Koreen Brennan

Florida

Koreen Brennan has extensive experience in both permaculture design and in education. She has taught permaculture design at Pine Ridge Lakota reservation, various locations throughout the US, a number of universities, and countries in the Americas and Europe.

She is a sought after public speaker, and has been lecturing on permaculture since 2006. Her areas of expertise and passion are food forestry, small farms and food security, designing for resilience, community building, and regenerative economics including the sharing economy. She has been involved in alternative education over the last three decades, including immersion education, mentoring and other approaches, and has been teaching permaculture since 2006.

In a society with information overload, she believes that it is not the amount of information one has, but the relevance and usefulness of it that creates competence and understanding. Thus, she focuses on teaching practical application in real life situations. Understanding the fundamentals of a subject can help one think with how to use skill sets in a wide variety of situations. Connecting the dots from theory to real life use is key. As a designer, her focus is on helping people create abundant edible landscapes, self-sufficient urban or rural homesteads, resilient and high yield small farms, business guilds, and intentional communities.

Specialties include soil building and remediation, water catchment and use, edible landscaping, planning urban and rural integrated farming, reducing energy needs, and building more resilient finances and communities through collaborative holistic integration at village scale.

She deeply appreciates the value of both beauty and utility, and so strives to meld aesthetics and practicality together to create designs that last, that work, that minimize care and expense, that produce abundantly, and are beautiful. Brennan has grown hundreds of species of edibles in a variety of conditions and climates, run edible nurseries, engaged in master planning, business incubation and holistic economics using whole systems strategy and design, facilitated community development and facilitation, organized events, and has been a passionate educator, life coach, and mentor, so finds herself taking on diverse projects at times.

She organized permaculture style disaster relief for thousands of Haitians living in camps after the earthquake in 2010, coordinated the formation of the Sustainable Urban Agriculture Coalition St Petersburg, organized natural building projects (straw bale, earth berm walipini) at Pine Ridge Lakota reservation, and is a founding co-organizer for the North American Permaculture Convergence and the international permaculture Co-Lab effort (formerly known as The Next Big Step).

She is a Diplomate and a Board Member of the Permaculture Institute of North America, or PINA (pina.in). Courses taught by Koreen offer an internationally recognized certificate endorsed by PINA upon successful completion of our courses. She manages a permaculture medicinal herb and orchard demonstration farm in West Central Florida where she gets to dance with the natural world.

She strives to live a balanced life, to walk her talk, and to make decisions in the interest of the next seven generations.

Follow her work @ growpermaculture.com

Koreen's Summit Presentation

BUSINESS GUILDS: DESIGNING FOR ABUNDANCE

t’s hard to start a business on your own and make it successful, but this is how most people do it. This is part of the reason most businesses fail, too – just like a tree that gets no support from an ecosystem might die. What if you could do business like nature does it, by forming business “guilds” or “communities” that support one another and lift each other up? This presentation will go over some of the ways people have done this successfully and how you can do it.

 

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