Sonic Bloom Permaculture Academy: a pre-festival Permaculture Action Course
2019-06-16 15:00 - 2019-06-19 21:00 UTC | Hummingbird Ranch, Spanish Peaks Country, CO, United States
The Permaculture Academy
before Sonic Bloom Festival
June 16th (afternoon arrival) – June 19th, 2019
For the third year, Permaculture Action Network and Sonic Bloom invite you to spend the days before the festival learning practical skills for regenerating ecosystems and building community. Permaculture design mimics the patterns and principles at work in natural systems to create systems for living in symbiotic relationship with the earth and its ecosystems while cultivating food, shelter, medicine, clean water, biodiversity, energy, and community.
“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
Visit the Sonic Bloom Website to register in advance.

Learn the Concepts of Permaculture

Permaculture design processes and principles
Rainwater harvesting and earthworks
Permaculture landscape design and food forestry
Natural building and appropriate technology
Social transformation and community organizing methods
​Practical tools and techniques for regenerating ecology

$366 enrollment fee

Academy students can look forward to lots of perks with their enrollment fee including…

21+ hours of world class educational experience
2 healthy, organic meals per day (brunch and dinner)
Yoga class every morning
Connections with like minded people
Be among the first people on site
First priority shaded and creekside camping
Free time in pristine Colorado nature
Festival car camping included
Academy/Festival combo tickets available

About the Facilitators
Ryan Rising is a community organizer and permaculture educator based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, and co-founder of the Permaculture Action Network. After a decade of local organizing around direct action, food justice, ecological design, and community living, Ryan organized the Permaculture Action Tour with music producer The Polish Ambassador in the fall of 2014. Ryan has since co-organized over 90 Permaculture Action Days throughout 26 US states, bringing hundreds of people at a time to take hands-on action building greenhouses, rainwater catchment systems, gardens, and regenerative systems at 80 different local community projects including public food forests, urban farms, and ecovillages. Ryan co-founded the Gill Tract Community Farm, which produces tons of organic food annually that is distributed for free all around the Bay Area, and the Omni Commons, an urban commons and community center.

Mike Wird
Michael White aka Mike Wird is an advanced permaculture designer/consultant/teacher, artist educator, natural builder (as a certified Earthship Biotect) and is an educated real estate investor, promoting environmental stewardship and financial literacy. His campaign ‘Build Your Own Dreams’ is designed to help people actively reach for their goals while having fun.
Mike shares his dedication to social and environmental justice through cultural arts and regenerative practices and has been actively cultivating community for over a decade as an Emcee, Deejay & Hiphop Cultural Arts Ambassador, raising awareness about social, economic and ecological issues and their solutions.
Mike teaches courses in Eco-Social Design with Permaculture Action Network and offers advanced sessions in Colorado and New Mexico with his business Regenerative Adventures. Mike teaches Permaculture Design certificate courses with Family Tree Permaculture on the nature island of Dominica in the eastern Caribbean and on the festive island of Ibiza in the Mediterranean. For more info, email mikewird@gmail.com
Stephanie Syson

Stephanie, Co-Founder Biodynamic Botanicals, has spent the past decade with her hands and heart in the dirt growing and using the powerful herbs that create vitality and wellness. Stephanie Syson has over 15 years of experience in the herbal product industry as well as having over 18 years researching and practicing various forms of sustainable farming across the United States and Latin America. She is a Certified Permaculture Designer and educator in the fields of Greenhouse Management, Seed Saving and Herbalism. Stephanie lectures across the United States on topics such as Public Food Forests, Seed Saving Libraries and Culinary and Medicinal Herb Growing. She has presented at conferences such as the Boulder Bioneers and the North American Permaculture Convergence. Stephanie also works with groups of all ages to further their knowledge of these topics through regular public workshops held at the Basalt Regional Library, a childhood education series held at the Basalt Middle School as well as teaching Permaculture Design Courses at Colorado Mountain College, The Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute and the Denver Permaculture Guild. She lectures for the Colorado Extension Service and co-hosts the Living Permaculture Show, a monthly radio show on public radio KDNK. Stephanie is committed to community service through education and demonstration of herbal self-care and sustainable farming practices. She manages a public food forest in Basalt called the Basalt Food Park.
Sign up at https://sonicbloomfestival.com/academy/permaculture/

