Patrick Whitefield
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Patrick Whitefield is a British permaculture teacher, designer, and consulting editor for Permaculture Magazine. He is the author of Permaculture in a Nutshell (1993), How to Make a Forest Garden (2002), The Earth Care Manual (2004), and The Living Landscape, How to Read it and Understand it (2010). He has been an influential British exponent of the permaculture system since 1990, and has been interviewed in several television programmes advocating it, including the BBC's It's Not Easy Being Green (2006) and A Farm for the Future (2008).
Whitefield grew up on a smallholding in Somerset and qualified in agriculture at Shuttleworth College in Bedfordshire. He has experience of farming in Britain, the Middle East and Africa, and has been involved in organic gardening, nature conservation, country crafts and green politics.[1] He offers various permaculture courses at Ragmans Lane Farm, Gloucestershire.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ "The Author", Patrick Whitefield, The Earth Care Manual (Permanent Publications, 2004)
- ^ http://www.patrickwhitefield.co.uk/
