Earth Healing – The Convergence http://permacultureconvergence.com Building Resilient Communities Tue, 21 Aug 2018 21:37:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 http://permacultureconvergence.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cropped-permaculture-convergence-norcal-logo-32x32.png Earth Healing – The Convergence http://permacultureconvergence.com 32 32 Rick Valley http://permacultureconvergence.com/rick-valley/ Sun, 28 Aug 2016 15:46:31 +0000 http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/?p=3690 Rick has always gardened and foraged, and has had a long interest in edible plants, snails and bugs. He has gardened in climates and soils of many sorts, from the glacial soils of the northwoods to the Sonoran Desert and Coastal Ecuador. He’s lived longest and currently in the Pacific Northwest and has been team teaching permaculture since ’87. (including the first PDC’s in Oregon, Belize, Alaska and Canada.) He currently resides on a 1/2 acre suburban farm in Eugene and is a partner in a design/build LLC, Earthkeeper Landscaping, working all around W. Oregon. He relaxes working with beavers in Nelson Cr. at his love’s Tadpole Manor, a micro agro tourism destination in the Oregon Coast Range.

2018 Convergence Workshop: A Zone 1 Garden Design Hands-On

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As a caring steward of life Bridget O’Brien strives to explore resilience through many pathways. Her studies and work focus on self-care, social, and land-use design. While utilizing her diverse skills, experiences, and trainings to provide a wholistic approach to culture repair. Bridget shares her passion for playful impactful loving service through her work as a Permaculture educator and designer. She is the Program Director for New Rising Sun (an educational retreat center, farm, and community developing in Ganges, Michigan), and is the creative inspiration of ‘Adapt’ – A Permaculture Game, in collaboration with PermaculturePrinciples.com.

2016 Convergence Workshop: Adapt – A Permaculture Game “Create a world you want to live in.”

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