Permaculture Action Network

Sonic Bloom Permaculture Action Day 2018
2018-06-14 10:00 - 16:30 (America/Denver) | District ONE Farm at Fiesta Park, Fiesta Park @ Russell St. , Walsenburg, Colorado, United States
Hands-On Projects, Music, Food, & Community Action

before SONIC BLOOM 2018 begins

on Thursday, June 14th, 10am – 4pm

at District ONE Farm @ John Mall High School

355 W. Pine St., Walsenburg, CO

On the day Sonic Bloom Festival begins, before the evening performances spark off the weekend, we will gather at District ONE Farms in nearby Walsenburg to take action for a brighter future. Music, hands-on projects, workshops, food, and community has been the best way to start Sonic Bloom for the last three years in a row; and this year we want to share it with you.
Hands-On Projects include:
– Planting Trees & Perennial Guilds on the Swales
– Chicken Tractor Build
– Planting Herbs & Flowers
– Mushroom Inoculation
– Building Compost & Resource Bins
– Applying Compost Tea
– Building Tire Foundation of Greenhouse at High School
– Installing Insulation & Water Barrels in Greenhouse
– Constructing Barrelponics System
– Building Wicking Beds for Greenhouse
– Painting Rain Barrels

*SCHEDULE*
10:00am Welcome to Arrive; Yoga w/ Yogardener
10:30am Opening Circle, and Ceremony w/ Scott Barta
11:00am Hands-On Projects Begin!
11:30am Sound System Starts Up w/ Sonic Warrior Music
12:00pm All-Day Lunch Spread
12:30pm Fruit Tree Grafting Demonstration w/ Vanessa Harmony
1:00pm JaJa DJ Set
2:00pm Sonic Warrior DJ Set (Live Mixing)
2:30pm Biodynamics Application Hands-On Workshop w/ Stone Hunter
3:00pm Live Performance by Mike Wird
4:00pm Wrap Up at the Farm and head to Hummingbird Ranch
*WORKSHOPS*
Biodynamics Application Hands-On Workshop w/ Stone Hunter: In this hands on workshop we will work with understanding how and when to use the Biodynamic Preparations. We will stir and apply these therapeutic treatments on the land
Grafting Demonstration w/ Vanessa Harmony: Vanessa Harmony is an arborist and permaculturist working at Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute. In this workshop, Vanessa will use “dummy” root stock and scionwood to teach folks how to graft fruit trees.
Opening Ceremony w/ Scott Barta: Six Direction (4 directions plus GrandFather Sky and GrandMother Earth) exercise with Sage smudge, hand drum, song, and a big Round Dance.
*MUSIC*
– Ja Ja DJ Set – https://soundcloud.com/jaklava
– Sonic Warrior music – https://soundcloud.com/ryansorrell
– Performance by Mike Wird – http://mikewird.com/media/

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Come throw down your skills, energy, plants, and labor to make the community farm a thriving, productive model of the new just economy we’re stepping into.
District ONE Farms provides their produce to a pay-what-you-can, farm-to-table restaurant in downtown Walsenburg. We’ll enjoy a meal there together after working on projects at the farms and before heading in to Sonic Bloom to get down for the weekend.

Permaculture Action Hub Schedule @ Summer Camp Music Festival 2018
2018-05-24 - 2018-05-28
All events at location: @ SOULPATCH in the Permaculture Action Hub
Thursday, May 24
4:15 PM – 5:45 PM
Documentary Screening of Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective
Inhabit explores the many environmental issues facing us today and examines solutions that are being applied using the ecological design process called ‘Permaculture’. Permaculture is a design lens that uses the principles found in ecosystems to help shift our impact from destructive to regenerative. Focused mostly on the Northeastern and Midwestern regions of the United States, Inhabit provides an intimate look at permaculture peoples and practices ranging from rural, suburban, and urban landscapes.
Friday, May 25
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Plant Propagation: How to Make Plant Babies w/ Joana Amorim
Join us in the SOULPATCH gardens for a hands-on workshop to propagate plants by cutting and grow new plants from seed. We’ll make seedlings and little plant starts from the mother plants here in the garden that will then live at the nearby Seven Circles Heritage Center, a local Native American community space and the site of our annual Summer Camp Permaculture Action Day.
Friday, May 25
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM
Yoga for Anatomical Empowerment w/ Leah Van Winkle
In this workshop, I offer a guided yoga practice as a framework for coming to deeply understand one’s body. Specifically, the class focuses on really feeling into what your body needs, and what to do with that information. All of this placed within a context of learning to use our bodies well no matter what situation we find ourselves in, particularly to learn proper body mechanics in manual labor contexts. I seek to share proper movement patterns, informed by your own experience of your body, for moving safely and effectively through this world!
Friday, May 25
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Empowered to Organize for Change w/ Noor Us-Sabah
There’s more to community change than politicians and voting. How can we use our own unique set of skills for the movement and not get burnt out? Join Noor for a workshop and discussion about strategies to self-organize and collaborate with others to serve your local community. From public art to redistributing the heady ground-score you don’t really need, we’ll be looking at diverse examples of successful and inclusive D.I.Y. community organizing.
Friday, May 25
1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
Attracting Pollinators & Beneficial Insects to Your Garden w/ Chris Enroth
Enlist some natural predators in your fight to save your garden. After attending this program, participants will have fundamental knowledge to identify which insects can help them control pest populations and how to attract the good guys to your garden. Get hands-on and make some seedballs with native wildflower seeds to grow pollinator attractors everywhere!
Friday, May 25
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
SOULPATCH Natural Building Systems w/ Michael Beck
This workshop is an interactive walk through of the natural-built structures of SOULPATCH. From cob ovens to willow benders, thatch roofs to wattle and daub, we will be learning together some valuable techniques for building with natural materials.
Friday, May 25
4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
Intro to Herbalism and Medicine Making w/ Nicole Klinge
Nicole has been a practicing plant healer for over 10 years. After attending an extensive clinical herbalism program she has been educating others on the profound healing that plants can bring. Part of this work is finding the jewels in local weeds, endangered plant conservation, and reconnecting the the spirit of nature. Her mission is to connect people back to the earth through plant healing.
Friday, May 25
4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
Urban Permaculture: Whole Systems & Viable Farms w/ Keith Morris
Think you need a ‘farm’ to grow food? Think again! When it comes to ecological health and food production in today’s cities, there’s very little we might want to “sustain”. As urban populations continue to grow worldwide amidst the convergent crises of energy depletion, climate change, and economic ‘uncertainty,’ it’s critical we redesign our cities to provide for more of their residents’ needs. This workshop focuses on practical skills usable by urban communities to achieve greater local access to and control over life’s essential resources. The workshop will introduce simple and affordable techniques for soil building, bioremediation, rainwater harvesting, intensive food production, micro-livestock and aquaculture, small scale autonomous energy production, DIY air purification, and other infrastructure retrofits. We’ll look to existing urban farms, “urban homesteads,” and other examples of urban permaculture to explore the ways we can design and establish our homes and communities as ‘human ecosystems’ that are not only less fuel reliant, but also beautiful, productive, ecologically regenerative, and wholly nourishing.
Saturday, May 26
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Grow Your Own Gourmet Mushrooms w/ Jason Alberts
Learn how to use simple low tech methods to grow your own gourmet mushrooms! Jason will be able to get you set up to grow at home in an hour with common and available materials as well as resources to take your growing to the next level!
Saturday, May 26
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM
Urban Residential Landscaping for the Sustainable Home w/ Parker Ameel
Today, 80% of the population in the United States live in Urban Environments. Let’s learn how to make the best of ours. This course is intended to give you the DIY confidence to turn your urban environment into a sustainable, native, and edible landscape. The course will cover topics including: Water Management, Waste Management and Food Production while simultaneously considering Budget, Space, and Scalability.
Saturday, May 26
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
#HustleBetter: Making the Most Out of Nothing w/ Eliot Snaith
Let’s have a different conversation about economy – one where we can go beyond surviving to thriving. From paradigm shifts to practical business model development worksheets! This workshop has something for everyone: from landowners to the unemployed, and everything in between and beyond. Eliot Snaith is a Social Permaculture Nerd: mixing social science and humor to help folks design healthier, happier social ecosystems.
Saturday, May 26
1:45 PM – 2:45PM
Regenerative Economics & Local Solutions for the Great Lakes BioRegion w/ Rowan Green
Hear a solutions-oriented perspective on issues facing the Great Lakes BioRegion from a community organizer who has transformed problems around policy agenda, development projects, and existing infrastructure into an opportunity for environmental sustainability, social equity, and affluence for all. A discussion on moving forward together will follow.
Saturday, May 26
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Logistics of Liberation: Permaculture & Power w/ Ryan Rising
What are logistics in the context of the extractive economy? How do materials flow through the industrial economic system? How can we reinhabit space and create autonomous communities worth living in? What does a just transition to a regenerative world look like? How can we get there? Come explore these questions in a poignant talk that gets to the heart of the matter.
Saturday, May 26
4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
Re-Imagining Healthcare w/ Sam Jackson
Come join a collaborative and participatory discussion on re-defining, re-imagining, re-forming, and re-creating a vision of Health Care. Bring your experience to the table and join others as we talk about what is real for us with the guidance of medical professional.
Saturday, May 26
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Organizing with Purpose: Direct Action Crash Course w/ Kristoff
History tells us that social and political change doesn’t come easy, and no significant social movement has succeeded without direct action, which is a fancy way of saying “breaking the law”. This workshop will examine the premise that extralegal (not fully legal) actions are a necessary component of permaculture and social justice frameworks, and will examine some of the challenges in incorporating this kind of strategy into our work as change-makers.
Sunday, May 27
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Interactive Intro to Beekeeping (See an Observation Hive!) w/ Tim Benedict & Sarah Wells
Come join two perspectives, both technical and sensitive, to overview the basics of beekeeping. Explore the relationship of bees, flowers, pollination and honey production while diving into more nuance regarding hive health, the state of bees and exciting research in our efforts to help rebalance one of nature’s most intimate processes.
Sunday, May 27
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM
Applied Permaculture: 30 Acres in 5 Years w/ Kammer Moss
Kammer Moss is a certified permaculture designer and has been implementing learnings with his family’s 30-acre, diverse system. The speed of their development and extensions into market gardens, nurserying, mushroom production, micro greens business, earthworks and terracing, energy systems, and more at scale have informed this conversation about how to get going with your big permaculture dreams.
Sunday, May 27
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
The Role of Mushrooms in the Ecosystem & Intro to Mycoremediation w/ Tess Burzynski
A biological primer for all things fungi — overview of the spore to fruit life-cycle, food sources, ecological relationships, mycelium and a deeper dive into the promise of mycoremediation and its many solutions. Tess Burzynski is the founder, head educator and cultivator at Fungi Freights Urban Farm and Environmental Studio. She works as an Environmental Project Manager and continues doing research with Mycoremediation in the city of Detroit. Throughout her studies she has learned the impact mycelium plays in the environment and how beneficial, tenacious and magical it truly is. Through Fungi Freights, her goal is to reunite mushrooms and (wo)mankind by educating Detroit and its surrounding neighbors about the benefits mushrooms have on health, food scarcity and the environment.
Sunday, May 27
1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
How To Start an Eco-Community: Ground Up, Scale Up, or Transforming in Place w/ Christian Smith
Get a good grounding in practical strategies and necessary steps to form your own ecological community. Whether you’re starting from bare land, scaling up on a homestead, or transitioning in place in rural, suburban or city environments. Subjects: Food, Water, Energy, Housing, Financing and Government.
Sunday, May 27
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Social Permaculture: Applying Ecological Principles to Communities & Relationships w/ Ryan Rising
How can the lens of permaculture – the mimicking of nature’s patterns and principles – inform the way we design both the ecological systems of food, water, and shelter that give us life, and the social systems of how we make decisions, come together as people, and build resilient communities? How can we take effective action to create viable life-affirming alternatives to the extractive and exploitative systems that we seek to replace. Ryan Rising of the Permaculture Action Network will start this session with an introduction to permaculture design and lead into a conversation that takes its application beyond forest gardens, rainwater catchment systems, and natural building to how we can cultivate effective collaborative groups and communities capable of taking action towards realizing a more just and regenerative world.
Sunday, May 27
4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
Rust Belt Restoration: Vacant Lots to Garden Plots w/ Carrie Lierl
Come, join urban permaculture practitioner, Carrie Lierl, for an optimistic discussion about the practical potential for community-led urban agriculture and permaculture projects! With an emphasis on the specific skill sets, tools, and foundational knowledge you may need to both successfully self-start and self-maintain your own urban agriculture or permaculture project, Carrie will discuss some best practices and lessons learned from the shared experiences of herself and other urban permaculture practitioners who have set out to restore urban landscapes in the name of promoting sustainable food production, ecological health, and community solidarity. Some other central themes of this discussion will include: making things work within the system (while simultaneously working to change it!), generating value from waste materials, and tapping into the productive potential of both micro-climates and social anomalies.
Sunday, May 27
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Decolonizing Agriculture & Participatory Ecology w/ Keith Morris
Permaculture is an evolving and expanding design system used to create agriculturally productive human habitat at scales varying from balconies to broad regions. As permaculture rapidly expands around the world, the field is constantly evolving and taking new directions. We’ll discuss the history of permaculture and ecological design as we look to the sciences of ecology, anthropology, and evolution for inspiration and guidance to establish our homes, gardens, and communities as ‘human ecosystems’ that are beautiful, productive, ecologically regenerative, less fuel reliant, and more wholly nourishing. What is the potential for human beings as ‘Keystone Species’? How have we acted as such through history? We’ll explore the ways human beings have ‘co-created’ ecological communities in the past, at present, and our potential to do so more insightfully in the future.