Sonic Bloom Permaculture Action Day 2019
2019-06-20 10:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | BUS – Building United Society, 126 North Polk Avenue, Walsenburg, CA, 81089, United States
SONIC BLOOM
Permaculture Action Day
at BUS – Building United Society
126 North Polk Avenue
Walsenburg, CO 81089
Thursday, June 20, 2019
10am-5pm
BUS is a late 1800s school building being converted into a community center with free housing & food for people working the District ONE Farms.
Hands-On Projects ● Workshops ● Music
Food ● Art ● Community Building
You will receive a pass for expedited entry to the festival after the action day.
www.PermacultureAction.org
Contact@PermacultureAction.org

For the fifth year in a row we mobilize the energy of the SONIC BLOOM Festival community into the nearby town of Walsenburg where District O.N.E. is Organizing New Economy. “Local food is the first economy of any society.” – districtone.org
This year, we expand the District ONE project beyond its farms and pay-what-you-can farm-to-table restaurant to the BUS, inspired by the philosophy of contributionism – a collective gift-economy of stewarding common space and projects together.
The BUS – Building United Society – is a late 1800s school building being converted into a place where food and housing is provided in reciprocity for work on the District ONE Farms growing organic, nutrient-rich food for the community.
Over the last 4 years we’ve watched the farms grow with trees, greenhouses, edible perennials, composting systems, murals, rainwater catchment, medicinal herbs, earthworks, mushrooms, vegetables, and other useful plants. This year, join us to demonstrate that permaculture is not just about farms and gardens – it’s about housing, community, economy, energy, the built environment, and how we organize our lives in relationship to the ecosystems around us and one another.
SCHEDULE
10am Everyone Welcome to Arrive!!
10:30am Opening Circle & Water Ceremony w/ Michael Alcazar, Angelique Rodriguez & Susana Sandoval
11:15am Hands-On Projects Begin (and continue all day!)
11:30am Mushroom Cultivation workshop w/ Navona Gallegos & Wildcat
12pm Lunch Spread Shared
12:30pm Plants for People & Pollinators workshop w/ Courtney Cosgriff of Honeybee Herbals
1pm JaJa DJ Set
1:30pm Growing and Using Medicinal Herbs workshop w/ Stephanie Syson
2pm Sonic Warrior live set
2:30pm Off-Grid Solar demo w/ Brittany Heller and Jim Payne
3pm Leyla Daze live set
4pm Mike Wird hip-hop set
WORKSHOPS
Mushroom Cultivation w/ Navona Gallegos & Wildcat

Plants For People And Pollinators w/ Courtney Cosgriff
Join Courtney Cosgriff of Honeybee Herbals for a discussion on just what’s happening to our precious honeybees and many of our pollinators and how we can utilize medicinal herbs to not only support them but our own health as well. Planting forage for pollinators and designing gardens to support them is unbelievably crucial to their conservation, and we get the added benefit of utilizing many of these plants to support our own health and well being.
Growing and Using Medicinal Herbs w/ Stephanie Syson
Off-Grid Solar demo with Brittany Heller & Jim Payne

MUSIC
Mike Wird hip-hop set
Leyla Daze live set
Sonic Warrior live set
JaJa DJ Set
Hands-On Projects
Building Earth-Tire Wall “Climate Battery” for Greenhouse
Installing Fencing for Chicken Run around Coop
Constructing Solar Closet
Mounting Solar Panels
Planting Edible, Medicinal, & Support Species to Build Soil
We need your support for this one! Have electrical skills? Construction tools? Building materials? Paint for murals? Bring them down!
Get in touch! Email us – Contact@PermacultureAction.org
We’ll be mounting and installing solar, fixing plumbing, constructing a chicken coop, building a greenhouse, painting stairs, planting, repairing, and beautifying.
Music and Workshop Schedule to be announced soon!
Bring a potluck to add to the lunch spread. Wear close toed shoes. Bring a refillable water bottle, and even dishware if you like. We’ll wrap up just in time to guarantee you quick and easeful entry to festival – we’ve got you covered!

