Permaculture Teacher Training in Hong Kong with Rosemary Morrow, Rhiannon Phillips, Ellejana Lin and Parama Liang

Permaculture Teacher Training (PTT) in Hong Kong with Rosemary Morrow, Rhiannon Phillips, Ellejana Lin and Parama Liang

Date: 20^th -27^th October 2025

Venue: HKU Kadoorie Centre, Shek Kong, Tai Po, Hong Kong

Come join us on an inspiring permaculture teacher training to create positive change for a changing world.

About this Permaculture Teacher Training (PTT) Course

Welcome to this special course with internationally-renowned permaculture teacher Rosemary Morrow, teaming with Rhiannon Phillips from Australia, and Ellejana Lin and Parama Liang from Taiwan. The PTT will be an international training offered in English in Rosemary’s participatory learning approach with the content and teaching of permaculture coincide harmoniously with the ethics. The diverse background of the teaching team facilitates cross-cultural exchange to broaden perspective for permaculture education.

This course focuses on the tools and techniques for teaching and facilitating permaculture learning, as well as the practical aspects of convening and running permaculture design courses. It is an intensive certification training with teaching sessions, group work, teaching practices, presentations and self-studies. It will provide participants an invaluable experience and life-changing skills for teaching, as well as life in general.

This PTT is designed for those who are Permaculture Design Certificate holders from any country.  Residential arrangement is part of the course element for bond building among student teachers through communal living experience.  Students who complete the course and assignments will receive certification.

The special PTT will take place at Food Hub at HKU Kadoorie Centre which is located within walking distance from Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG). KFBG’s sustainable living team has devoted their full support to organize this PTT and connect it with KFBG’s mission to harmonise relationship between people and nature.

Participants can expect these course outcomes:

• Present permaculture course ideas using Non-Violent Communication (NVC)

• Use the structure and flower of Permaculture Design Certificate course to design a short or long course
• Develop teacher ethics and write their own permaculture course outcomes
• Design learning materials and use teaching aides effectively
• Teach with different methods to deliver clear explanations and concepts
• Ask questions to promote thinking and integrate experience
• Monitor and evaluate learning
• Debrief and appraise in NVC

• Increase their confidence in Permaculture Design Certificate course content
• FEEL GREAT!

Date: 20^th -27^th October 2025

• • The PTT will start at 16:00 on Monday, 20^th October and end by 12:00 (noon) on Monday, 27^th October 2025.

Langauge: English

Accommodation@HKU Kadoorie Centre:

• • Accommodation will be modest but comfortable. Participants will be arranged to share a dormitory with 3-4 people.

Meals:

• • Organic vegan meals will be served by KFBG Food Hub during the course with ingredients carefully sourced from sustainable suppliers.

Course Certification:

• • Participants will receive a Permaculture Teacher Training Certificate in completion with full attendance

Fee: HK$10,800

• • It covers course fee, cost for seven-day accommodation at HKU Kadoorie Centre’s student dormitory and vegan meals to be served during the course period.

Requirement: Permaculture Design Certificate holders

Application: Please Click HERE to submit your application online.

Enquiries:  stellachong@kfbg.org / 852-29962838

About the Teachers

Rosemary Morrow

Rosemary Morrow (Rowe) trained in agricultural science and rural sociology and after spending time in Africa, she realized there needed to be a better alternative to conventional agricultural practices. She found this in the ethics and integrated applied science of permaculture, and has been teaching permaculture ever since.

For almost 40 years Rowe has worked extensively with farmers and villagers in Africa, Central and South East Asia and Eastern Europe. Rowe has especially dedicated much of her efforts to refugees the people of war-torn nations such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Kurdistan and East Timor, and to communities experiencing the serious effects of climate change like the Solomon Islands, and the effects of the GFC, like Spain, Greece and Portugal.

Rowe considers permaculture to be ‘sacred knowledge’ to be carried and shared with others. Rowe’s present concern is to make teaching sustainable and encourage others to succeed her as teachers.

Rhiannon Phillips

Rhiannon Phillips is a permaculturist and the founder of Mountains Gourmet in Blue Mountains, Australia. As a Blue Mountains local and an experienced manager of Certified Organic farms in the Hawkesbury region, Rhiannon saw the need for a more secure fresh food sources in her homeland and took the plunge to start her own business to grow healthy produce for the Blue Mountains!

Parama Liang

Parama graduated from National Taiwan University and majored in Business Administration; Parama served as the COO of ELIV social enterprise (Empowering Lives through Innovative Volunteerism) to assist volunteering via sustainable design in south-eastern Asia. He has started to connect with permaculture since 2013 and has been actively learning skills with farmers in Taiwan. Parama was the main interpreter to spread permaculture knowledge by learning Green Warrior Permaculture system with Steve Cran. He is the co-founder of PuguTaiwan with Ellejana, and jointly to host the first Teacher Training of Blue Mountain Permaculture Association in Taiwan of 2023.

After years of hands-on experience to create sustainable life system, he specializes in natural building, appropriate technology, and social permaculture, and joint these elements to create a one-year PDC program with lots practice in hands-on work. Now he shares own experience in various areas of Taiwan, and dedicate to bring permaculture into schools, supporting teachers by grounding the concepts of sustainable life.

Ellejana Lin

Ellejana is trained in philosophy, leisure education and ecotourism, she is an educator, a birth doula and a mother of three children. Her love and reverence for nature were awakened through mountain climbing experiences during university. While pursuing her master’s degree in the Netherlands, she had the opportunity to intern in the Philippines, which deepened her awareness of cultural differences in sustainability. After returning to Taiwan, she joined ELIV as a Project Manager, where she was responsible for ecotourism programs in Thailand and Nepal, since then she has started exploring the life of eco-villages, and interested in community building,

She is the co-founder of PuguTaiwan with Parama and organize extensive educator training to promote nature education in adherence to permaculture ethics and principles. She has many experience in farming and cultivation, and integrates her spiritual training background to combine the theories of Alpha Chi Feng Shui, including Five Elements and Seven Chakras to understand the connection with Nature and human life. This has led to the development of a unique and grounded spiritual permaculture curriculum, which is also a key feature of one-year PDC course of PuguTaiwan. It supports students in cultivating self to go in the direction of a holistic and sustainable life.

KFBG Team

Stella Chong, a certified permaculture teacher of KFBG, Idy Wong, Head of KFBG’s Sustainable Living Department and the community of KFBG Green Hub has committed their full support in organizing this permaculture teacher training course. 

This course is organized as an extended activity of the 2^nd National Permaculture Convergence which is held at Shenzhen, China.