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Webinar: Strategies for Local Organizing – May 15th 12-1 pm Eastern

April 12, 2019

Remember – Webinars are fee for PAN Members! Non-members can join or choose a sliding scale $50-10.

Permaculture is a design process, which we can use to design organizations, groups, and direct actions. Learn strategies for local organizing from three different organizations in our region: Resilience Hub (Portland, ME), Boston Food Forest Coalition (MA), and Rochester Permaculture Center (NY). We’ll also share some lessons learned to help shorten your learning curve. As always, we’ll have some Q&A time at the end.

Register here by 10 am on May 15th for access to the Live Webinar or anytime after for access to the webinar recording!

Filed Under: Blog, Education opportunity, Local Projects, Northeast Community, Permaculture Principles Applied, Post, Strategies & Techniques

Webinar Recording Available

April 3, 2019

Want access? Email us for payment instructions or…psst, they’re free for members!

Filed Under: Blog, Education opportunity, Permaculture Design Business Guild, Permaculture Principles Applied, Strategies & Techniques Tagged With: Educational Webinars

Report back: Earth Activist Permaculture Teacher Training for Women

April 3, 2019

Written by Board Member, Patty Love

I am both humbled and frustrated by how many important skills I still want to learn at the age of 54.  I also struggle, sometimes, with the question of how much formal training to pursue in any topic.  Yet, when I learned that Pandora Thomas and Lisa DePiano were teaming with Starhawk to offer a Permaculture Teacher Training for Women through Earth Activist Training, I knew I had to be there even though it meant getting on an airplane all the way to California.  Every experience I’ve had with Lisa and Starhawk has been rich with new skills and perspectives.  And Pandora is someone I’ve been wanting to meet and study with.  

The short version is that I’m so glad I attended.  It was a “patty-changing” experience – and I’m serious about that.  Here’s how the course was described on Facebook:
“Drawing on the wisdom of ecological systems and indigenous knowledge, permaculture offers us a vision, design approach, and tools to create a world of health and abundance. Increased inclusion and support of leadership and perspective from women of diverse backgrounds is vital to this vision.

In this unique and innovative program, we explore diversity and leadership while building our confidence. We practice teaching permaculture for various formats, from introductory workshops, special topics, and short courses, to the core permaculture design certificate (PDC) course.

This course is open to those who identify as women and/or were assigned female at birth, who hold a Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) or who feel they have a working knowledge and experience with permaculture design. Women of color and queer or gender nonconforming women are especially encouraged to apply.”

One of my practices as a permaculture teacher is to embody permaculture ethics, principles, and design practices in my courses.  As you may already imagine, this course did the same.  Applying the principles of stacking functions and relinquishing control, as we moved through the curriculum, we students participated in and eventually led activities that modeled, demonstrated, and explained social permaculture techniques.  Doing so felt like a growing edge at times but I had decided when I applied that I would live my ethics of being vulnerable and transparent (thank you, Miki Kashtan), and courageous.  One of our lessons was that impact matters over intention so I thought about my words and actions more than ever and I’m pretty sure I still blew it a few times.  

(Note:  these are complex and nuanced issues that deserve lots more discussion and reflection than this brief article can do well.)

One of our earliest activities was to co-create a Class Code and decide what we would do when or if the Class Code was broken.  While one of the purposes of this exercise was to help us consciously design a safer space, it also helped us learn about each other, and to learn some social permaculture tools such as “throw glitter, not shade” and “holding the complexity of intersectionality.”  Given that we were indeed a group diverse in race and age, the complexity of intersectionality was a lived experience.  Though we were united by identifying as women with permaculture skills, I felt that, at times, we struggled together through the difficulties of differences of opinion.  As a cis-woman who benefits from white privilege, I came away with a deeper appreciation for the experiences of Women of Color (WOC) – both those who present as WOC and those who present as white – and the depth of the oppression of living in our current structure of white supremacy.  I listened intently as the WOC even disagreed with each other at times.  

I deeply appreciate that Lisa D. and one of the students co-led an optional lunchtime discussion group on white supremacy to support those who identify as white to learn from and support each other rather than placing that burden on the women of color who were present.  I also benefitted from sharing time with a white housemate with whom I could process and explore.

During the four days, we also learned and practiced various teaching techniques to support our curriculum development and future work with diverse groups including the diversity of whether folks are visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learners.  For example, we used The Gallery Walk technique to undertake a site analysis of the group.  Questions written on sticky easel paper were posted on the walls of our meeting space.  We were asked to visit each question at least twice during the time allotted and to use colorful markers to write our answers.  Then, as a group, we moved from paper to paper for a group harvest – to collectively review the answers, notice commonalities, and ask clarifying questions.  A few of the dozens of teaching techniques we learned were:  Pair Share, Whirly Tour, Common Ground, Teach Back, and Mingle Mingle.  Along with the struggles to undo racism and oppression, we had fun while learning and learned how to make our teaching engaging.  

