Garnering more than 16 million views on his blog, having over 250,000 followers in Instagram and 180,000 subscribers on YouTube, and teaching thousands through his live trainings and online courses, Richard Perkins has inspired farmers all over the globe.

A recognised leader in the field of regenerative agriculture, he is the owner of Europe’s foremost example, Ridgedale Farm, which has become a world-renowned educational hub, was the subject of the documentary Gracie’s Backyard and grossed more than €250,000 in a short 6-month season producing on less than 3 hectares.

He is also the author of the widely acclaimed manual Regenerative Agriculture, which was declared “a must on every aspiring farmer’s bookshelf” by the world’s best-known farmer, Joel Salatin, and generated €380,000 in pre-sales alone. The two other books in the Ridgedale trilogy are Ridgedale Farm Builds and Farm Fish Hunt Pick Bake.

Richard is known for his pragmatic no-nonsense approach to profitable system design, and his dynamic teaching, efficient project management and organisational skills. He advocates small-scale, diversified farming and mainly uses Permaculture Design, Holistic Management and Keyline Design. His approach to no-dig market gardening and pastured poultry production has been emulated by thousands of people in all corners of the globe and many of his students have started their own successful farming businesses.

He has worked professionally in every major climate zone across several continents consulting to projects, farms and industry, and his experience ranges from CSA production to whole-farm planning, from agroforestry to water catchment and irrigation systems, from regenerative business design to Keyline planning, and from Holistic planned grazing/decision making/financial planning to community building work.

He has led over 50 solo Permaculture Design Courses (with a focus on agricultural production) as well as countless other specialist courses, practicums and seminars, and contributed to over 1000 course participants’ site plans.

He has also run the first internationally accredited regenerative agriculture training programs in Dominican Republic, Poland and Luxembourg, and introduced concepts of Regenerative Agriculture in Poland, Belarus, Croatia, Latvia, Denmark and Finland as well as pioneered Keyline Design and aspects of Regenerative Agriculture in cold-climate Sweden.

He has keynoted at numerous agricultural conferences, both in person and digitally in the USA, UK and Europe, and was among a select group of experts invited to attend His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales’ (now King Charles) Sustainable Markets Initiative 2021 Virtual Agriculture Practitioners Roundtable.

He has grown food since his teenage years, holds a Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design (UK) and in HND Organic Crop Production (UK) and has studied extensively in the fields of Keyline Design, Holistic Management, Ecology and Anthropology.

Richard is now focused on educating a new generation of farmers who want to restore soils and feed their local communities whilst making a good living from it, running Ridgedale, and getting his newly acquired historic farm/restaurant/venue Sillegården ready for epic events.

The following charges are applied for services supplied to client for Education Services and Consulting.  Please note that all fees will incur VAT at 25% where applicable.  For foreign engagements please search for current mid-term exchange rate.  Fees may be negotiable, please ask for quote in advance and please read Account Terms further down the page thoroughly.

EDUCATION AND SPEAKING SERVICES

30,000.00 SEK per day 

• The honorarium is the same whether it is a 90 minute presentation or all day seminar for in-person events.
• For online seminars the honorarium is 5,000 SEK per hour, excluding taxes, rounded up to full hours.
• Additional expenses include travel, meals, accommodation, pick up and return to airport where appropriate, parking fees, visa preparations, etc.
• ​Travel time from base at 400.00 SEK/hr
• Driving 30.00 SEK/ Mil within Sweden

ACCOUNT TERMS

• Invoice payments due upon receipt of invoice.
• All invoices for trainings outside of Europe are issued 21 days prior to travel and full payment expected within 10 days of issuance.
• Any outstanding payments have charges levied at 10% of invoice total per day outstanding beyond 10 days of invoice receipt.
• All invoices are prepared and submitted to client by email in .pdf format.
• Any other Account arrangements are to be determined and agreed 21 days prior to engagement commencement.
• All charges within Sweden are in SEK unless otherwise specified. All foreign engagements are charged in SEK equivalent charged at the official current mid-market rate on date of invoice production (and annotated therein).
• The client accepts all bank charges/costs incurred in transferring payment.

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