The objectives of the permaculture music project are:
- To make music a stronger, more creative element of the permaculture movement, and ‘to distil the movement that is permaculture into music’
- To make permaculture more accessible using songs and music to store, grow and spread knowledge
- To close the loop back to our roots, back to arts and dance, and to traditional, cultural learning methods
- To make content that is in an ‘introduction to permaculture’ courses and in a PDC (permaculture design certificate) course available in a range of different cultural formats
‘This is the next evolution in permaculture’ Charlie Mgee, Formidable Vegetable Sound System
The initial outputs and outcomes of the permaculture music project are:
- 3+ permaculture music albums available in different formats, including a first ‘permamusic’ album in Spanish and a first ‘perma-reggae’ album
- Funding for physical PermaYouth projects in refugee settlements in Africa
- to train young people through Permaculture courses and teacher training
- create 2+ permaculture good practice demonstration sites in refugee settlements in Kenya and Uganda
- Improving the design and functioning of this online permaculture music platform to:
- Make this music available globally
- Host forums and other ways to connect and engage people together around permaculture and music
- Inspire the creation of new music, new permaculture activity, and new local-to-global collaborations in these fields