Pat Rasmussen, Olympia, Washington
Pat dreamed of doing forest gardens since 1994. In 2006 Pat's friend Dave Sansone was testing which perennial vegetables work well in our bioregion. Pat and Dave visited Olympia with a powerpoint, "How to Make a Forest Garden." Pat and Olympia embraced the food forest idea. The first public food forest in Olympia to involve city and a neighborhood was the Joy Avenue Pathway in 2011, a collaboration with Northeast Neighborhood, that converted an overgrown and rubble filled city right of way into a bike trail with benches, art and forest garden. Since then, Edible Forest Gardens, a non-profit in Olympia, has installed more than 80 forest gardens of fruit and nut trees, berry bushes and perennial vegetables around town in yards, community gardens, neighborhood pathways, schools, churches, farms and businesses - all with volunteers and College interns. Importantly, EFG cooperates with Neighborhood Associations to apply for Neighborhood Matching Grants from the City of Olympia to purchase plants and supplies for collaborative projects. Together, they have planted forest gardens at elementary schools, middle schools and high schools with students taking an active part in design, planting and taking care of the gardens. Olympia High Schools now have “victory” gardens where students grow food for school lunch programs while permaculture class are taught in school. EFG has worked with the City Parks Department so food forests are now included as permissible landscape options in city parks. Pat works with Evergreen State college students and teachers. The group installed a demonstration site with five different natural water harvesting models and just created a half acre market garden. Pat has helped bring many segments of the community together. |
Emily Scali, Seattle, Washington
Emily Scali is a Seattle architect, educator, and entrepreneur focused on ecological architecture, permaculture, and urban renewal. She holds a Master of Architecture degree from Virginia Tech and has over 12 years of experience in a range of architecture, urban planning, historic preservation, and landscape design projects nationwide. Emily's short story will be a practical example of her permaculture based design ideals. She is engaged in making her neighborhood more green and resilient, from the scale of her own property to the dynamic area surrounding the Othello Light Rail line in SE Seattle. Highlighting and growing the neighborhood’s community gardens, transportation options, and pedestrian safety, Emily is working with community organizations, non-profits, and city groups to collaborate cross-culturally in this diverse community. An important new entity in this neighborhood community building matrix is the Beet Box. The Beet Box itself is a purple painted repurposed shipping container, housed on a long neglected vacant lot. As a temporary pop-up space supported by non-profits, it is a hub for food and nutrition education in the Othello neighborhood. It is becoming a well-known place with a community herb garden, tool and seed library, and for neighborhood educational events related to gardening, nutrition and healthy lifestyles. The Beet Box is an important place making project. It creates affirmative social identity and brings the community together which creates new relationships and friendships that can lead to still more positive initiative and benefits in the neighborhood. Emily's short story will provide us with an insider's view of her path to creating strong relationships necessary for greening SE Seattle's Othello Neighborhood. |
Christina Phillips Clark, Eugene, Oregon
Christina's story will describe a project that will enhance the well being of her neighborhood in many ways. Every town and city has communities of faith - Christian, Jewish, Islamic, non aligned and more. Communities of faith with their positive social values and ideas, have enormous potentials for being allies to create far more healthy and peaceful homes, neighborhoods and world. Christina is working with others at her church in Eugene to create a market garden on church property. This part of the plan is already complete. Its a beautiful garden and there is an impressive farm stand in the church parking lot along a busy suburban street. Thats just the beginning. The garden will become an educational platform for reaching out to the nearby neighborhood to encourage those nearby to grow food and live healthy lifestyles. And thats not all. The next part of the plan is to network and share the garden/outreach model with other communities of faith so they can reach out to their neighborhoods. Important, Christina was a commercial farmer on 100 acres in Arkansas servicing accounts with 66 grocery stores She transformed a suburban property, front and back into a micro farm. She also has maintained a passion for education and improving the health and well being of others and the natural world. Christina's story gets even better - it converges with Jan's neighborhood plan story. |
Jan Spencer, Eugene, Oregon
Jan took a PDC in Austin, Texas in 1990. He bought a house in River Road, Eugene in 2000, which has become a permaculture landmark in the Northwest. Well over 2000 people have visited over the years to see what permaculture can look like when applied to suburbia. Since then, Jan has made dozens of presentations and radio interviews; organized site tours, restored a filbert grove; and written for magazines and the local mainstream news paper, all about repurposing suburbia for social, environmental, economic and even spiritual transformation. Jan has been involved with both local and Northwest Permaculture convergences including the 2015 NW Convergence, which took place in his suburban neighborhood. Jan's short story will highlight a unique and unprecedented opportunity to take permaculture ideas and actions much deeper into the community. The City of Eugene has invited his neighborhood to create a new planning document that will guide decision making for transportation, land use, economic development, open spaces and resilience in his neighborhood over the next twenty years. Jan and friends are working to load the plan with as much permaculture, green and resilient content as possible. This pioneering neighborhood plan can become a model for other neighborhood plans in Eugene and elsewhere. Notably, permaculture approaches to urban planning strongly support City of Eugene and State of Oregon planning goals. This is a significant understanding! |
Dr. Elaine Ingham will be making Saturday evening's keynote. She has an impressive resume and has star power among organic and regenerative soil enthusiasts.
