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,
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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:
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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
Find Living Mandala on Facebook!
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
www.sbpermaculture.org
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