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!

 

The Summit will be immediately available for all PINA members at the $50/year and $75/year membership levels in the Member Portal area. You can purchase all PINA Summits for $97 stand alone products after they air.

Schedule of Events

Friday May 16th

Saturday May 17th

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