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:
- Treflach Farm
- Cwm Harry Land Trust
- Pikea Green Wood Craft
- Llandrindod Transition Towns group
- Farm2Grow care farm, Staffordshire Moorlands
- Steve
Jones also has a long association with the renoun
Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth - Permaculture Association
- Roof Garden project at RISC
- 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.
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
Llanfyllin Workhouse
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 WebsiteThis 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
