Category: News

  • 2022 PDC

    2022 PDC

    We are excited to return to the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association Education center in Unity for a live, in-person Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course. After two years of all Zoom all the time, hopefully we can agree that something substantive is lost when we’re not in “meatspace” together, face to face. There’s a…

  • Garden Tours 2021

    Garden Tours 2021

    Please join us for a few garden tours on Saturday August 21 from 10-2 and on Tuesday August 24 from 6-7:30pm. Attendance is free but registration is required so we can adequately plan logistics for an expected high turnout in a tight space. Register with The Resilience Hub for August 21 and register with MOFGA…

  • Summer PDC 2019

    Summer PDC 2019

    Be part of creating a better future. Change the way you see the world. Join The Resilience Hub & Midcoast Permaculture as they surpass their 20th internationally-recognized Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course. This one-weekend-per-month format is ideal for anyone who would not typically be able to take two weeks off from life/work to take an…

  • Morgan Bay Zendo Applied Design course

    Applied Permaculture Design for the Morgan Bay Zendo This course is unique because: It’s an exercise in applied permaculture design — learn by doing it!  The goals for this project are already clearly stated and we have a base map in hand.  This allow us to systematically work through a landscape analysis and design process…

  • Intro to Permaculture on Hurricane Island

    Intro to Permaculture on Hurricane Island

    Learn the basics of Permaculture design on Hurricane Island–a Maine coast island retreat Unique characteristics of this course: Learn foundational practices of the design process including goal setting, observation exercises and base mapping considerations Gain a systematic understanding for how to analyze the ecological context of your site, how to design, and what steps to…

  • Food Forest Design Intensive with Maine Farmland Trust

    Food Forest Design Intensive with Maine Farmland Trust

    This weekend workshop will be an exercise in applied permaculture design to a working farm called Rolling Acres in Jefferson.  We will host a workshop that facilitates the design of a food forest whose products will be used to help supply a food bank program called Veggies for All. This course is unique because: It’s…

  • Permaculture at Camden Adult Ed Spring 2018

    Permaculture at Camden Adult Ed Spring 2018

    Beginning in March, we are returning to the Camden Adult Education program to offer an 8 hour lecture and discussion series introducing permaculture design.  This is a super affordable class to get an introduction to permaculture design and how to apply it in your life and garden! Permaculture is a design system and set of…

  • Forest Garden tour this weekend!

    This Saturday, April 29 we will be hosting a forest garden walk and talk. We’ve been foraging in the forest garden just about every day this week!  This is a great time of year for perennial vegetables because they start yielding so early.  We’ll make a gluten free fritatta as a snack for the garden…

  • Spring 2017 Hurricane Island course

    Check out the details for this upcoming 12 hour Intro to Permaculture course on Hurricane Island!  We will engage the eyes, ears and hands in this dynamic course to give participants and in-depth introduction to permaculture design and how to apply it to garden and small farm design.  We are bringing permaculture to island communities…

  • Winter 2017 Announcements

    Winter 2017 Announcements

    Mid Winter Greetings everyone! As we pour over seed catalogs huddled next to the stove, now is a good time to begin dreaming and scheming for our gardens this coming year.  And the best way to begin the garden is with good design.  The way to do that is to first consider the goals for…