UPCOMING: Living System Series

Ever want to raise chickens? Start a beehive? Grow mushrooms? Kick out that leaf-eating bug once and for all? Then our Living System Series has the workshops for you! Click HERE to register for the series (and receive discounted pricing for buying in bulk.)  The series includes:

Mushroom Cultivation Basics  - Saturday May 5th 9am-10:30am

Shiitake Log Cultivation - Saturday May 5th 12pm-1:30pm

Urban BeeKeeping - Saturday May 12th 9am-11am

Urban Chickens - Saturday May 19th 9am-11am

Using Pest Management Tools in the Garden Plot - Saturday May 26th 9am-11am

Getting Started with Nature's Edge

Want to bring permaculture to your community space? Nature's Edge Designs is PRI's newest program that uses permaculture principles and ethics to create living, participatory models in gardens, playgrounds and other community spaces.  Learn more HERE.

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Upcoming Events

Urban Chickens
Sat, May 19, 2012 9:00 am
Using Pest Management Tools in the Garden Plot [a field practicum]
Sat, May 26, 2012 9:00 am
Intro to Permaculture
Sat, Jun 02, 2012 9:00 am

Here are some updates from our broader Permaculture Community!


LOCAL Permaculture Design Certification Course - June 24th - July 1st

Itching to do a PDC (Permaculture Design Course)?  Check out THIS one offered by the good people at Crazy Rooster Farm!  It's right in our backyard (the beautiful bluff country of Buffalo County, Wisconsin) and will be led by Wayne Weiseman from June 24th to July 1st.  Learn more by clicking here!


Southwoods Design Center presents:

ADVANCED PERMACULTURE DESIGN TRAINING - A week long intensive residential design experience for advanced permaculture designers & professionals
Ecological Homestead Design, Science, and Process
May 19- 27, 2012 at SouthWoods Permaculture

This workshop week includes and builds on the acclaimed SouthWoods Homestead Design Series curriculum (offered by PRI Cold Climate) plus daily design assignments, exercises, design critiques, private work space, tools, and desk. Work at your own pace with 24 hour access to the SouthWoods design lab.  Included are intensive hands-on installations of plant polycultures and forest garden patches.

To find out more info, click HERE.  


The Social Innovation Lab is a place for community change makers to get new thinking to advance their projects.  The lab will bring together people from different sectors and perspectives to provide input and inspiration for projects looking to build sustainable and inclusive communities in Minnesota.   PRI Cold Climate will be one of the co-sponsors and also host a project that participants at the alb can work with.  You are invited to be part of the first lab, which will be on May 22nd from 8:30 am to noon in St. Paul.

For more information and to register:  http://mayinnovation.eventbrite.com/ 


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