Nordic Permaculture Festival 2026

The Ethics of Permaculture

This is how we want to use the ethics during the festival:

Earth Care

The location is Holma Folkhögskola and we are very thankful for the opportunity of hosting the festival here. This comes with a humble respect for the land and the place. We also have the ambition to leave the place with  only our footprints and great memories. This is how we work with the Earth Care ethic:

• Bring your own tools for eating (plate, fork, spoon, knife and cup) to save water
• Bring your bike (use the train and come by bike)
• Leave the place better then when you arrive
• Limit of guests to 250 people

People Care

A lot of work and a lot of people are involved to organise the festival. The organisers do their absolute best to take care of you at the festival. We are also thankful for the opportunity to be at the land and place at Holma. A lot of students and teachers at the school let us use their “classroom”, we hope and wish all visitors to respect to let the berries, fruits and vegetables be where they are. The harvest starts the week after the festival. This is how we work with the People Care ethic:

• Say hallo to a stranger and meet people with a smile
• Be helpful
• Be a Co-creator of the festival

Fair Share

To organise a festival means to share the workload and help each other. We have the organisers, volunteers, workshop holders, guests and visitors. The organisers and volunteers do their absolute best to do the festival a great memory and share of knowledge about permaculture. How we work with the Fair Share ethic:

• Share the workload equally

• If there is food left at one meal, we sell it with a discount the next meal

Principles of the festival

We want to present our principles for the festival. These will help us and you to create an atmosphere that we want during the days.

1. Bring your bike – travel climate smart and at same time join the “Bicycle kitchen” at the festival. Learn how you fix your bike and take care of it in the best way.
2. Say hallo to a stranger and meet people with a smile– happy people that feel they belong to permaculture creates a great festival together.
3. Be a part of the solution – things will happen and if there is a problem we find a solution.
4. Bring your own eating tools – things will save us time and we use less water then if we use the dishwasher.
5. Be a co-creator – if you feel that there is a workshop missing at the festival, there is an optional workshop where you, together with others, can create your own workshop.
6. Leave the place in better condition – that´s why we have a limit of 250 people and we also need your help to keep the festival clean and tidy.

Program

The program for the festival is going to be set step by step all the way up to the start of the festival. We want to do a festival from the “roots and up”. Therefore, we have asked members of Permaculture Skåne, visitors at the Holma Folkhögskola “Open House”, permaculturists working on their diploma and PDC holders about topics for our workshops.

We also want to leave space for co-creating workshops, we have an “open stage” every evening and we also want to have breaks long enough for you to get to know new people and build your network during the festival.

The organisers have the ambition to have up to five workshops during every set of workshops.

Please note that we organise the workshops both outside and indoors. You might need clothes depending on the weather.

“Building Bridges”

The permaculture movement in Sweden try to co-operate with associations close to our values and activities. During the festival we are working together with the agroforestry project “Mellan raderna – small scale agroforestry for sustainable foodproduction and preparedness” that is financed by EU and Leader Skåne Mitt Nordväst.

Festival workshops

We have asked people about topics to have at the festiva and these are some of the ideas that we work with:

• Biochar
• Building a sundryer
• Perennial food systems (together with the agroforestry project “Mellan raderna”)
• Bioregions and permaculture
• Composttoilet
• Permaculture for children
• Co-creating workshops on site
• Music and dance
• Agroforestry (together with agroforestry project “Mellan raderna”
• And a lot more

We are updating the facebook group (“The Nordic Permaculture Festival”) and website with more details.

If you are interested to hold a workshop please send an email to: styrelsen@permakulturiskane.se

We want you to send a presentation of yourself, your workshop and how you connect this to permaculture. We also want you to have at minimum a PDC. Please note, that the organisers might need to say no to workshop holders. We aim to have a diversity of workshop holders and topics from all the Nordic countries.

Food

All the meals are catered from “Beesham the Baker” and is vegetarian. Allergies etc can be arranged. We serve the following meals:

Thursday:      Dinner

Friday:           Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Saturday:      Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Sunday:         Breakfast and Lunch

The meal includes the food and water to drink.

We have the ambition to have a café open every day where you can by a cup of coffee, thé, “Swedish fika”, leftovers from the previous meal and more.

NOTE! If you want to have the festival with all the meals included you need to sign up at the latest July 14!. You can sign up later then July 14 if you don´t want food but you need to have in mind that there is a limit of 250 people at the festival.

Sleeping arrangements

We can offer a place for tents under the apple trees at the land. If you need hotel etc there ae some solutions in the area.

Caravans or Campervans are not allowed at the festival, but there are camping sites close to the festival.

Toilet and shower

For people that stay in tents there is a shower room at the festival.

We have compost toilets (utedass) at several places.

Travelling

You can easily take the train to Höör train station from both Copenhagen area, Malmö, Lund and Hässleholm. From the station it is about 15 min walking distance. If you need assistance from the train station let us know in advance so we can co-ordinate the ride. (There might be a coordinated travelling support on Thursday before the festival starts at 14.00 and Sunday after 13.00. We hope we can solve it with volunteers)

Adress: Holma Folkhögskola, Holma 135, Höör

Prices

We want to keep the festival at a low price. We offer the following:

1. The whole festival including food and place for your tent     2100 SEK
2. Only workshops and place for your tent (no food)                 900 SEK
3. One day workshops                                                                 300 SEK/DAY

Last date to sign up if you want food is July 14!

Link to the registration form is here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdvAPW0HF-DYlfgAN_sSwK9F5dLGf8wt-jps6LPAP7XffKKIA/viewform?usp=header

Volunteers

If you want to be a volunteer at the festival please send an email to: styrelsen@permakulturiskane.se

We expect a volunteer to work at least 5 hours/day in exchange for a free meal/day and free workshops that day.

Information

The festival starts Aug 6 at 14.00 and ends Aug 9 at lunchtime.

You need to “check in” before the festival starts at the latest 13.30. For day passes you need to check in before 08.45 to have your entry pass. (Workshops starts at 09.00)

Bring your own plate, fork, knife, spoon and mug if you want food.

Climate smart travelling… Bring your bike

Welcome to the Nordic Permaculture Festival 2026!