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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…
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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…
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Embracing 4 Ethics of Permaculture
This article was originally printed in Permaculture Design Magazine issue #110, Winter 2019, the Permaculture Ethics issue. As permaculture becomes more popular and gains greater recognition with a mainstream audience here in North America, I find that it’s helpful to have your “elevator speech” ready-to-hand to quickly define it when it comes up in casual…
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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…
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Food Sovereignty as a step toward community resilience
Overview When we want to support local agriculture we think first to plant a garden or organize a farmers market. But rarely do we take the next logical step, which is to use local law to protect that sustainable agriculture system that we’re trying to build. When we don’t take that step, agribusiness corporations step…
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Who should control our food system?
By Nathan Davis and Jesse Labbe-Watson | Dec 01, 2016 Original link This question is at the core of the movement for food sovereignty in Maine and around the world. Food sovereignty is the assertion of local control over our food system, and the assertion against control by big agribusiness and nonlocal…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
