PINA Allied Organizations

The School of Permaculture Design at Pacific Rim College provides robust curriculum in permaculture design, pairing comprehensive classroom and hands-on training with courses in business planning and project management, community development, natural building, and food and medicine systems. The centerpiece of the school’s offerings is a 10-month, full-time Permaculture Design and Resilient Ecosystems Diploma program, the first of its caliber and scope in the world.

The school is proud to host a preeminent roster of permaculture instructors and practitioners, including PINA co-founder Jude Hobbs.

For more information, please visit:

https://www.pacificrimcollege.com/faculties-programs/school-of-permaculture-design/

We look at modern food systems through a permaculture lens to enhance environmental, nutritional, economic and community health through education, outreach and partnership.

NRCO finds the connections between food system elements and features to be more important than the elements and features by themselves. Through partnerships, we strengthen the network between farmers, ranchers, distributors, educators and institutes, consumers, land owners, permaculturists and other non-profits.

NRCO’s programming is created for the benefit of local producers, land owners, distributors, gardeners, students and all community members. We host an annual food system summit to create space for networking and the sharing of ideas. We offer free educational programming and professional development opportunities. We also produce the “New Roots Community Radio Hour” podcast, where we give local professionals an opportunity to share their insight.

For more information, please visit:

https://newrootsco.org

See more about the CPC on the Regional Hub page.

See more on about GRLPI on the Regional Hub page.

Agraria is a 128-acre demonstration farm and Center for Regenerative Practice focused on building resilient communities in our region and beyond. See more on about Agraria on their website.

CCPP’s main activity is the Permaculture Incubator Program (PIP)—like a small business incubator, only for regenerative agriculture.

A house with 2.5 acres of prime farmland in central Michigan has been purchased where CCPP can implement its Incubator Program. Trainees will live in the house and will be assigned a half-acre plot each. They will receive instruction in regenerative agriculture from world-class permaculture experts and will put what they learn in the classroom into practice on their plots.

The trainees will sell their produce in the local Farmer’s Market and will be encouraged to share their abundance with the local food bank. The Soil Inventory Project will help us to measure the amount of carbon that we are able to sequester. And we will learn what grows best in extreme weather conditions.

After a couple of years, the trainees will have saved enough money to make a down payment on a farm of their own, lease some farmland, or buy a piece of farm machinery. And a new group of trainees will be inducted into the program.

For more information, please visit:
https://www.climatechangepermacultureproject.org/

For information on PAN, visit our Regional Hub page.

Our goal is that our community not only survives but thrives, as the world moves towards organics and sustainability.

OHBA offers a robust speaker series in the Houston area.  See the listing of events, along with more information about OHBA here: https://www.ohbaonline.org

As the first program of its kind, Bastyr’s Certificate in Holistic Landscape Design offers valuable training for those who want to build upon their knowledge of medicinal and edible plants and apply that expertise to developing sustainable landscapes. The landscape program engages students through a hands-on curriculum, including Soil Ecology and Medicinal and Edible Plants in the Landscape, and much more. Through sustainable practices like permaculture, this program empowers students to create a tangible difference in their local and global communities. The 51-acre Bastyr University campus, nestled among fields and woodlands on the northeast shore of Lake Washington is uniquely suited for the study of sustainable landscaping.

Bastyr University is a nonprofit, private university that is at the forefront of developing leaders in natural health arts and sciences for the 21st-century. Bastyr offers graduate and undergraduate degrees in science-based natural medicine that integrates mind, body, spirit, and nature.

Bastyr University offers PINA members 15% off of any Bastyr Continuing and Community Education Course. Please check out our continuing education page (https://bastyr.edu/continuing-education) and contact the Bastyr Continuing Education Department to participate in this offer (continuinged@bastyr.edu). Courses run throughout the year.