For two decades, Natalie has been supporting communities devastated by hurricanes, drought, floods, conflict, and wars. Water is at the core of human resilience whether in humanitarian emergencies, recovery, or long-term development and community planning. In this presentation, Natalie takes us through work she has led in various contexts to support community and household water security – from harvesting greywater to passive water harvesting design at a catchments scale.

ABOUT NATALIE TOPA: Natalie Topa is a regenerative and circular educator and designer who has worked hands-on in Africa, the Middle East, and South East Asia and focused on resilience in forced displacement for almost 20 years. She is the creator of the Sponge Village concept and a hands-on designer and advocate of passive water harvesting, soil building, agro-biodiversity recovery, indigenous food, and seed systems. Natalie is also the founder of Utopa Design and a member of United Designers International.

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In Masterclass #18, I focus on a range of permaculture approaches to storing carbon, plus how to simply repair soil, grow soil and grow great food.

This clip (54 min) is part of the free online permaculture masterclass series that I present each month. These are all sponsored by the Permaculture Education Institute Masterclass topics are always selected by the participants of previous sessions and the Permaculture Educators’ Program.

Permaculture as climate action

In this session, I explore positive permaculture climate action through good soil building strategies to significantly drawdown carbon and grow great local food. The focus of this session is particularly for a household and community scale, but there is also reference to broader regenerative agriculture strategies. I explore:

1. 1.  making soil repair a priority
   2.  a focus on perennials
   3.  methods of least disturbance
   4.  covering and protecting the soil
   5. feeding your garden biochar
   6. adding compost (a whole range of different types)
   7. doing no-dig gardening
   8. supporting regenerative farmers
   9.  teaching and sharing permaculture

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