretary of Grounded and an agent of change committed to living in integrity with permaculture ethics and principles. He is a founding member who has played a key role in the growth and development of the organisation since the start and will be hosting the retreat experience throughout the week.

Earth Frequency https://www.earthfrequency.com.au/
Grounded Permaculture https://www.groundedpermaculture.org/

🙏 Acknowledgement of Country: We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live, and recognize their continuing connection with the land, water, and community. We pay respect to Elders past, present, and emerging. 🙏