Permaculture for Abundance with Peter Bane and Keith Johnson
August 28 and 29 saturday and sunday - two events each day At Birch Point Farm and Higher Grounds Trading Co.
With major support from The Neahtawanta Research and Education Center, Eden Foods, Oikos Tree Crops, Fernand Footwear and Fox on a Hill. We honestly couldn't make events like this happen (at this low price) without support from these great organizations. Thank you.
Also supported by Green Island, Grocer's Daughter Chocolates and The May Farm. Your purchases from all of these companies keep these events coming! Thanks all!
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What is Permaculture?
As a system of design, Permaculture provides a new vocabulary and pattern language for observation and action, attention and listening, that empowers people to co-design homes, neighborhoods, and communities full of truly abundant food, energy, habitat, water, income, and yields enough to share. - Keith Johnson
About Peter and Keith
Peter & Keith are experienced permaculture site designers and teachers. They have been teaching and consulting on permaculture design for 26 years. They have developed an intimate knowledge of various regional landscapes and resources. With their wealth of experience in temperate climate permaculture systems they can offer a range of teaching and design services to regional and distant clients.
Peter is a native Illinoisan who grew up in the university city of Champaign-Urbana. He has lived in various regions of the U.S., taught permaculture extensively from Canada to Chile for 15 years, and was recognized in 2005 with the Diploma of Permaculture Design for his 18 years of publishing, teaching, design, and community work. He has trained over 1000 students.
Keith was raised in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and has been a commercial landscaper, stonemason, and organic gardener for over 33 years in places as varied as subtropical California, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the mountains of W. North Carolina. He's been teaching Permaculture for 13 years and has instructed more than 600 students.
Schedule
Saturday, August 28th - Workshop
The Ecological Homestead: Permaculture and Food Production in Small Spaces
If you're interested in producing more food from your backyard, this is the workshop for you. Improved workshop description coming soon. Held from 1pm to 5pm at Birch Point Farm, 7506 E. Birch Point Rd, Traverse City (in Leelanau County). Sliding Scale donation of $25 to $75/person.
Saturday, August 28th - Presentation
Introduction to Permaculture Design
A new post-industrial, post-imperial world is forming under our feet - a holistic reality to serve as a seed pattern for future generations. This new culture represents the "graduation" of the species to maturity and biological legitimacy; exemplified by miniature rural and urban communities that meet most human needs within their regions. These models of bioregional self-sufficiency arise from a tide of cultural creation that has been in motion for fifty years and centuries in some cases. Its basic pieces have already been road-tested over several millennia. Permaculture is one of several models which addresses the increasing destabilization of civilization.
The challenges are enormous, including global warming / cooling, peak oil and energy decline, deforestation, pollution, desertification, vanishing topsoil, dying oceans, species extinction, and diminishing water supplies. The basic behavior mode of the world system is exponential growth of population and capital followed by collapse.
If all the humans on the earth now were able to see the whole picture at the same time and take action, the situation could be handled over the whole earth even now. But, until this occurs, we will be moving foward and we can be the people who have the ability to demonstrate to others how to survive and thrive.
Held from 7pm to 9pm at Higher Grounds Trading Company at the Grand Traverse Commons in Traverse City. Donations of any size are appreciated.
Sunday, August 29th - Workshop
The Ecological Farm: Permaculture for Big Spaces
If you've got 2 or 3 acres, or 40 or 160 acres or anywhere in between, this is the workshop for you! Improved workshop description coming soon. Held from 1pm to 5pm at Birch Point Farm, 7506 E. Birch Point Rd, Traverse City (in Leelanau County). Sliding Scale donation of $25 to $75/person.
Sunday, August 28th - Presentation
Gardening in Nature's Image: Guild Design and Pest Management in the Home Garden
This presentation is designed to pinpoint two key areas of permaculture design. First, how to design your gardens so that plants actively support each other. This is a big step past "companion planting" and an important part of permaculture design on any scale. Second, how to mimic nature to keep pest insects and other unwanted creatures at bay, without expensive and potentially toxic applications. Go beyond organic!
Held from 7pm to 9pm at Higher Grounds Trading Company at the Grand Traverse Commons in Traverse City. Donations of any size are appreciated.
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