This paper presents a review of practice in the use of the outdoors, and its potential in the teaching of environmental education at Muenzaniso, a Zimbabwean primary school. The school uses permaculture and Integrated Land Use Design as tools for sustainable environmental management. Evidence suggests that pressing community and curriculum imperatives motivate the school, and increasingly, the community, to participate in this voluntary programme, and that perceived important benefits fuel their continued engagement. The school prides itself in being able to incorporate environmental education into the teaching of all school subjects. Potential benefits include environmental citizenship, social and community development, personal as well as school development. (Contains 2 figures and 1 note.)