Thanks to everyone who came to the Gardening Without Enemies workshop! Here are some resources related to the workshop:

Barton Stone on gardening without enemies – and article in the LA Examiner about Barton’s work and the workshop.
Buddhist Anarchism by Gary Snyder (distributed by Barton in class, but also available here)
Prayer for the Great Family [...]

The BP oil spill is a brutal reminder of the price for our dependence on fossil fuels. But it’s easy to forget that our dependence goes further than gasoline to power our cars, and that there are better choices to be made in many areas of our life.
That’s why I love Using Less [...]

I am so excited that this is happening in Sonoma County: There’s still time to register for the first Buckeye Gathering, a week of community and learning, celebrating traditional arts and primitive living skills. It’ll be held May 2-8, 2010, at YaKaAma Indian Education and Development, near Forestville, California.

Welcome to the first year of [...]

Please register by calling 707-789-9664 or emailing erin@dailyacts.org
Workshop: Transform Your Thirsty Lawn
Saturday, April 3rd, 10am-4pm, Free for Cotati Residents, $10-20 non-residents

In this incredible hands-on workshop, we’ll kick off the gardening season and our Cotati Water Conservation Education Series by completing the lawn transformation we started in 2009. Patrick Picard, award-winning landscape designer, will revisit the [...]

I’ve enjoyed building and growing this site. There are so many wonderful things happening in the world of permaculture. Did you see that RDI even made it as a feature on CBS?!
As many of my readers know, my life has taken many turns over the past couple of years. I am blessed [...]

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope everyone is enjoying a celebration of the harvest, and as the year draws to an end, finds that their abundance includes a surplus to reinvest in the land or the people around them.
To celebrate Thanksgiving, here’s the text of the Iroquois (also known as Haudenosaunee) Thanksgiving address, “Ohenton Kariwahtekwen”. [...]

As you may have noticed, I’m taking a short break here at Permie.net while I look for a new place to live.
Meanwhile, here are some suggestions of other blogs to follow:

Homegrown Evolution – Southern California permies and book authors.
Baltimore DIY Squad – urban permaculture and food preservation diva extraordinaire!
Holy Scrap Hot Springs – Digital [...]

Earth Action Mentor is a new study and mentoring site for permaculture.
Earth Action Mentor is the training hub for documentation of regenerative living skills and practices. Earth Action Mentor provides lessons available for download, short videos, interviews with earth mentors, an independent study curriculum, workbooks, case studies, community forum and documentation of county permitted [...]