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Leave A Positive Trace Permaculture Action Day with Burning Man
2019-06-22 10:00 - 19:00 UTC | Hoover Elementary School Garden, 890 Brockhurst St., Oakland, CA, 94608, United States
Leave a Positive Trace
Permaculture Action Day with Burning Man
Saturday, June 22nd, 2019
10am-7pm
Hoover Elementary School Garden
890 Brockhurst St, Oakland, CA

In conjunction with a global day of action to leave a positive trace – a call-out to the Burning Man community around the world to act on the principles of Participation and Communal Effort on this solstice anniversary of the first Burning Man in 1986.

SCHEDULE
10:00am Everyone Welcome to Arrive
10:30am Opening Circle
11:00am Projects Begin (and continue all day!)
11am-12pm DJ AjGod
12-1pm Water Harvesting Design Principles workshop w/ Brennan Blazer Bird
12-12:15pm MC Memesis (Rmndo)
12:15-1pm Gamelan X live performance
1-2pm People’s Community Medics Disaster Preparedness Training
1:15-1:35 pm Monkey Chant w/ Gamelan X (on the lawn)
1:15-2pm Lydia Violet live performance
1:30pm Lunch Spread presented by The Qwitchen (rolling all day)
2-3pm Community Assembly on the Equitable Climate Action Plan w/ the Oakland Climate Action Coalition
2-2:45pm M’ster Lewis (GODMODE) hip-hop set
2:45-4:15pm DJ Kream (Oakhella)
3-4pm Gardening On A Budget workshop w/ Khadija Khansia
3:30pm Organic Ice Cream shared!
4:15-5pm Gabe Zapata DJ Set
4-5pm The Colors of Us: A Natural Dyeing Skillshare w/ Grace Sullivan
5-6pm Mike Unaverz DJ set
5-6pm Building an Ecological Society Against All Odds: Lessons from Rojava, self-administered northeast Syria
6:00pm Community Healing and Blessing w/ Adorable
6:15pm Open Decks
7:00pm End of Day < 3
Throughout the Day
Remixed Ink live screen printing (bring clothes to print on)
Flow Play w/ Cindy Sparks and Lane Lilliquist
ArtIsMobilus collaborative mural
The Barnacle Boat art car
Arts & crafts with Sketchy Camp
UNAVERZ audio
Potstickers by Camp Porta (yum!)
Hoover Elementary School hosts one of the most immersive and ecologically designed school gardens in the Bay Area. For the last three years, kindergarten through 5th grade students have had the joy of play and class time in this nature-based learning environment—caring for the chickens, saving seeds, identifying edible and medicinal plants, building soil, and crafting.

Join Burning Man Community Events, Burners Without Borders, Permaculture Action Network, and a Bay Area network of facilitators and artists for a day of music, workshops, food, performances, and HANDS-ON PROJECTS:

Rainwater Catchment Earthworks
Building a Cob / Adobe Wall
Creating a Wishing Well
Building Edging for Garden Beds
Weeding, Planting, and Mulching
Building Natural Benches for Students & Crossing Guards
MOOP (Matter Out of Place) Clean Up
Painting Educational Signage
Extending the Chicken Run off the Coop
Installing Solar Panels on the Outdoor Kitchen

Music and Performances
Mike Unaverz DJ set
M’ster Lewis
Gabe Zapata
Bijou of OAKHELLA DJ Set
Gamelan X live performance
DJ AjGod
Lydia Violet live performance
– MC Memesis (Rmndo)
Workshops

Building an Ecological Society Against All Odds: Lessons from Rojava, self-administered northeast Syria
Water Harvesting Design Principles w/ Brennan Blazer Bird of SolutionCraft
Gardening On A Budget w/ Khadija Khansia
Community Assembly on the Equitable Climate Action Plan with Oakland Climate Action Coalition
People’s Community Medics Disaster Preparedness Training with Sharena Thomas (workshop sponsored by the NorCal Resilience Network with a grant from Burners Without Borders)
The Colors of Us: A Natural Dying Skillshare w/ Grace
Spiritual Justice Tools: Clearing Your Energy Fields w/ Adorable
Monkey Chant w/ Gamelan X

Art, Theme Camps, and More
Remixed Ink live screen printing project
(bring clothes to print on)
Flow Play w/ Cindy Sparks and Lane Lilliquist
ArtIsMobilus collaborative mural painting
Barnacle Boat art car
Arts & crafts with Sketchy Camp
UNAVERZ audio
Potstickers by Camp Porta (yum!)

