Eco-logic Books

The best place to find books on landcare, sustainable living, permaculture, good living, death, sheds that look like turtles, and other quintessential texts. Peter Andrews lovingly compiles this smorgasborg of goodies - why go anywhere else?

The Permaculture Association

The Permaculture Association is the hub of the Permaculture network in the UK. As good a place to start as any!

The Permaculture Magazine

The best source of information on what is happening in Permaculture in the UK. Contains course listings, articles, handy tips, and a good set of links.

Transition Culture

Visit only if you are prepared for a journey that starts today and will take you for the rest of your life. This is perhaps the most intriguing website of them all. . . Take a look at the realities of Climate Change and Peak Oil in the warm company of the Transition Movement who offer hope and heart in the form of a massive community response. For such challenges action must start with the individual but then build into grass roots commuinty action. Jump aboard.

The Willow Bank

This is Steve Pickup's willow catalogue site with more details of willow varieties, how, where, and when to plant willow.

Fruiting Bodies

Ragmans Lane has close links with this company who are pioneering the cultivation of medicinal and gourmet mushrooms in the UK. If you are interested in tintures of Shiitake, Reishi, or Trametes, check them out.

Wilderness Discovery

Bushcraft experiences in the Wye Valley and Forest of Dean.

Elemental Solutions

Nick Grant runs elemental. If you are looking for advice on rainwater, greywater, septic water or anything remotely connected with it - go here. Its a good website, and worth a visit.

Seed Savers Network Australia

Jude and Michel Fanton run Seedsavers. They taught our 1996 permaculture course here at Ragmans, and co wrote the Seedsavers Handbook, published by eco-logic books in 1997.

Shift Bristol

Shift Bristol has been formed to support local sustainable community action with useful and innovative training.

Land Reaserch Associates

Land Research Associates specialises in all aspects of soil science, land quality and rural land use.

  • Eco Shamanism Year Training

    ‘Becoming one with our Earth’

    A year long course of six weekends beginning 19 - 22 April 2018

    (scroll down for more dates)

    A series of six 3 and 4 day weekends every three or so months studying the contemporary areas of shamanism with an emphasis on eco reciprocity. You will be embarking on your own personal eco shamanic journey within a community of like minded beings (and the more than human world) whilst also learning all the major shamanic healing techniques. Certificates (not compulsory!) awarded following the course if all weekends have been attended and assignments etc completed.

    Areas covered are (but not limited to) as follows:-

    Perception, awareness and sensation - diving into ourselves as Earth - a marriage of senses and spirit (the sixth sense).
    Spirits of land and nature, space and place (genius loci); accessing places and spaces of power; connecting to the more than human world (plants, animals and other earth forms).
    Vision Quest - understanding the process of the journey within and without. Calling for a vision. Working with labyrinths.
    The elements - a deep look at fire, earth, air and water (and the seasonal cycles of Sun and Moon).
    Energetic medicine techniques and the recovery of power - identifying and remedying misplaced energy and power. Soul retrieval - the return of spirit essences for a more fulfilled life, for you, others and the more than human world.
    Eco Mapping and Oracular work - middle world nature/spirit healing using perception and perspective techniques.
    Sustainable living practises - you are what you eat, travelling lightly, future thinking, remote viewing.
    The shamans horse (drum, rattle, sistrum and bell) - healing circles and the instrument’s voice or song.
    Psychopomp (death and dying) - assisting the dying and dead to find their true place of rest.
    The beginning and end game - the nature of time, connection to source, authenticity, the ego and icons.

    Dates: Weekends in 2018 and March 2019 run from 6.30pm Thursday to 3 - 4pm Sunday. Weekends of January and June 2019 run from 6.30pm Wednesday to 3 - 4 Sunday.
    Places are limited to 13.

    2018
    April 19 -22 / July 12 - 15 / November 1 - 4

    2019
    January 9 - 13 / March 28 - 31 / June 12 - 16

    For further details and booking CLICK HERE or contact Mandy direct tel: 01594 541850 mobile: 07805 800313 email: info@mandypullen.co.uk

    Course requirements: You need to know how to journey shamanically and there is an opportunity to learn this technique at a Learn to Journey workshop or one to one with me. You will also need a shamanic drum (this can be borrowed and does not need to be owned). A commitment to all six weekends is required.

    Cost: Fees include all tuition, vegetarian meals and accommodation and can be paid in instalments over the year.

    Deposit to book your place: £150 followed by

    Concessions - 2 places available - £1200
    Early bird price by 31st Jan 2018 - £1350
    Full Price after 31st Jan 2018 - £1500
    Certificate fee is £150 extra on all fees.

    Tutor Details:
    Mandy Pullen is an eco shamanic practitioner based in the Forest of Dean. She runs workshops on eco shamanism and co leads workshops with Jane Embleton on pilgrimage and other sacred related work and with Freya Davies on Plant Eco Shamanism (see other listings). Mandy lived at the farm over 20 years ago and set up and ran the organic garden and box scheme.

     

     

     


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