This document proposes three permaculture projects for the TPRF Foundation: 1. A permaculture playground at a school to teach children sustainable agriculture practices and encourage environmental stewardship. 2. A permaculture demonstration site near a food center to grow food sustainably and teach local producers permaculture techniques. 3. A global conference center designed with permaculture principles to be self-sustaining and serve as an educational and fundraising space.

1. Project Proposals
1. TPRF Permaculture Playground
2. TPRF Food for People Permaculture
Demo Site
3. TPRF Permaculture Peace Garden
Co-Created by Josh Gomez & Rosie Stonehill

2. TPRF Permaculture Playground
“Applying the principles of permaculture in schoolyard projects reinforces
values of resourcefulness, stewardship, and sustainability” Patrick Praetorius
Project Goals
This project has children at its centre,
encouraging them to observe and work with
nature to create more abundant and
ecologically stable environments for the
future. The ultimate goal is for them to
design, implement and maintain a
Permaculture landscape in and around their
school, providing the needs of the entire
school and serving as an example for the
local community. These children will be the
ones to inherit their family’s lands and with
this knowledge they will be fully prepared to
turn any degraded land into highly diverse
and supportive landscapes.

3. Time Frame
In the first three months we will teach a
Permaculture Design Course at the school
attended by the children and twelve volunteers
from around the world. At the end of the course
they will work in groups to design a Permaculture
garden for the grounds of the school.
During the next three months we will help them
implement the design. At this time, the
volunteers will work closely with us and some will
be chosen to help in the continuation of this
project.
Over the next five years between us and the
selected volunteers we will take it in turns to be
posted on the project to help the school in the
maintenance and development of the site.
After this time responsibility for the site will be
returned to the school and local community. By
this point, as well as supplying the school with
food and various other resources, a small surplus
will be produced which can either be exchanged
or sold to generate an income for the benefit of
the school.

4. Volunteers
We suggest that there would be 3
permaculture diplomats present in the six
months with the 12 other English speaking
volunteers from all different countries. These
volunteers could pay their fairs for travel and
possibly a fee for the design course which
would go directly into the running of the
project. They would need to show interest and
commitment to the project and have a keen
interest in permaculture. The group of these
volunteers who are selected to continue on
with the project after the first six months
would hopefully use this period as an
internship working towards their diploma.
These people would then become the ideal
candidates to help in subsequent projects for
TPRF.

5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa2Kp6Q095g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn7RHgIbF8o
Here are two examples of permaculture school
gardens. Click to play
If you would like to see more, here are some websites where you can find other
examples.
http://www.permacultureusa.org/category/permaculture-projects/aid-projects
http://permacultureglobal.com/projects
http://permacultureglobal.com/projects/447-dewe-school-of-practical-arts-and-sciences

6. TPRF Food for People
Permaculture demonstration site
Project Goals
Linked with Food for people, the primary
function of this project is to sustainably grow
the food for the centre on a near by site in
such a way that it only improves the local
environment, building soil, replenishing the
water table, encouraging biodiversity and
bringing together community.
Its other function would be to demonstrate
to other local producers some of the
applications of permaculture. All workers on
the project will have taken the Permaculture
design course and will understand and be
able to explain the workings of the system.
Some of them will become confident
designers and will be able to lay down other
permaculture systems for local farmers, who
can in turn produce more food for the
centres.

7. Time Frame
In the beginning, the site will be chosen and the
design course would be offered to any of the local
people interested to be involved. It could be only a
small acreage at first and then expanded as needed.
This project could function in a similar way to the
school playground proposal in that the course could
also be attended by other people from around the
world who would pay to do the course thus helping
fund the project for the local people.
At the end of the course, between us and the
course participants, a design would be drawn up
and everyone involved would be invited to
volunteer their effort to implement this design with
our help.
During the first year we would recommend the
constant presence of an experienced designer but
over subsequent years the system and it’s
caretakers will need less and less external help,
ultimately only requiring a small group of local
workers to continue production of a large and
diverse quantity of yields though out the year.

8. Part1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9fhCEzWS04
Part2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayj-7FCbdow&feature=related
Part3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChZWl2L_TtQ&feature=related
28 min video on Permaculture in the tropics, that has examples
of projects both in India and Africa. Click to play

9. TPRF Permaculture
Peace Garden
Project Goals
We propose the establishment of a global
conference / event centre that is both a place for
the presentation of Prem Rawat’s message and the
work of TPRF and is also a setting in which to run
workshops, seminars and talks on various subjects
including environmental and humanitarian issues,
sustainable agriculture/ permaculture, ecobuilding,
aquaculture and ecological commerce.
The setting up, maintenance and running of this
centre would provide a wide range of service
opportunities and training could be given onsite.
To enable wide access to the centre we
recommend that a location is found which is
globally centralised , with sensible land prices and
a bureaucratic system favourable to ecological
projects.

10. Sustainable and productive
The site will be designed to be as self
supporting as possible, supplying all its own
needs and the needs of all guests and staff: eg
energy, water, food, shelter. At the same time it
would produce no waste or pollution taking all
surplus energy back into the sysytem. To
accomplish this it would utilise and
demonstrate a wide variety of the techniques
and strategies of Permaculture.
Once established the site will not only cease to
require financial input, but through the many
other activities and events happening there, it
will raise money for TPRF. Once it has reached
this point of economic stability, a niche will
open for other similar centres to be created in
other parts of the world .

11. A multi functional space
The centre can also serve multiple extra
functions providing an educational space for
all generations, a venue for fund raising events
and concerts, a centre for the local community
eg, running local markets, wild food walks etc,
and a place for international cultural
exchange.
When there are no functions underway the
site will be able to tic over with a minimal
workforce. Otherwise the site could double
up as a small organic farm producing fruit, veg,
eggs etc, creating employment opportunities
and generating a continuous income by selling
produce in markets or weekly veg boxes to the
local towns.

12. The Potential Is Endless
These are just a few of our ideas which could be
applicable to the work of TPRF. Permaculture
design is an incredibly diverse and adaptable system
which is applicable to basically any climate or
situation. It is also possible that there are already
projects underway which TPRF could partner up
with.
We hope that this presentation clearly puts across
the potential of Permaculture as a tool for
humanitarian aid with the ultimate goal of getting
communities back on their feet and empowering
people to live their lives.
Whether any of these proposals are taken up or not
it has been really enjoyable working on this and
seeing a way in which we can bridge our passion for
doing service and our profession.
If you have any questions or need further details on
any of the proposals feel free to ask. Also, if you
have any other ideas of ways in which we could
help the foundation with the skills we have we
would love to hear from you. © Copyright 2011 Rosie Stonehill and Josh Gomez
Email: rosiestonestar@yahoo.co.uk Tel: 00351932039085