Starhawk has posted some great videos, including this one of Sebastopol permie Erik Ohlsen of Permaculture Artisans. Starhawk and Ohlsen are also teachers for Earth Activist Training. Here, Erik walks through an extensive permaculture site he designed and talks about its elements and the design process.
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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 [...]

Laguna Farm is one of the oldest Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs in Sonoma County.

For a one-time $75.00 membership fee, you get a glorious box of truly sustainable “beyond organic” veggies for just $17 per week.
Laguna Farm is located on 30 acres adjacent to the Laguna de Santa Rosa, northern California’s largest freshwater marsh. Using [...]

Did you know that you can learn how to work with draft horses, or hire them to work your property, right here in Sebastopol? You can, at Stone Horse Farm!

Farm services from Stone Horse include mowing, plowing, sowing cover crops. cultivating orchards or vineyards, and more. They’ll even do woodland operations and restoration work. [...]

Beekeeping, or “apiculture”, is at least as old as the pharaohs of ancient Egypt. In permaculture, they’re an example of a feature that neatly stacks functions: they produce delicious honey, useful wax, and are incredibly useful pollinators. Keeping bees seems like a daunting task, but there’s a store in Sebastopol that can help: [...]

Here’s an announcement from Erik Olsen about an exciting new initiative in Sebastopol:
Need land for a Permaculture Center near Sebastopol
We are a Permaculture design firm (Permaculture Artisans) and group of Permaculture-based organizations looking for a site close to Sebastopol to build a Permaculture Learning center/farm/enterprise.
We could potentially put hundreds of thousands of dollars of [...]

Most locals probably already know about Harmony Farm Supply and Nursery, north of Sebastopol on Rt. 116, just after Graton Road. It’s a wonderful local resource for plants, seeds, irrigation needs, books, and other farm and garden supplies.
In addition to the usual plants and supplies you’ll find at other nurseries, Harmony stocks items you [...]

Transition Towns are communities who are responding to peak oil by organizing, assessing, and taking action on relocalizing the way they live.

Transition towns were started by permaculture designers Louise Roone and Rob Hopkins. Their ideas and recommendations were adopted their home towns of Kinsale, Ireland and Totnes, England and have received significant attention. [...]