We value and sustain all natural resources, especially water and soil, to guarantee a continuing supply for coming generations.
Services we provide
We provide all services necessary to realize your landscaping project. People care - Nature care - Fair share is the foundation of our work and the fuel of our creativity.
Consultation
Our experts will assist you with your landscaping project, guide you through the important decisions and help your imagination to become reality.
Topographical Surveys
Surveyors play an integral role in land development, from land subdivision planning and design to the final road, utility and landscaping construction.
Drone Service
They provide real time videos and photos of projects in process, site surveying and modeling. They help capture an entirely different vantage point and produce stunning results, which could end up helping out with sales and marketing approach.
Design
We are happy to visit you on your property and design the landscaping for and with you considering permaculture principles and your specific needs.
Implementation
We create successful environments, in urban, rural and hospitality/private settings, for the benefit of current and future generations.
Maintenance
This includes all the services necessary to ensure that your landscape is healthy and looking good, like mowing, natural fertilization and pest control, cleanup, mulching, leaf removal, edging and trimming, using only biological products.
Gardening Training
Send your staff to PDC and get an intense training with our professional Nursery and Landscaping team!
Waste Management
We offer solutions to your waste issues from waste separation to sorting, handling and composting. We can integrate earthworm farming to your system when desired.
Composting Training
Learning how to compost is a skill we can teach you and your gardening team. Compost enriches the soil, it helps retain moisture and suppresses plant diseases and pests. It encourages the production of beneficial bacteria and fungi that break down organic matter to create humus, a rich nutrient-filled material. It reduces methane emissions from landfills and lowers your carbon footprint.
Kitchen Garden Design
We design and implement your personal or hotel kitchen garden. Fresh herbs and vegetables for everyday right at your place. We can design and implement a farm to table garden.
Organic Animal Husbandry
We can teach you how to set up and manage organic chicken, goat and duck, including the building, breeding places, natural food & medicine.
Gardening Services
From plot & soil preparation, to planting of trees & other plants, pruning & maintaining, we offer all services connected to your garden. We have a wide variety of plants in our nursery to answer your needs.
Move bee colonies from your property
If you find a bee colony on your property and you don't want to keep it, we will send professional help to move the colony carefully to another area.
Besides our services, we offer various products from our own grounds. Please don't hesitate to get in contact with us!
The Plant Nursery
We have one of the biggest nursery on the island offering more than 350 plant species. From various palm trees, fruit trees, medicinals, ornamentals and xerophytic plants, we can supply your landscaping needs.
Compost & Fertilizer
Our long experience in composting enables us to provide you with organic fertilizers to assist you in improving your soil quality hence healthier plants.
Earthworms
Earthworm castings and earthworm teas are one of the best methods of enriching your soil. We can provide you with castings or the tea as well as the earthworms to start your own earthworm bed.
Garden Center
Need some good quality tools and equipment for your garden? You can get gardening tools, shade cloths, drip irrigation systems from our Garden Center.
Chicken Houses
Organic Chicken
Chickens raised in a healthy environment and fed natural food result in good tasting, nutritious, healthy meat.
Organic Eggs
Our free range chickens fed with organic feeds and nurtured with biological concoctions result in delicious and healthy yellow-yoked eggs.
Meet the team
This is our dedicated and fully passionate team we are ready to work hard for you to realize your project.
Franko Green
Director & CEO
Swimming the Danube River to escape East Germany, Franko began his professional life as a Chef. Having lived in South Africa and mainland Tanzania and presently in Zanzibar, he became acquainted with permaculture initially in pursuit of good food and later on to green spaces in Zanzibar using permaculture. He loves mentioning how PDC uses the UN Sustainable Development Goals to impress clients, as well as composting and his well-loved “Kuchi” chickens that supply the manure for composting. He is often seen inspecting plants using his head torch in the middle of the night! Franko can not resist a ripe yellow mango!
Bernadette Kirsch
Director & COO
Studied at the University of the Philippines, a passionate plant lover, traveller, potter, Chef, and reader. With her background in agriculture and experiences in living in South America, Asia and Europe, permaculture became her tool in making the green spaces of projects the company undertook. She made Mother Nature her mentor. Building community spirit is something she is passionate about in all the urban projects they have done. She loves the breadfruit tree and could fill up the landscaped spaces with them, but her mentor says no to monoculture!
Catherine Decker
Operations Manager
A lover of nature and all things green. Her passion for the environment stemmed from a young age, where she involved herself in beach clean ups, tree planting and joined the roots and shoots club throughout her schooling years. She pursued her passion and went on to get her first degree in Cape Town, and then her masters at the University of Glasgow. Catherine's dream has always been to create a more sustainable and inclusive approach to environments and ecosystems and PDC was a perfect fit for her. Interests: I like to dance, love all sorts of music, enjoy cooking, the moon is my favourite thing in the world. Green is my favourite color. Mango and pineapple are my favourite fruits.
Mussa Williams
Project Manager
Mussa is a married man with one child, currently living in Zanzibar, Tanzania, but originally from Geita,Tanzania. He is a Horticulturist by profession with more than 7 years experience, pursued from Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania. He is an expert in permaculture design, soil building and natural building (super Adobe model). He is passionate about working for a real estate development and building a sustainable home/city. His ambition is to see and implement edible landscape in the world to insure earth care, people care and fair share. His favorite fruits are mango and pineapple.
Saida Ali Mwishame
Nursery Supervisor
This is Saida Mwishame Alli, a married woman with one beautiful princess currently living in Zanzibar, but originally from Tanga, Tanzania. She is an expert in permaculture design, floriculture, spices, fruits and vegetable production. She loves decorating with flowers. She is passionate about developing sustainable landscapes to ensure life on mother earth. Beside her work she loves doing interior designs. Her favorite fruit is a mango.
Muhusini Abdalla Makame
Landscaping Supervisor
Muhsin Abdullah Makame. Muhisin is one of the success stories of our program "Fursa Kijani" training young Zanzibari in Permaculture. He has risen through the ranks and is now our Landscaping Foreman. He is continuously improving his knowledge and skills in Permaculture, aspiring to become a site manager. He loves pineapple!
Noel Tauro
Architect
After graduating from the University of Mumbai, his passion for Natural building and working hands-on kept him from doing the mainstream in Architecture. Combined with his interest in travelling and leaving behind the city life, he landed himself working on-site, on an Ecological homestay project in the foothills of the Himalayas. During his time there, he hiked around on the mountain trails and met some Israeli brothers, who encouraged him to travel and volunteer with some Natural building projects and self-sustainable communities /Kibbutz in Israel. On returning to India, he worked on a couple of freelance interior design projects in Mumbai before joining Case Design in January 2021. To sum it up, he is a young cheerful Architect with a zeal to work on new ideas, curiosity to learn almost everything and a passion to travel the world. Favourite fruit is Mango.
Get in contact
#togetherwearegreener
Contact & Location
Permaculture Design Company
info@permaculturedesign.africa
+255 757 334 156
Franko GreenDirector & CEO
Bernadette KirschDirector & COO
Catherine DeckerOperations Manager
Mussa WilliamsProject Manager
Saida Ali MwishameNursery Supervisor
Muhusini Abdalla MakameLandscaping Supervisor
Noel TauroArchitect
