Here’s an unusual and unique opportunity coming up locally: help install a professionally designed 5000 square-foot food forest…get hands on and learn how to transform your thirsty lawn into multi-tiered food-producing ecosystem!

In August, Daily Acts conducted a hands-on workshop in sheet-mulching to transform the lawn at Mini-Park (End of LaSalle and Loretta Ave) in [...]

We live in a time of great change, and during great change, leaders always emerge. If we’re going to be the change we seek, we should also be prepared to be the leaders we seek.
Many of us Permies have an innate distrust of authority, and many of us associate authority with leadership. But [...]

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 [...]

You can visit the Permibus at Harmony Festival in Santa Rosa. The Permibus is part of the Skills for the New Millennium Tour, with a vision to:
…shift patterns of consumption while empowering individuals and communities to engage in political action that strives for a more ecologically sound, economically sustainable, and socially just world. [...]

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 [...]

If you’re interested in farming with draft animals, you might enjoy the 27th annual Plowing Playday this Sunday at Jack London State Park. From the Press Democrat article, Big day for draft horses

I’ve heard a lot of great things about the Women’s Herbal Symposium, a gathering of up to four hundred women that takes place three times a year near Laytonville, CA.
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Three times a year women from many backgrounds of life gather together in great celebration for four full days of inspiring Herbal and Sustainability [...]

There’s fantastic event for local bee enthusiasts next Saturday (March 6, 2009): The Bee Symposium, featuring biodynamic and bee expert, Gunther Hauk, of Spikenard Farm:
The Honeybee Crisis: A Critical Point in Evolution
“Beekeeping that Respects the Colony as an Organism”
Holistic Solutions to Colony Collapse Disorder
This year’s symposium will explore our critical point in evolution, and how [...]