Grégoire Lamoureux
Gregoire Lamoureux is a permaculture designer, consultant and teacher. He is one of the most experience permaculture teacher & consultant in Canada.
Gregoire has been actively working with permaculture systems for over 20 years and
teaching permaculture courses in many parts of the country since 1991. He taught
the first Permaculture Design Course in French in Québec in 1995. He
taught the Permaculture Design Course as a Summer Session at the
University of Manitoba in 2005. He has been teaching the Permaculture
Design Course in Ontario since 2001 and with Selkirk College in Nelson,
BC since 2002.
He has served on the Board of Directors of Slocan River Streamkeepers
and on the Board of Directors of Seeds of Diversity Canada for seven
years. He is a founding member of Kootenay Organic Growers Society and
was on the Certifying Committee for three years.
His work experience includes market gardening, greenhouse production, orcharding, ecological land restoration, small-scale nursery management, landscaping, aquaculture, forestry work & carpentry work.
He has written articles for Natural Life and Eco Farm & Garden magazines, a contributor in The Organic Companion, Gleanings from Canadian Organic Growers published in 2005.
Gregoire has studied ecological & green building and worked on straw-bale, cob house buildings & Mandala Homes (locally built round houses).
He has been a guest lecturer at many conferences including the BC Organic Agriculture Conference and the Guelph Organic Agriculture Conference.