Summer Camp Music Festival Permaculture Action Day w/ Beats Antique
2018-05-23 11:00 - 17:00 UTC | Seven Circles Heritage Center, 8817 W Southport Rd, Edwards, IL, 61528, United States
Seven Circles Native American Heritage Center
8817 West Southport Rd. – Edwards IL. 61528
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018 11am – 5pm
Come to the third annual Permaculture Action Day at 7 Circles Native American Heritage Center the day before Summer Camp Music Festival opens its gates!
Join the local community for a full day of action, workshops, music, and building ecologically regenerative systems that grow food and provide for human needs. Get your hands in the dirt creating Pollinator Gardens, a Three Sisters Garden of corn, beans, and squash; an Ancestors Garden; and a Kitchen Garden. Plant trees, drum, and dance before Summer Camp!
11:00am: Welcome to Arrive!
11:30am: Opening Ceremony – Cherokee Water Ceremony & Pipe Blessing
12:00pm: Plant Walk & Tour of 7 Circles w/ Jimmy Lakota
12:30pm: Projects Begin!
12:45pm: Sound System Starts Up: NDN CRATES on the 1s&2s
1:00pm: Rolling Lunch Laid Out: Tamales w/ Emily’s Tattoo Tamales
1:30pm: All-Day Gong Fu Cha tea ceremony w/ Alex Resch
2:00pm Power, Governance, Decision Making, & Facilitation Workshop w/ Ryan Rising & Noor Us-Sabah
2:30pm All-Day Demonstration of an Observation Beekeeping w/ Tim Benedict & Sarah Wells
2:45pm: Edible Weeds Workshop w/ Nicole Klinge
3:00pm: s p e c i a l s e t
3:30pm: Midwest Aquaponics Workshop w/ Casey Mulligan
4:00pm: Three Sisters Companion Planting Workshop & Ceremony w/ Ryan & Jimmy
5:00pm: Closing Ceremony
5:30pm: Set Up to Camp Overnight before Summer Camp Music Festival begins
***Please note, anyone camping at Seven Circles must be on site by 1pm of the action day!
7:00pm: BonFire in the Powwow Circle
Dusk: Eagle Ridge Drum Circle & Flow Arts Troupe
*PROJECTS*
– Memorial Garden Planting
– Kitchen/Herb Garden Beds Build
– Three Sisters Companion Planting
– Pollinator & Insectary Planting
– Greenhouse Build
– Swale Food Forest Digging & Planting
*FOOD*
Emily’s Tattoo Tamales providing a diverse spread of handmade tamales.
Please bring a POTLUCK item if you want to contribute!
Folks who wish to head to the region early to participate in the action day and want to camp at 7 Circles Wednesday night before Summer Camp open its gates on Thursday are welcome to. Please write to us at Contact@PermacultureAction.org and arrive by 1pm on the action day.
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Come to Life Permaculture Action Camp
2018-05-14 13:00 - 2018-05-20 23:30 (America/New_York) | Willow Crossing Farm, 2780 VT Route 15 W, Johnson, Vermont, 05656
The Come to Life Permaculture Action Camp in Johnson and Burlington, VT combines a 4-day Permaculture Action Course, Rising Appalachia’s Friday & Saturday night concerts at Higher Ground, and a Permaculture Action Day w/ the band at Willow Crossing Farm.

Permaculture Action Course: Monday, May 14th – Friday, May 18th
with Ryan Rising of Permaculture Action Network and Keith Morris of Prospect Rock Permaculture, as well as some very special guest facilitators, at Willow Crossing Farm in Johnson, VT
Rising Appalachia, Peia, and Arouna Diarra at Higher Ground: Friday, May 18th and Saturday, May 19th in Burlington, VT.
Permaculture Action Day w/ Rising Appalachia: Sunday, May 20th at Willow Crossing Farm
The Permaculture Action Day itself on May 20th is free for all to attend, as always! This is our 80th Permaculture Action Day : )

Register Here
Location
The Permaculture Action Course and Action Day will take place at the beautiful Willow Crossing Farm in Johnson, Vermont. Nested along a flowing river and amongst a canopy of hundreds of useful fruit & nut trees, Willow Crossing Farm is a working permaculture center for intensive food production and ecological education.

Course Overview
The Permaculture Action Course will cover both ecological design science and regenerative earth-based practices, as well as social permaculture and community building skills. Expanding upon the resolutely empowering tool of permaculture design, the Permaculture Action Course is designed to send you back out into the world with the facilitation and organizing skills, as well as the design and implementation skills, to take agency in your life and bring about a more just and regenerative world for all.
Course Topics include:

– Intro to Permaculture: Principles, Ethics, and Design
– The Permaculture Design Process including Site Analysis & Assessment

– Edible Forest Gardens & Food Forests
– Disaster Preparedness and Relief

– Rapid Deployment Compost Toilets
– Water Filtration
– Food Collection and Cooking

– Direct Action and Community Mobilizations
– Regenerating Land After Disasters
– Social Permaculture & Alternative Economies
– Facilitation & Decision Making
– Organizing Action Days
– Participatory Ecology
– Tour of a Working Farm & Homestead

Facilitators:
Ryan Rising is a community organizer and permaculture educator based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, and co-founder of the Permaculture Action Network. After a decade of local organizing around direct action, food justice, ecological design, and community living, Ryan organized the Permaculture Action Tour with music producer The Polish Ambassador in the fall of 2014. Ryan has since co-organized over 80 Permaculture Action Days throughout 25 US states, bringing hundreds of people at a time to build greenhouses, rainwater catchment, gardens, and a diversity of regenerative systems at 80 different local, community projects including public food forests, urban farms, and ecovillages. Ryan co-founded the Gill Tract Community Farm, which produces tons of organic food annually that is distributed for free all around the Bay Area, and the Omni Commons, an urban commons and community center.

Keith Morris is the founder of Willow Crossing Farm and a Professor of Permaculture Design at the University of Vermont. As a grower, builder, and designer, he has created ecologically regenerative and economically viable food systems in New Zealand, Colorado, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Quebec, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nigeria, Ghana, Denmark, and the Netherlands, working regularly throughout New England and New York City. He has spent over 20 years developing permaculture farms, towns, schools, indigenous spaces, squats, activist projects, and solidarity actions with exploited populations. Keith helps growers and communities design appropriate infrastructure to make food systems more regenerative, resilient, and connected; and started the Permaculture Education programs at UVM, Sterling College, the Yestermorrow Design Build School, Saint Michael’s College, and Paul Smith’s College, and with the USAID Farmer to Farmer Program.
Permaculture Action Day Projects
Hands-on projects that you are invited to engage with on Sunday, May 20th include:

– Building Raised Beds for Food and Herb Growing
– Tree Planting for River Bank Stabilization and Food Production
– Mushroom Inoculation
– Fruit Tree Pruning & Care

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Registration Fee (Register Here)
Registration for the Permaculture Action Camp is at a sliding scale of $350-900. Suggested tuition is $600; this covers three organic meals a day for four days; four full days of training in a beautiful yurt classroom (including an arrival day on Monday and a half day before departure on Friday), camping on site at Willow Crossing Farm, and deep inclusion in the Permaculture Action Day w/Rising Appalachia as co-facilitators on Sunday, May 20th.
Your registration fee also includes concert tickets to Friday and Saturday night’s Rising Appalachia shows in Burlington!
Please keep in mind: $600 covers the real cost of your participation in the course. Paying at the high end of the sliding scale at $900 subsidizes others’ participation in the course who can’t afford to attend otherwise. Paying at the low end of the scale is welcome (we want your participation!), but please be aware that paying toward the middle range ensures that facilitators and cooks are compensated, project materials are paid for, and everyone involved is taken care of!
For an additional fee, there is inside lodging available. Inquire at Keith@ProspectRock.org
Additional Airbnb Lodging is also available off-site at your own discretion.

Register Below
To inquire about the course, registration, or any other details please write to Contact@PermacultureAction.org

Atlanta Permaculture Action Day w/ Lead to Life
2018-04-07 10:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Mena’s Farm, 544 Elmwood Rd NW, Atlanta, GA, 30318, United States
Location Change!: Mena's Farm, 544 Elmwood Rd NW, Atlanta, GA 30318

Join us for a Permaculture Action Day at Mena’s Farm, an urban organic farm in Northwest Atlanta, in collaboration with Lead to Life on Saturday, April 7th from 10 am until 5 pm. RAIN OR SHINE!

This event is a collaboration between Permaculture Action Network and Lead to Life in honor of the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination.

We will be commemorating 50 years since the day of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination with the King Center starting on April 4th and going through April 9th. Lead to Life will be melting down guns and turning them into shovels with which we’ll plant trees and garden beds throughout the city. 50 guns; 50 shovels; 50 trees. This will also be the beginning of Lead to Life’s 50 tree plantings throughout the weekend using shovels that will be caste from melted down guns at an alchemical ceremony in Atlanta just the night before.

Mena’s Farm is tended by Filomena Andrade, a mother of three, grandmother, and lifetime farmer who arrived in Atlanta in 2007. She moved to Bankhead from Cape Verde, West Africa. Her farm is a thriving paradise of plants she built by hand on a run-down street in the heart of Atlanta’s Bankhead neighborhood.

