
Portfolio
- Sector39 is based in Wales with director Steven Jones
and a partnership of permaculture desginers, teachers, volunteers
and apprentices working together to deliver permaculture inspired courses,
projects and sustainable landscape design.
We are
currently running our 10th 76 hr Permaculture Design
Course and planning the next 3 we will running in 2011.
Based in the Welsh borders in Llanrhaeadr Ym Mochnant, Powys and working
closely with a variety of different projects, including:
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.
We run
practical work shops and skill sharing events promoting the recquisite
skills and understanding for organic food growing, crafts and community
enterprise.
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.

In August
-September 2008 Steve Jones appeared in a 6 part TV series, along with
other Workhouse/ and Sector39 members, where we worked iwth a family
for 2 weeks, confronting them with Green ideas and practicalsits of
taking mroe responsibility for one's carbon footprint.
The series
is available for download here, each episode is about 200mb.
Episode 01: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YWTX11VH
Episode 02: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y1YJ972S
Episode 03: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B0KUYJJQ
Episode 04: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=02MOK2C2
Episode 05: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Z05O0IJ7
Episode 06: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XZ2B18YV

Courses
images ..
here are some images from recent courses


Older
Press: Dave Richards writing in permaculture
magazine on the growing interest in the Roof
Garden as an outdoor classroom. The
Outdoor classroom
Sector39
ran a series of courses in Sustainability and Permaculture at the Workhouse
in 2009 and 2010

Ideal
Home Show 2008:
Sector39 were invited to install a forest 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
- Cwm
Harry Land Trust: Community garden and local food hub
- 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.
- Permanent
Housing Cooperative. I am a director and founding member of this
co-op, dedicated to create sustainable housing and livlihoods for
its members.
- RISC
roof garden;
I worked for 2 years with this fantastic project to install a roof
top forest garden in reading city centre.
- 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
See the
Sector39 Blog for latest write ups of
courses, updates, links and news
See the
About us section for more about the People
behind Sector39