Wild Tobago

Home may be a box cottage or a mansion on a hill; make the most of it by integrating with the outside, sky, sea, wind and trees. An approach and philosophy called permaculture assures every householder and land-owner a nurturing and sustainable environment around “home.”  P at Ganase talks with Erle Rahaman-Noronha in Tobago Newsday, February 8, 2017 To Erle Rahaman-Noronha, the design principles of permaculture are home grown – on his own farm – and to be shared. In Barbados, Mustique, Grenada and Dominica, permaculture is reshaping citizens and landscapes. A permaculture approach takes care of water and soil resources, and builds resilience in the face of extreme events (storms, flooding) and climate change. We take a walk through the permaculture principles that Noronha lives. Erle Rahaman-Noronha of Caribbean Permaculture Consultants. Photo by Anjani Ganase Noronha’s home is Wa Samaki (Swahili, about fish) – so named because his first business (1997) was breedi...