Permaculture Action Network

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.

Permaculture Action Hub at Sonic Bloom Festival
2016-06-17 08:00 - 2016-06-19 18:00 (America/Denver) | Hummingbird Ranch, CO, United States
Coming to Sonic Bloom Festival? We’ll be holding a dynamic space throughout the event with a full program of workshops, skill-shares, and panel discussions on permaculture, ecological regeneration, community organizing, and direct action. To get an idea of what will be happening, check out the schedule from our recent Permaculture Action Hub at LIB here.
Sonic Bloom Festival Permaculture Action Hub – June 15-18, Hummingbird Ranch, CO
Come hang out in the Permaculture Action Hub at Sonic Bloom Festival June 15th-18th to learn from and connect with others catalyzing a shift to a just and regenerative way of living.
Workshops and Sessions include:

– Intro to Permaculture & The Just Transition w/ Ryan Rising
– Indigenous Phenology in the Age of Climate Change w/ Michael Alcazar
– Natural Building w/ Mike Wird
– Geomeditation: A Conscious Journey Through Deep Time w/ Callie Maron
– Permaculture as Playtime: Gamifying the Design Process w/ Eliot Kersgaard
– Bloomtown Villagers: Ecological Embodiment Theatre Games for Youth & Adults w/ Robin Eden
– Re-Villaging Movement Amidst the Housing Crisis w/ Karen Seed
– Carbon Farming and the Perennial Economy w/ Michael Alcazar
– Soul of Soil: Making Compost Tea w/ Edaphic Solutions
– Systems Thinking & Urban Permaculture w/ Mike Wird
– INHABIT: A Permaculture Perspective film screening
– Problem Solving Adventures: For Youth and Kids at Heart w/ Eliot Kersgaard
– Social Permaculture: Applying Nature’s Principles to People and Communities w/ Ryan Rising
– Social Permaculture: Power, Decision Making, and Conflict Resolution w/ Ryan Rising
– Solar Power and Alternative Energy w/ Brittany Heller & Jim Payne
– The Power of Storytelling & Creating Your Own Media w/ Unicorn Riot
– Your Independent Media footage screening w/ Unicorn Riot
– Earth Body Dances w/ Allison Caw
– Wild Weedz Edible Herb Walk w/ Manda Pendleton
– Security Culture 101 & Know Your Rights w/ Unicorn Riot
– Permaculture & Power: the Logistics of Liberation w/ Ryan Rising
– Amazing Veggie & Fruit Fermentation Skills: Recipes for Probiotic Health & Preservation w/ Laura Shiels
– Sacred Mycology: The Harmonic Balance of the Biosphere w/ Britt Clements
– Social Networking with Mycorrhizae w/ Eliot Kersgaard
– Open Space: Come Through, Meet, and Organize

Check out the rest of Sonic Bloom Festival’s workshop and speaker lineup. Come to Sonic Bloom early for the three-day Permaculture Academy June 11th-14th and the Permaculture Action Day on June 15th.

Sonic Bloom Permaculture Action Day
2016-06-16 11:00 - 18:00 (America/Denver) | District ONE Farm at John Mall High School, Walsenburg, CO, United States
June 16th, before Sonic Bloom Festival begins, come to the Permaculture Action Day at District ONE Farm at John Mall High School in Walsenburg – https://www.facebook.com/events/230070644039546/

On your way to SONIC BLOOM 2016, Colorado, come to the local community farm to put down energy into a lasting regenerative space that will provide nutrient-rich, organic food to the people of Walsenburg, Colorado. The second poorest county with the worst nutrition on record in the state, Walsenburg is building an organic, community farm to create greater food access to the people.

SONIC BLOOM has found its home at Hummingbird Ranch 20 minutes away, and it’s time to create reciprocal relationships of soldiarity between us, the festival community, and the local communities that welcome us into their homes. Between the beginning of the permaculture design and implementation plan of Hummngbrid Ranch, and the creating of the nearby farm and community center in Walsenburg, we’re creating the interconnected, regenerative world we all have been talking about.