A Free, Nutrient-Rich Meal
Feel Free to Bring Potluck Items to Add to the Rolling Meal throughout the Day
Organic, Local Ice-Cream provided by Three Twins!
This is a free and family-friendly event designed with you in mind.
A Day to inspire one another, build relationships & community, and take collective action.
Facebook Event Page
There is no need to RSVP. However, if you have an inquiry or particular way you want to participate or support, email actionday@burningman.org ~ You can also RSVP here to receive updates.

Permaculture Action Day at Clear Creek Community Food Forest
2019-06-29 10:00 - 18:00 UTC | Clear Creek SchoolHouse, 1882 Hammonds Fork Rd, Disputanta, KY, 40456, United States
Join us for a day full of live music, hands-on projects, workshops, skillshares and delicious local food!

We will be working/playing in a four year old food forest — bring tools, bring a food dish, come learn about the system, plant/eat some food and meet new people.

“We see this food forest as a pragmatic model that serves as a community learning/experimenting area while providing food, medicine and Abundance. This space is a working model for how other low-maintenance, long-visioning systems similar in nature could be communally designed and implemented. We see this space as a sanctuary for humans and wildlife. As we continue to work in this space, we develop relationships with the native plants, people and climate, creating a sense of home place. This is an open community space where we share labor, experiences and skills together which leads to resilience. Additionally, this land serves as a propagation resource for the community, where herbs, seeds and cultivars of trees can be propagated for future food-focused projects. This project serves as a community resource for food, medicine, spiritual growth, community involvement, learning, sharing of skills and access to land in an economically impoverished region.

– Written in 2015 as part of the design process –

Projects, workshops/skillshares and music TBD

Rolling potluck lunch starting at 1pm

This Permaculture Action Day is in partnership with Burners Without Borders and is made possible, in part, by a Southeastern Leadership Civic Ignition Grant.

Everyone is welcome to this free, family-friendly event.

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Permaculture Action Day w/ Moon Hooch Denver
2019-07-13 09:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver) | Seeds of Power Unity Farm, 3551 Humboldt Street, Denver, CO, United States
Come out to Seeds of Power Unity Farm with the Permaculture Action Network and touring musicians Moon Hooch for a Permaculture Action Day.
This free and public event will be on July 13th, 2019 from 9 AM – 7 PM at the three Seeds of Power Farm sites in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver.
Our newest collaborators, touring musicians in the band Moon Hooch, will be showing up on the Action Day to get their hands in the dirt. Be sure to check out their performance at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on July 12th.
There will be hands-on projects to aid the Seeds of Power Unity Farm, including building and maintaining vital infrastructure for the farm sites, planting garden beds, and more.
We’ll have workshops and skillshares from local presenters, community-centered networking, food, and music.
The Permaculture Action Day will conclude with a shared meal, ingredients cultivated at Seeds of Power and prepared by Beverly Grant, the farmer behind it all. Food and entertainment from 4-7PM at the Dahlia Campus, 3401 Eudora St, Denver, CO 80207.
This project is a collaboration between Seeds of Power Unity Farm, a Denver based, black-led farm in the Five Points neighborhood, and Permaculture Action Network, a collective of regional teams across the US that mobilize thousands of people to take direct action on regenerative projects by collaborating with performing artists and cultural events.

Restoring Paradise: Permaculture Action Day w/ Rising Appalachia
2019-10-13 10:00 - 18:00 UTC | Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Dr, Paradise, CA, 95969, United States
Restoring Paradise: A Permaculture Action Day w/ Rising Appalachia & other artists TBA
Join Camp Fire Restoration Project and Permaculture Action Network for a free, family-friendly day of hands-on action to plant and build new gardens and infrastructure at the Paradise Community Guilds in Paradise, CA.
Projects and workshops will be offered by local and regional experts and enthusiasts alongside music, food, and community building activities (check back soon for schedule announcements).
Norton Buffalo Hall, the home of Paradise Community Guilds, burned to the ground in the Camp Fire of 2018. The Guilds hosts multiple community gardens, open mic nights, potlucks, workshops, concerts, and classes, “fostering community by nurturing creativity, practicing stewardship of Nature, and promoting values of sustainability.”
Rising Appalachia will be sounding the call to action at their Northern California concerts in Arcata, Petaluma, Nevada City, and Berkeley, and will be joining us on-the-ground. Lukas Nelson and other artists will similarly be calling the Northern California community to action at concerts and performances in the weeks before the action day.
This action day is part of a larger 10-day camp to restore land, homes, and common spaces around Butte County affected by the Camp Fire, read below for more information.
Please feel free to bring tools, work gloves, and potluck items to share, but do not feel obligated! Bringing a water bottle, and even reusable dishware if you have it is, is wise.
Invite your friends and click interested/going for updates on the facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/3017733424966084/

