Pittsburgh Permaculture

Permaculture Resource List

Juliette — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:54:33 +0000

Compiled by Elizabeth Lynch, 2011; added to by Juliette Jones 2012

Pc Communities, on-line or other

Pittsburgh Garden Experiment: http://www.meetup.com/PittsburghGardenExperiment/ Eastern Permaculture Guild: http://www.meetup.com/permie/ Eastern Permaculture Guild: penn-permaculture-list@meetup.com Local Food Cleveland: http://www.localfoodcleveland.org/ Three Rivers Permaculture Guild

Pittsburgh-local Resources

Pittsburgh Permaculture: http://pittsburghpermaculture.org/ Transition Pittsburgh: http://www.meetup.com/transitionpgh/ Pittsburgh Garden Experiment: http://pittsburghgardenexperiment.org/ Steel City Soils: http://steelcitysoils.com/ [...]

What is Permaculture?

Juliette — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:55:29 +0000

Permaculture is about intelligent design that works with nature. The basic premise of permaculture is to increase human sustainability by creating self-sufficient systems that literally become more than the sum of their parts.

Village Homes in Davis, California (photo by Wayne Senville, Planning Comm’rs Journal, www.plannersweb.com).

That is to say, each aspect of the system [...]

Permaculture Design autumn equinox discount

Michelle — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:24:15 +0000

Permaculture Design Sale!

Now through October 1st… Have your landscape designed at a discounted rate. We design landscapes of all sizes and conditions and would love to work with you to bring your dream to reality. Permaculture design utilizes ecological principles to create landscapes based on your wants and needs and in accordance with [...]

Borland Green Video by Transition Pgh

Troy — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:51:52 +0000

Here is a little video about the Borland Green project which we are working on in partnership with GTECH Strategies. The project is being funded by a Spring Grant from The Sprout Fund. Click here for more information about the project.

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Herb Walk today CANCELLED

Michelle — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 18:37:48 +0000

Unfortunately circumstances came up and we will not be walking today! Please be sure to join us on August 6th at 3pm. Also check out the 2 upcoming herbal medicine workshops we are hosting: Herbal approaches to relief from stress and anxiety as well as Herbal cordials and tisanes.

Summer 2011 Herbal Medicine Workshop Series

Michelle — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:28:33 +0000

Summer 2011 Herbal Medicine Workshop Series

with Leslie Alexander of Restoration Herbs & Michelle Czolba of Pittsburgh Permaculture

PLEASE BE SURE TO FILL OUT THE REGISTRATION FORM AS WELL AS PAY BY PAYPAL OR THROUGH CHECK. FIND REGISTRATION FORM AT ‘REGISTER NOW’ LINK. MAILING ADDRESS FOR [...]

Come Join Us at the Food Forest this Saturday!

Michelle — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:23:22 +0000

We will be working at the food forest on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month from 10am-12pm. The food forest is located at 4700 Irvine St in Hazelwood. It was 4 adjacent vacant lots owned by the URA and now hosts a diversity of edible and otherwise functional tree, bush and groundcover [...]

The plastic bag, stick and a brick trick!

Troy — Fri, 06 May 2011 19:29:33 +0000

This is a quick and easy way to train fruit trees to get the branch angle you want.

Materials list:

A couple plastic grocery bags A straight stick or piece of bamboo A few small rocks A fruit tree you want to train

BEFORE

An apple tree with an upright branch [...]

Columbus Permaculture Design Course

Troy — Thu, 05 May 2011 22:23:35 +0000

Weekend Permaculture Design Course Columbus, Ohio

Dates: July 16-17, August 13-14, August 27-28, September 10-11, October 8-9, and October 22-23.

Location: Columbus, Ohio at the Olentangy River Wetland Research Park

Description: Join us as we explore the power of ecological design to create resilience and beauty in our communities. Over six weekends, [...]

Regenerating Pittsburgh Event Canceled

Juliette — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:56:17 +0000

We am sorry to report that we have failed to achieve enough registrations for the Pittsburgh event even after welcoming all scholarship recipients and slashing the budget to simplify the program. We are therefore canceling the whole weekend of events in Pittsburgh. :(

We hope to reschedule and get Dave to Pittsburgh another time.

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