Greywater 101
Recycling water is crucial to keeping our water resources alive and well. Come learn about what greywater is and how you can incorporate it into your life! Greywater 101 will cover the basics of…
Land & Nature Stewardship
Stephen Brooks
The founder and primary Director of Punta Mona, has been living in Costa Rica, since 1995. Stephen observed the problems facing small farmers and communities in Central America and Costa Rica due to mega-monoculture…
EcoKosm
Tend your connection to Spirit and Earth. EcoKosm: practical tools and technologies for personal and community practice towards a world of belonging. This workshop is for people committed to tending the soul of community,…
Bringing Permaculture to Neighborhoods with the Resilient Hubs Initiative
Learn about the Resilient Hubs Initiative, a collaboration between the NorCal Resilience Network and Daily Acts, is an exciting new model that uses permaculture principles to create create a network of homes, schools and…
How we treat the Soil is how we treat everything – Including Death
Our understanding and our treatment of our SOIL demonstrates how we relate to the living Earth and to Death –– our death and death in general. We are not apart from the soil. We…
International Permaculture Slideshow Odyssey
International Permaculturalist, Jillian Hovey, will take you on a journey of some of the best examples of permaculture and eco community projects from around the world. A leading edge practitioner, Jillian has lived and…
Geoship – Bioceramic Geodesic Architecture
A renaissance in consciousness reflected through biologically resonant architecture is coming. Rusty Roy and Bucky Fuller are the two inventing fathers of Bioceramic Geodesic Architecture. Geoship is fusing Rusty's sciences of "Whole Person Healing"…
Seaweed: Ecology, Use and Harvest
This presentation and demo includes how to differentiate and use seaweeds, their ecology, harvest cycles, and the nutritional/health benefits of seaweed. This informative, illustrated presentation includes how to differentiate and use our coastal "sea…
Ayurvedic Agroforestry
From Vedic wisdom of harmonious design to multifunctional Ayurvedic herbs, this workshop intends to weave elemental wisdom with practical plant knowledge to diversify your garden and heal your bodies. This workshop will explore the…
Queer Ecology 101: The Biological Exuberance of Living Beings
Join us for an introductory conversation on Queer Ecologies and Ecojustice: Open to ALL, please bring your questions. As people whose lives embody change and transformation, the LGBTQ+ community has necessary contributions to lend…
Urban Soils and Safe Food Growing
The Urban Soils and Safe Food Growing workshop covers urban soil safety in context of heavy-metal-safe-growing and risk management in production, backyard, community and school farms and gardens, with continued emphasis on best practices.…
Water Harvesting Design Principles
Come learn about the basic design principles and best practices of different water harvesting techniques - rainwater collection, greywater harvesting, earthworks systems, & composting toilets. Holistic watershed management is the critical guiding principle to…
Dynamic Farm Organization
Presenting an organizational model utilizing dynamic self governance coupled with dynamic equity splits to creat a fair and legal framework for collaborative business. The Dynamic Farm Organization workshop is a presentation of the Passiflora…
Fruitwood Nursery Live Design Demonstration using the Regrarians Platform®
The Regrarians Platform® bridges the work of Permaculture, Keyline Design, and Holistic Management to determine the priority of different elements of landscape development, their respective permanence and the order in which we design and plan…
Sacred Anatomy Chi Gung and Plant Sensing
We will tune into our larger energy structure then tune into the plant world to glean their wisdom Each morning we will focus in on inhabiting our larger energetic structure- our "Sacred Anatomy." As…
Practical Solutions for Protecting, Respecting, and Honoring Water
Mni Wiconi! We will discuss several ways in which we can improve our relationship to water, from the everyday individual action to the society level paradigm shift. Water is the foundation of all life,…
Ecology in Permaculture: Fire Ecology
We will explore the role of invasive annual grasses in the recent Sonoma County fires. There will be a presentation of the role that vegetation, particularly invasive, non-native, annual grasses, played in the rapid…
Interconnected Wisdom & Intuition
Accessing your Intuitive Essence & the Wisdom of Nature ~ Interconnected Wisdom & Intuition ~ Accessing your Intuitive Essence & the Wisdom of Nature Wisdom - Tapping into the wisdom of nature, plants, animals,…
Lawful Permaculture; No Longer Living Looking Over OUR Shoulders
Looking at examples and strategies for having great projects given full regulatory approval and even funded! This could be two workshops even: 1) F.O.G. - how to Finance, Own and Govern 'The Commons'. Legal…
Emergency Preparedness = Community Resilience
Is your community ready for anything? Join this workshop to explore the dynamic intersection between transition, permaculture, and emergency preparedness. Let’s get resilient! How resilient is your community? How ready are you for the…