Join the Permaculture Action Network for a day of installing a rainwater harvesting and irrigation system, constructing low-tunnel greenhouses, installing a proper composting system, and building and planting raised beds.

As always, we’ll have a celeratory convergence of workshops, music, shared meals, and discussions on furthering the transition to a just and regenerative world, integrating our communities into the patterns of the natural world. And, as always, the Permaculture Action Day is absolutely FREE and everyone is welcome to attend – whether you are staying for the festival or not. This is about coming together as community to take action and start building the world we want to see.

Want to learn how to design through a permaculture framework? How to catch and store water in the soil through earthworks? How to design food forests and productive polycultures of plants that will produce year after year? How to design ecovillages and organize your own community and neighborhood?

Join us for the SONIC BLOOM Academy • Permaculture Action Series in the three days before the festival starts – June 13th-16th. With an incredible team of facilitators, this course will prepare you with the skills and tools we all need to transition to a more ecologically-integrated, community-oriented way of living.

Get the details and register at http://sonicbloomfestival.com/academy/permaculture/

Sonic Bloom Permaculture Action Academy Series
2016-06-13 18:00 - 2016-06-16 17:00 (America/Denver) | Hummingbird Ranch, Spanish Peaks Country, CO, United States
The Permaculture Action Series lets you get your hands dirty at Hummingbird Ranch before Sonic Bloom begins. Learn about permaculture while creating a more sustainable festival site.
Learn more and register >>> http://sonicbloomfestival.com/academy/permaculture/

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.

• Learn the design principles and process of permaculture

• Gain hands-on skills to directly transform the world around you

• Relate to the earth symbiotically to create 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

EXPERIENCE:

• 21 class-hours of world-class educational experience

• 2 healthy meals per day (brunch and dinner)

• Connections with like minded people

• Be among the first people on site

• First priority shaded and creekside camping included

• Free time in pristine Colorado nature

• Hiking, biking, relaxing in the creek

• Free filtered water included all week

• Yoga class each morning

• Campfires each night

Facilitators:

~ Ryan Rising ~

Ryan Rising is a community organizer and permaculture educator most recently known for organizing the Permaculture Action Tour. Ryan focuses on creating community access to land for regenerative living; connecting people to take direct action and transition to a resilient way of life. Ryan and the Permaculture Action Network have organized over 45 Action Days across the US.

~ Mike Wird ~

Mike Wird is an educator, permaculture designer and artist, who shares his dedication to social and environmental justice through cultural arts empowerment and regenerative practices. Mike has been actively cultivating a sense of community for over 10 years as a Hiphop Cultural Arts Ambassador, and co-founder of an eco-social enterprise called Regenerative Lifestyles.

~ Stephanie Syson ~

Stephanie is co-founder of Dynamic Roots herbals and the Basalt Food Park where she innovated and grew a town seed library into a full-on public edible forest garden. She is an educator and practitioner in the fields of permaculture, herbalism, seed saving and an avid promoter of edible polycultures and medicinal herb gardens in public spaces.

~ Keala Young ~

A. Keala Young is a whole systems designer, regenerative practitioner and permaculture teacher with a background in the healing arts. His rich study of permaculture and eco-village design includes certificate programs from Findhorn Foundation and Esalen Institute, as well as full-time engagement co-founding Atlan Living and Learning Center near the Columbia River Gorge in Central Cascadia.

Learn more and register >>> http://sonicbloomfestival.com/academy/permaculture/

Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1591888027794858/

Berea Permaculture Action Day with Rising Appalachia at Clear Creek Schoolhouse
2016-06-04 10:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Unnamed Venue, Disputanta, KY, United States
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1035457529863959/

Join Rising Appalachia & the Permaculture Action Network in Kentucky for a Permaculture Action Day at Clear Creek Schoolhouse after Rising Appalachia plays First Friday Berea!

Clear Creek Schoolhouse is a workshop space for teaching, learning and sharing in Kentucky on the foothills of the Appalachia mountains.

