Permaculture Action Network

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.
This is the facebook event page. Click ‘going,’ share event and invite your friends on our facebook event page

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?

Click “Going,” share, and invite your friends on our Facebook Event Page!

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.
Get your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intro-to-permaculture-taking-action-locally-with-ryan-rising-tickets-31134430921?aff=efbevent
Facebook Event Page (invite your friends!): https://www.facebook.com/events/406259033044488/

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.
Share the Facebook event page and invite your friends: https://www.facebook.com/events/1771345749855872/

Atlanta Permaculture Action Day w/ Rising Appalachia
2016-12-17 10:00 - 17:00 UTC | KY
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.

San Diego Permaculture Action Day w/ Rising Appalachia for Standing Rock
2016-12-04 09:00 - 17:00 UTC | Terra Madre Gardens, 9928 Protea Gardens Rd, Escondido, CA, 92026, United States
Sunday, December 4th from 9am-5pm
Terra Madre Gardens
9928 Protea Gardens Rd, Escondido, CA 92026
**** Connect, Learn and Engage in the Garden****

Join Rising Appalachia and the Permaculture Action Network for a day of community, music, food and hands-on projects at Terra Madre Gardens.

This event will be stacking functions by focusing on both our local San Deigo community AND supporting our Standing Rock family. The San Diego Water Protectors group will have representatives there to provide access to participating in a locally inspired group that meets and organizes. We will hear report-backs from SR and be discussing mindful ways to serve Standing Rock locally. Merchandise will be sold and donations welcomed to be channeled thoughtfully towards the SR cause.

Permaculture Action Network is a non-profit at the nexus of live music, people power, and the implementation of permaculture skills. Permaculture Action Days are our vehicle for creating the changes that reflect our shared values.

We are proud to team with the big-hearted, community activating, musical performers of Rising Appalachia. Many who attend the shows of these gifted artists are inspired and excited to plug in with Actions Days such as this one.

ALL are welcome to participate in hands-on projects, to share knowledge, to learn, play and connect with other folks with similar visions! Together, we will support Water Protectors and share in music, culture, food, permaculture and community strengthening.

Donations (suggested $10-20+) will be accepted around the food and music offerings of the day to go specifically towards a piece of key infrastructure for the movement at Standing Rock. Help us as a community to support this indigenous cultures’ movement and all those standing strong in solidarity.

*****Schedule of Events*****

Ongoing Projects:

1. Companion Planting and Orchard Work w/ Dennis Sharmahd

2. Seed Ball Making for Standing Rock Camp: Oceti Sakowin

3. Cob Brick Making w/ Ray Cirino

4. Implementing Passive Water Retention Berms w/ Erik Hjermstad

5. Feed the Soil! Compost, Bokashi and Other Amendments w/ Ron McCord

Workshops:

9:00am-10:00am Yoga

10:30am Opening Ceremony and Orientation

11:00am Food workshop in kitchen; garden fresh

12:00pm-4:00pm Lunch: Donation Based: Pizza, Salad, Veggies

12:00pm-3:00pm Standing Rock Ready: Report Backs and General Overview, Local Organizing and Support, How Can I Help?

1:00pm Plant Walk with Dennis

2:00pm Container gardening with Nathan Lou – Mongol Tribe

Music:

3:30pm-5:00pm Trevor Green
Catch the Rising Appalachia show the night before, on December 3rd, at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, CA.
Please share the event page for the Permaculture Action Day on Facebook and invite your friends: https://www.facebook.com/events/345119292510119/

Bay Area Permaculture Action Day w/ Rising Appalachia
2016-11-27 10:30 - 17:30 (Asia/Dubai) | City of Dreams at Oakdale Community Center, 1030 Oakdale Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94124, United States
Rising Appalachia hosts a Permaculture Action Day after their San Francisco show at the Great American Music Hall with Arouna Diarra & Dustin Thomas on Saturday, November 26th. Permaculture Action Day SUNDAY, November 27th!

Sunday, November 27th
10:30am – 5:30pm
City of Dreams
1030 Oakdale Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94124

