About KoruOra
About Emet Değirmenci
Born in a village in a rural part of western Turkey, Emet has been fascinated and inspired by nature from a young age. Through her participation in the traditional community planting and harvesting festivals, she found her love for stewardship and community, and has been sharing her experience and vision ever since. An accomplished geophysical engineer for 14 years she decided in 1997 to invest her studies and efforts around healthy and sustainable community building and completed:
* First Permaculture course in 1997 with Max Lindegger.
* The second in 2008 with Emily and Gary Williams In Aotearoa/New Zealand (NZ) with a focus on Maori culture and relationship with the land, plants and ecosystems.
Has 15 years of extensive work in the field of permaculture based organic community gardening
including:
* Founding a multicultural community garden network, Innermost Gardens, in 2007, NZ.
Being acknowledged as a Peace Ambassador by the Universal Peace Federation for this project in 2008.
* Project manager for three years specialized for the community projects for the Sustainability Trust
and involved in the Transition Towns movement in NZ.
* Designing permaculture projects and organizing educational workshops and programs since 2006.
* Board member (current) SEEDS (Social Ecology Education and Demonstration School),WA 2009
Emet now lives on Vashon Island in Washington, USA and she is working on many projects from climate justice, gender studies to urban community gardening at a time. All of these projects involve permaculture principles, community building goals and standards and great healthy food and connection through land and food production.