We’ll be expanding the food forests and edible forest gardens we’ve already begun, and may create more pond life and a sanctuary, as well as plant native species.

We’ll have acoustic music in the schoolhouse at night, and a potluck throughout the day, so bring something to share.

Along with building up this beautiful education center and community space, we’ll be sharing some workshops and skill-shares throughout the day, and threading deeper community.
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1035457529863959/

Smoky Mountain Permaculture Design Course in Eastern Tennessee
2016-06-01 15:00 - 2016-06-14 15:00 (America/New_York) | Seven Springs Holistic Retreat Center, Sweet Hollow, TN, United States
Learn more and register at http://www.thekulacollective.com/smoky-mountain-pdc.html
June 1st – 14th at Seven Springs Retreat Center in Sweet Hollow, East Tennessee

The Smoky Mountain Permaculture Design Course led by Cliff Davis & Jennifer Albanese of Spiral Ridge Permaculture & Ryan Rising of Permaculture Action Network will explore innovative strategies for harmonious land use, combining traditional wisdom with cutting edge techniques to build thriving communities.
There will also be ancestral arts, community building, and daily yoga and meditation facilitated by Cliff Davis, Zachary Towne-Smith, and Jessi Luna
This PDC will be focused on the harmonious transition of this picturesque hollow from a private residence to a thriving hub for holistic health, earth care, and community building. Strategies for increasing food production and promoting native species and medicinal herbs will be combined with non-invasive and ecological construction techniques to build a solid foundation and the capacity to host a variety of transformational experiences. Special attention will be paid to the traditional Cherokee and Lakota practices of this land in collaboration with experienced tribal leaders.
Highlights…

Sow the seeds of a Permaculture Food Forest
Connect with the ancestral Lakota and Cherokee roots of this sacred land.
Eat delicious vegetarian meals sourced from and local organic producers
Explore the beautiful forest paths, natural springs and wild abundance
Live in sustainably built Yurts and experience conscious off-the-grid living
Practice yoga in beautiful natural indoor and outdoor spaces surrounded by forest
Professional Massage and Wellness Counseling, various therapies available

Course Content:

Introduction to Permaculture – Definition, History and Ethics
The Permaculture Principles
Professional Ecological Design Process
Strategies and Techniques for Sustainable Settlements, Communities, and Gardens
Regenerative Earthworks Including Keyline® – Design, Survey, Layout, Strategies and Techniques
Natural Building – Techniques and Theory
Animal Systems – BeeKeeping, Goats, Poultry, Rabbits, Pigs and Vermiculture
Design Strategies for Housing and Landscape Design
Temperate Climate Strategies – Housing and Landscape Design
Drylands Design Strategies – Housing and Landscape Design
Social Permaculture
Collaborative Economies & Financial Permaculture
Climate Factors
Pattern Understanding – Patterns in Nature, Patterns in Design, and Pattern Language
Food Fermentation and Preservation
Water Design Solutions – Catchment, Conservation, Grey Water Solutions, Swales, and Ponds
Soils – Composition, Biology, Food Web, Remineralization, Fertility, and Human Health
Aquaculture – Food Webs, Techniques and Fish Production

Practicums:

Design Projects: You will perform a (thorough client interview, site analysis and assessment of the land, and develop a permaculture design and presentation for a project in a small team, through which you will received feedback from course instructors
Designing Intensive Annual Systems and Guilds: this module will include seed saving, germination and plant grouping for annual vegetable systems
Designing and Implementing a Forest Garden: this module will include propagation and planting techniques; and design for perennial polycultures.
Compost Making and Soil Building
Sheet Mulching
Plant Identification
Natural Building using Earthen Building Techniques
Water Design Solutions
Community Permaculture Action
Primitive Arts
Homesteading & Harvesting

Get more info and register at http://www.thekulacollective.com/smoky-mountain-pdc.html

Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/454785421390272/

Summer Camp pre-Festival Permaculture Action Day
2016-05-25 12:00 - 20:00 UTC | LA
Wednesday May 25th; 12pm-8pm
Seven Circles Heritage Center
8817 West Southport Rd – Edwards, Illinois 61528 (25 minutes from Summer Camp)

Join Permaculture Action Network at 7 Circles Heritage Center Wednesday May 25th, the day before Summer Camp Music Festival. Before heading to Summer Camp, come out to get your hands in the dirt, learn about permaculture techniques and give back to community! Seven Circles Heritage Center is a community space to preserve and restore indigenous culture and Native American teachings. It is a spiritual gathering place for all people to cultivate cross-cultural understanding and respect by sharing knowledge and developing community.