Join the Permaculture Action Network & Rising Appalachia Music for a Bay Area Permaculture Action Day! This special Thanksgiving action day will be taking place at City of Dreams urban farm in San Francisco on Sunday, November 27th following Rising Appalachia’s show at the Great American Music Hall on Saturday the 26th.
This will be a one day, family friendly festival with permaculture projects, live music and as always, pot luck lunch!
Projects include:
– Terracing & Irrigation Install
– Mural Painting and Repair
– Fruit Tree Planting
– Building Beds & Removing Brush
– Outdoor Classroom & Kitchen Build
– Compost System Install
Music & Performance:
– Members of Rising Appalachia Music
– J Brave of the Luminaries
– Jasmine Fuego & the Pop Up Band
– Tatu Vision
– Lydia Violet Music
– Members of Thrive East Bay Choir
– more TBA
– Cypher hosted by: Jada Imani
Contests:
– Freestyle
– Dance-Off
Workshops/Panels:
– Yoga
– Panel of Elders
– More TBA
Please bring:
– Water
– Garden tools
– Dish or snacks to add to Pot Luck meals (rice & beans provided)
– Paint for murals
– Working clothes + Layers (prepare for typical fall Bay weather)
– Stories + Songs to share
About City of Dreams:
City of Dreams is committed to supporting youth living in San Francisco low-income public housing in building a bright future through mentorship and youth leadership development. They have a beautiful established garden and a youth-led garden program operating out of the Oakdale Community Center.
Tickets to Great American show: http://www.risingappalachia.com/tour/
(Permaculture Action Day itself is free, as always)
Please click “Going” on the Facebook event page, invite your friends, and post the link! https://www.facebook.com/events/646018142228446/
Write to us at ‘ Contact (at) PermacultureAction.org ‘ if you want to contribute or get involved.

Standing Rock Ready: Training for Water Protectors Mobilizing to Standing Rock
2016-11-12 10:00 - 2016-11-13 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | PLACE for Sustainable Living, 1121 64th Street, Oakland, CA, 94608, United States
Standing Rock Ready
Training for Water Protectors Mobilizing to Standing Rock
***JUST ANNOUNCED: Second day of training added Sunday for folks wanting a full street medic training; read bottom of page for details***Location will be at Qilombo 2313 San Pablo Ave. (at Grand Ave.), Oakland, CA
Bay Area Training at PLACE for Sustainable Living on Saturday November 12th from 10am – 6pm
1121 64th Street, Oakland, CA 94608 (64th off San Pablo)
For all people heading to Standing Rock, come get trained and prepared to be an effective water protector and stand in solidarity with native people defending their land. This training will also be useful for folks organizing local direct actions in the Bay Area in solidarity with Standing Rock, and otherwise. All are invited to attend. While folks are invited to come for any part of the training or for the entire thing, we ask everyone coming to please make it a point to be there if at all possible for the 10am-12pm piece on walking with humility and respect when working with indigenous communities.
Connect with other people heading to Standing Rock from the Bay Area. Keep up to date with this page for caravans to Standing Rock from the Bay Area being planned. Learn Direct Action and Civil Disobedience Basics, Medical Supporters Training and Group Health, Legal and Know Your Rights, Security Culture, Tech and Communications Security, and Best Practices for Working Alongside Indigenous People with Humility and Respect.
We will gather from 10am-6pm on Ohlone land at PLACE for Sustainable Living in Oakland. See the schedule below for a breakdown of the day.
Schedule

10 – 10:15am: Welcome and Intro to Day’s Schedule and Topics w/ Permaculture Action Network
10:15 – 10:45am: Report Back on Standing Rock, Situation on the Ground, and Brief History of Dakota Access Pipeline and Indigenous Resistance to it w. local indigenous activists recently back from Standing Rock Hartman Deetz, Camille Seaman, and Richie Beltran
10:45 – 12pm: How To Work Alongside Indigenous Communities w Humility and Respect w. local indigenous activists recently back from Standing Rock Hartman Deetz, Camille Seaman, and Richie Beltran
12 – 12:15pm: Light Lunch and Potluck Spread
12:15-2:00pm: Direct Action and Civil Disobedience w. Krystof Lopaur
2:15pm – 3:15pm: Medical Supporters Training and Group Health w. MASH Clinic, Timber, and Amani William
3:15 – 4:30pm: Tech and Communications Security w. Lisha Sterling (Geeks Without Bounds) remote from Standing Rock (tentative), Bill Budington (EFF), Jen Helsby (Freedom of the Press, tentative), Scott LaMorte (May First) and Jenny Ryan (Sudo Room / Peoples Open Network)
4:30pm: Legal and Know Your Rights w. John Viola, Ben Rosenfeld, and Gabriela Lopez
5:30pm: Transport Networking and Caravan Debrief w. Ryan Rising and Kammer Moss (Permaculture Action Network)
6pm: Closing Ceremony

Facebook event page for Standing Rock Ready Training Day 1: https://www.facebook.com/events/218158421941848/
***SECOND DAY OF TRAINING: Street Medic Intensive – Sunday, November 13 10am-2pm at Qilombo, 2313 San Pablo Ave. (at West Grand Ave.), Oakland, CA
Check event page on Facebook for updates: https://www.facebook.com/events/1505778019486949/
Please join us in our efforts to strengthen Community and Front-line Resilience by means of Radical Healing and Health.

