Ms.Tammy Turner
Tammy Turner is a Permaculture designer/educator based in northern Taiwan, where she has lived for over 30 years. Permaculture is a ecologically-focused, whole system design approach to creating healthy and regenerative environments.
Ms.Tammy Turner
Permaculture Institute, Taiwan
Tammy Turner is a Permaculture designer/educator based in northern Taiwan, where she has lived for over 30 years. Permaculture is a ecologically-focused, whole system design approach to creating healthy and regenerative environments. The three ethics of Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share (also known as Future Care) are core to Permaculture design and practice. Permaculture design ethics and principles inform the thought process involved in creating regenerative environments. She teaches/facilitates the Permaculture design process and leads the build out of community-based Permaculture projects. She also designs and facilitates community-supported farming projects on larger sites in central Taiwan and in Hong Kong. She has received Permaculture design training from Robyn Francis, Geoff Lawton and Sepp Holzer, some of the most respected Permaculture teachers in Australia and Europe. She has also learned from indigenous elders traditional forest gardening and resource management practices and skills. Her strengths are in Permaculture master planning and design, social and community-focused edible landscapes and farming, food forestry and agroforestry projects in warm temperate/subtropical/tropical climates. To date, she has led dozens of community-focused Permaculture projects involving education and training, participatory design and community building primarily in northern and western Taiwan. She has also taught or co-taught as the main instructor of over twenty Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) courses in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and India.
Prior and concurrent to her journey to becoming a Permaculture designer and educator, she has been deeply involved in social and environmental movements in Taiwan. She has also designed and managed large-scale international, multilingual communications projects for government agencies in Taiwan and multinational companies operating in Asia through Pristine Communications, a communications and technology service company owned and operated with her husband. She is bilingual in Chinese and English.
