Permaculture Design Course
Facilitators & Tutors
Mike Feingold
Guest Tutor
Mike Feingold has been teaching Permaculture to, and learning from, communities around the world including Nepal, India, Palestine, Kenya and beyond for over 20 years. He has also been maintaining Royate Hill Community Orchard and an inspiring permaculture allotment in Bristol for most of that time. He is a founder member of the Bristol Permaculture Group and organiser of the Glastonbury Festival Permaculture demonstration garden. He is passionate about finding new and inventive avenues to redistribute local food 'waste'. Mike is one of the UK ‘s leading activist in sustainable and experimental gardening
Matt Dunwell
Guest Tutor
After owning & running Ragmans Lane Farm since 1990, Matt Dunwell has gifted the farm to the Ecological Land Co-operative, and is now starting a new chapter and return to teaching. Matt and Ragmans Lane Farm have has hosted numerous courses over the last eighteen years for teachers such as Bill Mollison, Mike Feingold, Chris Evans, Andy Langford and Jude and Michel Fanton from Australia, Starhawk and Penny Livingston- Stark. Jairo Restrepo and Juanfran lopez have helped introduce biofertilisers to Ragmans which are now used on the farm to build system health. He has farmed livestock (cattle, pigs, sheep and poultry), vegetables, mushroom production and apple juicing. He co-authored the first Local Food Directory in 1997. He has been a Trustee of the Tudor Trust for 25 years. He is currently exploring regenerative agriculture methods.
Matt Dunwell is a teacher and consultant specialising in soil health and fertility, Biofertilisers and Permaculture Design. After owning & running Ragmans Lane Farm since 1990, Matt has gifted the farm to the Ecological Land Co-operative, and is now starting a new chapter and return to teaching. Matt and Ragmans Lane Farm have has hosted numerous courses over the last eighteen years for teachers such as Bill Mollison, Mike Feingold, Chris Evans, Andy Langford and Jude and Michel Fanton from Australia, Starhawk and Penny Livingston- Stark. Jairo Restrepo and Juanfran lopez have helped introduce biofertilisers to Ragmans which are now used on the farm to build system health. He has farmed livestock (cattle, pigs, sheep and poultry), vegetables, mushroom production and apple juicing. He co-authored the first Local Food Directory in 1997. He was a Trustee of the Tudor Trust for over 25 years. He is currently exploring regenerative agriculture methods.
Laura Corfield
Permaculture Design Project - Feedback giver
Laura Corfield brings over two decades of experience in community-led sustainability, social change, and applied permaculture to her role supporting student design projects on the Permaculture Design Course. As Creative Director and co-founder of Shift Bristol, she has played a central role in shaping learning environments that integrate ecological design, social justice, and creative practice.
Her background includes co-founding initiatives such as Transition Keynsham and Frack Free Somerset, alongside extensive experience in grassroots organising, community engagement, and climate action. She has directly project-managed the Practical Sustainability Course, supporting hundreds of learners to translate permaculture principles into real-world contexts.
Laura’s approach to feedback is grounded in lived experience—bridging systems thinking, group dynamics, and applied design practice. She brings particular insight into designing with people as much as place, supporting students to navigate complexity, stakeholder relationships, and the often unseen social dimensions of their projects.
Alongside her work in education, Laura is currently training as an ICF-accredited coach with Earthself, deepening her capacity to support reflective, self-directed learning and regenerative leadership.
Tammi Dallaston
Lead Tutor
Tammi is a long standing trustee for the Permaculture Association, heading the working group on Justice, Equity, Disability, Accessibility, Inclusion (JEDAI).
With the facilitator - Josie Holt - she runs Field Families CIC, an organisation that takes Permaculture education out into the field. They run the Permaculture area at the Green Gathering. Tammi also co-ordinates the permanent Permaculture gardens at Worthy Farm, the home of the Glastonbury Festival.
In the past, she has set up a community hub, a food surplus project and a community dinners project, worked for the Children in Permaculture(CiP) project, Cambrian Wildwood rewilding project, ran the garden design company Edible Landscapes Ltd., managed Ragman’s Lane farm in the Forest of Dean, and been a director for Mach Maethlon - a co-op of farming and agroforestry organisations in the Dyfi Valley, Wales.
When she isn’t managing her work life, Tammi is a passionate plantswoman and is undertaking a preliminary certificate in medical herbalism.