Fall Campout
*Camping from Oct 11-20th will be hosted at the Concow Campground, with projects and events happening throughout Butte County Oct 11th-20th.
Everyone is invited to camp and learn techniques that can be used in other communities affected by natural disaster and ecosystem degradation. There is a reciprocity request of 1.5 hours of work within the campground for each day of camping.
Learn more at http://campfirerestorationproject.org/camp-paradise/.

L.A. Permaculture Action Day at GrowGood
2019-10-20 10:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | GrowGood, 5600 Mansfield, Bell, CA, 90201, United States
Permaculture Action Day
Sunday, October 20th, 2019 10am – 5pm
A day of hands-on projects to grow food, hope, and community with the Bell Shelter.
Workshops, Music, Food, and Building Relationships.

GrowGood has been working in partnership with The Salvation Army since 2011 to transform and maintain a 1.5-acre parcel of land adjacent to the Bell Homeless Shelter into an urban farm. The Bell Shelter is one of the largest houseless shelters west of the Mississippi, operating a comprehensive program that offers transitional care for up to 500 houseless people at a time including women and veterans.

GrowGood’s no-till, regenerative urban farm provides the Shelter’s kitchen with substantial quantities of fresh, organic fruits and vegetables as well as therapeutic activities and employment opportunities for residents.
This is a free, family-friendly day of action to build infrastructure and plant trees and other edible/beneficial species at GrowGood! Please feel free to bring tools, work gloves, and potluck items to share, but do not feel obligated! Bring a water bottle, and even reusable dishware if you’re able.

PROJECTS
Planting Native Species (more than 100 plants!)
Building a Wheelchair Accessible Pathway through the farm
Building Wheelchair Accessible Garden Beds
Clearing a Zone for the Compost Digester
Saving Seed & Drying Herbs
Building Rainwater Storing Garden Beds
Mulching and Tending the Farm

WORKSHOPS
Soil Health with Kiss The Ground
Join Kiss the Ground for an interactive soil demonstration that will look at the interaction between agriculture, soil health, and water runoff. Starting with a meditation on a seed we’ll move through comparing degraded and healthy soils and end with an orientation to the basics of our Soil Advocacy classes.
Seed Bombs with Mama Sunshine
Learn how to use your inner rebel for good. By planting wild flower seed bombs you can beautify eye sores in the neighborhood, give food to pollinators and encourage positive change in your communities. Bee a honey, plant a garden.
Soil Regeneration w/ Kiss The Ground
Yael of Kiss The Ground brings her expertise to this workshop on regenerating degraded soils into healthy, living soil that supports the ecological health and human communities.
Vote With Your Dollar: A dialogue between Conscious Capitalism and the Solidarity Economy
w/ Ernesto Borges & Ryan Rising
Join Ernesto Borges of the tri and Ryan Rising of Permaculture Action Network for an exploration of the frameworks of Conscious Capitalism and the Solidarity Economy. By bringing these two strategies in conversation with one another we seek to collectively learn practical tools for transitioning away from the extractive economy and toward just and regenerative relationships with one another and our ecosystem.
MUSIC
DJ Sets by Ernaste (EPHCTO) and Sky Society
Live performances by Whitney Lyman, Cappy Franti (son of Michael Franti), Aste Mari, and Nación Ekeko