Celebrate community with us at 7 Circles Heritage Center, 2 days before Rising Appalachia plays their set at the festival on Friday, to engage in a full day of healing and activating the land.

As part of a continuing permaculture education program at Summer Camp Music Festival, we will be participating in an earthworks revitalization process to prepare the land for improved water retention. In addition to building swales and terraces, we will be installing an edible food forest system, three sisters companion planting gardens, medicinal herb gardens, native habitat plantings, all while celebrating the diversity of culture. Throughout the day there will be several opportunities for participants to learn more about native traditions while adding biological diversity and resiliency intended to restore, regenerate, and renew the land.

PLEASE REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT:

http://goo.gl/forms/fpizmyE5NN

More details forthcoming, so check back here soon!
Follow along for more info on the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1087930021275323/

Permaculture Intensive at Summer Camp Music Festival
2016-05-22 08:00 - 2016-05-24 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Three Sisters Park, Chillicothe, IL, United States
The Permaculture Intensive Experience will host registered guests for three days of learning; the cost for participation is $333. The action-oriented workshop will address natural building methods, soil health, water design integration, planting techniques, edible food forests, container gardening, and much more. The complete immersion event includes prepared meals, camping, morning ceremony, evening discussions and a dynamic learning environment. Visit the course page and register on the Summer Camp Music Festival website.
Brief Course Summary
The 3-day Permaculture Intensive is an in-depth workshop and learning experience exploring a hands-on approach to urban gardening and holistic land design. Grounded in the principles of permaculture, this action-oriented workshop will address natural building methods, soil health, water design, planting techniques, food forests, container gardening, whole systems theory and much more! Students enrolled in the 3-day comprehensive process will build real projects, creating two spaces that will serve as educational zones during the festival weekend. The learning course will include optional daily yoga, meditation and Native American ceremony. On Wednesday, May 25th, following the course, participants will be encouraged into leadership opportunities to apply their new skills at a Permaculture Action Day, open to the public, in Edwards, IL, where ~200 volunteers will transform 7 Circle Heritage Center through the principles of permaculture, diversifying the Center’s landscape.
The workshop offers a complete immersion event including prepared meals, camping, morning ceremonies, evening discussions and a dynamic learning environment. The intensive will be facilitated by a collective of teachers who have studied the course concepts both internationally and domestically and boast years of applied knowledge, offering a broad and practical perspective. Participants can expect a compelling life experience valuing community, embracing new friends and illuminating a renewed perspective of abundant regenerative solutions to some of modern society’s most pressing challenges.