This training will focus on:

1. First Aid Strategies for Non Violent Civil Disobedience Protest and Defense Actions.

2. How to be a supportive member of the medical community when working with Indigenous land rights occupations.

Outline for the Day

(30min allotted to each topic, lunch break mid-day):

Brief Introduction

1. Community & Self Care- When bearing witness; What to bring, What to wear, What not to do.

2. Cold Exposure & Hypothermia- Red flags & distinctions, What to do/How to care for each.

3. Pepper Spray and other Chemical Weapons- What they are, How they are deployed, How they affect you, Protection from, Prevention, Remedies.

4. Blunt Force Trauma- How to manage and treat, Flower essences, Topical remedies, How to deal, Injury aftercare.

5. Aftercare- Chemical weapons aftercare, Emotional aftercare, Lung support, PTSD.

6. The Law- Documenting injuries for legal, How to get medications in jail.

Questions and Close.

Special Guest: The Black Cross Collective Manual (20 pages).

In Solidarity,

The MASHH Clinic, Permaculture Action Network, PLACE for Sustainable Living, Standing Rock Ready Bay Area.

We’ll be posting an extended outline of the training curriculum soon.

To get in touch, please write to us at Contact (A) PermacultureAction.org

STAND: A Standing Rock Benefit & Winter Gear Collection
2016-11-10 19:00 - 22:00 UTC | PLACE for Sustainable Living, 1121 64th Street, Oakland, CA, 94608, United States
Want to support the folks at Standing Rock but you can’t go all the way to South Dakota? Join the Permaculture Action Network & PLACE for Sustainable Living for a benefit show where we will be collecting much-needed donations for the water protectors at the Standing Rock Sioux resistance camps.

WHEN: Thursday, November 10th | 7pm – 10pm
WHERE: PLACE for Sustainable Living | 1121 64th Street, Oakland, CA 94608

Show begins PROMPTLY at 7pm and ends at 10pm
$10 suggested donation (no one turned away)
** proceeds will go directly to Standing Rock Sioux
(http://standingrock.org/)
Live Performances by:
Creative Liberation Network- Liberation Music
Jasmine Fuego– Pop for your soul
Tatu Vision– Inspirational Hip Hop
Eli Marienthal– Poetic Spoken Word
For several months the people of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation have been working day and night to halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (a pipeline that will carry more than a million tons of crude oil just under the Missouri River). Hundreds of Native Americans and allies of all ages and races from around the country have come to Cannon Ball, South Dakota where the reservation is to stand in solidarity and stop this pipeline. The fiece Dakota winters are steadily approaching and these Protectors will need support and supplies to continue the resistance against the pipeline.
Please help us by bringing some of the supplies below:
• Tents (Various Sizes) and Army Tents
• 1 person pup tents
• Flashlights
• Lanterns
• Sleeping bags (heavy duty)
• Blankets
• Heat blankets
• Rain Coats/rain gear
• Wool Socks
• Winter gear
• Shades/canopies
• Chem lights
• Tarps
• Folding tables
• Coolers (Large)
• Cell phone boosters
• Solar powered chargers/lights
• Walkie Talkies
• Fire wood
• Parachute cord
• Jumper Cables
• Non-perishable bulk food
• Variety bandages
• Splints
• Ace wraps
• Sleeves
• Goldbond
• Medical tape
• Athletic tape
• Medical scissors
• Ice/hot packs
Please click “Going” on the Facebook event page, invite your friends, and post the link! https://www.facebook.com/events/1664000687244374/

Write to us at ‘ Contact (at) PermacultureAction.org ‘ if you want to contribute or get involved.

Social Permaculture & Community Action Workshop
2016-10-15 10:00 - 13:00 UTC | Camp Richardson, South Lake Tahoe, CA, 96150, United States
Ryan Rising of the Permaculture Action Network will be facilitating a 3-hour workshop on Social Permaculture and Community Action at the Living Earth Symposium, a 3-day wellness retreat and botanical conference in Lake Tahoe.

WHEN: Saturday, October 15th | 10am – 1pm
WHERE: Camp Richardson, South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150

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.
Ryan will also touch on the work of the Permaculture Action Network over the last two years of organizing over 50 Permaculture Action Days across the country after concerts and before music festivals where hundreds gather to directly implement regenerative systems in their communities.
Step into this in-depth session on ecological design, regenerative living systems, how to take direct action for a just and sustainable world, forming healthy collaborative groups and community organizing. About Ryan Rising
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 Lightning in a Bottle 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 & community gardens, install rainwater catchment systems, and construct greenhouses & earthen buildings. Having organized more than 50 Permaculture Action Days across the country and taught numerous courses and workshop spaces before and within festivals and gatherings, Ryan works at the edge of culture and ecological justice to catalyze the growth of a broad and diverse network set on taking action to build a better world.

