Living Lightly Worldwide

Living Lightly Worldwide is a place-based learning ecosystem exploring how we live, learn, and design with care — for land, communities, and ourselves.

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How We Work

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Learning as an Ecosystem

Living Lightly Worldwide is not a single course or programme.
It is an interconnected ecosystem of books, courses, community, mentorship, and real places — designed to be entered at different points and explored over time.

Learning Grounded in Place

Our learning is rooted in lived places — from Adrian’s Croft in Scotland to Campoverde in Spain, and partner projects elsewhere around the world.
These living laboratories inform everything we teach.

Learning in Relationship

Learning happens through reflection, dialogue, and shared experience — not just information transfer.
Community and mentorship sit at the heart of our work.

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Learning That Meets Real Lives

Resources range from gentle self-paced books and games, to year-long mentorship pathways.
There is no expectation to keep up, complete everything, or follow a single route.

Our Values

This work is informed by permaculture thinking, social permaculture, place-based education, and years of lived practice.

This work is informed by permaculture thinking, social permaculture, place-based education, and years of lived practice.
It draws on many teachers, traditions, and communities, while remaining rooted in real contexts and relationships rather than abstract models.

Reviews

Kristian Bang

29 May 2024
2 years ago
We visited Cath in Adrian's Croft in May '24 and what a wonderful visit. We're two permaculture nerds from Denmark and Cath showed us around in her beautiful ga...
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Natty Wilson

03 September 2023
2 years ago
An absolutely incredible experience spent over 2 weeks with Cath on the croft. In just a short space of time my partner and I benefited from the many lessons we...
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