Bring your friends and come prepared to learn new skills, build food-producing systems, and have a dirty, good time. This event is FREE and all are welcome to attend! We’ll have community lunch and water available for everyone throughout the day, but please bring a potluck dish or beverage to contribute if you like! Don’t forget your reusable dishware too!

Music and workshops will be happening throughout the day. Raury invites you to Come To The Woods, members of Rising Appalachia Music will be swinging through, Mara Hruby is coming by sharing a few words on mental health, empathy, and kindness. Terrence is throwing down. We are blessed!

We will be graced by Abbey of Gangstas to Growers to ground us with a few words on Food Justice, Accountability, and Community. You all better get ready to get your mushroom on… William Padilla Brown will be teaching a workshop on Low-Tech Mushroom-Cultivation. You all ready?!

Projects will include:

planting fruit trees using shovels made from melted down weapons
roofing and mending the chicken coop
installing retaining walls
fixing the greenhouse
building raised garden beds
installing rainwater storage barrels and irrigation
weeding, mulching and more!

After opening in circle together, we’ll get into the other hands-on projects for the day listed above. Around 1pm, as hands-on projects continue to be worked on, we’ll start the music and free workshops that you can join if you’re feeling it.

Please reach out to us if you want to get involved at Contact@PermacultureAction.org

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Please check out the full schedule and scope of Lead to Life’s Healing Justice Gathering in Atlanta at www.leadtolife.org/gatherings/

Please check out the full schedule and scope of Lead to Life’s Healing Justice Gathering in Atlanta at www.leadtolife.org/gatherings/

More Action Days, Course, and Hubs || TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON
2018-02-01 - 2018-02-02

Social Permaculture & Community Building Weekend || WORKSHOP
2018-01-12 18:30 - 2018-01-14 13:00 UTC
Social Permaculture & Community Building
Weekend Workshop at Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm
Friday, January 12 – Sunday, January 14, 2018
Taught by Ryan Rising, Swami Jnaneswariananda, Colin Eldridge (Krishna Das)
As part of Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm’s series of monthly permaculture weekends, Ryan Rising of Permaculture Action Network will be teaching sessions on social permaculture and community building alongside meditation, yoga, and further workshops taught by Swami Jnaneswariananda and Colin Eldridge (Krishna Das).
Permaculture lays out a path for how we can approach our world under the current socio-political and economic climate to re-integrate ourselves into the ecological web of life and cultivate relationships of mutual aid and reciprocity with one another. Sometimes the most direct way to challenge and alter the dominant systems that shape our lives is to directly approach how we create what we need and how we take care of one another.
This workshop will look beyond the ways we grow our food, access water, build shelter, and tend to ecology to see how permaculture can also guide us in relating with one another and building community as we reclaim our lives and translate personal healing into collective healing.
We’ll start with an introduction to permaculture design methods for reweaving ourselves into the natural world symbiotically, and move toward applying the principles of permaculture communities, relationships, and the social realm. We’ll explore how we make decisions together as well as methods for conflict resolution and restorative justice. We’ll also look at alternative economies, placemaking, and collaborative group dynamics for liberatory communities.
Read more and register here.
Schedule
Friday
Friday Afternoon: Registration and Arrival
6:00pm Dinner
7:00pm Orientation welcome
8:00pm Satsang: guided silent meditation, chanting and lecture
Saturday
06:00am Morning Satsang
08:00am Yoga class
10:00am Brunch
11:00am Workshop: Intro/Refresher on Permaculture Design, Ethics, Principles, Framework
12:00pm Workshop: Applying the Permaculture Principles to People & Communities
01:00pm Break
01:30pm Workshop: Asset Mapping Activity
02:00pm Workshop: Alternative Economies
02:30pm Workshop: Collaborative Group Dynamics, Power & Decision Making
4:00pm Yoga Class
6:00pm Dinner
8:00pm Evening Satsang
Sunday
06:00am Morning Satsang
08:00am Yoga Class
10:00am Brunch
11:00am Karma Yoga
12:00pm Workshop: The Yoga of Social Permaculture
01:00pm – 02:00pm Workshop: Building Spiritual Community
Read more and register on Sivananda Yoga Farm’s website.

Santa Cruz Permaculture Action Day w/ Beats Antique
2017-11-04 10:00 - 14:00 UTC | Homeless Garden Project, Shaffer Rd. & Delaware Ave, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060
Join Beats Antique for a Permaculture Action Day at the Homeless Garden Project’s farm the Saturday after the Beats Antique @ The Catalyst Halloween show in Santa Cruz.

We’ll gather at the Homeless Garden Project Farm on the corner of Shaffer Rd. & Delaware Ave. from 10am-2pm, Saturday, November 4th. Come enjoy a day of hands-on regenerative projects, music, shared food, workshops, and taking action as a community.
Projects will include preparing the farm for winter and seeding winter cover crops, identifying and removing noxious weeds, mulching and beautifying paths and garden beds, painting educational signage for the farm, and making adobe bricks for a chicken hutch.
*Schedule*
10am: Public Welcome to Arrive!
10:30am: Opening Circle & Orientation; History of Homeless Garden Project
11am: Break Into Project Groups
11:15am How Farmers & Consumers Can Act Together to Protect Native
Biodiversity w/ Jo Ann of Wild Farm Alliance
12pm: Lunch Spread
12pm: Music of Blooming Anahata
12:20pm: Music of Dan Juan
12:45pm Wild Pollinators Workshop w/ Sean & Drew of Project Pollinate
1pm: Music of McCoy Tyler
2pm: Closing Dance & Clean Up Farm!
***All Day Offerings***
Community Healing Clinic w. Levity Rising
Herbal Tea Station
Solar Charging Station
Santa Cruz Permaculture Table w/ David Shaw
Homeless Garden Project’s “Products Made With Love” will be available for purchase, including beeswax candles, strawberry jam, and more than 40 other products, all made by trainees in HGP’s transitional employment program.
Bring your friends and come prepared to learn new skills, build food-producing systems, and have a dirty, good time. This event is free and all are welcome to attend! We’ll have a simple lunch spread and water/tea available for everyone throughout the day, but please bring a potluck dish or beverage to contribute if you like!

This event is a collaboration between the Permaculture Action Network, Homeless Garden Project, and Beats Antique. Special thanks go out to Jill Angeline for the support to make this happen!
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Seeds & Sounds Fest
2017-10-21 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
Permaculture Action Network is happy to co-host the first SEEDS & SOUNDS FEST, presented by SacredHeart Water & Promise of Peace Gardens – Uniting Dallas/Fort Worth Artists, Musicians, Gardeners and other Community Organizations to Create a Sustainable Food Source.
Get connected on the Facebook event page here.
Dallas, Texas is one of the wealthiest cities in the United States. Yet, nearly 500,000 residents live in poverty. A large portion of Dallas is a food desert. A food desert is an urban area in which it is difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food. We would like to unite Dallas/Fort Worth artists, musicians, gardeners and other community organizations, to create a sustainable food source to provide fresh, healthy food for those of us in need.

The Plan: To create a permaculture-based, low maintenance, low-cost organic food source in Dallas, Texas. We will simultaneously have a live music event and enhance this garden in one day. The labor will be voluntarily provided by the concert-goers and the musicians.
Location: The Emanuel P.O.P. Community Garden – 4319 San Jacinto St. Dallas, TX 75204
Date: October 21, 2017 8AM-5PM
Cost: FREE
Outcome: Is a regenerative food and education resource within the Dallas community. Providing a location of nutrition, education, and awareness about our food sources and our community. Overall, increasing the well being of the community through nutrition, education and uniting as one to help the whole.
After The Event: Promise of Peace Community Gardens will be in charge of maintenance and food distribution as they have on going systems in place. This location will primarily supply the Emanuel Church Food Pantry Program that currently services about 65 families in Old East Dallas.
Music Performances By:
PositiveVibeTribeBand
Oneofus
M Slago
SniperShot
Cass Maenius
SpaceBoiFresh
Silassie
Live Painting By:
Eder Tron
Karla Ceballos
Zero Waste Workshop By: John Bushe of Zero Waste Advocacy iot
Sound Provided By: DM Event Production
Special THANK YOU To Our Local Sponsors:
HOLY Kombucha
White Rock Coffee
EcoDallas – Earth Friendly Tableware
Tom Thumb
The Home Depot
Natural Grocers
**We Still Need Donations For This Free Event!**
Please shoot us a message or email at SacredHeartWater@gmail.com If you would like to be involved in this event. We will need tools, edible plants (berries, fruit trees and herbs), construction supplies, art supplies, Food, Water, etc. Any help is appreciated! Thank You

Berea Permaculture Action Day 3
2017-08-30 10:00 - 18:00 (America/Halifax) | Glades Community Garden, 530 Glades Rd, Berea, KY, 40456, United States
Micah Wiles of Cedar Creek Farm presenting on caring for trees.
Alright y’all, we’re back for the LAST installment of the 2017 Berea Permaculture Action Series! Join us the day after the Friends of Old Timey Music concert in Old Town Berea for a day full of permaculture and nature-based workshops, skillshares and hands-on activities taking place at Glades Community Garden (530 Glades Rd, Berea, KY), FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Glades Community Garden is a project started by a group of families in a low-income housing community in Berea who were looking to be more self-sustaining and to create economic opportunity. The garden has expanded in the year since its inception to include CSA, sales to the Grow Appalachia Summer Feeding Project, and educational opportunities for kids. We are so excited to have the opportunity to contribute to the long-term goals and visions of this amazing community garden!
This will be day three of a three day series, each day focusing on different projects at the garden site, intended to be both experiential and educational!
Activities will include but are not limited to:
-PLANT FOOD FOREST DEMONSTRATION SITE
-WINTERIZE RAISED BEDS
-PRUNING/PROPOGATING BLACKBERRIES
-TUCK IN GARDEN BEDS
We’ll get as much done as we can – we need you to make it all happen! ALL PROJECTS BEGIN AROUND 10 AM AND ARE ONGOING THROUGHOUT THE DAY!
-SKILLSHARES, WORKSHOPS AND LIVE MUSIC
-WINTERIZING RAISED BEDS
-HOMEMADE CIDER PRESS!
-SEASON EXTENSION
-END OF SEASON TOOL CARE
-SCYTHING/WINTER COVER CROPS
AND MUCH MORE!
If you would like to contribute a workshop or skillshare, please contact Leah van Winkle (co-host to this event) in a private message.
Austin Williams of Kentucky Heartwood during his Tree ID walk — these kids are getting their first ever taste of paw paw (Asimina Triloba), aka Indiana Banana.
FOOD: If you can, please bring a dish to share. This is a community event and food will be provided by the people for the people in the form of a rolling potluck. Please bring your own dish and eating utensils so we can a) avoid having tons of dishes to do afterwards and b) avoid contributing unnecessarily to the waste stream!
Please bring a water bottle to stay hydrated throughout the day.
MUSIC: There will be local musicians playing throughout the day. If you would like to contribute music, poetry, spoken word or art, please contact Leah (details above).
We’re looking forward to having the following talented artists perform! Stay tuned for the schedule :
SARAH MARIE MILLER
SEARRA JADE
A huge thanks to all those contributing skills, materials, time, energy, donations, and more:
LevittAMP Berea Music Series
First Friday Berea
Grow Appalachia
Habitat for Humanity
Permaculture Action Network
Lazy Eight Stock Farm
Tyler Thompson Music
Sarah Miller Dulcimer
Grow Appalachia
Habitat for Humanity
England’s Nursery
Peaceful Heritage Permaculture Fruit Nursery
Garver Farms
Native Bagel Co
Sustainable Berea
Berea College Greenhouses
Mary Moss Kniskern
Jane Post and Tim Hensley – Forest Retreats
Kelly’s Farm Stand Richmond
The Potting Shed
Hands On Earth Permaculture
Be sure to check out the Levitt AMP Music Series the night before the action day — more information available at https://www.facebook.com/events/970714429737255/
For more info about this event, and the Permaculture Action Network in general, check out our webpage at www.permacultureaction.org
See you all there!