Tickets & Directions
The full conference runs from Friday, October 14th at 3pm through Sunday, October 16th until after 2pm at Camp Richardson Historic Resort and Marina at 1900 Jameson Beach Rd., South Lake Tahoe, CA 96158.
Full conference tickets are $235; or $65 per day. Participants can also take this three hour workshop alone for $40 payable upon entrance at the Boat House.

Permaculture Action Day during Confluence in Denver
2016-10-09 11:00 - 17:00 UTC | Sister Gardens, 2861 W 52nd Ave, Denver, CO, 80221, United States
We are proud to collaborate with the Denver Permaculture Guild during the Denver Permaculture Confluence (October 7,8,9), for the fourth Permaculture Action Day in Denver of 2016.

Join us as we cap off a very special weekend of regenerative practice in Denver with a Permaculture Action Day at Sister Gardens.
We will prepare the farm for winter and build a structure to protect the cob oven from the elements and provide a permanent shade space for gatherings at the farm.
We’ll open the day at 10:30am and wrap up work by 2:30, when the Denver Permaculture Confluence’s bike tour concludes at the site.
We will be joined by a very special Eco-Wakening acrobatics performance at 2:30, and then Ridhi D’Cruz and Mark Lakeman from the world-renowned City Repair Project will lead a Repair Your City workshop from 3:15-5:45.
This will be a potluck event with live music from 11-2:30pm
Please visit the Front Range Village Building Extravaganza w/ City Repair Project and 2nd Annual Confluence: Life on The Edge-A Changing Climate, A Changing City pages for information about the other village building events taking place this weekend.
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, 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.

Permaculture Action Hub at Symbiosis Gathering 2016
2016-09-22 08:00 - 2016-09-25 19:00 UTC | Woodward Reservoir, Oakdale, CA, CA, United States
The Permaculture Action Hub at Symbiosis is the beehive of networking, discussion, skill-sharing, workshops, and talks on the regenerative ecological systems and community organizing methods that will bring us into a more just and sustainable world. From exploring soils, water catchment, food growing, natural building and alternative energy to illuminating social design, building the commons, direct action, and decision making, the Permaculture Action Hub is the space to build a movement capable of taking on the great challenges of our time and discover a better way of living together.
This year, the Permaculture Action Hub will feature renowned teachers, organizers, and designers, as well as a number of demonstration systems detailing ecologically regenerative ways of attaining our food, water, and shelter. Alongside the Permaculture Action Hub, make a visit to the Placemakers Teahouse, have a cup of tea and talk with your fellows about what’s occupying your mind, or swing by the BioRegional Hub to connect directly with people from your geographical region who want to create new projects, take action, and get organized, whether by starting a community garden together or mobilizing your neighbors to completely change the local economy.
What does a better world look like to you? How will we grow our food, gather our water, build our shelter, and get from place to place? How will we make decisions, come together in community, and resolve our disputes? What will it take to shift the entire trajectory of the current dominant paradigm? The Permaculture Action Hub is your place at Symbiosis to figure that out.
Coordinated by Timo Granzotti and hosted and curated by the Permaculture Action Network, this is the space where we plan to take our dreams into reality through action.
Featuring workshops with Dr. Vandana Shiva, Erica Wohldman, Ryan Rising, Timo Granzotti, and workshops on urban agriculture, the community-led food movement, direct action for ecological justice, finding and using plant medicine, and much more.
See below for our full schedule of workshops in the Permaculture Action Hub at Symbiosis
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Permaculture Plaza at Symbiosis 2016

In ‘The Village’, across from the humongous HUB stage at Symbiosis, you’ll find the Permaculture Plaza nestled between the Nourishment Nook and Healing Huts along the shore of the peninsula. This is the center of activity, learning, and networking for the regenerative community movement we are cultivating together, including a full schedule of workshops, demonstration systems, skill-shares, networking sessions, and much more.

Within the Permaculture Plaza find:

Permaculture Action Hub: our main workshop and skill-share tent. Find talks by Vandana Shiva and Erica Wohldmann, direct action trainings for social and ecological justice, workshops in rainwater catchment systems and soil building, solar cooking and appropriate technology skill-shares, and much more. Scroll down for full schedule.

PlaceMakers’ TeaHouse: across the Permaculture Plaza from the Permaculture Action Hub, next to the Nourishment Nook, the PlaceMakers’ TeaHouse is our anchor for creative, convivial chill space; a place to relax, reflect, discuss and digest. Cultivating a more intimate relationship with our earthly home, we’re offering light sessions on community life, restoring our relationship to place, and the permaculture neighborhood.