Month of Events
This Fall 2019 Guayakí Yerba Mate heads to Los Angeles for the month of October. Their time will be spent producing music events, community gatherings, interactive art experiences, and action days – all focused on social and environmental work supporting the regenerative movement.
Together we will mobilize people from the Come To Life: Wisdome.LA event with musicians Tuxedo and Nacion Ekeko on Saturday, October 19th, to the Permaculture Action Day at GrowGood the day following the concert The Main Squeeze and Rising Appalachia will similarly sound the call to action at their shows in LA on Oct 12th and 15th.
*Directions to the farm:
Go south on the 5, exit 129 (Atlantic/Eastern). Turn left on Eastern Blvd. Then turn right onto Mansfield (you’ll pass Washington and Bandini and Rickenbacker avenues).
On Mansfield, pass straight through two stop signs and continue west. For reference, at the second stop sign, there is a new apartment complex on the left. The farm is just west of that also on the left. There is a fenced parking area and you can park there or anywhere on the street. If you pass a cluster of homes on the left, you have gone too far.
*The Farm is across the street from the Mansfield entrance to the Bell Shelter.
Click going/interested on the facebook event page, invite your friends, and look for updates in the discussion section at
https://www.facebook.com/events/531225717632722/

Nashville Permaculture Action Day w/ members of Rising Appalachia, November 11 2019
2019-11-11 10:00 - 17:00 UTC | Two Rivers Park, 3136 McGavock Pk, Nashville, TN, United States
In collaboration with Deep Tropics Festival, Rising Appalachia and GROW Enrichment, we are hosting the third Permaculture Action Day in Nashville in three years!
Permaculture Action Network, along with Deep Culture, Rising Appalachia and GROW Enrichment, are happy to present the Nashville Permaculture Action Day on 11/11 at GROW Enrichment!
What Is It?
This is the third Permaculture Action Day in Nashville in three years!
It will be a day of music, workshops, skillshares, and connecting with our community, all while working on projects together to enhance and beautify the land. This event is free for all, so be sure to invite your friends, family, church group, professional community, and anyone you enjoy spending time with to share a day of growing and strengthening community resilience with us. Please come ready to have fun, make friends, & get lots done!
Food & Drink:
We are glad to offer delicious food created by Souls United and an herbal tea lounge and elixir bar with Infinitea and Tria Prima to keep you nourished.
Please RSVP here so we can have a good estimate of how many people to expect to have enough food:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0WoVDl3wsnqgXVEjlpZtuov84asga2hvTB9dlVRKale_Thg/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1
Music:
Laura Reed: https://www.facebook.com/laurareedmusic/
Magic of Science and Friends: https://www.facebook.com/magicofsciencemusic/
Drum Circle Improv with Rhythm Bird: https://m.facebook.com/Rhythm-Bird-317231875658885/
Foundation: https://www.facebook.com/foundation615/
FULL SCHEDULE

Earth Guardians:
In order to minimize waste, we ask that you bring your own reusable cup, dish and eating utensils. We will have a sanitary wash station set up for everyone to handle their own clean up after eating.
We’ll also have recycling & composting stations setup around the site so please dispose properly. Thanks!
Parking:
Parking will be in nearby lots that are only a short walk away from the event location. More info on this will be coming soon. When you first arrive onsite, please visit the welcome & orientation area to receive basic information about the schedule and layout of the day, tips on radical self-care, information about on-site medics, and more.
Opening:
Our opening circle will begin at 10:30 AM. This will be the best time to see the faces of all of the facilitators, project and workshop leads, medics, etc. After this time, people will move into hands on projects, workshops, dancing, socializing and all that goodness. Please be empowered to ask one of our organizers if you need to find someone or something.
Closing:
We will end the day at 5 PM and ask that you stay to help clean up and break down if you like.
Generous Partners & Sponsors:
A day like this is only made possible by our wonderful group of partners and sponsors. Thank you so much!
Partners:
Rising Appalachia
Deep Culture
Permaculture Action Network
Grow Enrichment
Greenwood Nurseries
Nashville Foodscapes
Spiral Ridge Permaculture
Tria Prima
Infinitea
Ozark Mountain Permaculture
Sunrise Movement Nashville
Tennessee Women in Green
Souls United
Urban Ecovillage
Hip Donelson
Two Rivers Middle School
Nashville Metro Parks Dept.
Your Green Homestead
Sponsors:
Deep Tropics
Gardens of Babylon
More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2347268158726560/
https://www.growenrichment.org
Info on host site: GROW Enrichment is a registered 501c3 non-profit organization based in Nashville, TN. As a community development partner, GROW seeks to increase sustainable land use in the urban setting. Through a partnership with Metro Nashville Parks Department, GROW operates a large project site at Two Rivers Park where we are applying permaculture methodology to engage the public in the process of restoring an urban green space. Our goal is to engage people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities as we teach restorative land management through hands-on experiences. Whether you attend an organized program with us, participate in a volunteer event, tour the site with a group, or meet us by chance while you are out enjoying the green-way; we hope you will find inspiration for your own ecological journey when you visit GROW!