Big Pine Paiute Permaculture Action Day #OnTheRoadToBurningMan
2017-08-25 17:30 - 2017-08-26 19:30 UTC | 825 South Main Street, Big Pine, CA 93513 (garden just to North), 825 South Main Street, Big Pine, CA, 93513, United States
Big Pine Paiute Tribe’s Permaculture Action Day on the Road to Burning Man
Friday, August 25th 5:30pm – Saturday, August 26th 7:30pm
@ Big Pine Paiute Tribal Garden
825 South Main Street, Big Pine, CA 93513 (garden just to North)
Join the Big Pine Paiute Tribe, Burners Without Borders, Permaculture Action Network, and the Indigenous Farming Project for a Permaculture Action Day on the Road to Burning Man at the Big Pine Paiute Tribal Garden. The garden is a publicly-accessible demonstration project that features permaculture design, perennial & annual plant cultivation, and plants native to the Eastern Sierras. Everyone is welcome and this event is free to attend! Join us anytime after 5:30pm on Friday, August 25th when the weekly farmers’ market opens to the community. You are welcome to camp overnight on the land with us, and we will have food, showers, and other hospitality provided. We will work on hands-on projects all day Saturday, August 26th while we share meals and story, listen to live musical performances, and participate in workshops and skillshares.
This permaculture food sovereignty project of the Big Pine Paiute Tribe is located along Highway 395 in Big Pine, CA, at the Big Pine Paiute Tribal Headquarters. We have designed this day to fall on a perfect midpoint for folks traveling to Burning Man’s Black Rock City from the Southwest of the United States, especially Los Angeles and San Diego communities. Leave Friday evening and come camp with us, or leave Saturday morning to come take action with us for a few hours before continuing your drive up to Black Rock City (gates open at 12:01am on Sunday and it’s a 5 hour drive from Big Pine up to Black Rock City).
Action-Based Projects
We will be building a large greenhouse for winter growing and digging rainwater catchment earthworks & swales to catch and store rainwater in the soil.
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Cascade Permaculture Action Day: On the Road to Burning Man
2017-08-13 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 333 Pontius Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109, 333 Pontius Ave N, , WA, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
Join Burners Without Borders and Permaculture Action Network for a Permaculture Day on the Road to Burning Man with Alleycat Acres and the Cascade People’s Center. One of the last green spaces in South Lake Union needs our help to rebuild raised beds, paint a building, and clean up the space. This will be a day of work, play and learning. There will be free food and music throughout the day as we are all getting our hands in the dirt and collaborating together.
The People’s Center at Cascade Playground houses the Cascade Giving Garden and the offices for several of the YMCA’s youth programs. The goal of this space is to provide space for community engagement and community support.
HELP US SHAPE THE DAY! We are looking for:
MUSIC/MUSICIANS
Set the tone for the day!
ARTISTS OR TEACHERS!!
Do you have a skill or talent you want to share? Ever thought about running a workshop?
Also, we are looking for an artist who would be interested in painting a mural.
VOLUNTEERS
Want to get your hands dirty? We’ll have the tools and facilitators! Come plug in – no experience necessary : )
SPONSORS
Do you have cash, construction materials, or food you want to share to support our event?
The event will be open to all ages and there will be access to a play field to host classes or workshops. We want you to help shape this day. Please contact Rawr (llsabbotts@gmail.com) if you are interested in contributing in any way.
If we are able to find donations or raise funds, we will also be able to build an enclosure for beehives and build more raised beds.
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Berea Permaculture Action Series, Day 2
2017-08-12 10:00 - 18:00 (Asia/Dubai) | Glades Community Garden, 530 Glades Rd, Berea, KY, 40456, United States
Presenting, the second installment of the Berea Permaculture Action Series! Join us the day after the Roots of a Rebellion and Jeff Richey Experience concert in Old Town Berea for a day full of permaculture and nature-based workshops, skillshares and hands-on activities taking place at Glades Community Garden (530 Glades Rd, Berea, KY), FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Glades Community Garden is a project started by a group of families in a low-income housing community in Berea who were looking to be more self-sustaining and to create economic opportunity. The garden has expanded in the year since its inception to include CSA, sales to the Grow Appalachia Summer Feeding Project, and educational opportunities for kids. We are so excited to have the opportunity to contribute to the long-term goals and visions of this amazing community garden!
This will be day two of a three day series, each day focusing on different projects at the garden site, intended to be both experiential and educational!
Activities will include but are not limited to:
-COMPOST BIN EXPANSION
-INSTALLING RAISED BEDS
-BASICS OF WATER MANAGEMENT
-BUG HOTEL/BAT HOUSE
-PAINTING & INSTALLING BEEHIVES
-BUILDING VERTICAL GARDEN BEDS
-FOOD FOREST PREP CONTINUED
We’ll get as much done as we can – we need you to make it all happen!
-SKILLSHARES, WORKSHOPS AND LIVE MUSIC ONGOING THROUGHOUT THE DAY
-Fermentation Basics with Rhett Kenny
-Natural Pest Control with Kayla Preston
-Compost Basics with Joana Amorim
-Cover Cropping with Timothy Kercherville
If you would like to contribute a workshop or skillshare, please contact Michael Beck at michaelbeck@permacultureactionnetwork.org
FOOD: If you can, please bring a dish to share. This is a community event and food will be provided by the people for the people in the form of a rolling potluck. Please bring your own dish and eating utensils so we can a) avoid having tons of dishes to do afterwards and b) avoid contributing unnecessarily to the waste stream!
Please bring a water bottle to stay hydrated throughout the day.
MUSIC: There will be local musicians playing throughout the day. If you would like to contribute music, poetry, spoken word or art, please contact Michael (details above).
We’re looking forward to having the following talented artists perform! Stay tuned for the schedule :
Sarah Marie Miller and Erin Grace
A huge thanks to all those contributing skills, materials, time, energy, donations, and more:
LevittAMP Berea Music Series
First Friday Berea
Grow Appalachia
Habitat for Humanity
Permaculture Action Network
Lazy Eight Stock Farm
Tyler Thompson Music
Sarah Miller Dulcimer
Grow Appalachia
Habitat for Humanity
Native Bagel Co
Sustainable Berea
Berea College Greenhouses
Mary Moss Kniskern
Jane Post and Tim Hensley – Forest Retreats
Kelly’s Farm Stand Richmond
The Potting Shed
Evan’s Tree Service
Hands On Earth Permaculture
Click ‘going,’ share event and invite your friends on our facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/449194292133360/
Be sure to check out the Levitt AMP Music Series the night before the action day — more information available at https://www.facebook.com/events/970714429737255/
See you all there!

ARISE Permaculture Action Day w/ Rising Appalachia
2017-08-03 09:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | sunrise ranch spiritual retreat and conference center, 100 sunrise ranch road, loveland, Colorado, 80538, United States
Thursday August 3rd, the day before ARISE begins, 9am – 3 pm
(Early Arrival campers will catch a special set with Rising Appalachia that evening)
Come to the festival site early Thursday morning before the early entry gates to ARISE open to take part in the third annual Permaculture Action Day at Sunrise Ranch! We’ll put a final lime plaster on the cob oven, construct a timber-frame torii gateway at the North entrance to the food forest, transplant seedlings into the herb garden, inoculate the orchard with edible mushrooms, and build benches, tables, and log seating so more people can observe and enjoy the edible forest garden. Rising Appalachia will be coming out and getting down with us. As always, music, food, workshops, and loved ones will abound. Everything is free. Come get dirty with us and learn some new skills.
Sunrise Ranch, the host site of ARISE Music Festival, is one of the oldest intentional communities in the country, founded in 1945 and providing home to a multigenerational community of almost 100 people, organic gardens, and a holistically managed ranch.
For the last three years we’ve been building up the on-site food forest with stone pathways, edible forest gardens, rainwater harvesting earthworks, an earthen oven, and useful plant species. Join us in our third year of turning this site into a regenerative beehive of activity before the music and festivities begin.
What To Bring
Bring close toed shoes and gloves, a water bottle, and your own dishware. Any tools, extra gloves, or beneficial materials you can bring will be a wonderful contribution as well. Click ‘Going’ on the Facebook event page, share, and invite your friends to make this the biggest and most fun ARISE action day yet.
ARISE Permaculture Action Course!
Want to really learn about permaculture design – the process by which we can recreate our systems for sustaining human life to care for the earth, care for people, and use the surplus to benefit all? Come to the three-day Permaculture Action Course July 31st through August 2nd onsite and learn the ins and outs of whole systems design, regenerative agriculture, water systems, soils, alternative energy, natural building, and creating healthy, just communities. Get more info on the ARISE Festival Permaculture Action Course Webpage and invite your friends on the Facebook event page for the three-day Permaculture Action Course.

ARISE Permaculture Action Course
2017-07-31 08:00 - 2017-08-03 15:30 (America/Chicago) | sunrise ranch spiritual retreat and conference center, 100 sunrise ranch road, loveland, Colorado, 80538, United States
July 31st – August 3rd at Sunrise Ranch, Loveland, CO
For information on just the Permaculture Action Day on August 3rd click here
You can also learn more about the course on the ARISE website
Join Ryan Rising and Alexa Levy of Permaculture Action Network, water systems expert & certified permaculture design teacher Avery Ellis, Sunrise Ranch’s own permaculture designer Patrick Padden, biodynamics practitioner Stone Hunter, and other guest instructors for a detailed and holistic program that combines ecological design science, community organizing with an action-based focus, and the many facets of permaculture.
With a focus on catalyzing social transformation, you will learn techniques for regenerating ecology and explore community building through action-oriented organizing.
With experts in their respective fields teaching Natural Building, Rainwater Harvesting, Earthworks, Forest Gardening and more, this course will leave you with the practical tools to actually start building the world you want to live in. This course will lead into an on-site Permaculture Action Day before the Arise Music Festival and will explore how large, temporary human gatherings can catalyze long-term positive impact on the land.

Course: Monday, July 31st 8am, to Wednesday, August 2nd
(Early arrival camping and dinner is available on the night of July 30th for an extra fee)
Action Day: Thursday, Aug 3rd
The course will include three days of full-on permaculture education and community building, including:
-permaculture design process
-rainwater harvesting and earthworks
-introduction to permaculture
-natural building and appropriate technology
-regenerative tools and techniques
-permaculture gardening and food forestry
-applying ecological principles
-social permaculture
-community organizing methods
-soils and composting
Attendance is limited to 30 participants! Secure your ticket today!

Cost: $379 Register Here!
Ticket includes:
-A three day permaculture intensive course followed by a Permaculture Action Day, all on the festival site at Sunrise Ranch
-Festival Early Arrival Access (with first choice of camping for the whole week)
-Three organic meals per day, Monday through Wednesday (breakfast included on Thursday, Aug. 3, but not on Monday, July 31)
-On-site camping
Arrival and check-in: 8-9 a.m. Monday, July 31st (early arrival on July 30th is available for $75 extra).
First session begins at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, July 31st.
All participants in the Action Course and Action Day must depart the west side of the valley by 3 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 3, and may enter the festival with an ARISE Festival wristband.

