[Sdpg] Robina & Huckleberry in Hawaii

[Robina McCurdy]

Dear colleagues
I am a New Zealander who works with permaculture and community 
development.  I am interested to visit Hawaii, (having over and over 
been recommended to do so) on my return to New Zealand after being on 
mainland USA this year.    My partner Huckleberry, from USA,  would 
consider coming too on his return to NZ, if consultancy or teaching 
work developed there for us.  We are interested to offer some teaching 
&/or consultancy work there, and am writing to you either as people who 
have hosted or taught permaculture courses in Hawaii before.  I/we 
offer a range of workshops and courses which can vary in length from 
one day to two weeks, as well as offering the standard 72 hour 
permaculture course  - see outline below - more information about each 
of these available on request, as well as our sliding scale fee 
schedule.  We also like to co-teach with a local person.
My projected dates in Hawaii are Tues 25 October - Mon 14 November.
looking forward to hearing from you
warm regards
Robina McCurdy
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'GREENWORLD' EDUCATION & CONSULTANCY

  Robina McCurdy (NZ) & Huckleberry (USA) offer the following as 
courses, workshops, consultancy and practical hands-on work, in 
Aotearoa/New Zealand, USA and other countries as invited:

>  PERMACULTURE/SUSTAINABLE LANDUSE
> - Permaculture Certification Courses
> - Organic Growing, Garden & Orchard Design
> - Edible Landscaping, specializing in native plants
> - Designing your own Organic Urban or Rural Property
> - Family Home Food Producion
>  - Permaculture for ‘3rd World’ & Indigenous Peoples
> - Sustainable Landuse Facilitation
> - Natural Building
>
> EARTH/NATURE RELATIONSHIP & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
> - Earth-Spirit Nature Journeys & Retreats
> - Personal Nature Attunement
>  - Creating Sacred Space
> - Plant Spirit Connection
> - Landuse Design in Partnership with Nature
>  - Clarifying & Empowering Life Direction
> - Co-creative Living
>
> COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
> - Ecovillage & Intentional Community Design & Development
> - Developing Bioregional Self-Reliance
> - Creating a Culture of Abundance
>  - Wholistic Goal-Setting Process
> - Creating a Sustainable Social Organisation
> - Facilitating Community Groups
>
> FOR CHILDREN
> Wholistic & Productive School Grounds Design & Development
> Environmental Education Programmes (including music)
> Children’s Home Gardens

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
  Robina McCurdy, Tui, Wainui Bay, RD1, Takaka
  Phone: 03 5258605 or 03 5258399. Email: robina at win.co.nz

OUR BACKGROUNDS

Huckleberry (Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA)
For the past 30 years Huckleberry has been owner of and primary 
consultant for GREENWORLD, a company specialising in edible and 
sustainable landuse design in the northwest USA. He has qualifications 
in zoology, landscaping, permaculture and community development. 
Huckleberry has taught permaculture design in South Africa, Britain, 
Australia and North & South America, including community projects in 
Patagonia, Costa Rica and many states of the USA. He also teaches 
classes in native plant identification, wild foods foraging and seed 
collecting, and facilitates deep nature connection experiences in the 
Olympic National Park wilderness. Huckleberry is a plant adviser for 
Raintree Nursery (USA-wide plant mail order) and an 
educator-designer-plant materials collector for the International Fruit 
Tree Foundation. Two strong underpinnings in his life are yoga and 
music, including a diversity of performance music.

Robina McCurdy (Golden Bay, Aotearoa/New Zealand)
  Robina is co-founder/resident/trustee of Tui Land Trust & Community 
and founder/trustee of the Institute for Earthcare Education Aotearoa. 
She has a Diploma in Permaculture, plus various teaching 
qualifications. For 20 years Robina has been engaged in community 
development, permaculture design and tutoring, organic growing, the 
development of environmental education resources and the creation of 
participatory processes for decision making and collective action. She 
has taught and applied these powerful community-building methods with 
households, neighbourhoods, schools, farms, ecovillages and bioregions, 
in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, Brazil and 
USA. Robina was the originator/coordinator of Golden Bay's 'PLANET 
Organic', a year-long vocational training in community-scale 
sustainable landuse design, management & facilitation. Throughout her 
life, she has worked with minimal resources to bring
about significant changes in the lives of people, their communities and 
their environment. Consequently, human capacity building is one of 
Robina's special skills - inspiring, guiding and offering specific 
tools and techniques for people to access their gifts, develop their 
potential, build their resourcefulness, and live their dreams.