Basics for the 2017 Northeast Permaculture Educators’ and Organizers’ Retreat What: Networking, Co-Creation, and Fun Date/Time: Sunday, October 8 after 2 pm to Wednesday, October 11, 2017 Where: Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY Fees: $150 to Omega for dormitory style lodging, meals, and accommodations* plus sliding scale registration fee to PAN ($40-$90 PAN Members/$50-100 for nonmembers) […]
Greetings PAN members and supporters! We hope your summer has been fruitful, productive and nourishing. PAN has been active this summer with helping to facilitate a distributed model of the summer convergence. We helped raise awareness for local convergence events in Maine, New Hampshire and New York. We staffed a table at New Hampshire permaculture […]
In January 2017, the PAN Board hired PAN member, Patty Love, for our first paid staff position – a very part-time Coordinator and Board Assistant. Fun facts about Patty: Native to hard clay soils in the Finger Lakes Region of NY Lives in Rochester, NY on the banks of Red Creek She is barefoot whenever […]
Written by PAN Member, Liz Kelly On February 25, 2017, 18 Permaculture educators and practitioners came together to discuss the continued improvement of Permaculture education opportunities in the northeast. Now that Permaculture, historically a fringe movement, has entered mainstream venues, conversations centered around community education standards and qualifications have sprouted within the network and grown. […]
A Year in Review The end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017 has been a powerful and transformational time for PAN. We officially changed our name from PINE to PAN to reflect our goals and organizing strategy, a decentralized network rather than a top down institution, we hired our first paid staff position, organized […]