For anyone who is considering the value of attending a Teacher Training, I hope that you’ll be as blessed as I was to find a training that not only supports your growth as a permie teacher but also supports your growth as a Citizen of The Earth.  I am forever changed and improved by this experience with new skills that I use daily.  I also recommend that you are selective about with whom you study.  While it’s convenient and perhaps preferable Earth Care to learn locally, our teachers are so influential in our experience that travelling may very well be worth the sacrifices.  (And maybe you can stack functions like I did – finally hugging a redwood, getting a taste of the California chaparral and other ecosystems, and seeing the wonders of The Golden Gate Bridge.  I recommend that you visit PAN’s Educators’ Pledge Signers page to learn if the course teacher has agreed to this voluntary pledge document.  If not, ask them if they will.  And, as a teacher myself, I’m guessing that if you offered to help put together a committed group of students to make the course financially viable, many teachers would be willing to travel to you!

Filed Under: Education opportunity, Permaculture Principles Applied Tagged With: PAN Board

October Webinar Comin’ Up on 10/26

October 1, 2018

Carbon Farming PostcardRegistration is open…Look for all of the details here

Filed Under: Blog, Collaborations, Education opportunity, Local Projects, News & Announcements, Northeast Community, Strategies & Techniques

PAN launches webinar series: Permaculture and Disaster Relief January 26th

January 17, 2018

Nepalese village destroyed by 2015 earthquake
A Nepalese village being rebuilt by Mero Gain team

Introducing a new webinar series hosted by the Permaculture Association of the Northeast (PAN).  We will host a series of webinars designed to answer the question from our members, “What can we do now that we’ve finished our Permaculture Design Certification (PDC) course?”  We will examine a number of permaculture career pathways local to the Northeast and all across the world.  Our first topic of discussion is highlighting permaculture-based disaster relief efforts by women working in Puerto Rico, Nepal and Austria.  

A Conversation on Permaculture and Disaster Relief: Shifting from aid and dependence to solidarity and self determination

Friday 1/26/18 10-11 am USA Eastern Time – Recorded

Join us for a conversation with Tara Rodriguez Besosa, Prabina Shrestha and Pippa Buchanan hosted by the Permaculture Association of the Northeast (PAN) and sponsored by Resilience Planning and Design of NH.  Learn how these practitioners are using permaculture-based skills to help in disaster relief efforts as a form of solidarity and social justice work in their respective countries of Puerto Rico, Nepal, and Australia.

PAN Webinars are recorded and are free for PAN members.

Registration:
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We’re delighted to welcome these practitioners:
Pippa Buchanan is a resilience and sustainability educator based in Linz, Austria and originally from Adelaide, Australia.  Her focus is in working with individuals and groups to discuss, experiment and develop how they can develop safe and abundant futures for their households, organisations and communities. She is also a researcher at Permaculture and Disaster Risk Reduction.  Pippa’s work is informed by permaculture, community-driven action and open technologies and processes.

Prabina Shrestha is the Village/Program Coordinator of Nepal’s Resilience Through Recovery program.  Her work is focused in Nuwakot and Kavre, two villages in the center region of Nepal (Katmandu).  RTR is the program started from a need to see an integration of  Permaculture systems response with the rebuilding community after the 2015 earthquake.  Local partner, the Himalayan Permaculture Centre, supports locally trained barefoot consultants, while the Kamala Foundation provides financial support to Prabhina’s Sunrise Farm to help with coordination.  Prabhina says, “We are working in two villages.  In both cases nearly 100% of houses were destroyed or damage.”

Tara Rodríguez Besosa of the Food Department, manages The Resilience Fund of Puerto Rico, which is based on five support pillars: Seeds + Sowing directed by Mara Nieves / Reforestation led by Steve Maldonado Silvestrini from La Reselva / Renewable Energy / Water Collection of Rain / Well-being.  Says Tara, “The Resilience Fund aims to impact 200 plantings in the next 24 months after the passage of Hurricane Maria. Support for sustainable agriculture is of great value for the just recovery of our country. Puerto Rico deserves well-being, health, prosperity and local food that does not pollute our ecosystems.”

The Resilience Fund collaborates with other projects and organizations that can contribute towards these five pillars, managing to pool efforts between projects and resources. The “Guagua Solidaria” is our vehicle to give support around the islands of Puerto Rico through brigades, which are free and open to all types of agro-ecological planting; farms, community gardens, school gardens, home plantings. The bus comes with seeds for each planting that is visited, tools and equipment for construction and agriculture, camping equipment, a mobile kitchen, and a group of volunteers. La Guagua allows us to provide efficient support to each place visited, being a useful tool to raise our food system and our agroecological community.

We appreciate your patience as we work out any bumps in this new process.  If you have any questions, please contact us.

PAN would like to thank Resilience Planning & Design LLC’s sponsorship of this webinar.  If you’d like more information on sponsoring a webinar, let us know.

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