New Orleans Permaculture Action Day w/ Moon Hooch
2020-02-09 10:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | CA
Join us to welcome in the new decade by taking direct action to build community resilience, showing up in solidarity with an incredible local project!
Come for Yoga, Hands-on Projects, Workshops, Food, Music, Massage and Community at Gloria’s Garden in New Orleans!
Themes include rainwater harvesting, flood mitigation, food access, food justice, cooking skills and plant knowledge.
This is a free, family-friendly, day of action to build and plant new community spaces and infrastructure at Gloria’s Garden in the historic Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans. Hear from Miss Gloria here
Moon Hooch will be sounding the call to action at their New Orleans show on 2/8/2020 at One Eyed Jacks.
Please feel free to bring tools, work gloves, and potluck items to share, but do not feel obligated! Bringing a water bottle and reusable dishware if possible.
MORE INFO & RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/515180712452064/

Sonic Bloom Action Day at Aztlan Cultural Center
2022-06-16 09:00 - 16:00 (America/Denver) | Aztlan Cultural Center, 7102 CR 620, Gardner, CO, 81040, United States
You are invited to come to the action day before Sonic Bloom sets off on Thursday, June 16th!
DRIVING DIRECTIONS UPDATED AT BOTTOM OF PAGE
Follow for updates on the facebook event page!
This year’s Permaculture Action Day will be at Aztlan Cultural Center, Sonic Bloom’s neighbor and an indigenous cultural center and site of weekly free ceremonies and the Sun Dance. Aztlan is Apache and Aztec, indigenous held land, and welcomes all people to its ceremony.
As we dance and connect in our own special way, we invite you to stand in solidarity with our indigenous neighbors who are holding their own connection to the land, spirit, and each other.
This action day will focus on:

harvesting willow to make a sweat lodge frame
harvesting tepee poles from the forest and the land
roofing the ceremonial arbor for the Sun Dance

as well as:

applying compost tea and natural fertilizers
inoculating mushroom logs for edible Oyster cultivation
clearing the forest and gathering ceremony wood
cleaning and tending to the land and trash removal
repairing the roof and walls of the medicine hut
organizing and bear proofing the community kitchen
restoring the creek from blockages and debris

If we are able to collect the resources, we are also trying to:

building a bath house or other water systems on site
refurbishing the greenhouse and fundraising a well

This action day is an extension of our past years’ work at the region’s high school, community gardens, and community centers, and is an attempt at creating greater food sovereignty in the region while supporting our indigenous neighbors in fostering greater connectivity to the land. Projects are aimed at ecosystem restoration and creating a more sustainable life in Huerfano.
In addition to the hands-on projects listed above we will host a number of workshops at the action day, accompanied by musical performances and a community meal for our attendees.
Attending the action day is free, as always. We’re grateful for your presence and solidarity.
Feel concerned about getting a spot to camp?
We understand those attending the action day on Thursday risk getting into the festival later than others. We have you covered!   Get in touch at @PermacultureAction on instagram or email SonicBloomAction@gmail.com and we’ll work to ensure you a camping space and swift entry.
Music by Bloomurian, Mike Wird, Ryan Sorrell, Phazer & More
What to bring?
Bring a water bottle, close toed shoes and work gloves if you have them, any tools you think may be supportive (shovels, drills, etc.) and feel free to bring food or drinks to share.
When to arrive?
Arrive between 9 and 10am if possible. You’re welcome to get there any time. We end at 4pm and will all head back over to the festival for when music and programming really gets started.
Where to go?
Aztlan Cultural Center is located at:  7102 CR 620 Gardner, CO 81040
Apple Maps or Google Maps will bring you directly to the site. Directions at bottom of this page,
Want to get involved?
If you want to lead a project, support with material contributions, teach, or play music at the action day, please get in touch with us. Instagram is the easiest way to make initial contact with our organizers (@PermacultureAction) or you can email us at SonicBloomAction@gmail.com
DRIVING DIRECTIONS
From the 25 take Exit 56. Exit 56 takes you onto Red Rock Road/610. Follow this until it dead ends. At the dead end, turn right onto 69.
Take the 69 more than 10 miles until you see the turn for CR 620 marked by a green road sign and make a right onto the 620. (There’s a patch of ground as you come off the 69 that is a great place to park and carpool into the action day site if you want to squad up.)
When you see a cemetery, stay left. Keep straight (do not turn when you see the CR 623 sign at the triangle. You’re continuing forward there and to the right of the triangle.)
Less than a quarter mile past the cemetery you will see a gate; turn left through the Lazy S Ranch signed gate.
Go past the Lazy S Ranch, passing with it on your right until you see a church on your left. Shortly after the church you will see a red truck. Make that next right – you will see action day signs with arrows from there.

