permaculture

["marijana@kneja" <marijana@kneja.hr>]

hello,
i have done some 'initiation' to permaculture with about 80 kids in 
rural places in 4 basic schools in Medjimurje county, Croatia.
we made a web page about reduce, reuse, recycle, rethink where the 
kods post also their expirience with the workshops that we have held. 
we made a small lake, two worm composting, homemade soap of olive oil 
and building with straw and clay.
we made also a multimedial CD about RRRR and LETS and Permaculture 
for kids (age 12-15) the CD and web page are in croatian
but you can see the pictures from the workshops.


http://www.kneja.hr/Pika/galzeb/index.htm
http://www.kneja.hr/Pika/galvr/index.htm
http://www.kneja.hr/Pika/galsm/index.htm
http://www.kneja.hr/Pika/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1114284114&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1&;

it's not quite permacultural, but it is the begining of introducing 
permaculture in schools. the teachers have positive reactions, and 
the kids were happy to get into dirt and out of the classrooms. we 
plan to continue the activities with establishing school gardens and 
willow structures...

greetings, Marijana, Croatia

At 00:27 19.1.2006, you wrote:
> Hello Patty,
> many thanks for your reply. Yes it is exciting  isnt't it?
> I know about Robina's work and I should get in touch with her asap 
> (I do have her latest address I think)
> I would surely have a look at any material you may have to share 
> and/or experience.
> The thing here in Barcelona is that I do not yet know what are 
> schools actually doing
> and how they do it. The person I met said that there are programs in 
> most schools
> but is really difficult to evaluate how they tackle each case unless 
> I do not see it.
> Anyway if the information I gather is detailed enough this might be 
> useful for them to compare
> their methods with what PC people do around the world in schools.