About us

We are Lusi Alderslowe and Annette Argabright - both certified permaculture educators and passionate about sharing this with children. You can read a little more about us both below, AND YOU CAN LISTEN TO OUR PODCAST TOO.

Lusi Alderslowe

Lusi is a permaculture educator living in SW Scotland, facilitating learning for both adults and children. Lusi co-founded the Children in Permaculture project, she is a Permaculture Educator, a Forest School Leader, a senior tutor for the Diploma in Applied Permaculture design, and an author of the book ‘Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share in Education: the Children in Permaculture Manual’.

From 2014 to 2022, Lusi was coordinating the international ‘Children in Permaculture’ project  for the Permaculture Association (Britain) which was an Erasmus+ funded, sociocratically organised European project. In the process, Lusi was a key team member who wrote case studies, curriculum, session plans, hundreds of activities and a book about engaging children in permaculture. You can read it for free online, or purchase a book here.

Lusi is involved in various organisations locally and nationally, including being co-chair of the Dumfries & Galloway Outdoor and Woodland Learning Group (DGOWL) and an educator member of the Permaculture Association (Britain).

Lusi forages, gardens, plays, cooks, surveys badgers, walks a lot, organises and facilitates numerous events, and loves our abundant and beautiful Earth. She has a fun, informative, participatory teaching style with lots of diversity.

Lusi is on the Certifying Teachers Register to award Permaculture Association Permaculture Design Course certificates. Find out more

Annette Argabright

Annette, a seasoned permaculture educator and designer, has over 20 years of homeschooling experience and was recently accredited with a second diploma in Applied Permaculture Design through Permaculture Association, Britain (PAB). Lusi was her diploma tutor!

She is co-founder of Family Permaculture, where she teaches family-based classes and offers educational designs with her business partner, is a trainer with Permaculture Children, and a diploma tutor with PAB. She has designed and taught internationally and led teams of professional permaculture designers and installers.

After her PDC in 2016, Annette established Oliver’s Gardens, a small suburban farm, and seedling nursery, where she sold microgreens, greens, and herbs at the local farmer’s market and seedlings to hydroponic and aeroponic growers. 

Annette has a passion for unity, learning, and connection, and permaculture offered the perfect solution for her. An avid learner, she has taken as many permaculture courses and opportunities as possible such as the Children in Permaculture Practitioner's course, Oregon State University’s Climate Resilience and Natural Water Management Advanced PDC’s, and Looby Macnamara’s Cultural Emergence course series. 

Annette is deeply connected to the land and loves spending time in the forest, camping with her grandchildren, exploring new places, and meeting new people. She is eagerly awaiting the arrival of a new grandson!