For info on the Permaculture Action Day on August 3rd, click here.
Ryan Rising
Ryan Rising is a community organizer and permaculture educator based out of the San Francisco Bay Area and co-founder of the Permaculture Action Network. After a decade of local organizing around direct action, food justice, ecological design and community space, Ryan organized the Permaculture Action Tour for music producer The Polish Ambassador in the fall of 2014. The tour visited 32 cities across the country, holding a Permaculture Action Day in each one and bringing together up to 400 people at a time to implement projects including public food forests, edible gardens, natural buildings, urban farms, and greenhouses. The tour was so effective in moving thousands of people into regenerative work and movement building for the just transition that an organization of local chapters throughout multiple bioregions, the Permaculture Action Network, arose from it.
Ryan focuses on creating community access to land for local food growing and regenerative living—connecting people to take direct action and transition to a resilient way of life; and social permaculture—the ways we make decisions, build resilience, resolve conflicts, and organize in community.
Ryan has taught numerous courses and workshops, including the Elemental Alchemy Permaculture Intensive before Symbiosis Gathering in 2013, 2015, and 2016, Permaculture Design Courses across California and Tennessee, a month-long Gaia Education certified Eco-Village Design training in Nicaragua, and numerous Permaculture Action Courses and workshops. Ryan also sometimes guest teaches at University of San Francisco, San Francisco State, and Laney College. A certified permaculture designer with a degree in Peace and Social Justice Studies, he also co-founded a regenerative, productive urban farm in the East Bay and the Omni Commons—a community space and education center in Oakland, CA. For more information on Ryan’s work, see the Permaculture Action Network website.
Avery Ellis, Ecological Designer & Aquaponics Specialist
Avery Ellis, owner of Colorado Greywater, is a sustainability specialist and ecological designer. He has a Masters degree in Ecological Design through SFIA and a BS in Biology & Sustainability through Stockton College. He is also a Certified Permaculture Designer and Teacher and a Certified Greywater Installer. Having spent many years pursuing his passion for sustainability, he now focuses on designing ecosystems that serve humanity by mimicking natural processes.
His passion for Sustainable systems became a life direction after a semester abroad, where he undertook an in-depth study of sustainability at an International Eco-village in Auroville, India. In this intensive course, he explored permaculture design, renewable energy systems, grey water treatment, organic food production, and sustainable building methods. Upon completion of his Bachelor of Science degree, he continued to explore various aspects of sustainability while gaining experience in the field. He worked at an organic farm harvesting culinary herbs, he spent a year as a solar installation specialist, and he was a supervisor for a recycling company, intent on net zero waste.
With all of these skills adding up to a cumulative understanding of sustainability, he decided to continue his education at the San Francisco Institute of Architecture, where he enrolled in a Masters of Ecological Design program. This course has been instrumental in his knowledge of sustainable and regenerative design. As a thesis, he designed and built a small scale aquaponics system for his home, as a model for home-scale food production. This system, along with others he has designed and built, produce organic vegetables and fish year round. As the field of aquaponics develops, he invites each new system as a design challenge and as a sustainable solution for humanity.
Patrick Padden
Patrick Padden, a graduate of Colorado State University, studied natural systems building design in Namibia and urban food forest implementation in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2007. In 2008, Patrick obtained his permaculture teacher’s certificate from Sandy Cruz and Becky Elder of the Permaculture Institute. Patrick received his design certificate from the International Permaculture Design Course in Harare, Zimbabwe, and attended the International Permaculture Convergence in Malawi in 2009.
Patrick is a practicing permaculturalist and permaculture educator and leads the Permaculture Design Certification Course.
Alexa Levy
Alexa Levy is an educator, public school teacher, permaculturist, organizer, and an artist. In various positions, she has dedicated her life to working with underprivileged youth as a facilitator of learning, offering them tools to becoming their best self. She started a Permaculture program at a Middle School in Oakland, where together she and her students learn about growing food, creating regenerative systems, art, current events, social justice, and practice restorative justice. She has been exploring alternative avenues of education in search of piecing together an “Educational Utopia” where justice and compassion are at the forefront.
She has taught in over seventy public schools, knowing thousands of children by name in New York City, and Oakland, California. Alexa is a core member of the Permaculture Action Network, a non-profit organization that mobilizes audiences from cultural events to take direct action at Permaculture Action Days, as well as host courses and create educational hubs at events. She has been a part of creating the organizational development and structure, as well as organizing Permaculture Action Days, facilitating youth workshops, and offering workshops in Permaculture Action Hubs at festivals.
Stone Hunter
Stone Hunter is a biodynamic farming practitioner and consultant at Sustainable Settings Ranch in Carbondale, Colorado. Born and raised at Sunrise Ranch, Stone attended River Song Waldorf School and later graduated from the International Baccalaureate program in Fort Collins, Colorado. After attending Evergreen State College and working on permaculture-based projects in Costa Rica and Panama, he began farming in 2013 at Happy Heart Farm in Fort Collins.
In 2015, Stone began working at Sustainable Settings, where he completed a two-year North American Biodynamic Apprenticeship Program training with experience in dairy cattle operations, holistic grazing, grain cultivation, draft horse implementation, stone masonry, CSA gardening, green construction, natural beekeeping and more. Currently, Stone works with Sustainable Settings emphasizing the application of biodynamic techniques and permaculture designs, composting and livestock management, while he also teaches gardening at the Waldorf School on the Roaring Fork.

Indigenous Wisdom and Permaculture Skills Convergence
2017-07-26 08:00 - 2017-07-31 17:00 UTC | Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, Pine Ridge Reservation, SD, United States
Indigenous Wisdom and Permaculture Skills Convergence
Pre-Event On-Site Infrastructure Build: July 19 – 25, 2017
Convergence: July 26 8:00 Am – July 31, 2017 5:00 pm
Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota

Building a just and regenerative world from the roots up!

Join the Oglala Lakota Cultural and Economic Revitalization Initiative and a team of incredible facilitators to co-create a gathering that is transformative – not just for the attendees but for the community and the land that supports it. A place for us to put our values into practice through permaculture design alongside experts, where we can build a just and regenerative world from the roots up through art, music, and community.
Read more at the IWPSConvergence webpage, and reserve your spot here.
CONVERGENCE GOALS
1. Complete Lakota-initiated projects that increase food security, build sustainable infrastructure, and enhance economic opportunity on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
2. Provide stipends (see: Community Stewards Stipend Program) for Pine Ridge residents to join as paid stewards and learn useful ecological design and construction skills.
3. Attendees learn and practice permaculture design through hands-on workshops, and leave the Convergence with a deeper understanding of natural building, aquaponics, traditional ecological knowledge, and appropriate technologies. ALL projects were selected as beneficial by our Lakota partners.
4. Create community through music, skill shares, and meals that are open to the Pine Ridge community.
5. Build long-term relationships that support the resiliency of indigenous and Earth-centered networks.
CONVERGENCE PROJECTS
Opportunities to learn, build, and leave a positive impact
Natural Building
Participants have the opportunity to help design the plans for a Permaculture Center made of cob, under the guidance of renowned natural building teachers. Then we will start and finish a smaller project, such as a chicken coop or oven together. Prepare for a cob-stomp dance party to music performers! If passionate about natural building, attendees are invited to stay on the reservation after the end of the convergence to help complete a nearby Earthship.
Growing Food Security
Learn about the unique challenges and solutions to growing food on the Great Plains. Work in OLCERI’s food forest, now 5 years old. Together we will plant the site’s Community Garden, and Walapini Greenhouse. Many infrastructure designs were created especially for the reservation and made of repurposed materials.
Mycology
Growing mushrooms low-tech and medicinals. Mushrooms are a fast-growing source of nutrition and medicine. Learn how to cultivate mushrooms in open air conditions.
Appropriate Technologies
Attendees will learn how to build and complete projects that will contribute to the self-sufficient sustainable practices of the tribe, including:
• Passive Solar Dehydrators
• Rocket Stoves

Meals
Nothing brings community together like a delicious, nourishing meal. The outdoor kitchen will be serving 3 a day for all participants. The kitchen hosts a workshop on traditional foods for all who prepare and serve meals. Meals are hot and off the grid provided by the world’s largest solar oven, on-site.
SolutionCraft
SolutionCraft is an ecological education kitchen classroom that highlights appropriate technology and ecological design. We will be highlighting the giant Villager sun oven, solar parabolas, rocket stoves, efficient zero waste and dishwashing systems, and other ecological technologies that can be used when designing a truly regenerative kitchen.
Read more about SolutionCraft here.
Tea House
Enjoy the company of other builders and visionaries in the tea yurt and join discussions on a variety of facilitated circle discussions. Open every evening.
Music
We will be moved to the musical tunes of local and indigenous performers including Calina Lawrence, Tom and Emanuel Blackbear.
Any interested performers please email pineridgepermaculuregathering@gmail.com
WISHLIST
We encourage the sharing of skills and facilitators for evening talks and performances on direct action, astronomy, native resiliency groups, theater, and those with EMT skills.
TEACHER BIOs
Bryan Deans, natural building and Lakota ways
Bryan is the founder of OLCERI and host of the convergence. Bryan is an aerospace mechanic, welder, and veteran who is well-versed in ecological design and Lakota ways. For more on his work, please see http://www.olceri.org/about-us
Koreen Brennan, food forestry
Koreen has extensive experience in permaculture design and education. She has taught permaculture design at Pine Ridge since 2005. Her areas of expertise and passion are food forestry, small farms and food security, community building, and regenerative economics. Specialties include soil building and remediation, water catchment and use, edible landscaping, planning urban and rural integrated farming, reducing energy needs, and building more resilient finances and communities.
She organized permaculture-style disaster relief for thousands of Haitians living in camps after the earthquake in 2010, coordinated the formation of the Sustainable Urban Agriculture Coalition St Petersburg, and is a founding co-organizer for the North American Permaculture Convergence.
Michael Alcazar, permaculture and direct action
Michael is an Indigenous permaculturalist, veteran, artist, designer, builder, outdoor experiential facilitator, movement fundamental specialist, and educator. He has a lifetime of experience in green building, intentional design, and has been an educator for almost three decades! He joins us from Denver, CO where he is working on projects from sustainable policy and community garden organization. He is also involved in the Eco Village for Standing Rock ND, sustainable housing and workshops for the Black Mesa Band of Navajo people, and an organizer for 1 million trees 4 Haiti. He will be teaching on Indigenous Phenology, Carbon Farming, and the Perennial Economy.
Peter McCoy, mycology and mycoremediation
Peter McCoy is the co-founder of Radical Mycology, a grassroots organization and movement that teaches the means to easily work with mushrooms and other fungi for personal, societal, and ecological resilience. For the last ten years, Radical Mycology has provided free resources and held internationally attended conferences to share the science of mycology and the art of mushroom cultivation in a manner that is open-source, practical, and relevant for the modern world. Peter lives in Portland, Oregon and he regularly teaches mycology-related courses around the world.
Miguel Elliot, natural building
Miguel Elliott, knighted as “Sir Cobalot” had been Cobbing full time for over 20 years. He is the owner of Living Earth Structures, based in the Bay Area, which specializes in leading workshops and projects at schools to build ovens, benches and huts. He was part of the crew at Standing Rock to build the Strawbale School for the children of the camp. His latest design is the “Palletable Cobin” which is a quick, durable, well insulated structure made of pallets and cob. To see photos of his work, you can visit his website.
Kevin Poor Bear, live mural painter
Kevin Poor Bear of the Lakota Sioux Nation is a proud member of the Pine Ridge reservation, an artist, a husband, and father, and a bilateral amputee resulting from a brown recluse spider bite.
Kevin’s original hand painted pastels embody and preserve the Lakota history and culture. Like many of the Sioux people, Kevin strives to preserve the history, language, and spiritual practices of his ancestors.
TICKETS
Free for Pine Ridge and other residents of reservations
$300 – 500 sliding scale for Convergence July 26th – 31st.
$150 for volunteers pre-event infrastructure build and convergence organizing roles
Pre-build volunteers are invited to join the week before the Convergence (July 19th – 26th) to set up infrastructure. Besides a discounted ticket, volunteers will gain an intimate look at event production using permaculture design principles that uphold sustainability and transparency as the highest values. Volunteers will construct solar showers, compost toilets, shade structures, and signage for the incoming gathering, as well as get acquainted with the reservation through community outreach events. Positions to help organize the festival are needed.
Residents interested in stewarding our designs at community impact centers throughout the reservation are invited to email us (pineridgepermaculturegathering@gmail.com) and connect with OLCERI to join the Convergence as a paid steward.
Reservation Community Resilience Programs attend free
We would like to serve as a platform for your organization or project. Please email to let us know how you’d like to join us.
Reserve your space and buy tickets here
Can’t join us but want to support the project? Please donate. 100% of proceeds go to building project materials.
For questions, comments, or workshop/artists proposals, contact: pineridgepermaculturegathering@gmail.com
Stay connected and invite your friends at the Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/IWPSconvergence/
Permaculture Action Network is honored to be co-hosting this unique convergence and to be in solidarity with indigenous people whose lifeways we all benefit greatly in learning from and with all those living, working, and fighting to restore traditional lifeways that are regenerative and holistic.

