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The Nordic Permaculture Festival began as a travelling gathering. It moved between Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark. After completing the circle, it would start again — hosted by different places, shaped by different local contexts.

To understand the current situation, we need to go back to 2011.

The first Nordic Permaculture Festival was held at Friland, at Karoline and Tycho’s farm. It emerged from grassroots initiative. It was relational, rotating, and rooted in community.

Some time ago I received an email asking whether I would transfer the domains NordicPermaculture.org and NordicPermacultureFestival.org. The request came with the intention to use them as a shared Nordic platform for information, collaboration, and visibility.

Here is the message I received:

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"Dear Dominik,

I hope you are doing well.

I’m reaching out to you regarding the two domains connected to the Permaculture network: NordicPermaculture.org and NordicPermacultureFestival.org.

The LAND (Learning Action Network Demonstration) model originates from the UK Permaculture Association. It was designed as a framework to help newcomers experience permaculture through demonstration sites. Despite its usefulness as a concept, LAND is not in itself a permaculture design. Andy Goldring has referred to it as an emergent design – something that developed organically rather than being built on a documented process from the start.

PermaTalks (PermaPuheet), organized by the European Permaculture Network (EuPN), return with an exciting sixth season starting on 15 January 2026 – one lecture every week on Thursdays at 18:30 CET! This online lecture and discussion series features inspiring talks from leading voices in permaculture.

Here are the lectures:

At the beginning of each year, the European Permaculture Network (EuPN) hosts the PermaTalks – a lecture and discussion series running every Thursday at 18:30 CET, from 15 January to 5 March.

We’re currently looking for one additional discussion guest for two upcoming PermaTalks:
• Permaculture Courses – share your experience in teaching, structuring, or improving courses.
• Permaculture Project Implementation – bring your perspective from real-life design and implementation work.

In early 2024, I shared a link to Nordicpermaculture.org in the Slack channel of the Finnish Permaculture Association. The then-chair, Erkki Pöytäniemi, publicly responded with concern that I might be using the association's platform to promote a "competing" site.