Our mission is to support Queer and vulnerable communities with permaculture education. We also assist those who run organisations to implement frameworks underpinned by ecological thinking and Queer theory for a better future.

Born out of a desire to empower Queer community towards systems thinking solutions for their problems, PermaQueer now is turning that lens outward to offer Queer solutions to wicked problems in the world today.

PermaQueer is first and foremost a education outfit to support Queer, POC and other vulnerable communities through permaculture education. We offer a variety of courses in permaculture and the intersection of queer theory, permaculture and systems thinking with accessible options for our communities.

It’s not enough to just tend our queer and other vulnerable communities, as systems thinking tells us, we must also tend to the other systems we’re nested in and around as well. To address this PermaQueer has collaborated with a number of queer, first nations and POC communities to create frameworks forward for organisations and communities. Taking a decolonising stance and understanding that it will not be the individualist, the lone entrepreneur but vast and diverse communities across economic standings and ways of life all collectively taking regenerative postures in ways appropriate for them for a brighter future.

PermaQueer was co-founded by Guy Ritani (they/them/Ia) and Toad Dell (they/them/it)

This organisation has not been a sole effort by Toad and Guy though, the organisation is here because of the support and collaborations with women, POC and queers within permaculture and other communities.

Currently Toad and Guy are working with others in the hope of expanding beyond them more widely, increasing the team of PermaQueer. Our goal as a team is to develop PermaQueer into a social enterprise ecosystem, embedding queer and other voices to be leading within regenerative industries.