Berea Permaculture Action Series, Day 1
2017-07-08 09:00 - 18:00 (America/Halifax) | Glades Community Garden, 530 Glades Rd, Berea, KY, 40456, United States
July 8 @ Glades Community Garden (530 Glades Rd, Berea, KY), 9am-6pm
Join us the day after Ben Sollee’s concert in Old Town Berea for a day full of permaculture and nature-based workshops, skillshares and hands-on activities taking place at Glades Community Garden (530 Glades Rd, Berea, KY), FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

Glades Community Garden is a project started by a group of families in a low-income housing community in Berea who were looking to be more self-sustaining and to create economic opportunity. The garden has expanded in the year since its inception to include CSA, sales to the Grow Appalachia Summer Feeding Project, and educational opportunities for kids. We are so excited to have the opportunity to contribute to the long-term goals and visions of this amazing community garden!
This will be day one of a three day series, each day focusing on different projects at the garden site, intended to be both experiential and educational!

Activities will include but are not limited to:
– YOGA @ 9am
– BUILDING A COMPOST AREA
-EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS FOR KIDS
-VERMICULTURE BINS
– CLEARING FOREST FOR A MUSHROOM GARDEN
– FOOD FOREST DESIGN BASICS
– WOOD CHIP MUSHROOM INOCULATION
– MAGICAL KIDS FAIRY VILLAGE IN WOODS
– PLANTING POLLINATOR GARDEN
– BUG HOTEL BUILD
-SKILLSHARES, WORKSHOPS AND LIVE MUSIC ONGOING THROUGHOUT THE DAY
If you would like to contribute a workshop or skillshare, please contact Leah van Winkle (co-host to this event) in a private message.
FOOD: If you can, please bring a dish to share. This is a community event and food will be provided by the people for the people in the form of a rolling potluck. Please bring your own dish and eating utensils so we can a) avoid having tons of dishes to do afterwards and b) avoid contributing unnecessarily to the waste stream!
Please bring a water bottle to stay hydrated throughout the day.
MUSIC: There will be local musicians playing throughout the day. If you would like to contribute music, poetry, spoken word or art, please contact Leah (details above).
A huge thanks to all those contributing skills, materials, time, energy, donations, and more:
LevittAMP Berea Music Series
First Friday Berea
Grow Appalachia
Habitat for Humanity
Be sure to check out the KICK-OFF event of this summer’s Levitt AMP Music Series the night before the action day — more information available at http://concerts.levittamp.org/ben_sollee
More info on the Facebook event page
More info on First Friday Berea page
See you all there!

Sonic Bloom Permaculture Action Day 2017
2017-06-15 10:30 - 16:00 (America/Denver) | District ONE Farm at Fiesta Park, Fiesta Park @ Russell St. , Walsenburg, Colorado, United States
Thursday, June 15th ~ 10:30am-4pm
District ONE Farm, Fiesta Park @ Russell St., Walsenburg, CO
Join us on the opening day of SONIC BLOOM 2017 just before going through the gates for a Permaculture Action Day in the local community of Walsenburg. These festive convergences give us an incredible opportunity to connect, learn, and build together; and taking action in the local community where we’ll spend four days with one another gives us the chance to literally build the infrastructure of the better world we’re stepping into.
District ONE operates two community farms in Walsenburg that aim to grow and provide organic food to a farm-to-table, pay-what-you-can restaurant in the downtown strip, as well as to the local school cafeterias and directly to the people inhabiting the area. Huerfano County is both the second poorest county in the state as well as that with the worst food nutrition on record. We know that when we take agency over our own lives and regenerate the ecology around us, we can provide an abundance of nutrient-rich food, medicine, building materials, water, and more for ourselves and our communities.
Projects:
– Build Garden and Farm Beds to Plant with Food
– Install Drip Irrigation System
– Make and Spread Compost Tea
– Build a Simple Compost System
– Paint Murals
– Add Additional Rainwater Storage Tank
We’ll have food, music, workshops, and conversation to share. We’ll also provide the tools and materials we need, but please do bring additional tools if you can, as well as work shoes, gloves, a water bottle, and dishware. If you want to get down with planning the various projects, collecting tools and materials leading up, or adding something special to the action day, get in touch with us at Contact@PermacultureAction.org
Workshops at the Permaculture Action Day:

– Political Empowerment & Proactive Health through Wildcrafting & Cultivating Herbal Medicine
Join Laura Shiels of The Growing Project & Herbalmagik for this action day-only skillshare on political empowerment through taking control of your own health, nutrition and medicine. Laura will discuss collecting and using herbs yourself and teach a hands-on session for making health drink remedies with wild greens.
– Making and Applying Compost Tea w/ Edaphic Solutions
– Inoculating Mushrooms

**You do not HAVE to be attending the festival or the academy to participate. This event is free and open to everyone.**
Click ‘Going’ on the Facebook event page, invite your friends, and follow the discussion thread for updates.
Check out our report back on last year’s Sonic Bloom Permaculture Action Day.
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Sonic Bloom Permaculture Academy
June 11th-14th on site at Hummingbird Ranch
Want to really take a deep dive into permaculture, ecological design, community organizing, social permaculture, and get the 101 on soils, compost, the design process, water systems, alternative energy and appropriate technology, perennial agriculture, and more? Check out the Sonic Bloom Permaculture Academy with Ryan Rising, Mike Wird, Kendra Krueger, and other Permaculture Action Network facilitators: http://sonicbloomfestival.com/academy/permaculture/

Sonic Bloom Academy: Permaculture Series
2017-06-11 18:00 - 2017-06-14 23:00 (America/Denver) | Hummingbird Ranch, Spanish Peaks Country, CO, United States
Join us for a three day Permaculture Action Course and Permaculture Action Day before Sonic Bloom Festival in Colorado this year, the Sonic Bloom Permaculture Academy.
June 11-14, Sonic Bloom Festival will be hosting their pre-festival Academy on the festival site, the beautiful Hummingbird Ranch. Take a deep dive into permaculture design, skills for ecological regeneration, and the how to’s of organizing in community with skilled and experienced facilitators and like minds. Get the details here.
The Permaculture Series
Permaculture comes from the terms “permanent agriculture,” or more broadly, “permanent culture,” and encompasses a design process by which humans can create relationships of mutual benefit with the natural world and with each other that provide for an abundance of human needs. The tools and technologies of permaculture exhibit how humans can move away from an extractive, exploitative paradigm with the earth and one another, and towards systems of symbiosis, ecological regeneration, and community.
Get your hands dirty.

Learn the permaculture design process and ecological design principles.
Gain hands-on skills to directly transform the world around you.
Relate to the earth symbiotically to create and gather your food, shelter, water and energy.
Get training in community building and action planning for a better world.
Dig into practical tools for ecological regeneration with experienced practitioners.

$366 *Enroll Here*
Academy students can look forward to a whole lot of perks with your admission fee including…

21 class hours of world class educational experience
Connections with like minded people
2 healthy, organic meals per day (brunch and dinner)
Be the first people on site
First priority shaded and creekside camping

Get the details and sign up: http://sonicbloomfestival.com/academy/permaculture/
Facilitators
Lead facilitators for the full academy: Ryan Rising, Kendra Krueger, and Mike Wird (bios below)
Special Guest Teachers include: Soils and composting experts Shelby Kaminski and Ryan Bruno, permaculture landscaping business entrepreneur Erin Anderson, and the Front Range BioRegional Crew of Permaculture Action Network
Ryan Rising is a community organizer and permaculture educator based out of the San Francisco Bay Area and co-founder of the Permaculture Action Network. After a decade of local organizing around direct action, food justice, ecological design and community space, Ryan organized the Permaculture Action Tour for music producer The Polish Ambassador in the fall of 2014. The tour visited 32 cities across the country, holding a Permaculture Action Day in each one and bringing together up to 400 people at a time to implement projects including public food forests, edible gardens, natural buildings, urban farms, and greenhouses. The tour was so effective in moving thousands of people into regenerative work and movement building for the just transition that an organization of local chapters throughout multiple bioregions, the Permaculture Action Network, arose from it.

Ryan focuses on creating community access to land for local food growing and regenerative living—connecting people to take direct action and transition to a resilient way of life; and social permaculture—the ways we make decisions, build resilience, resolve conflicts, and organize in community.
Ryan has taught numerous courses and workshops, including the Elemental Alchemy Permaculture Intensive before Symbiosis Gathering in 2013, 2015, and 2016, Permaculture Design Courses across California and Tennessee, a month-long Gaia Education certified Eco-Village Design training in Nicaragua, and numerous Permaculture Action Courses and workshops. Ryan also sometimes guest teaches at University of San Francisco, San Francisco State, and Laney College. A certified permaculture designer with a degree in Peace and Social Justice Studies, he also co-founded a regenerative, productive urban farm in the East Bay and the Omni Commons—a community space and education center in Oakland, CA.

