Fall Community Retreat Registration is open.

Check your email 9/15/22 for the Sept Newsletter. It has lots of inspiring pics and a poem from the New Era Convergence last August 2022. If you didn't get it, try subscribing above. 

Hi friends!

We welcome you to join in Northwest Permaculture gatherings this fall!

Join us and register free for the fall community campout. Oct 14-16, Fall Retreat in Sequim WA at Goodness Tea Farm (15th online option).  There is limited onsite parking, limitless opportunity to join in through zoom or parking/hiking in through nearby trails and carpools. Please register by Oct 5-8th here - spaces limited. View the Draft Schedule Here  Want to help? Here's our Volunteer Form if you want to help make this great! Thanks.

Fall Happenings...

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• Sept 17 Permaculture Speaker Series Opening night on zoom. Details here
• Sept 18 Permaculture Site Tours across Eugene (bike tour!) Details here. And below.
• Sept 22 Community meeting (Zoom) 7pm-8:15. Circle check ins, event announcements and sharing what you want NWPCC to do/be/lean into 
• Oct 14-16, Fall Campout Retreat in Sequim WA at Goodness Tea Farm (15th online option).  Details and links to register.
• Oct 21-24 Global Earth Repair Summit - see below- asking for NW team for Oct 23rd.

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Announcements
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From Community :

• Skeeter and Global Earth Repair Summit are seeking more earth repair partners!  “We need people to put on small local earth repair actions on Oct 23.  Can you put something together with others via zoom”. Contact us at info@northwestpermaculture.org if interested.
• Salem Farm for sale! Terry & Vicky Hsu need to sell their 66 acres organic farm with 2 ponds and livestock - organic for 9 years, to a worthy steward. Reply back for more info. 
• Looking for a team to help us plan a fun design challenge event for a community kitchen/food-forest garden in southwest WA, in the village-heart of a 700+ acre restoration project. Contact us at info@northwestpermaculture.org if interested.
• New Era Convergence was powerful, thoughtful and embodied. Best expressed in poem and pictures …

Heather’s Poem 

On the first day of the convergence
Clare's shirt invited us
Dandelion fluff
A seed waiting to detach
And fly free

When night came
She opened the blinds
To reveal a sunset so big so pink
Some of us couldn't sit still
We staggered to the deck
To witness the sky
In the middle of a sentence

Song followed
David's strong, clear voice
Reminding us
We are welcome here

In the morning I rose
Expectant curious ready to stretch
Galen opened up the space
With no expectations or requirements
We stood in tree pose
Perfectly balanced

At breakfast there was talk of turkeys
Wilder than the ones we have in the city
Watching from the deck
We saw them cross the open field
Some opening and closing their wings
Leaving feathers behind

Back in the lodge
Ravi broke the ice
We melted into each other's voices
Sharing our fears about the end
And the unknown new beginnings

A moment of despair at the enormity of the ask
To survive in hard times
But Jason reminded us that we could
And we remembered
The possibilities in our unity

We celebrated in dance
With open hearts we let go
The bravest and readiest grieved
While others learned how
Under the beating drum
The sunset behind the trees
We did not need to see it's glory
We could feel it

Now here alone
On a bench I claimed as my favorite
I watch the turkeys return
This time the young ones
They circle our tents
Under the gaze of their adult guardians
Before gathering to return to the wind

See New Era Pics here. Also check your email - Sept Newsletter sent with pics 9/15/22.

Eugene Permaculture Site Tour Sept 18, 2022

The site tour will show eco and people friendly social, economic, food production, civic and land use features.  There will be a site tour in Eugene Sunday, Sept. 18 starting at 11 AM and meeting at Jan’s house, 212 Benjamin. More tour sites are within a 5 minute bike ride, including Dharmalaya and Vistara.  Sites in River Road have been encouraging and inspiring for 20 years, now there are more sites to visit within a 10 minute bike ride than we have time for.  This event is a good start!

For the tour, bikes highly recommended. Cars can follow. Bring a snack, water, comfy shoes and clothes.  Feel free to use a mask. More on the site tour at https://www.suburbanpermaculture.org/site-tour.html 

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