A day of action at a local indigenous community site building a community kitchen and restoring stream and forest ecosystems.
2023-06-14 11:00 - 2023-06-15 15:00 UTC | Aztlan Cultural Center, 7102 CR 620, Gardner, CO, 81040, United States
Music * Food * Hands-on Projects * Workshops * Taking Action

Logistics:
Address: 7102 CR 620 Gardner, CO 81040.
Join Sonic Bloom and the Permaculture Action Network at the Aztlan Cultural Center both Wednesday and Thursday this year before the festival kicks off on Thursday evening for action days.

June 14th and 15th we’re inviting all attendees of Sonic Bloom, alongside the general public, to come to Aztlan Cultural Center in Gardner, Colorado starting at 11am Wednesday, June 14th. We know it’s been a challenge in past years to have the action day on Thursday while festival gates are opening, so this year we’re welcoming people to come Wednesday and to stay overnight.

Action Day participants will be welcome to stay overnight in your own camping setup at Aztlan Cultural Center and join for evening sweat lodge ceremony after Wednesday’s day of action, and either continue working with us on the land at Aztlan Thursday, or head to the Sonic Bloom site as early as 10am for early entry alongside VAP package holders.

Many of us will continue to work with the land and the community on Thursday morning and early afternoon, and any of those who arrived Wednesday and slept over after sweat lodge are welcome to continue with working and building with us, as well as anyone who is able to only arrive Thursday morning and stay for the day.

By 4pm Thursday, June 15th, we will all have moved over to Sonic Bloom for the festival and to hold space in the workshop hub.

Action Day:
Aztlan Cultural Center is located 40 minutes drive from Hummingbird Ranch and is one of Sonic Bloom’s closest community project neighbors. The center hosts weekly ceremonies and an annual Sun Dance on indigenous held land while welcoming all people to its free ceremonies.

As we dance and connect in our own special way, we invite you to stand in solidarity with our indigenous neighbors who are holding their own connection to the land, spirit, and each other.

Last year, we rebuilt the ceremonial arbor used for Sun Dance, trimmed trees and cut firewood for ceremony – aiding the forest ecosystem adjacent the stream, and worked on the gardens. We brewed and sprayed compost tea, and took all festival food scraps to build compost piles.

This year, we will be rebuilding parts of the community kitchen that supports the ceremonies, continuing our tree work and work with the stream-adjacent forest ecosystem, and looking at installing a new water catchment tank and pumping system, alongside other ecological projects.

Music:
We’re always joined by a sound system, DJ’s and performing artists to accompany the day’s projects. Working alongside friends to build, plant, and grow while DJs play to the atmosphere. It’s a beautiful experience and we’re excited for you to join. We’ve had some headlining artists play in the past and you never know who might show up to accompany a day of action with song and rhythm. If you want to play, get in touch with us. We welcome it!

Food:
We’ll have community meals to share with folks throughout the event. However, it will be greatly supportive if you can bring something to share. Potluck style with us baselining some meals will make sure everyone’s fed and nourished. Bringing water and hydrating drinks, fruit, and snacks is encouraged and appreciated.

What To Bring:
In addition to some food and water if you want to contribute to potluck style meals and offerings, bring tools if you can – basic construction tools; close-toed shoes, a water bottle to stay hydrated, and, if you’re camping overnight, your tent, headlamp, and other camping gear. This is a rural site so come prepared.