Kendra Krueger is a scientist and community organizer who teaches how to use science as a tool for personal liberation and discovery. She uses techniques and concepts of social justice, permaculture, theater and movement to facilitate processes of inquiry, discernment and design. In addition to leading scientific liberation workshops in the community and around the country, she helps to run the Denver Permaculture Guild, an eco-social justice community organization and is an adjunct professor at Naropa University, a liberal arts buddhist college. She has worked and studied as an electrical engineer (BS Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, MS University of Colorado Boulder) and has experience in community radio production, journalism, theater, dance and music. She is originally from New York City’s Lower East Side and currently lives in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. You can follow her work on facebook at 4Love+Science or on her website www.4loveandscience.com

Michael White aka Mike Wird is an advanced permaculture designer/consultant, artist, educator, business owner, and natural builder who shares his dedication to social and environmental justice through cultural arts and regenerative practices. Mike has been actively building community for over 15 years as a cultural arts ambassador, raising awareness about social, financial, and ecological issues and their solutions in our environments. Mike is Co-Founder of Regenerative Lifestyles LLC, an education firm offering services and opportunities based around integrated living systems, as well as the Center for Regenerative Living, which aims to bring regenerative lifestyle practices to the urban core. In 2011, Mike received his diploma in Earthship Biotecture, and was certified in Permaculture Design, studying with Adam Brock, Toby Hemenway, Larry Santoyo, Penny Livingston, Michael Becker, Jerome Osentowski, and others. In 2012, Mike graduated from the Greater Good Academy, a triple bottom line business school focusing on socially and ecologically responsible business practices and, in 2013, received his advanced permaculture design certificates.
In 2014, the City of Denver and Green For All, a non-profit dedicated to creating a green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty, awarded Mike for his work within the hip hop arts and permaculture communities. Mike currently works toward youth empowerment through a creative education organization called Youth on Record in the Denver Public Schools and residential treatment centers. Mike’s company, Regenerative Lifestyles, also takes groups on special tours four times a year from Denver to Taos, New Mexico, to learn about integrated systems at The Greater World Community Earthship World Headquarters.

Permaculture Academy Curriculum Outline
Sunday, June 11th:

Arrive, Dinner, and All Academy Orientation at 7pm
Permaculture Academy Introductions & Orientation

Monday, June 12th:

Intro to Permaculture
Reading the Landscape
Learning from Nature – The Permaculture Design Principles
Design Methods and Process
Site Analysis & Assessment
Water Systems

Tuesday, June 13th:

Pattern Thinking; Whole Systems Design; and Closed Loop Systems
Appropriate Technology and Alternative Energy
Social Permaculture: Applying Ecological Principles to Communities
Useful Plants and the Permaculture Garden
Zones, Sectors, and Drafting Designs
Perennial Gardening and Food Forests
Urban Permaculture

Wednesday, June 14th:

Alternative Economies and Asset Mapping
Soils, Compost, and Organic Matter
Natural Building
Permaculture Design Charrette
Permaculture Movement: Where To Go From Here
Community Organizing 101

Thursday, June 15th:

Permaculture Action Day in Walsenburg at a food-justice focused local community farm and farm-to-table pay-what-you-can restaurant

Testimonials
“The Sonic Bloom Permaculture Academy allowed me to take time to observe our surroundings and notice patterns of interconnectedness. The course was informational about the ethics of stewardship and how we can reclaim our role as conscious co-creators.”

– Sunshine Rose, Sonic Bloom Permaculture Academy 2016 participant

“I want to express some really deep rooted gratitude for the Sonic Bloom Permaculture Academy. Since completing the course, the food forest I manage is going through it’s final round of design and trees are finally going in the ground, I’m building bridges for the movement, I started a permaculture design business, and I’m being approached by so many businesses and families in my area asking to help them transition from traditional landscaping to edible and medicinal landscapes. I’ve done zero marketing—every single job I’ve taken has been word of mouth and I have more opportunities to do permaculture than I can in good conscience take on, which has led to this big personal discussion about sustainable business models and creating meaningful employment for my permie friends. I cannot begin to express how very blessed I feel to be a part of such a movement. I’ve been feeling an overwhelming desire to reach out and thank the academy facilitators and other permaculture warriors who have helped elevate me to where I am now. Permaculture Action Days were such a catalyst for so much good in my life and I just want to say thank you.”

– Erin Anderson, Sonic Bloom Permaculture Academy 2016 participant

“The Permaculture Action Network and Academy taps into that mystical festival magic that we are all searching for at these events and brings bits of that magic back to reality when we leave. Action days create excitement within communities that host events like Sonic Bloom by fostering connections between the festival goers and the locals, and providing real life opportunities to heal ourselves by healing the earth.”
– 2016 Permaculture Academy participant

Register Here and join us June 11th-15h at Hummingbird Ranch

The Permaculture Academy will end with a Permaculture Action Day that everyone is welcome to participate in, regardless of whether you are attending the academy or even the festival, on Thursday, June 15th in the town of Walsenburg. Get the details here.
Read about last year’s Permaculture Action Day before Sonic Bloom in our report backs section: Sonic Bloom Festival hosts Permaculture Action Day at local Walsenburg Community Farm

Permaculture Action Day/Earth Day Celebration at Sister Gardens | DENVER
2017-04-23 09:00 - 17:00 UTC | Sister Gardens, 2861 W 52nd Ave, Denver, CO, 80221, United States
Join us for a day of connection, art, and action at Sister Gardens!

As always, permaculture action days are free and open to all!
With:
~Live music
~Lunch provided by Food Not Bombs Denver
~Kid’s activities
~Painting
~Garden prep for summer
~Workshops

Schedule of the day:
9-10AM Set-up
10AM-10:30AM Opening ceremony
10:30-11AM introduction to permaculture and how to get involved
11AM-2PM Onsite work
2PM-3PM Lunch, with a breakout group for assetmapping and planning future actions
3PM-5PM Workshops
5PM Closing, followed by breakdown
As always, please come prepared with the following essentials:
~Water
~Snacks to share
~Sunscreen
~Gloves
~Farm tools (shovels, rakes, wheelbarrows, etc)
About Sister Gardens:
Sister Gardens is a 1 acre vegetable and herb garden on the Aria Denver campus. Garden produce is sold at a pay-as-you-can farm stand (including the action day from 9-12), sold to restaurants and is distributed to Warren Village, a transitional housing facility that helps low income single parent families achieve sustainable personal and economic self- sufficiency. Sister Gardens is an emerging hub for food justice and permaculture in the Denver metro area.
About the Permaculture Action Network:
The Permaculture Action Network is a 501(c)3 organization that connects educators, artists, and organizers with broad and diverse audiences to build a regenerative and just world through Permaculture Action Days. Here in Colorado, the action network is active in planning action days, hubs, and courses at urban farms and festivals.

Nashville Permaculture Action Day w/ Rising Appalachia
2017-04-07 10:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Brooklyn Heights Community Garden, 1830 Haynes Street, Nashville, TN, 37207, United States
Friday, April 7th 10am-6pm at Brooklyn Heights Community Garden
1830 Haynes St., Nashville, TN 37207

Join Rising Appalachia the day after the Cannery Ballroom show for a Permaculture Action Day at the Brooklyn Heights Community Garden. From 10am – 6pm we’ll be getting in the dirt, building, planting and dancing at this amazing community garden at 1830 Haynes Street in Nashville, Tennessee.

Rising Appalachia will be joining us in the morning before they head to their next show to dig some holes and deliver us a special treat.

Brooklyn Heights Community Garden unites residents and exposes participants to diverse cultural experiences while producing life-sustaining vegetables, fruits and herbs.

We’ll be building a rainwater catchment system off the shed, planting fruit trees and native shrubs, building up the raised garden beds, installing fences with living trellising and Willow, installing an irrigation system, building compost bins, and inoculating the garden with mushrooms.

Live bands and DJs will play throughout the day, and there will be workshops on Mushroom Gardening, Holistic Nutrition, Intro to Permaculture Activism, Yoga for Anatomical Empowerment, Permaculture for Social Change, Compost Tea & Soil Microbiology, and Permaculture for the Common Folk: The Reality of Running a Permaculture Business in Urban/Suburban Areas.

See below for full schedule of music, workshops, projects, and facilitator bios.

We’ll have free food and water throughout the day, but please bring something to contribute to the potluck spread if you desire! There is a bathroom on site, and a kitchen to heat up dishes you bring and wash dish ware. Please bring your own dishes and utensils to eat from as much as possible; as well as a water bottle to stay hydrated, good work shoes and gloves, weather appropriate clothes, and any tools and materials we can use that day to complete the projects with many hands! Thank you!!

Shoe Drive:
Please bring shoes to donate (used or new) if you have them to spare!! Brooklyn Heights Community Garden will get the shoes to people who need them, and in the process will get funding for the garden!
THANK YOU to all those contributing skills, materials, time, energy, donations, and more! It truly takes a village to create the regenerative culture; please support them:
* Spiral Ridge Permaculture
* EarthMatters Networks
* Full Circle Presents
* Urban Green Lab
* Earthen Home Natural Building
* Henosis Mushrooms
* Nashville Foodscapes
* Gardens of Babylon
* The Compost Company
* Seven Springs Holistic Retreats
* thePOOSH.org
* Clear Creek Schoolhouse
* METAnoia ART
* Circadian Creations
* Merkaba Medicinals
* Bradley Contractors
* Green Village Recycling
* Thriving Earth Farm
* OneGenAway
* Manifest Prosperity: Holistic Nutrition Services
* Further Farms
* Living Roots Compost Tea
* Tomato Tomato Farm
We could not do this without all of them lending a helping hand!!
CLICK HERE for Full Schedule of projects, workshops, music, and facilitator bios.
Thursday Night’s show:
https://www.facebook.com/events/700159296829080/

See you on April 7th – invite your friends and spread the word! Facebook event page link here: https://www.facebook.com/events/150353145485764/

Intro to Permaculture w/ Ryan Rising @ SF Flower Show
2017-04-05 10:30 - 12:00 UTC | San Mateo Event Center, 1346 Saratoga Drive, San Mateo, CA, 94403, United States
Ryan Rising of the Permaculture Action Network will be presenting a short Intro to Permaculture workshop on the Homesteading Stage at the SF Flower and Garden show on Wednesday, April 5th at 10:45am. The full show runs from April 5th through 9th at the San Mateo Event Center.
Permaculture design elaborates upon those same gems of wisdom that gardeners learn over time and practice, that to truly create beauty and abundant yields we must base our practice within an ecological web of relationships. Learning to design from the constraints and opportunities of each unique landscape, bioregion, and climatic zone gives us insight into not only how to design our gardens, urban farms, and food forests, but how we can redesign our relationships to the earth and to one another in a way that is both just and regenerative. Come learn more at this Intro to Permaculture workshop.
About the Facilitator

Ryan Rising is a community organizer and permaculture educator based out of the Bay Area. Ryan co-founded the Permaculture Action Network and has worked with festivals and artists like Rising Appalachia to mobilize concert-goers and festival attendees to install permaculture systems and create community spaces that move us further on the transition to a just and regenerative world.
Permaculture Action Days have brought out hundreds of people at a time after cultural events to plant public food forests, build urban farms and gardens, install rainwater catchment systems, and construct greenhouses and earthen buildings. Learn more at PermacultureAction.org

Get tickets at this link to support Permaculture Action Network (a small portion of your ticket sale will go to our organization).

Permaculture Action Day at Soul Flower Farm!
2017-04-01 10:00 - 16:00 UTC | Soul Flower Farm, El Sobrante RSVP for address – email: soulflowerfarm@gmail.com, RSVP for address - email: soulflowerfarm@gmail.com, El Sobrante , CA, United States
Permaculture Action Day at Soul Flower Farm!
Saturday April 1st at Soul Flower Farm, El Sobrante, CA 10am-5pm RSVP for address – email: soulflowerfarm@gmail.com
Download and print the poster!

