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About Us
Skill Building. Community Building. Relocalization.

Greetings! We are a group of permaculture advocates of all ages and backgrounds united by our interest in creating a truly sustainable future starting right now. We have a range of permaculture experience, we focus on learning from each other both formally and informally, and enjoy the comradery of learning together. We are the largest Meetup.com group in the world dedicated specifically to permaculture!

About 2/3 of our total members are considered "active" (online or in person) at any one time. Of the active members, about 1/3 attend events on a regular basis and another 1/3 attend occasionally.

Our regular monthly meetups (May through October) consist of a potluck meal/grazing, looking at a particular member's property [when daylight allows], discussing permaculture options and concepts and trying to solve at least one design problem for that member using permaculture.

In the colder/darker months, our meetups focus on a particular sustainable living topic (plus potluck and discussion, of course), often with a guest speaker.

We often hold Saturday morning work parties as well as other workshops and classes on occasion.

Event Costs: Vary from free to whatever it costs to run the particular event. There is always something that everyone can afford to do!

Some recent meetups have included:

• Soils and soil-building
  
• Plant & Seed Swaps
  
• Making BioChar
  
• Medicinal Plants
  
• Medicinal Mushrooms
  
• Home Composting & Worm Bins
  
• Solar hot water for your home
  
• Solar hot air space heating
  
• Installing swales
  
• Rainwater collection
  
• 4-season gardening in Maine
  
• Site visits to members' property
  
• International Permaculture Slideshow
  
• Permaculture & Backyard Beekeeping
  
• LEED for Homes / Green Home Construction
  
• Yoga for Permaculturists
  
• The 100-mile diet
  
• Rain Gardens
  
• Backyard Beekeeping Intensive
  
• Intentional Communities Presentation
  
• Transition Towns Presentation
  
• Wild Food Foraging
  
• Plant & Tree ID
  
• Rainwater & Cisterns
  
• Dowsing
  
• Bioremediation Strategies for Lead
  
• Backyard chickens for eggs and/or meat
  
• Fermentation as a food preservation method
  

Some upcoming meetups will cover:

• A Pattern Language
  
• Masonry/Russian Stoves
  
• Raising Rabbits for Meat
  
• First Aid/CPR/Herbal First Aid
  
• Installing Solar Hot Water
  
• High Efficiency Wood Burning
  
• Rocket Stoves
  
• Green Building/Sustainable Building
  
• Traditional Diets / Weston Price Approach
  
• "Invasive" Plants discussion
  
• Geo-thermal/Ground-source heating
  
• Building a wood-fired oven
  
• Knife and Tool Sharpening
  
• Vegetative Plant Propagation
  
• Zone 00: Personal Resilience Building
  
• Seed Saving
  
• Building a "humanure" toilet
  
• Biodynamics & Permaculture
  
• Canning Food
  
• Residential Micro-hydro
  
• Permaculture Projects for/with Children "Sector C"
  
• Basic Bicycle Maintenance & Repair
  
• Zone 00: Compassionate Communication
  
• Zone 00: Living Mindfully & In the Present [Workshop]
  
• Zone 00: Practical Wisdom: Nurturing Intuition
  

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