Networking Node: the center of connection within the Permaculture Plaza, come under the shade of our open canopy to meet folks interested in similar projects and passions as you, and to network with people who live in the same BioRegion you came from. With BioRegionally-based info boards up 24/7 for you to interact with, as well as guerilla workshops and facilitated networking session, this is the spot to find your comrades.

The Closed Loop System: Set up by the Jenkstars straight from Building Man festival, a system demonstrating alternative energy, appropriate technology whole-systems water, solar, humanure, and other energy flows.

Tiny Home: Come check out the demonstration tiny home; learn to live in less space with more connection.

Solutioncraft Sun Oven: The humongous sun-oven large enough to cook for a village will be cooking up pizzas, veggies, and other dishes. Come have a bite.

Schedule for Permaculture Action Hub
Friday 9:45-10:45am Urban Agriculture & Permaculture Projects: How To Get Started 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 skillsets, 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.

Friday 11am-12pm ReHydrating The Earth: Rainwater Catchment w/ Lydia Neilsen
Friday 12:15-1:15pm Plant Life as a Model of the Original Gift Economy w/ Matthew D. Segall, PhD
POSTPONED to later in the weekend; check the Networking Node schedule at the
Permaculture Plaza for the time and day

Friday 1:30-2:30pm The Community-Led Food Movement w/ Jasmine Vassar MPH
Looking to get more community buy in for your project? Come joins this interactive workshop focused on org awareness and techniques for community engagement.

Jasmine (Jazz) Vassar, is a Bay Area educator who is passionate about bringing knowledge of health and wellness to families. With a degree in nutrition and certification in yoga, she has taught various workshops ranging from yoga, nutrition, food justice, and life skills.
Friday 2:45pm-3:45pm Myco-Food Forestry w/ Ry N Flint
Come explore some of the mysterious realms of symbiotic fungi and how they live with their plant hosts. Stack some functions! Learn how to integrate mushrooms and fungi into your perennial food forest environment. Your host Rye N. Flint, co-owner of the oldest Truffle Farm in America, will walk you through your very own garden of eatin’.
Rye N. Flint resides in an blue oak, gray pine Savannah in Northern California. He surthrives in an self built $300 off-grid tiny home. He has a B.S. in Soil Science, a permaculture design certification, and is co-owner of the oldest Truffle farm in America. Rye gives talks and host workshops on rewilding and food forestry and many transformational festivals and events, lead walks through the natural areas in Northern California, tying in stories of our past with how we can live more natural lives in the present.
Friday 4:15pm-5:15pm Designing for the Movement w. Ryan Rising & Jasmine Fuego

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 and Jasmine Fuego 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.
Ryan and Jasmine will also touch on the work of the Permaculture Action Network over the last two years of organizing over 50 Permaculture Action Days across the country after concerts and before music festivals where hundreds gather to directly implement regenerative systems in their communities.
Step into this in-depth session on ecological design, regenerative living systems, how to take direct action for a just and sustainable world, forming healthy collaborative groups and community organizing.
Friday 5:30-6:30pm Wild Foods: 6 Months Living in the Forest w. Erica Wohldmann

Spending time in nature has countless benefits to psychological and physical health. In this talk, Erica Wohldmann will share some of those benefits, as well as a few of the lessons she learned while living in the forest for 6 months on wild food and medicine. Learn how to be a forest dweller in the urban wild.