Denver Permaculture Action Day with Rising Appalachia
2016-05-21 11:00 - 18:00 (America/Denver) | Seeds of Power Unity Farm, 3551 Humboldt Street, Denver, CO, United States
Join Rising Appalachia for a Permaculture Action Day in Denver this Saturday, May 21st starting at 11am. Converge at Seeds of Power Unity Farm – 3551 Humboldt Street – for a day of planting, building, learning, music, food and community.
Join the event page here – https://www.facebook.com/events/1740911666188419/ – for the latest happenings and follow @PermaAction and #PermacultureAction on Twitter for live updates the day of. The Permaculture Action Day precedes Rising Appalachia’s big show with Elephant Revival and Josh Ritter the next day at Red Rocks on Sunday evening.
We have irrigation to lay and farm rows to build to turn this once empty lot into a productive farm that will supply greens and produce for the MoBetta Greens Farmers’ Market. Fatuma Emmad of Sister Gardens and Nick Gruber of Moondog Farms will be joining us at Seeds of Power in the morning and bringing folks out to the satellite planting sites when we hit critical mass.
We also have a late afternoon and evening gathering space in the works, so join us early at Seeds of Power or stay tuned to the event page for more info.
Music will play throughout the day, including from Rising Appalachia’s Biko Casini and Arouna Diarra – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nGUDV3twWg – and other local performers and special surprises. Join in on the workshops and skill-shares, and enjoy the delicious food as we rise above the concrete and grow food for our Denver community right here in the city.
Please bring any and all tools you can! Shovels, wheel barrows, turning forks, rakes, trowels, pick axes and more! And bring a waterbottle, gloves, dish/utensils/mug, and something to add to the potluck if you wish : )
Big thanks to Bija Foundation, Gaia Conceptions, The Gypsies Caravan, and Namaste Foundation for the great support in making this all happen.
See you this Saturday! Seeds of Power Unity Farm – 3551 Humboldt Street – 11am – https://www.facebook.com/events/1740911666188419/

'A Permaculture Action Story' Documentary Film Screening
2016-05-07 14:30 - 16:00 UTC | University of California,, 1 Shields Ave, Davis, CA, 95616, United States
Join Jasmine Saavedra of the Permaculture Action Network for a question and answer and screening of the Permaculture Action Tour documentary at Whole Earth Festival.
The first Permaculture Action Tour launched from San Francisco in late September 2014 and embarked on a 32 city quest to empower fans through community action and permaculture education. We travelled with musicians The Polish Ambassador, Ayla Nereo, Mr. Lif, and visual designer Liminus encouraging fans from their show to come out the following days to get their hands dirty in an organized permaculture action day.
We visited eco-villages and permaculture project sites, worked with local organizations and volunteers to transform communities, to spread sustainable and regenerative practices, from building earthships, creating community gardens, planting food forests, to cleaning up public space. These action days engaged thousands of fans across the nation to get involved with projects in their communities and immersed them in a work party focused on building the world so we all can live in it.
We held a permaculture action day in each of the 32 cities we visited, bringing direct community action and education to the concerts and their audiences. With overwhelming support, we held multiple days of action and multiple project sites in several cities, and mobilized thousands of people.
Come watch the feature length documentary and discuss with tour organizer and co-founder of the Permaculture Action Network, Jasmine Saavedra.
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/725408570935680/

Urban Adamah Two Week Permaculture Design Course - Berkeley, CA
2016-05-01 14:00 - 2016-05-15 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Urban Adamah, Berkeley, 94703
Learn more: http://urbanadamah.org/events/permaculture-design-course/
This intensive Permaculture Design Course, lead by permaculture experts Dave Boehnlein and John Valenzuela, will inspire you to participate in nothing less than the transformation of our world.
We live in a critical moment: our biosphere is straining to support seven billion+ people; communal structures are failing to meet the basic needs of millions; the divide between those who have and those who don’t grows ever larger. This is a course about the tools to create a world grounded in sustainability, justice and love. It is a course about building regenerative communities on all levels.
Permaculture has been defined as “a holistic approach to landscape design and human culture, integrating several disciplines including biology, ecology, geography, agriculture, architecture, appropriate technology, and community building.” Our course will integrate each of these fields, and include lectures, discussions, hands-on projects, field trips to local East Bay permaculture sites, and a final group design project. Participants will be taken through 72 hours of core curriculum and will receive a Certificate of Permaculture Design upon completion of the course.
The course will draw upon the expertise of an amazing team of permaculture educators who bring with them decades of experience in the areas of Food Production and Propagation, Rainwater Harvesting, Compost and Soil Building, Earthworks, Natural Building, Community Organizing, and a diversity of other components that can make healthy human and ecological living possible.
Curriculum
You can view the full curriculum here.
The Urban Adamah PDC will explore:
• Permaculture Ethics and Principles
• Reading the Landscape; Site Assessment and Analysis
• Design Methods, Strategies, and Mapping
• Annual & Perennial Production
• Food Forests and Agroforestry
• Soil Building and Fertility Management
• Climate and MicroClimate strategies
• Renewable Energy Systems
• Water Management Strategies & Grey Water Systems
• Livestock & Animal Systems
• Aquaculture
• Plant Propagation
• Structures and Natural Building
• Urban Permaculture
• Community Building & Collaborative Group Dynamics
• Financial Strategies & Alternative Economies
• Earthworks
• Bioremediation
• Land Access
• Soil Carbon Sequestration

