2024 Permaculture Summit Content
Day 2 Presenters
Regenerative Pricing for your Regenerative Business
Patty Love
If you’ve gathered up permaculture (aka Regenerative Design) knowledge and want to use your skills to help others live abundantly and more in harmony with natural systems, it might be time to start a business!
Maybe you want to offer Regenerative Landscape Designs or consult with land owners and stewards. How much do you charge? On what do you base your pricing? Do you quote or estimate?
Certified Permaculture Designer and Teacher, Patty Love, E.A.T. ‘s Regenerative Business Design teacher and Maven Makers coach and founder of her 15 year old business, Barefoot Permaculture, will demonstrate how to apply Regenerative Design concepts to design your pricing structure, whether for land based permaculture or other businesses. She’ll also share some tips on how to answer when a potential customer asks, “How much do you charge?”
Market Research to Build Community and Empower your Business Design
Jason Thomas
Expand your network and insights through comprehensive market research and empower your business design from patterns to details.
Key takeaways include:
- Strategies for effective market analysis tailored to your niche.
- Techniques to identify and understand your target audience so they see you as speaking directly to them and their needs.
- Insights on creating a compelling online presence and engaging content that resonates with your audience.
This session is a must for permaculturists aiming to evolve their business practices and ensure sustainable success.
Starting and Operating an Edible Ecological Landscape Company
Matt Lebon
Regenerating Properties and Communities After a Disaster
Gloria Flora
Communities across the continent are experiencing an unprecedented rate of natural disasters. Permaculture designers are the solution to rebuilding and restoring resilience and hope in stricken homes and hometowns.
Starting a Professional Permaculture Installation Business from the Ground Up
Erik Ohlsen
Build a Permaculture livelihood.
For you, your community, and the Earth.
The path to regenerating ecosystems, is found in the massive regeneration of communities and ecosystems. To achieve this at scale, we need thousands of Permaculture based businesses that can scale the work of regeneration.
In this session, internationally renowned, Permaculture professional, Erik Ohlsen, will share the foundations and the processes of developing your own design and installation business to provide you a right livelihood and restore ecosystems at the same time.
Creating and Operating a Successful Permaculture Design Firm
Scott Gallant
Join Scott Gallant (@scottplantstrees), founder of Porvenir Design, on a journey through the first five years of starting and developing a permaculture design firm. This talk, based on designing and installing dozens of homesteads, farms, ecovillages, etc in the tropics, will equip you with the tools and knowledge to cultivate a successful venture aligned with your values and the planet’s health.
Dive into the following key areas:
- Laying the Foundation:
- Holistic Context: Understanding where you work, your community’s needs, and most importantly the quality of life your team desires.
- Finding Your Niche: Define your unique offerings, we will explore what our team has found that works and what doesn’t work based on our skill sets.
Growing as a Permaculture Contractor
Avery Ellis
If a profitable business model moves the needle in popularizing permaculture, is profit still a dirty word?
Teaching Permaculture is a Path to Right Livelihood
Jude Hobbs
This class is an introduction of how to guide you to share information in diverse ways in a wide variety of settings, such as at: workshops, libraries, schools, PDC’s, and other venues.
I’ve offered Pc Teacher Trainings since 2001 diversifying my income from a landscape designer to being an educator, as well. Trainings provide ways to build confidence, encompass experiential learning and is generally a tool kit for action to get out there and share this valuable design system. It is also about designing curriculums, building modules, being a facilitator and marketing your classes.
Sharing Knowledge is Regenerative, Empowering and Part of the Permaculture Solution.