Saturday 9:45-10:45pm Plastic Planet: A Not-So-Symbiotic Relationship w. Genevieve Abedon
We live in a culture addicted to convenience that is resulting in a plastic planet. We are working against nature, not with her. This is not quite the permanent culture we have in mind. Come learn about the extent of our plastic pollution problem as well as the many opportunities we have for solutions using various permaculture principles as our guide. Let’s bust myths, learn the facts, and get creative with reducing our plastic footprint for the sake of the planet, all of her creatures, and the return to symbiosis.
Genevieve is a recovering plastic-aholic. Motivated to be part of the solution, Genevieve changed her ways dramatically by refusing all things plastic and has now devoted her career to the matter. Genevieve works with the Green Team for various events, including Symbiosis in the past, and has sailed across the North Atlantic Ocean researching plastic pollution with 5 Gyres, so has seen first-hand just how pervasive plastic pollution is. Music, nature, animals, good food, friends, family, traveling, and community feed her soul.
Saturday 11-12pm Solar Cooking & Appropriate Technology w/ Brennan Blazer Bird
Appropriate cooking technology harnesses renewable energy to cook meals that are healthy for our planet and us. Solar thermal energy is a readily available and renewable way to cook our food; dehydrate our fruits and vegetables; and pasteurize water. When sunlight isn’t available, rocket stoves use a fuel-efficient combustion chamber to minimize the amount of firewood needed for cooking. Come learn how to build and use these technologies as we cook and enjoy a fossil-fuel-free meal in one of the largest solar ovens in the world!
Saturday 12:15-1:15pm All Plants Are Teachers: Learning From & About Plant Medicine w/ Erica Wohldmann
Long before the days of modern medicine, people used plants to prevent and cure diseases. This wisdom was passed down orally from one generation to the next, but as indigenous cultural values have been replaced with western ideologies, many of these practices have been forgotten. In this talk, Erica will discuss traditional uses of locally available plant medicines for healing mind, body, and spirit.
Saturday 1:30-2:45pm Art Drives Culture: Creative Revolution in the Modern Age w/ Prescott McCarthy
In this lecture we will discuss the importance of an idea and the path to making it into a reality. We will look at the bigger picture of Art in our world and the way it drives the societies we live in. From Davinci, to banksy, to Bucky. We are surrounded by the ideas of others. The goal of this workshop will be to inspire you to take the wheel and start driving your next big idea.
Saturday 3-4:15pm Permaculture & Power: The Logistics of Liberation w/ Ryan Rising
What is it really going to take to liberate ourselves from the exploitative, extractive systems we are living within? How can we re-inhabit space, and see that re-inhabiting of space as one of the most revolutionary acts we can take? How can we interact with the material infrastructure of our world to collectively slow and stop the mechanisms of ecological devastation and human harm? Power is logistic.
Saturday 4:30-5:45pm Direct Action for Social & Ecological Justice w/ Krystof Lopaur
Our destructive, unjust, and unsustainable society is the product of social and political mechanisms that are continuously working to reproduce it. Permaculture reminds us that another world is possible, but how can we overcome these obstacles to transform our communities and our planet? This workshop will offer lessons and strategies from contemporary and recent social movements, including the movement to end police violence and racism.
Saturday 6-7pm The Soil Story w/ Kiss the Ground
This workshop will explore how soil — the thin layer of the Earth’s surface — can play a role in reducing and sequestering carbon emissions and balance our climate. Focusing on techniques of regenerative agriculture, it will explore this topic from a microscopic level to the global scale and also present solutions and ways to get involved. Please join us for an in depth look of the story of soil, the living, breathing entity that sustains us all!
Matt Finkelstein is an regenerative/organic farmer and educator. He has spent the past 10 years dedicated to cultivating and empowering a deeper connection with food and nature. Matt has also been involved in the transformational festival community for several years, contributing to building projects and production. Currently, Matt is based in Los Angeles, where he manages the garden for Kiss the Ground while also running a school garden program and managing a private farm.
Sunday 9:45-10:45am: Seed Bomb Making Skill-Share w. Natalie Flores
Embrace your inner rebel and come participate in the flowering of your communities, one bomb at a time. Clay, soil, water and wild flowers.. what else do you need~?
Sunday 11:00-12:00pm: Herbal First Aid Kit: Medicine Making w. Kouros Alaee
Sunday 12:15-1:15pm: Restorative Justice: An Alternative to Zero-Tolerance & the Punitive Justice System w/ Alexa Levy
Introduction to Restorative Justice: Learn what Restorative Justice is, what makes it a possible solution, how it works, and hear a personal story of how restorative justice transformed a public school classroom.
Alexa Levy is an educator, public school teacher, permaculturist, fighter for restorative social and ecological justice, and an artist. Over the past few years, 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 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 cares deeply about educating youth, and shaping her skills through situations and people that surround her. Alexa’s desire is to create positive solutions, to nurture and guide youth towards self-empowerment to take action all over.
Sunday 1:30-2:30pm: Open-Source Closed Loop Systems: Solving the Problem of Food, Water and Shelter w. Scotty Soltronic
The future is here, intelligent closed loop living systems.
Scottysoltronic is one part artist, two parts inventor and three parts mad scientist. He is the co-founder of the JenkStars, the Center for Art and Sustainability, and the creator of the Solar Saucer, Sol Blossom and Sol Sister Mobile Solar Powered Art Installations. Scotty has been coast to coast powering events and talking to participants about Art, music and technology. Scotty is a full time artist and lives in Utah with his son.
Sunday 2:45-3:45pm: Indigenous Agroforestry w. Timo Granzotti
Sunday 4:00-5:00pm: Permaculture Year One: Evolving Our Farm, Our Business and Ourselves w/ OurPlace Kauai
We’ll be sharing our year-long permaculture journey on a farm in Hawaii. We have been place-making a farm cafe, as well as helping our friends’ ranch blossom into a permaculture food forest. After taking the Elemental Alchemy immersive course at Symbiosis, we learned many different concepts that have since transformed into projects at home and at our business. We hope to inspire you with how much change can take place in just a year!
Kimmy Lyon and Michael Blow operate a permaculture farm cafe in Hawaii.
Sunday 5:15-6:45pm: Conserving BioDiversity; Producing More Food w/ Dr. Vandana Shiva