Dr. Ingham is an American microbiologist and soil biology researcher and founder of Soil Foodweb Inc. She is known as a leader in soil microbiology and research of the soil food web. She is an author of the USDA's Soil Biology Primer. In 2011, Ingham was named as The Rodale Institute's chief scientist. Ingham earned her PhD from Colorado State University in 1981. Her doctorate is in Microbiology, with an emphasis on soil. In 1986, Ingham moved to Oregon State University and joined the faculty in both Forest Science and Botany and Plant Pathology. She remained on faculty until 2001. Ingham has been an Affiliate Professor of Sustainable Living at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa; Adjunct Faculty at Southern Cross University in Lismore, New South Wales from 1999 to 2005; Visiting Professor with Melbourne University from 2004 to 2008; and was Program Chair of the Ecological Society of America from 1999 to 2000. She joined the Rodale Institute in 2011 as chief scientist and left in 2013. Ingham is the founder of Soil Foodweb Inc, which works with soil testing laboratories to assess soil biology. She has become Director of Research at the Environment Celebration Institute's Farm near Berry Creek in Northern California, demonstrating the methods of biological agriculture to grow plants without pesticides or inorganic fertilizers. The Convergence is excited to have Elaine as Saturday's keynote speaker! |
The 2018 Northwest Permaculture Convergence is very pleased to have Michael Becker join us for the entire weekend, and give Sunday's keynote.
Michael is bravely going where few middle school teachers have gone before. He has been teaching for 15 years in public schools in Hood River, Oregon, and has developed a reputation for innovative learning about the real world that combines standard curriculum with hands-on research and experience. His students started the first farmers market in Hood River, which took place on the school grounds, with the kids growing and selling the veggies at their vendor's booth from their school garden. The farmers market has grown much larger since then. Michael has been developing the Hood River Middle School Food and Conservation Program for 11 years. It's a permaculture inspired integrated approach applied to standard school curriculum where students are the researchers, engineers, designers, architects, and builders. The hands-on approach has a focus on ecology, community and sustainability, and particularly on water, food, energy, waste and diversity. Approaching the grounds of Hood River Middle School, one is impressed with the solar panels and the big green house and garden in back. Michael's students had a hand in putting all this together, transforming what could be mundane curriculum into real life learning and participation. School becomes a bridge to the real world, critically, with the students having a progressive vision for what the real world can be like, given the times we live in. Michael has a great story to share with parents, kids, professionals, and permaculture enthusiasts. His keynote at the Convergence will be a real treat for learning how permaculture ideas and actions are finding their way into school curriculum, students' lives, the wider community, and world. |
Join world-renowned Permaculture consultant, researcher, educator and Regenerative Agriculture farmer, David Ahlgren, for a free weekend-long Permaculture Earthworks and Swales on Contour Workshop at the Convergence! We will design, lay out with a laser level and dig swales on contour with an excavator to create a food forest for Camp Singing Wind. Participants in the Earthworks Course who complete all course work and participate in the digging will receive an Earthworks Certificate.
David is a PRI trained Permaculture Design Educator. Beginning and Advanced will be offered. Friday afternoon: Earthworks, Ponds and Swales 101 and Earthworks Workshop, Lazer Work and Design. Saturday morning: Earthworks Swale Creation Workshop. Saturday afternoon: Advanced Earthworks: How to observe diverse land, then apply design and earth moving options. |
Aquaponics: A Learning Lab for High School Students
Terry O'Day Forest Grove, Oregon
As part of a course called “Gadgets and Gizmos for a Sustainable Household”, I worked with college students to help build and install an aquaponics lab that will support experiential science curriculum and provide fresh greens for lunches at the alternative high school in Forest Grove.
