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 […]
This February, PAN built on our previous conversations around standards for permaculture education at the D Acres Farm and retreat center in Dorchester, New Hampshire. Our group consisted of educators from Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New York, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Quebec, Canada. In small groups we deepened the brainstorm that came out of Omega and […]
Permaculture is at a tipping point. Now that it has reached a critical mass of practitioners and has entered into many mainstream venues, conversations around standards, who is qualified to teach and certify, and what the process is to become a teacher are coming to a head. PAN has been convening teachers and organizers around this […]
This past October the Permaculture Association of the Northeast (PAN) organized a deep and vibrant gathering of 27 teachers from the up and down the Northeast United States and Canada at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. We gathered over many meals, fires and facilitated spaces to support permaculture teachers to continue improving the […]