Schedule for Networking Node
Fresh off the heals of the North American Permaculture Convergence, and with space being co-facilitated by the impact center-mapping group NuMundo, come find people in your BioRegion who want to take action with you in similar areas of passion, and find networking sessions and additional sessions.
Friday 12:15pm Yoga for Anatomical Empowerment w/ Leah Van Winkle
Saturday 1:15pm Networking Session for Activists w/ NuMundo

TBA Adapt: A Permaculture Game w/ Bridget O’Brien

North American Permaculture Convergence
2016-09-14 08:00 - 2016-09-19 17:00 UTC | Solar Living Institute, Hopland, CA, United States
Permaculture Action Network is co-hosting this year’s North American Permaculture Convergence & Northern California Building Resilient Communities Convergence from September 14th-18th at the Solar Living Institute in Hopland, CA.
Permaculture Action Network will be co-hosting the BioRegional Hub within the convergence, as well as the BioRegional Breakout organizing sessions. We are also happy to be coordinating the music and performance for the event.
On Saturday, we’ll be giving a presentation from 11am-noon on the Permaculture Action Network: How We’re Organizing and How To Get Involved, giving a short report back of the last two years and laying out the BioRegional Crew organizing strategy we’ve been developing.
You can also catch the Pushing Through the Pavement: a Permaculture Action Story documentary about the first tour during the convergence.
Check out the fullness of the event at http://permacultureconvergence.com/

Orcas Island Permaculture Action Day w/ Rising Appalachia
2016-08-24 10:00 - 16:00 UTC | Orcasong Farm, 280 Dolphin Bay Rd, Eastsound, WA, 98245, United States
Orcas Island Permaculture Action Day w/ Rising Appalachia
Wednesday, August 24th! 10am-4pm
Location: Orcasong Farm, 280 Dolphin Bay Rd., Eastsound, Washington 98245
Join the Permaculture Action Network and Rising Appalachia Music as we host the first ever Salish Sea Permaculture Action Day on Orcas Island off the coast of Washington State!
We are so excited to be teaming up with Orcasong Farm, New Stories’ Thrive San Juan Islands & Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory to bring permaculture action to the San Juan Islands.
Together we will bring together a day of ecological learning, community building, regenerative systems implementation and awesome entertainment while sharing the beauty of Orcas Island.

The Day’s Projects:

Building a cob oven to cook for large gatherings using straw, clay, sand, and stones
Mounding *Hügelkultur beds to sequester carbon, grow polycultures of useful plants, and retain water for the adjacent Fall orchards
Creating paths through the forest to the meditation huts
Constructing a passive-solar spiral shower
Harvesting and preparing poles to build the meditation hut
Planting the garden beds with Fall crops

We will of course have live music to enjoy and delicious food to share. Please bring a dish to share *POTLUCK* style if you can. Please also bring any tools you can, work gloves, a water bottle, close-toed shoes, a bowl/plate, utensils, and mug.
Orcasong Farm is regenerating 80 acres of land in Crow Valley. This intentional community of land stewards focus on sustainable education, transformational leadership and catalyzing social change. Orcasong is setting themselves up as a community-building center for the bioregion that can host gatherings, permaculture workshop, council spaces, and town meetings.

What better way to get down and deep than to camp out at Orcasong Farm after the Permaculture Action Day and head right to the Rising Appalachia show at the Orcas Center the next day?
Orcasong Farm Camping is available, for an additional fee: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2569906
And be sure to grab your tickets to the Orcas Island show if you plan on seeing Rising Appalachia: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pesptpm/10093786/1028910
Goldentree Hostel has accommodations available, too.
http://www.goldentreehostel.com/
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Rising Appalachia will be performing on Lopez, San Juan and Orcas Islands.
Rising Appalachia is super excited to launch our new project “the Slow Music Movement”, an effort to promote sustainable touring practices, bring in local outreach to each event, reduce single-use waste at our shows, source farm-to-table food for backstage, and continue to create and promote sustainable touring practices across the board.
“It’s our effort to take the glitz and glam out of the music industry and bring performance back to its roots- that of public service. A service where musicians are not just part of fast-paced entertainment world, but instead influence the cultural shift as troubadours, activists, story tellers, and catalysts of justice,” explains Leah.
We have been working alongside incredible leaders and organizations including Winona LaDuke, Joanna Macey, Climbing Poetree, Gulf Restoration Network, the Permaculture Action Network, the Prison Yoga Project, and 1 Billion Rising (along with many more on-the ground efforts) to bring you more direct action and involvement throughout our concerts, and to help maintain an independent musical spirit in the face of such a fast-paced world. Stay tuned for more ways to get involved!
Lopez Island on August 19
Tickets: http://www.lopezcenter.org/goto.php?page=details&item=1648
San Juan Island on August 21
Tickets: http://www.sjctheatre.org/whats-happening/calendar/eventdetail/99/rising-appalachia
Salish Sea Permaculture Action Day on August 24 Orcas Island
10:00 AM- 4:00 PM FREE / Potluck
Orcas Island on August 25
For tickets: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pesptpm/10093786/1028910

