2012 Winter Workshop Series
PRI is currently offering THREE Winter Workshop Series - our Intro to Urban Farming Series, Designing a Living Landscape Series, and our Pre-Season Production Series. Interested? Sign up now!
Want to prepare for spring? These series will help you optimize your growing space and explore new options in food production! From integral skills like understanding your soil, seed starting, record keeping, and managing pests to more indepth ideas such as turning your food production into a business or greenhouse growing and aquaponics, these series have something for everyone.
Workshops run Tuesdays and Saturdays through the end of March.
Sign up for whole series and save, or enroll in any of the workshops individually. Members - make sure to log in at the top of the website to receive your member discount on all pricing.
REGISTER TODAY!
2012 Design Exhibition and Celebration
The 2012 Cycling Re-Sources Design Competition challenges entrants to create a self-sustaining system for growing annual or perennial food crops. Individual designers and design teams have spent the past two months creating designs, and NOW is the time to view and celebrate their efforts!
JOIN US March 10th, from 4-7 at ArtsUS, where we will showcase this year's designs and name a winner! We will also launch PRI's latest venture - Nature's Edge Designs, and have great food and good music.
Space is limited - register HERE now!
EVERYONE IS WELCOME - RSVP TODAY!
Permaculture Research Institute - Cold Climate began as the Permaculture Collaborative in 2003.
Through the next five years, we built our capacity and knowledge. In 2008 we began the transition from a community organization to a nonprofit in order to develop stronger partnerships in the community and launch new programs. As of May 2009, we are a certified 501(c)3 nonprofit with a Board of Directors, a core of 25-30 volunteers, membership over 100, and an email community over 2000.
We are a community of “learners” and “doers.”
Our members are:
| Designers Landscape Architects Photographers Authors |
Architects Researchers Activists |
Teachers Gardeners Artists |
Ecologists Builders Ecopreneurs |
We have organized educational and social events including:
| Work and Learns Landscape Walks Skillshares Sustainability Discussions |
Homestead Tours Member Potlucks Introductory Workshops |
Harvest Festivals Film Festivals Guest Workshops |
We have nine certified permaculture designers.
Several of our instructors also teach at the University of Minnesota and the Minneapolis School of Art and Design. We have taught permaculture classes and workshops throughout the Upper Midwest, in:
- Grand Marais, MN
- Northfield, MN
- Bayfield, WI
- Montevideo, MN
- Iowa City, IA
- Minneapolis/St. Paul area
We have hosted international permaculture speakers:
- Penny Livingston-Stark, Regenerative Design Institute, www.regenerativedesign.org
- Geoff Lawton, Permaculture Research Institute Australia, www.permaculture.org/au
- Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, www.patternliteracy.com
- David Jacke, author of Edible Forest Gardens, www.edibleforestgardens.com
Our members have built demonstration sites in:
- Minnesota
- Wisconsin
- Illinois
- Iowa
- North Dakota
- South Dakota
- Canada
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With creativity, knowledge, and passion we design and demonstrate permaculture systems for living sustainably in colder climates for individuals and organizations working towards healthy communities and ecosystems.
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