Dear Friends,
We'd like to extend a warm invitation to the 8th Northern California
Permaculture Convergence (formerly the Bay Area Regional Permaculture
Convergence), being held October 12-14, 2012, at the beautiful 180 acre
grounds, board acre Permaculture Demonstration Site, and Educational Hub of
GreenFriends Farm and the M.A. Center in Castro Valley, California.
This year’s theme of “Building Bioregional Resiliency” will guide and inspire
the Convergence conversations, workshops, and outcomes towards creating greater
strength, interconnection, and resiliency within the economic, social, and
ecological systems and relationships of our Bioregional communities. The
Convergence program schedule is a 3-day gathering including key note speakers,
presentations, workshops, open space, bioregional councils, collaborative
discussions, spokes councils, hands-on projects, delicious meals, and much
more.
We are excited to announce that we have confirmed Geoff Lawton as one of the
main keynote speakers, as well as a host of other local and bioregional
permaculture educators, practitioners, and specialists with a diversity of
knowledge and wisdom to share.
About the Convergence
WHO?: Permaculture designers, permaculture students, sustainability activists,
farmers, ecovillagers, green business pioneers, social architects, and other
active communities in Northern California, the West Coast, and beyond.
WHAT?: The Convergence will feature a number of different workshops, speakers,
skill shares, collaborative discussions, children's activities, educational
displays, and specialized vendors. It will also generate physical outcomes,
strategies, and implementation plans to contribute to this year’s theme and
intentions.
WHY?: A weekend of intensive focus on a common goal: to design sustainable
habitats and support systems, in accordance with nature, for humans, plants,
animals, our greater bioregion, and the Earth at large.
HOW?: Practitioners across a wide-spectrum of skill-sets exchange ideas through
concurrent workshops and discussions ranging from organic agriculture and
wild-crafting to natural building and appropriate technologies; from
environmental remediation and disaster preparedness to community dynamics and
global justice. Participants will have opportunities to socialize, network,
form new collaborations, and birth new projects towards strengthening our
bioregional resiliency.
We invite your participation and collaboration to help make this Convergence
the most successful one yet.
For more information about getting more involved in the Convergence, email
[email protected]
You can also get more involved in the Convergence by offering a workshop, skill
share, educational demo, activity, leading a discussion, etc.
To apply to offer a workshop, skill share, educational expo, or other offering
Click Here.
Please also email your workshop title, brief description, as well as bio and
photo to: [email protected]
More Info
For More Information & to Register for the Convergence visit:
www.permacultureconvergence.com
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Hope to see you there!
Together on Earth,
-The Living Mandala & NorCal Convergence Organizing Team
About GreenFriends Farm
GreenFriends Farm began as a challenge to plant a thousand fruit trees on the
overgrazed land of a former cattle ranch west of Oakland, California. Now, half
way to meeting that number, it has become an educational center for cutting
edge agriculture, a destination for enjoying nature, and a vibrant spot for
volunteers of all ages and backgrounds.
Site Projects Include: • 500 plus tree orchard / food forest • Dynamic
watershed restoration • Broadacre swales & water infiltration • Keyline
patterning & ploughing • Native reforestation & agroforestry • Holistically
managed grazing • Soil food web management • Solar energy • Community garden &
orchards • Sustainability & spirituality programs
GreenFriends Farm has hosted workshops the past few years with Common Vision,
Living Mandala, Dr. Elaine Ingham (Soil Food Web), Kirk Gadzia (Holistic
Management), Geoff Lawton (PRI), and others, including many local Bay Area
permaculture educators.
For more information about GreenFriends Farm, please visit:
www.greenfriendsfarm.org
Northern California Permaculture Convergence
Oct 12-14, 2012
GreenFriends Farm, San Ramon, CA
www.PermacultureConvergence.com
Living Mandala
Organizing Education, Events & Initiatives for Personal & Planetary
Transformation
www.LivingMandala.com
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