Course Site, Schedule and Details
Course Schedule
The course begins at 3:00 pm on Sunday, May 1 and ends on Sunday, May 15 at 6:30 pm. May 7 and May 14 are full days off. Classes start at 8:30 am on most days and end at 6:00 pm, with a few additional classes from 7:30 – 9:00 pm on some evenings. There is a lunch break from 12:30 – 2:00 each day. (Times subject to slight changes)
About the Site
The Urban Adamah Farm is located on a one-acre lot in the heart of Berkeley, and includes raised beds for vegetables, flowers, herbs and fruit, greenhouses, an aquaponics system, outdoor kitchen, teaching tents, meditation spaces, chickens, bees and milking goats. The farm produces a diverse yield of organic food which is donated to the local community through both food banks and a weekly free farm stand. The farm is in the midst of transitioning to its new permanent site in West Berkeley and through the PDC, participants will gain tangible design experience helping to envision exciting possibilities for the new site.
Course Meals
Urban Adamah will provide mostly organic lunches each day of the course, with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options. Please let us know if you have any specific food allergies. We will also be offering three catered dinners on nights when we are having evening sessions. Otherwise participants are encouraged to bring their own dinners or grab a bite at one of many food establishments in the neighborhood. There is a kitchen on site which you are welcome to use to prepare vegetarian meals during the course. We will have hot water, tea, and fruit set out each morning and throughout the day.
For all info on course registration and teachers’ bios, visit http://urbanadamah.org/events/permaculture-design-course/

New Orleans Permaculture Action Day
2016-04-30 10:00 - 16:00 UTC | CRISP Farms, 1310 Lesseps Street, New Orleans, LA, 70117, United States
@ CRISP Farms – 1310 Lesseps Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70117
Join us and Rising Appalachia in the upper 9th ward for our *FIRST* Permaculture Action Day in New Orleans at CRISP Farms.
This day will be focusing on cobb building, installations, planting and listening to music together! Crisp is already a thriving garden and now wishes to be more of a space for neighbors to spend time together and create deeper relationships- true resilience. Please come and support Crisp Farms in being a beautiful, edible resource for the 9th ward!
Projects Include:
Cobb Oven
Bench building
Pond Installation
Building with cobb workshop
Pergula Installation
Tree Planting
More TBA…
We will have live music by Biko Casini ( of Rising Appalachia) and Arouna Diarra (Burkina Faso), POT LUCK lunch and snacks, and other live guest performances.
What to Bring:
Comfortable cloths ( to get dirty)
Dish for POT LUCK lunch
Bottle for Water
Work gloves/ Shoes
Instruments (if you wish to contribute some music while we work party!)
More about Crisp Farms:
Crisp Farms was established in 2013. With the help of some neighbors the once blighted property is now a thriving community garden that focuses on research into sustainable permaculture and exploring alternative growing practices for an urban environment. The farm hosts various events on its stages including the well known 9th Ward Festival. Learn more at : http://www.crispfarmsnola.com/?page_id=14
Check out Rising Appalachia here: http://www.risingappalachia.com/
Learn more about Permaculture Action Network and past events here : http://PermacultureAction.org/
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/143443979384268/

LAST DAY to donate to Crowdfunding Campaign!!
2016-04-23 - 2016-04-24 | LA
It’s the last day to donate to our IndieGoGo campaign for the Permaculture Action Network and our Permaculture Action Days with Rising Appalachia! Help us go over our goal here – igg.me/at/PermacultureActionNetwork
