Author Profile

Hello, my name is Michael, and I am the Principle and Director of Savour Soil Permaculture. I began my permaculture journey about 25 years ago when I picked up a copy of Permaculture One and the Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison, and did my first PDC with Milkwood and have since done 13 PDCs as a student, 4 teacher trainers and 8 more ‘advanced’ permaculture courses and have also studied horticulture at TAFE.

I am also the former Adult Education Coordinator at NSCF and am the community gardens coordinator at the University of Queensland. I now apply permaculture’s design principles and ethics to my workplace and community, professional and personal life.

I have also been fortunate enough to apply the design process on over 300 sites over the last 10 years. I have applied the design principles and ethics of permaculture to my personal life and I am now enjoying the wonderful opportunities of being able to apply them to my workplace and my community.

I enjoy learning about the many different facets of permaculture and design and through my learning, I have also come to love teaching and sharing my knowledge.

My teachers include Rosemary Morrow, Nick Ritar, David Holmgren, Dan Palmer ,Dave Jacke, Darren Doherty, Robin Clayfield plus many more. I aspire to be as inspirational and practical as my teachers.

I continue to do other courses to advance my knowledge and to increase the value which I may provide in both my teaching, projects​ and consultations.