Patrick Whitefield, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Patrick Whitefield

English horticulturist

Date of Birth: 21-May-1965

Place of Birth: Devizes, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 27-Feb-2015

Profession: farmer, horticulturist, ecologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Patrick Whitefield

  • Patrick Whitefield (born Patrick R.
  • Vickers, 11 February 1949 – 27 February 2015) was a British permaculture teacher, designer, author, and consulting editor for Permaculture Magazine.
  • He was regarded as one of the leading and pioneering permaculture authorities in Europe.He was born Patrick Vickers, in Devizes, Wiltshire, and grew up on a smallholding in Somerset before studying agriculture at Shuttleworth College in Bedfordshire.
  • After several years working in agriculture in the Middle East and Africa, he returned to Somerset and bought a flower-rich hay meadow, the White Field near Butleigh, to maintain it as a nature reserve.
  • Thereafter he took his name from the field, which, after 25 years, he transferred to the care of the Somerset Wildlife Trust.As well as producing vegetables, Whitefield undertook a variety of traditional country crafts, and for a period was a prominent member of the Ecology Party (forerunner of the Green Party of England and Wales) and was involved in the early years of the Glastonbury music festival.
  • He was an influential British exponent of the permaculture system from 1990, developing his own approach.
  • He was interviewed in several television programmes advocating permaculture, including the BBC's It's Not Easy Being Green (2006) and A Farm for the Future (2008).He was the author of Tipi Living (1987), Permaculture in a Nutshell (1993), How to Make a Forest Garden (1996), The Earth Care Manual (2004), and The Living Landscape, How to Read it and Understand it (2010).
  • The Minimalist Gardener (2017) was posthumously published.
  • He taught on various courses in England, including at Ragmans Lane Farm in Gloucestershire and created the first online permaculture design course in Britain.
  • He also worked as a permaculture design consultant, and set up Patrick Whitefield Associates to pass on his skills and experience to a new generation of teachers.He died at his home in Glastonbury, Somerset, on 27 February 2015, aged 66.

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