Free Permaculture Summit
Community Development Summit: Organizing a Resilient Future
May 16-17th
All Day
Topics: ADCD, Mutual Aid Networks, Raising Money, 100 Garden's in a Weekend, City Repair, and more!
You Are Invited To A FREE Summit on Community Development!
🧠Learn from some of today’s brightest minds how to organize people effectively for permaculture change!
💥Jump start your own community development projects
🧐Avoid common mistakes and learn best-practices
💸Raising money for regenerative projects
Summit Experts
Andrew Faust
Bioregional Economies
✅ Defining what is a bioregion and the history of the term.
✅ Scaling up Permaculture Design with Bioregionalism
✅ Bioregional designs for food and energy independence.
Carol Burton
Cultivating Connections: Strengthening Communities through Local Leadership
✅ Observe and Interact, Alternative Economics of Reciprocity
✅ Leveraging the power of networks
✅ Supporting and mentoring up and coming leaders
Chris Smyth
Growing Further & Faster: Building Scalable Community Permaculture Orchards
✅ Practical design strategies for establishing community orchards that maximize production while minimizing maintenance
✅ Effective community engagement models that ensure long-term participation and project sustainability
✅ Resource-efficient scaling techniques that allow permaculture principles to be applied across varying community sizes and contexts
Lois Drumheller
How to Run for Local Office
✅ Determine why you are running
✅ Explain verbally & in reading materials what you hope to accomplish
✅ Provide a plan of action for your helpers & for State requirements.
Sean Jennings
100 Garden Challenge: Positive Change in the Place you Live
✅ How to start a Permaculture movement from the ground up
✅ Ways to organize a permaculture group
✅ How a simple community group organized a city wide gardening event
Taryn Koerker
Shark Garden: Creating a Nonprofit Community Teaching Garden
✅ How to use research to design cultural relevance
✅ How to create an inclusive, multi use garden space
✅ How to build community buy in & partnerships
Zan Bonefas
Culture Shift: ABCD the Permaculture Way
✅ The ABCD of ABCD (Assets Based Community Development)
✅ The Power Shift/Culture Shift framework for ABCD
✅ How ABCD integrates People Care into your Pc designs
Zev Friedman
Mutual Aid as Permaculture Strategy: ABCD, Theories of Change, and Nested Scales or Organizing
✅ An honest look at permaculture historical theory of change and do we still believe it
✅ Tools for thinking about different scales of cooperation in your own lives
✅ Trailheads for linking traditional permaculture to more diverse community organizing through relational interviews
Matt Bibeau
From Local Action to Global Impact through Passion, Purpose and Play
✅ Global impact from local action: how volunteering with a grassroots community organization led to life-changing international work
✅ Following passion to discover purpose: how an untraditional approach to livelihood led to a deep sense of professional fulfillment
✅ The importance of play: why staying in touch with our inner child may be the secret ingredient in placemaking and community-building work
Trathen Heckman
Daily Acts: Pathways to Scale - From Gardens to Policy, Community Transformation and Beyond
✅ Starting with garden impacts in your community
✅ Growing a staff and funding for your work
✅ Scaling up to the policy level and beyond
Lean on the wisdom from our permaculture mentors to...
🌻Avoid the most common mistakes when starting a community group
🌻Lessons learned from decades in social permaculture
🌻 How to market events and work with volunteer labor
🌻The easiest way to start in your community
🌻How to find like minded folks to collaborate with
🌻Support systems, grants, funding, and networking
Meet Your Host
Jesse Tack
Jesse Tack is a permaculture designer with a wide range of interests and experience within the permaculture framework including, running a vegetable market garden, selling microgreens commercially, and designing food forests. He has co-founded cooperative farming enterprises, and currently works with PINA to grow the North Amercian Permaculture Movement. As an interviewer, Jesse conducts livestreams, podcasts, and summits for PINA.
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How It Works?
The entire Summit is FREE throughout the entire weekend of May 16-18th. Presentations will be released on the hour throughout the weekend and will remain available for replay until Sunday, May 18th at midnight.
We have scheduled in plenty of free time, breakout rooms by region, and Q and A with the presenters to make this event feel as alive as possible! Come join us!