Permaculture educational structures in Bulgaria
Commented by Mihael Kossev, 16.10.2012 (via mail)
The situation of permaculture education in Bulgaria is quite particular. There is
no regulation or system. It is even difficult for the core group of people to meet,
because many of them have outside jobs, families, etc. There is also other methods
such at Biodynamics and Anastasia communes that are mixing with permaculture
methods… This is all good, but it is difficult for us to fill out your questionnaire, or
come up with any expectations for the meeting in Slovenia still.
We are still in an observational phase among the teachers in Bulgaria. Many people
have been trained and experienced abroad, but they are not making permaculture
their main focus professionally (as far as I can tell, I am the only one)… and we
would find it much more beneficial to listen to representatives of other countries
about how they are structuring permaculture education at home, before we tell
about our own structure (because right now we don’t have one)
One of our goals for the Slovenia meeting is too see what everyone else is
doing and evaluate how we can apply this to us. We want our role to be more
observational right now, than active. Hopefully, by Februrary in Portugal, we will
have some more structure and can show some examples of what is being done
here.
Overall, I feel as though any information I put into the questionnaire would
be inaccurate without some more communication internally between other
Bulgarian practitioners and this has not yet happened. I’m sorry for this. I hope
this email is helpful to your evaluation however, since currently, I can vouch for a
status “unknown” here in BG.