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Building Low Impact Housing
Bomun Bock-Chung - Sequim, Washington
www.sheltercraft.org Building healthy, low cost, beautiful tiny homes out of scavenged materials is totally possible. Bomun has spent the last 10 years in New Zealand with the goal of creating just that. A low cost, earth friendly shelter that is a pleasure to experience.
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Natural Motion Magic: How Vortex Generators Add Value to Your Water, Health, and Life
Adam Abraham, Chehalis, Washington
Youtube channel Society's greatest obstacle to evolution is itself. More specifically, learned or inherited customs that we continue to promote and perpetuate even though common sense and available knowledge would suggest alternate courses. One such custom involves water, our views about it, and treatment of it, and the unnecessary price we're paying.
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The New Economy: Beyond Capitalism
Jacki Saorsail discusses the differences between capitalism, socialism, and the new economy, and teaches her design principles for Regenerative Enterprises, Regenerative Dynamics. Learn how to apply the same level of intentionality to designing your organizations that you bring to designing your land.
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Block Repair: Revillaging the Colonial Grid
Mark Lakeman Portland, Oregon
cityrepair.org • communitecture.net • planetrepair.org This presentation and hands-on workshop describes how a typical neighborhood in SE Portland is unmaking the isolation and disengagement of the roman colonial grid. We will first test ideas with a hands-on model, then have a slideshow to complete the effect.
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Cultivating Biodiversity in Democracy - STAR Voting
Sara Wolf, Portland, Oregon
www.starvoting.us STAR Voting is a new voting system that is being proposed as a model for the nation. We need fair, equal elections where we can see the full spectrum of voters and opinions represented. Our nation is facing deep seeded systemic problems and rather than just running around in triage mode we can draw on wholistic design principles and grassroots culture to create systemic change to manifest a world that respects our full diversity. This is social permaculture in action.
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Making Friends with Dragons - Productive Conflict for Communities
Having a conversation with someone you disagree with can feel like walking into a dragon’s lair. You probably either want to avoid it altogether, or go in with your armor on and your sword drawn. What if you could make friends with the dragon instead?
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Native American Horticulture, Ecology, Ethnobotany and Cosmology
Many traditional subsistence agricultural concepts pre-date and are in congruence with the ideas of permaculture. This talk explores this convergence and how a traditional belief system or cosmology of a specific new world tropical rain forest culture may inspire our understanding and relationship to our natural, cultural, geological and geographical landscapes.
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Fractal Permaculture: local, bioregional, global
Mark Robinowitz, Eugene Oregon
peakchoice.org Mark highlights how permaculture design can be scaled up to the largest levels. Practical approaches can help families, neighborhoods, bioregions and the whole of civilization "transition" to adapt to the limits to growth on our round, abundant, finite planet.
The presentation is partly inspired by permaculture co-originator David Holmgren’s Future Scenarios: How Communities can adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change. futurescenarios.org. Could social structures that require increasing consumption be converted toward a steady state economy more suited for actual sustainability? What potentials exist for globalized cooperation instead of globalized competition and militarism? What can we learn from our society’s collective ignoring of ecological warnings? The oil wells are half empty and half full. Half empty, so we cannot continue business as usual. Half full, so we have resources to power the power down. Transition towns and transition planet. |
Creating Durable Communities
We will look at the connections between community living, having a shared vision, and the concept of studying together.
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Permaculture Careers Pathways
Andrew Millison, Corvallis, Oregon & Marisha Auerbach, Portland, Oregon
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Permaculture of Human Relationships
David Ahlgren, Oklahoma
Discover and discuss the application of permaculture principals to how we apply them in relationships. We will discuss community, client, government, family, and personal realtionships. This will be an interactive and lively discussion, that produces good insights and new ideas.
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Hawaii, Italy, and the Northwest: Explorations in Ecovillages, Permaculture Farms and Eco-Intentional Living
People have organized and expressed themselves on the landscape in efforts to live in harmony with nature and all beings with incredible diversity. In this talk, I present a sampling of ecovillages, farms and eco-intentional living that vary from urban to rural, from 5 to 600 people, and are located in the jungles of Hawaii, the foothills of Northern Italy, and here in our own temperate forests.
