Portfolio - Sector39 is Director Steve Jones working in partnership or association with permaculture desginers, students, teachers and practitioners from all around the world to deliver courses, projects and sustainable landscape design. Currently based in Llanfyllin Powys and workingclosely with the LlanfyllinWorkhouse.org project, Steve also has a long association with the renoun CAT in Machynlleth as well as the Permaculture Association and the Roof Garden project at RISC and Dave Richards of Eco-Garden.

Sector39 can deliver courses and training in permaculture design and process and we love to work with school and community groups to build edible forest gardens and productive landscapes and run work shops and skill sharing events promoting the recquisite skills and understanding. Connecting people and landscape to creative action.

Here is some media and links on the landscaping, garden design and project work we have been involved in over the last few years.

BBC Wales TV: Changing Lives - Going Green.
Filmed in August 2009 at the Workhouse and aired Nov/Dec/09, I advised, participated in and have written for the series

Courses images .. here are some images from recent courses

Recent Press: Dave Richards writing in permaculture magazine on the growing interest in the Roof Garden as an outdoor classroom. The Outdoor classroom

Llanfyllin Workhouse

New partners new locations, The remarkable Workhouse building at Llanfyllin is now home to a vibrant new arts, education and environment project. We are working with volunteers, project members and local community to landscape the site and develop its wonderful potential to host courses and all sorts of events.

Ideal Home Show 2008: We were invited to instal a dorest garden as part of the Eco home exhibit at the ideal Home Show in Earl's Court London

Aspire Reading; This project involved working closely with the 'Whitley excellence cluster' of nursey, primary and junior schoools schools to develop low maintenance sensory gardens with 6 schools in the Whitley area of Reading.

Our brief was to develop unused corners of school grounds to create attractive and productive landscapes stimulating interest in plants, produce and recycling. See the Project Blog

Hard landscaping at one of the Aspire Schools. The hexagonal oak seat will also be a sundial and compass. And the plantings will include fruiting trees and shrubs, kiwi vines and a bamboo grove. The beds are sheet mulched with zoocompost and straw, woodchip and card. In the foreground we have excavated a hole for a new pond.

 

• St John Fisher School Harrow
  Transforming a piece of derelict ground on to an 'Awe and Wonder' garden, with living willow hide within a mixed orchard of fruiting trees, shrubs, climbers and herbs

RISC Roof Garden
See a recent article about the project
where we make the case for green roofs
See the Roof Garden project Website

This project transformed a leaking and ugly flat roof into a 210 square metre garden of over 180 species of edible and medicinal plants from around the world. The garden is comprised of many recycled and reclaimed materials and is fed by composted waste and stored rainwater It is an excellent teaching resource for exploring issues around sustainability and other global issues.

RISC Roof Garden; We have gained significant experience in project maintenance, interpretation and development in our 5 years of involvement with this ground breaking project

Chickenshack Housing Co-operative - below

Forest garden, windbreak and veg beds, in what was once a bare windswept sheep pasture

• Workhouse project; I have been working with the Workhouse at Llanfyllin and project around it since 2008 and have based S39 there since May 2009
• Chickenshack housing Co-operative; I was involved with this permaculture inspired low impact housing project from its inception in 1992 until 2008. Financed entirely by ethical raised finance and with 4 buildings and 5 acres of organic landscape t manage.
• Channel4.com/green I contribute occasionally to Channel 4's green website
• The Willowbank: Another regular collaborater on courses and garden projects, The Willowbank are leading exponents in living willow structures
• Eco-garden; Dave Richards with whom I worked with on the Aspire gardens, the Roof garden as well as John Fisher, has his own eco gardening operation in Reading
• Sweet Loving Flowers; These are friends of mine who I sometimes work on courses with and they operate an organic local cut flowers business