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ROBINA MCCURDY

For the past 25 years, Robina has worked internationally and nationally as an community development facilitator, Permaculture educator/designer and gardening teacher, evolving her own methodology and accompanying educational resource materials: ‘Create Your Own Abundant Vege Garden’, ‘Treecrops Compendium’, ‘The Localising Food Facilitators Manual’ and ‘Grounding Vision: Empowering Culture’. She worked with village-scale food security in Southern Africa over three years, and following this was the co-ordinator of Victory Community Gardens (Nelson, NZ), and a consultant-educator with Project Lyttelton’s 'Food Resilience Project (Christchurch, NZ), post-earthquake. In mid 2012 Robina established The Localising Food Project, which toured NZ filming a plethora of inspiring local food initiatives, in parallel with teaching workshops on local food action planning, home garden design, public food forests and seed sovereignty. She is currently involved in the production of documentaries from the material filmed during the tour.

To discover more about this work, visit "Localising Food"https://www.localisingfood.com