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Permaculture Petri Dishes: Sustainability Geography for the 21st Century
Greg Schundler, Olympia, Washington
Youtube In this talk, GIS Data Scientist Professional, Greg Schundler, shares a new lens for political and bioregional geography at all spatial scales. What can we learn from places that are "just like us"? What are the best management practices from self to neighborhood, municipality to county, state to watershed?
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Vegans in Permaculture
As vegan homesteaders in the north we seek to bridge the gap between veganism and Permaculture. This presentation will offer a vision of how an animal sanctuary can be a Permaculture farm. The animals are participatory in the system, and through not breeding we stick to a manageable scale.
Michaelyn Erickson is an owner at Soulstice Gardens animal sanctuary and homestead and manages the Community Farmers Market at Chehalis. She grew up in the midst of rural Washington and learned farming at an early age in her grandfather’s corn fields. After earning a degree from The Evergreen State College, Michaelyn found her passions in Permaculture and veganism. Soulstice Gardens homestead offers experiences which teach about interacting with the land and ecosystem in a passive yet productive way.
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Reading the Human Landscape and Emotional Literacy
Jillian Hovey
As permaculture matures, People Care has been lifting up in recent years. But, since her early days over 20 years ago, Jillian saw that the human landscapes are where the energy gets stuck in systems. Being able to read the human landscapes is essential to good design, and a key aspect of that skill is self knowledge and emotional literacy. This workshop will explore this frame and skills in the complex, less-visible realm of Permaculture Design.
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Permaculture and Suburbia
This presentation will describe actions, over a period of 18 years, to green the River Road neighborhood in Eugene. The presentation will show and tell several property transformation projects, colllaborations between neighbors, free public site tours, various celebrations and educational events, working with the City in the Greenway, the 2015 NWP Convergence at the n'hood rec center and currently, efforts to have strong green/resilient/permaculture based content to a new neighborhood plan.
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Social Permaculture CEO Dialogue
After 10 years of designing and implementing social permaculture programs at Fortune 500 companies, intentional communities, and non-profit organizations, Luke Lenentine brings his CEO to a workshop. CEO stands for Centered and Exhilarated Only, the two aspects of trust building that require attention, in order for the rest to fall into place. The results are observed in a team’s ability to perform even the most stressful tasks while feeling inspired, nourished, replenished, and supported.
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Faith-based Community Initiative
Christina Phillips Clark, Eugene Oregon
This presentation describes a three-phase project being undertaken by a suburban church in Eugene to reach out to the neighborhood and wider community. First (and current) phase is the development of a self-supporting market garden. (That will be accomplished by March 2019.) The church currently has a farm stand along a busy street. Second phase is outreach for teaching interested persons in the neighborhood how to grow their own food, providing food for those who can't garden, plus other related ministries aimed at strengthening local food security, and social/economic resilience. Third phase is networking with and mentoring other groups (preferably faith-based) to start their own garden and resilience based outreach projects. The goal, to fulfill Christ's "second greatest commandment" of 'Love Your Neighbor.'
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Observe, Design, and Connect: A case study & workshop to help you find & work with mainstream resources
A South Seattle neighborhood is transforming vacant lots, improving pedestrian safety, and encouraging cross-cultural collaborations by working with the city, community organizations, and non-profits. In this interactive workshop, we will discuss this ongoing project and do an interactive activity to help participants apply permaculture thought to their own mainstream project.
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Responding to Climate Change and Building Community
Join Marisha Auerbach, Andrew Millison, Tao Orion, and Karen Taylor for a conversation on developing community based responses to climate change. At home in our communities throughout the northwest, we are experiencing shifts and challenges that are expected to impact our way of life. How can we show up in our community as leaders to facilitate positive future outcomes? This conversation is participatory. We invite you to join us in circle to share both your successes and challenges. In the end of our session, we hope to gather ideas and provide support for each other into the future.
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How to Design Multi-Functional Hedgerows for
Rural or Urban Environments This is an opportunity for you to design a multi-functional hedgerow for your own site. You will learn how to design, implement and maintain a hedgerow with functions to provide soil stabilization, shelter and food for people, wildlife, and beneficial Insects, windbreaks, privacy screens, reduce pollutants as well as ways to diversify your income.
