About us
We bring you practical solutions to the complex problems of today.
Empowering and informing you to create more self reliant communities building resilience into your Homes, Farms and Communities.
Inspiring you with natural, down to Earth ways to even redesign New York City , and while we are at it let's redesign the entire Northeastern Corridor, to do what? To be nuch more food and energy independent, baked in climate adaptive, regional scale decentralized autonomy.
How to be healthier and more green.
Andrew Faust leads the meetups, Faust brings together a wealth of personal life experience from living off the grid for 8 years designing and creating the Center For Bioregional Living and teaching Permaculture design in New York City for over ten years. The Center For Bioregional Living is the only Permaculture program issuing certifications from a 72 hour program, they run free lance, with thousands of graduates.
25 years applying Permaculture in the Social & Urban landscape.
You want to know about greening deserts, large scale applications, social Permaculture, Permaculture on the West coast, in the Sierras the Cascades, New York City and the Northeast, Cold climates, Tropical, South America, India, Africa and Europe, we cover it in this course, our teachers have collectively worked consulting in all of these regions.
Anyone interested in health and well-being and comprehensive holistic thinking and solutions to health and quality of life issues, should attend these meetups!
By Joining us you will gain invaluable life skills and perspectives for navigating the complex ecological realities of our modern lives and cityscapes.
Upcoming events
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Permaculture City To Country Living
388 Atlantic Avenue, between Hoyt and Bond, Brooklyn, NY, USBuying & Building Your Place in the Country
What to Look for When Buying Your Place in the Country
Looking to live more of Country Mouse , City mouse lifestyle this is the most broad ranging and advanced free event you will find to accelerate your knowledge base in these noble pursuits.
Andrew Faust will distill his 30 plus years of experience in finding land for a diverse range of projects for friends, family and clients.
He is a professional consultant for individuals ,families, private enterprises and pursuits in building Natural and Ecological homes, communities, schools and farms.Faust will share from his more than three decades of building experience, including living fully off the grid for 10 years building is own straw bale home in the mountains of West Virginia.
Faust has extensive project and site development expertise, primarily in this region.
He will cover how to set up fully off -grid , energy independent homes and communities with minimal reliance on fossil fuels.
He will also go into examples of natural homes he and his team have constructed in the area...https://www.permaculturenewyork.com/consultation-design-portfolioIn this session Andrew will give you invaluable pointers for raw real estate and for land with buildings and a house.
He will cover a wide scope of projects and ideas from building homes to locating retreat centers and other regional nature based businesses in the Hudson Valley region, including; Ulster & Sullivan county, Dutchess county, Columbia, and Greene county and generally discussing useful holistic ecological and economic criteria, for the northeastern region, and the world.Some main points to be covered:
Assessing water quality, Air quality
Superfund sites and Brownfields.The best places to live and farm
Setting up very remote self sufficient communities and homesteading economics.
Outlining your goals and desires for country living.Best places to live for city mouse/country mouse lifestyles.
Creating fully off grid, energy independent homes and communities.
Ecological water and waste systems.
Building designs that optimize natural capital on site.
Permaculture educational centers and schools as the hub of community development projects.The work we do as consultants to help you find beautiful, town & country living...http://www.permaculturenewyork.com/property-analysis
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