Welcome to
Permaculture Music
Music is everywhere – and permaculture is now practised in most countries around the globe. As permaculture grows it becomes a unique set of practices for each country and culture, all based on the same ethics and principles.
All cultures have music and song at their heart. They are ways of storing and sharing important knowledge and inspiration, and are a great teaching tool that can grow out of any culture and be shared between cultures.
Music is a vital medium for spreading enjoyment and entertainment in our lives and cultures. So this project recognises and celebrates music and permaculture together. It’s purpose is to help enable music to enhance permaculture’s vital role in creating the resilient, sustainable, healthy and abundant world, and to have a great groovin’ never-ending festival of us all working together with music’s transformative ability, rhythm and energy.
We’re jammin’ with permaculture music, so we hope you like jammin’ too!
What’s Happening
About Us
The permaculture music project objectives are:
- To make music a stronger, more creative element of the permaculture movement, and ‘to distil the movement that is permaculture into music’
Songs & Toons
We want to grow and nurture a wide range of permaculture music, making it easy to access and enjoy. If you have created or know of other PermaMusic please let us know via our Contact page. And here’s an initial selection of PermaMusic for you:
- Nakivale refugee settlement PermaYouth
- Kakuma refugee settlement PermaYouth Ambassador Crew
- PermaYouth Thank You song from New Youth at Kalobeyei refugee settlement
- Water by Kakuma Permayouth Ambassadors Crew
- Grow A Garden by Formidable Vegetable Sound System
- Earth Stars downloads
Crowdfunder
We are asking you to help us raise $30,550 through the Chuffed crowdfunder platform to: a) train young people in the Kakuma and Nakivale refugee settlements in Kenya and Uganda and develop permaculture learning and demonstration farms there; b) create a first PermaYouth album, a Perma Reggae album and translate the Formidable Veg Rhymers Manual to Spanish; c) improve the design & functioning of this website as a platform, inspiration and connecting point for permaculture music; d) and more!
Donate now on our Crowdfunder page
Education & Projects
Direct support from this project will enable more people – young people in particular – to be trained, inspired and engaged in permaculture through more courses, demonstration sites and more music. In particular, we want to develop ways to involve young people in permaculture in refugee communities, in urban communities around the world, and who are on their own learning journeys to find their positive purpose and path in life, wherever they are in the world.
The PMP website will make a wide range of education resources available to support people who are practising permaculture in their lives, and to support and encourage permaculture courses, teacher training and permaculture learning and demonstration projects around the world. It will also signpost them to other useful resources and organisations.
We will create a short guide to Permaculture Music, with short videos telling the stories and describing creative processes behind the examples of PermaMusic created by this project, including examples of how they can be used educationally.
Links to key education resources:
- The Tropical Permaculture Guidebook – available for free or by donation, already over 120,000 downloads globally, across 160 countries;
- Essence of Permaculture booklet available in 17 languages as a free download
- iACT (Activating Community Transformation) resources and support system for permaculture and regenerative projects;
IPEN permaculture learning resources, including Lush Spring Prize & IPEN Case Studies of inspirational projects around the world, permaculture curriculum documents, climate action education resources and more.
Connecting Permaculture Musicians
We want to use this website, a Permaculture Music group on Mighty Networks and a Bancamp page to enable musicians and songwriters to collaborate from anywhere around the world in the creation and sharing of PermaMusic, whether they are as individual artists, bands or involved in music production.
If you’ve got digital skills or network building skills that can help us create this ‘PermaMusic Web’ and are happy to donate your time for free, please contact us via the Permaculture Music group on Mighty Networks.
Who is Involved?
The permaculture music project has been initiated and is supported by a team including Permaculture South Australia, The Tropical Permaculture Guidebook & PermatilGlobal, the Formidible Vegetable Sound System, IPEN (International Permaculture Education Network), Morag Gamble & PermaYouth, Rakesh Rootsman, Permaculture Magazine.
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New website
We’re pleased to announce our new website is up and running! This is where you can stay tuned to all the Permaculture Music related news.