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Working with Invasive Species
This workshop will give participants a series of tools to use when making a plan to deal with invasive species in the home garden and on larger scales. By understanding site history, ecosystem function, the roles of climate change and anthropogenic forces in shaping ecosystems, we can start to see why invasive species are so prolific. These observations also give important information we can use to make long-term management plans that will encourage more biodiversity and ecological functionality.
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Proven Fruit Varieties for the Pacific NW
Sam Benowitz, Morton, Washington
raintreenursery.com Sam will present a power point presentation showing many proven fruit varieties for growers in our region. He will talk about which plants best fit into which niches and talk about many of his favorite cultivars.
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Carbon-Smart Nutriculture: soil regeneration for nutrient-density
David Yarrow, Far Out Farm, Pe Ell (west of Chehalis)
nutriculture.org dyarrow.org terra-char.com Time to go beyond "organic" to grow food with optimum nutrients. Carbon sequestration and soil regeneration combine to yield complete foods to restore human health. A national movement is underway to advocate a nutritional food quality standard, and a chapter was formed in western Washington.
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Protein from Bushes, Carbs from Trees
Michael Dolan, Onalaska, Washington - near Toledo
www.burntridgenursery.com Longtime nurseryman and orchardist Michael Dolan, co-owner of Burnt Ridge Nursery and Orchards in Onalaska WA, will share ideas for using perennial trees and bushes to create vibrant nutrition and whole diet components that are usually supplied by livestock and annual row crops. Whether you're vegan, vegetarian or omnivore, trees and bushes are easy care options to optimize your health, sequester carbon and increase the resilience of your soil! Michael will also give suggestion for specific varieties best suited to Western Cascadia's changing climate.
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Introduction to Biochar Production and Use
Francesco Tortorichi, Port Townsend, Washington
Attendees will be presented with an overview of biochar history, production and uses, including local examples (Jefferson and Clallam counties). Biochar is produced in simple micro-gasifier stoves, kilns and industrial processes. Examples of these different processes will be discussed.
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The African Idea of Permaculture
Rohn Amegatcher
In this presentation we will share our strategies for how we have transitioned a raw timberland environment into a thriving permaculture farm and food forest following the principles of sustainability, repurposing and creatively using what you have. We will go into detail about how these principles have influenced the design and building of Log Hollow Farms.
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Ecoforestry in Cascadia
This workshop will articulate principles and strategies for regenerative forestry in the context of both timber management and agroforestry contexts.
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Connecting To The Internet of Rain
Anthony Paglino - St. Pete, Florida
raincube.io Collecting rainwater using connected devices and cryptocurrency to balance the local watershed in community cooperatives by sharing surplus.
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Ecosystem Restoration & Permaculture
What is the relationship between permaculture and the discipline of ecosystem restoration? We will look at what permaculture can learn from ecosystem restoration and vice versa. We will look at ecosystem structure, function and processes and how permaculture affects them. We will discuss the use of native plants and organisms in permaculture design. And attitudes and management of invasive species.
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Hug a Hugel
Woosi Wildwood and LightFoot McBride are members of the CopperMoon intentional family, living on 20 acres in the Cascade foothills near Monroe, WA. They've been experimenting and learning with sustainability, permaculture, and shared community living for over a decade.
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Permaculture Hand Tools
Rick Valley Eugene/Deadwood, Oregon
What are the best tools if you want to garden without machines? What works, and why?
Good tools are not just Earth care, they are People Care, and the decline in availability of good tools reflects an alarming loss of culture and tradition. I'll demonstrate how to use the tools, and tell you where to get them. |
Authentic Relating Games
Experience the easiest way to create deep, lasting community connection. Authentic Relating Games can be tailored for any group and context. They help your community or team build good communication skills while getting to know each other and having fun.
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Reading the Landscape for Fungal Opportunity
Raskal Turbeville Olympia, Washington
Mycouprrhizal.com This workshop will involve a site evaluation/walk/discussion, with a specific eye toward mushroom cultivation and fostering the health of fungal communities. Participants will walk away with the confidence and knowledge to choose the right location for permaculture minded mushroom cultivation and properly organize fungal elements into a permaculture design.
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Hands-on Seedsaving
Join Marisha Auerbach to learn how to winnow seeds. Marisha will have a variety of dried seed that participants can get hands-on experience in removing the chaff and processing the seed for storage. Seed saving is an important skill that helps protect our local seed sources as resources for our communities.
