Hello from Nature’s Gift Permaculture Centre. We thought we should provide you all with an update of some of the things that have been going on since June, when Oliver Wootton replaced our much-loved founder Hope Thornton as Executive Director. The centre still functions as a training and demonstration centre, but is now run by [...]

After a long and participatory process with all of our staff, not all of whom speak English or even Chichewa as their first language, we have all agreed on the following Vision and Mission. Comments welcome! Many thanks to SIT Graduate Institute Intern Adam Goldberg for helping us to facilitate this process. VISION Nature’s Gift Permaculture [...]

Congratulations and a big THANK YOU to Afshan Omar who has dedicated the past six months to helping us develop an organic market garden as well as run an incredibly successful Green Camp.  Afshan will begin the new year by leading the operations team at NGP as our new Operations Manager!

With the rains blowing closer every day, it seems there is almost no time for good old-fashioned ‘paper work’ – or the odd blog update! The days at NGP have barely been getting longer (we have about 1 hour extra in the summer time!) but we are trying to make every minute count. Currently we [...]