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 [...]

Darren Doherty, a well-known permaculture designer and educator from Australia (check out his bio on RDI’s site), has a real treasure trove of information posted on the PIcasa photo sharing site…an entire online portfolio of design, plans and templates since 1993.
Here’s a helpful listing of photo albums by topic from Doherty’s Australia Felix Permaculture home [...]

Update! Here are resources for the projects shown today at Copperfield’s:

Worm Bins and Aerated Compost Tea
Making Seed Balls
Getting Started With Chickens

Have fun!
I’ll be at Copperfield’s Bookstore in Santa Rosa tomorrow (Saturday) to talk about backyard chickens and help people make seedballs! We might even brew some aerated compost tea…

We’ll be bringing our 3-week old [...]

The “Slow Food” movement celebrates the antithesis of “fast food”. Slow food is created by artisans, hobbyists, and modern homesteaders using care and respect for the environment. Our local slow food organization is Slow Food Russian River.
Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic organization that supports a bio diverse sustainable food supply, local producers, [...]

I’m a huge fan of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs, and a happy member of Laguna Farm and the Sonoma Meat Buying Club. And now I’m a fan of CSFs, too! What’s a CSF? It’s a new concept being pioneered by Iso Rabins and forageSF:

Much like a farm CSA, San Francisco Bay Area [...]

Interested in promoting permaculture at an exciting Bay Area event? I’ll be doing small booth about permaculture at Maker Faire in San Mateo, May 30-31, 2009. Maker Faire is a huge gathering of Do-It-Yourselfers hosted by MAKE Magazine. It’s an event where computer geeks rub shoulders with crafters and farmers and food [...]