Come see, plant, and build up a permaculture farm and homestead on the outskirts of the city living a better way forward – growing the food cooked and eaten at home, teaching how to use the earth for medicine, and building from the ground up that which gives life meaning.
Join Permaculture Action Network, Northern CA Community Resilience Network, and Soul Flower Farm for a day of action in the Bay Area planting, cob building, mosaic making & getting in the dirt and deeply woven into community with one another.
We’ll be connecting with the soil and our green plant friends, building community, creating art and enjoying music and delicious homegrown food together.
From 10-1pm we will mulch, plant trees, finish a final layer on the cob oven and bench, put up a fence, dig garden beds, build a cob hot tub, start seed flats, plant veggie & herb starts, take apart an old chicken tractor, dig swales for catching rainwater in the soil, mosaic stepping stones, and paint a greenhouse, murals, and signs.
From 2-4pm we will offer free skill shares on greywater, water purification and wild edible plant identification and uses.
More workshops, performance announcements, and details coming soon. Check back for full schedule.
Invite your friends! Post this event! And save the date!
RSVP for directions – email: SoulFlowerFarm@gmail.com
Soul Flower Farm is a small urban farm located in the SF East Bay Hills of California striving to be self-sustaining through permaculture design and raising goats, chickens, ducks, bees, and boys, homeschooling, sustainable building, and practicing holistic medicine.
Facebook Event Page (invite your friends, share, and post the link): https://www.facebook.com/events/1243588585754832/
Download, format 4 to a page, and print! (front side flyer)
Download, format 4 to a page, and print! (backside of flyer)

Keynote Case Study Presentation at Burning Man Global Leadership Conference
2017-03-31 14:00 - 18:00 UTC | Oakland Marriot City Center
Ryan Rising of Permaculture Action Network will present Friday’s Keynote Case Study Presentation on this past summer’s Permaculture Action Day on the Road to Burning Man at this year’s Burning Man Global Leadership Conference.
The presentation will take place during the Friday afternoon plenary session at 2pm at Oakland Marriot City Center and will be followed by a Sustainability Panel Discussion that Ryan will also be participating in at 4pm. The entire Global Leadership Conference will happen from March 30th through April 2nd and is an invite only event.

Beyond Black Rock City: How to Mobilize and Take Action
How can we mobilize people from burns, festivals, and other events like Burning Man to take action in their own communities at home? This past year, the first ‘Permaculture Action Day on the Road to Burning Man’ brought out 200 burners in Los Angeles to Kiss The Ground, a community demonstration garden focused on the power of soil to sequester carbon. Burners built composting systems, planted fruit trees, and constructed a butterfly and pollinator garden while enjoying live music, food, celebration and community. Come hear about this pilot action day, and how the Permaculture Action Network has organized 62 Permaculture Action Days across the continent in 51 different cities, mobilizing people from shows, concerts, and festivals to build regenerative community spaces such as urban farms, community gardens, public food forests, indigenous culture centers, art spaces, and seed farms.

How can we create the liberatory world we experience at the burn all the time? We’ll discuss how we’ve brought the sense of collectivity and deep community that we find at these events out into the city and onto the land through having partnered with 12 different music artists and festivals to mobilize more than 9,430 people to take action hand-in-hand with more than 80 different local projects and organizations.

We’ll be discussing how these action days are organized in an open-source way that will equip folks with an understanding of how to mobilize people before and after events to take community action regionally. Let’s build the world we want to see!

Bloom Festival Permaculture Action Day
2017-03-17 12:00 - 20:00 UTC | Grandpa’s House, 5925 Highland Rd., Baton Rouge, LA, 70808, United States
Join us Friday, March 17th from 12pm-8pm at 5925 Highland Rd, Baton Rouge, LA 70808 for the official pre-party Permaculture Action Day of the 1st annual Bloom Fest Baton Rouge :
https://www.facebook.com/events/429834057408337/
Music provided by: Refractal
Topics/Projects include: beekeepking (and other plant pollinators), seed planting, seed balls, compost build, compost tea brewing, biodynamics, vermicomposting, yoga.
Potluck: @ 5:30 feel free to bring something or come empty handed.
Bring any tools you may want to use during the action day. We are open to ideas and contributions.
Click going and invite your friends on the Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/262112667569948/

SCHEDULE
BATON ROUGE BLOOM FESTIVAL
PERMACULTURE ACTION DAY
17 MARCH 2017 / 12:00 PM / 5925 Highland Rd, Baton Rouge, LA
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
12:00-1:00 pm

YOGA AND MEDITATION

1:30-2:00 pm

OPENING CIRCLE AND BASIC INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE

2:00-5:00 pm

VERMICOMPOST
BEEKEEPING AND THE IMPORTANCE OF PLANT POLLINATORS
SMILEY FACE GARDEN DESIGN
SEED BALL MAKING
COMPOST BUILD

3:00-4:00

MUSIC WILL BE GETTING SET UP DURING THIS PERIOD

OTHER ACTS INCLUDE WORK FROM THE DIGITAL IMPROV KIDS

AX ON
HATCH
TWANZ
ANYWAYS..

5:30 (tentative)

POTLUCK

6:30

MUSIC PERFORMANCE: REFRACTAL
LIVE PAINT AND VISUAL ART

Denver Permaculture Action Day at Sweet Root
2017-03-11 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | Sweet Root Farm, 5119 W. 38th Ave., Denver, CO, 80231, United States
Kick off 2017 in Denver with a Permaculture Action Day at Sweet Root Farm this Saturday, March 11th from 9am to noon at 5119 W. 38th Ave., Denver, Colorado 80231 (38th and Sheridan).
This is a placemaking action day – we will have workshops and design sessions to plan projects that will turn public spaces around the site into community places. We will also be painting a large sign for the farm, preparing pathways, and putting together a shed.
After we wrap up, we’ll head over to Denver’s 7th Annual Seed Swap over at The Grow Haus – 4751 York Street, Denver, CO 80216 – which will go until 6pm. More information on the Seed Swap here: https://www.facebook.com/events/139647299878794/
Facebook event page for Denver Permaculture Action Day: https://www.facebook.com/events/1811238149141319/ – click going and invite your folks.

PLACE Action Day
2017-02-25 10:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | PLACE for Sustainable Living, 1121 64th Street, Oakland, CA, 94608, United States
PLACE Action Day!
Action Day will be held on Saturday Feb 25th from 10am-5pm
PLACE for Sustainable Living
1121 64th Street, Oakland, California 94608

Please come lend a hand at this Saturday’s PLACE Action Day at our new organizational home base, PLACE for Sustainable living. Sunday we’ll be working as well, if you can’t make Saturday. Food, Friends, Music & the Love of building community together!
This Action Day is in support of PLACE’s crowdfunding campaign Safety In Place.
www.youcaring.com/safetyinplace
Co-hosted by PLACE for Sustainable Living, NorCal Community Resilience Network, and Permaculture Action Network; and welcoming special guests: the UC Berkeley chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World.
SCHEDULE
10:00am – Arrive and greetings
10:30am – Orientation to activities
11:00am-5:00pm – An honest day’s work & play!
12:30-1:15 – Lunchtime discussion: Resilience in the Age of Resistance
PROJECTS
-Sheet Rock the barn ceiling
-Skylight window installation
-Some electrical work
-Collect leaves from neighborhood for worm compost
-Pruning of fruit trees
-Weeding and prepping garden beds
-Planting some crops for Spring!
LUNCHTIME PANEL DISCUSSION
There will be an organic, facilitated discussion midday during this PLACE Action Day on “Resistance and Resilience‘ in these times. How can we stop the harm that’s being done while creating viable alternatives and weaving deep community networks of mutual aid?

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Intro to Permaculture & Taking Action Locally
2017-01-29 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | The Center SF, 548 Fillmore St., San Francisco, CA, 94117, United States
Intro to Permaculture & Taking Action Locally
with Ryan Rising of Permaculture Action Network
Permaculture lays out a path for how we can approach our world under the current socio-political and economic climate to re-integrate ourselves into the ecological web of life and cultivate relationships of mutual aid and reciprocity with one another. Sometimes the most direct way to challenge and alter the dominant systems that shape our lives is to directly approach how we create what we need and how we take care of one another.
Through the ways we grow our food, access water, build shelter, tend to ecology, craft medicines and make decisions together we can reclaim our lives and translate personal healing into collective healing. We’ll start with an introduction to permaculture design methods for reweaving ourselves into the natural world symbiotically, and move toward conversations on how we can take action locally. Learn to embrace a hands-on approach to taking action for a more just and regenerative world and more agency over our lives.
About the Facilitator
Ryan Rising is a community organizer and permaculture educator based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. After organizing Pushing Through the Pavement: a Permaculture Action Tour with The Polish Ambassador in the Fall of 2014, Ryan co-founded the Permaculture Action Network and has worked with festivals and artists like Burning Man and Rising Appalachia to mobilize concert-goers and festival attendees to install permaculture systems and create community spaces that move us further on the transition to a just and regenerative world.
Permaculture Action Days have brought out hundreds of people at a time after concerts and before music festivals to plant public food forests, build urban farms and community gardens, install rainwater catchment systems, and construct greenhouses and earthen buildings. Having organized more than 62 Permaculture Action Days across the continent, Ryan works at the edge of culture and ecological justice to catalyze the growth of a broad and diverse network taking action to build a better world. Visit the organization’s website at www.PermacultureAction.org
Logistics
The workshop will go from 2pm until 4pm at The Center, SF @ 548 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, CA 94117.
Suggested donation $20. No one turned away for lack of funds! Proceeds will go to support the work of the Permaculture Action Network.
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PLACE Action Day at Our New Organizational Home!!
2017-01-28 10:00 - 17:00 UTC | PLACE for Sustainable Living, 1121 64th Street, Oakland, CA, 94608, United States
Come celebrate Permaculture Action Network moving into our new organizational home at the PLACE for Sustainable Living in Oakland, CA. We’re hosting an action day at PLACE to make some much needed improvements to the facilities. We’ll be sheet rocking the barn ceiling, breaking down compost, installing windows, maintaining the garden beds and edible landscape, installing emergency lighting, electrical work, and more.
SCHEDULE
10:00am – Arrive and greetings
10:30am – Orientation to the Day’s Activities
11:00am-5:00pm – An honest day’s work & play!
PROJECTS
-Breakdown compost
-Weeding and raking leaves
-Other garden projects tbd
-Sheet Rock the barn ceiling
-Window installs
-Additional emergency light installations
-Some electrical work
-Lock box installs with cables
-Organize and clear the shelving of the Resourcery
Do you want to cook or organize food for the volunteers?
Email PLACE at info@aplaceforsustainableliving.org with “FOOD ACTION DAY” in the subject line
In the wake of the Ghost Ship Warehouse fire in Oakland, PLACE is running a crowdfunding campaign to make much needed fire, safety, and accessibility improvements to this incredible community center for art, ecology, and education. Click here to read more and support: https://www.youcaring.com/placeforsustainableliving-722110
Permaculture Action Network will be basing our core operations and the organizing of our Bay Area BioRegional Crew out of PLACE – sharing office space, storage space, and event space. Please support us through supporting PLACE, whether it’s by coming out and getting your hands dirty, throwing down some dollars, or spreading the message.
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Atlanta Permaculture Action Day w/ Rising Appalachia
2016-12-17 10:00 - 17:00 UTC
Join Rising Appalachia for a very special Permaculture Action Day in a deeply loved place in Atlanta to bring collective visions alive.

Saturday, December 17th
all day
Location TBA

Join the Permaculture Action Network & Rising Appalachia Music for an Atlanta Permaculture Action Day this December!
The action day on Saturday, December 17th will follow the Friday, December 16th show with Hope for a Golden Summer at The Variety Playhouse. Location and details to be announced soon!
Check back for details and save the date.
Tickets to the Variety Playhouse show: http://www.risingappalachia.com/tour/
Write to us at ‘ Contact (at) PermacultureAction.org ‘ if you want to contribute or get involved.