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Stay tuned in at the Facebook Event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1361580340535063/
And look for live updates the day of from @PermaAction and #PermacultureAction on Twitter
And @PermacultureAction on Instagram

L.A. Permaculture Action Day on the Road to Burning Man
2016-08-07 11:00 - 19:00 UTC | Kiss the Ground Garden, 681 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA, 90291, United States
Join Burners Without Borders, Common Vision, and the Permaculture Action Network for a Permaculture Action Day at Kiss the Ground Garden in Los Angeles – a permaculture demonstration and education garden in Venice Beach outside the Beyond Baroque Arts Center. This is a high visibility site!
On your path from Los Angeles to Burning Man 2016 this year, take a stop at the Kiss the Ground Garden where we’ll be holding a wildly life-affirming Permaculture Action Day on Sunday, August 7th from 11am – 7pm.
We’ll be planting fruit trees with the state-touring Common Vision team and making signage to inform people of the many beneficial relationships between trees, soil, people, water, food, and the ecological web of life.
We’ll also be painting the Kiss the Ground GREENHOUSE with a layer of protective Linseed Oil, planting and beautifying the BUTTERFLY GARDEN, making cigarette butt depositories to keep filters out of the garden, and chopping and turning the compost on site. We’re preparing to build an outdoor kitchen in the garden and erect a shade-structure as well, on the 7th or in the future!
This is a celebration of life in the truest sense. Along with putting this long-lasting energy in the ground right here in Los Angeles, we’ll be turning up the music with live bands and DJs, sharing delicious food all around, hosting a number of workshops and skillshares, and of course meeting one another and discussing our collective transition to a better way of living together.
Come get down with the Burning Man community, BRAEVES live band, and many more to be announced. Want to bring the funk? Hit us up at Contact (A) PermacultureAction.org
Kiss The Ground is an organization working to get out “The Soil Story” through media and demonstration – the story that building healthy topsoil is the key to carbon sequestration, healthy food, greater ecological diversity, water retention and drought resistance. Beyond network building and creating media, Kiss The Ground creates the direct experience of the many benefits of healthy soil regeneration through their highly visible LA Permaculture Garden in Venice.
Stay tuned in for our Permaculture Action Days on the Road to Burning Man at PermacultureAction.org and follow along the day of and year round at @PermaAction on Twitter, at our facebook page Permaculture Action Network and @PermacultureAction on Instagram.
Stay up on Burners Without Borders’ many other ways to create a better world at BurnersWithoutBorders.org; and help Common Vision to keep planting fruit trees everywhere at CommonVision.org
Learn more about Kiss The Ground in LA at KisstheGround.com and on Twitter and Instagram @KissTheGroundCA

Permaculture Action Day in DENVER, COLORADO on JULY 16
2016-07-16 09:30 - 18:00 UTC | Sister Gardens, 2861 W 52nd Ave, Denver, CO, 80221, United States
WHERE: Sister Gardens: 2861 W 52nd Ave, Denver, Colorado 80221
WHEN: July 16, 9:30AM – 6:00PM
LINK: https://www.facebook.com/events/239470083100828/
Details:
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, 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.
We envision Sister Gardens as a community food hub – a food-producing farm, farm stand, and classroom. As food is fuel for the body, we hope to be fuel for social interaction and change. By re-purposing otherwise unused space, we hope to help stimulate the community and beautify the land. We want to embrace creative and eager minds, teaching them the value of urban farming, of nutrition, and of food justice. We want to alleviate stress and provide happiness and healthfulness through greater access to better food. We will listen and respond to the needs of the community, growing and changing with them, and giving them more control over the food that they eat. Most importantly, we want to pass along to our youth the knowledge and tools needed to ensure that the connections between farm and table and between food and health are never lost.
We are thrilled to present this action day as a collaboration of the Musical Activist Alliance, Earth Guardians, and the Front Range Permaculture Action Crew.
