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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Autumn 2016 events
Autumn Greetings! This weekend is the Common Ground Fair at the MOFGA fairgrounds, and we wanted to invite you to connect with us during this 25K+ person/day event! (A lofty goal, i know). I’ll be volunteering with Maine-Wabanaki REACH at their table in the Social and Political Action area. I’ll be helping them set up…
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Intro to Permaculture half day workshop September 3
Saturday September 3th 2016, Permaculture Workshop at the Deer Isle Hostel. Learn how to design ecological and edible landscapes and resilient home sites using whole system planning and patterns from nature. In this Introduction to Permaculture workshop we will discuss the history, principles and benefits of permaculture. We will go over a permaculture site design…
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Midcoast Permaculture events Spring 2016
Spring Greetings All! Spring has come early this year even as winter threatens to dust us with snow periodically. The birds are singing, the coltsfoot and crocus are blooming, and we are seeing emergence everywhere. Spring is a good time for people to consider their goals for the year and how they might make adjustments…