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Friends in the Field
A guide to wild and horticultural edibles, medicinals and usefuls in the PNW. We will cover each plants key identifiers, bloom-time, useful parts and most common applications.
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Local, Wild Edibles and Medicinal Plants - Healing by Being in Forest and Nature
Christine Jarlik, Yelm, Washington
I'm offering 2 hands-on workshops (2 hours each). During the first 2-hour walk we'll come to know local wild edibles and medicinal plants and mushrooms. We're learning by using our senses and getting in touch with our inner knowingness when it comes to the use and benefits of our plant allies. Participants walk away with the confidence to identify plants and use them, to sustainably harvest and prepare them as infusions f.e.. How would it be to have our local plants as allies, friends in our lives? Meditation and connection with nature is part of this training. The second walk will get us in contact with the forest, the trees and ultimately with ourselves and our fellow humans. We'll use hiking and wandering in the forest in a group as a way to heal ourselves and others. Science has confirmed that being in contact with trees is ultimately healing for human beings. This meditative and also active practice is intended to be applied in our everyday lives when we return home after the Convergence.
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Ethnobotany and Traditional Skills- Journey Plant Medicines
Learn about and use wild foraged plants for first aid in daily life using traditional techniques.
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Scythes: cutting edge of appropriate tech
We will cover the many benefits of using a scythe and similar tools to maintain the health of your land, soil and animals. I will share with you an overview of what scything is and some of the strategies and benefits of implementing it on your land. Questions and answer period will follow the presentation. Some of the details the we will go into will be: Scythe - parts, styles, blades, snathes Scythe blades range in length from short (16") bush blades to sizes beyond 30". Scythe setup and adjustments. The most important adjustments: the lay of the blade and the hafting angle. Mowing technique stance, angle, and motion. Mowing pattern strategies, fences, trees, working as a team. Sharpening with a stone for your intended use. Sharpening by Peening the blade. The traditional method of preparing the edge uses a cross peen hammer and a small anvil. Fixing nicks and cracks with a Hammer & anvil.
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Marisha Auerbach is an internationally recognized permaculture educator, designer, and speaker based in Portland, OR. Marisha has lived and practiced permaculture in both urban and rural environments. As an avid gardener and herbalist, Marisha specializes in food production, ecology, and useful plants. Marisha believes that it is possible to respond to the current environmental challenges, lower our ecological footprint, and continue to live equally delightful lives through permaculture design. This passion is what drives Marisha's active teaching schedule throughout the year.
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Tao Orion is the author of Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration. She teaches permaculture design at Oregon State University and at Aprovecho, a 40-acre nonprofit sustainable-living educational organization. Tao consults on holistic farm, forest, and restoration planning through Resilience Permaculture Design, LLC. She holds a degree in agroecology and sustainable agriculture from UC Santa Cruz, and grows organic fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, and animals on her southern Willamette Valley homestead, Viriditas Farm.
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Andrew Millison brings nearly 20 years experience in designing and building permaculture projects to his teaching and wants to share that rich, real-world experience with his students. He has been studying, teaching and practicing permaculture since he took his first course in 1996. He began teaching permaculture at the college level in 2001 and has been an instructor at Oregon State University in the Horticulture Department since 2009. Andrew currently teaches the Permaculture Design Course and the Advanced Permaculture Design Practicum at OSU both on campus and online. Andrew first learned permaculture design in the drylands of Arizona, where he studied for his undergraduate and master's degrees at Prescott College. His focus was on rainwater harvesting, greywater systems, and desert agriculture. He started a permaculture landscape design and build company and also worked in an ecologically-based landscape architecture firm. In recent years, Andrew's focus has been more on broad scale farm planning, permaculture housing developments, and obtaining water rights. In 2015, he founded Permaculture Design International (PDI), a collaborative design firm that works on large-scale global projects.
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Karen Taylor, a transplant to Oregon from central Arizona, brings with her many years of experience as a Permaculture practitioner & teacher, interior designer, ecological landscape designer, rainwater harvesting and greywater consultant, group facilitator and photographer. She has a Bachelor’s of Interior Design from Auburn University, and certificates in Permaculture Design from the International Institute of Ecological Agriculture, Ecological Design from Ecosa Institute and Advanced Permaculture training from Sonoran Permaculture Guild, Regenerative Design Institute and Cascadia Permaculture Institute. She has worked extensively in dryland water systems, natural building, and permaculture site design.
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