What we’re about
This is a place to meet other locals interested in Urban Homesteading and simple living skills like gardening, food preservation, caring for livestock, wilderness survival, alternative energy, edible landscaping, permaculture, container gardening . . . sustainability and resilience. These skills enable you to live harmoniously with nature's processes thereby improving the habitat for all living things around you.
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See all- Zoom Presentations - Preparedness, Resilience and PermacultureNeeds location
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The series of zoom presentations and site tours is specific to Eugene, Oregon but the content is applicable anywhere in the USA. Preparedness is gaining a lot of traction but its scope is very limited. A bit more ambition could boost preparedness to a higher level. That's what the series is about. Jan Spencer is the organizer. suburbanpermaculture.org
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Join us for a timely set of zoom presentations.
Preparedness, Resilience and Permaculture
* Resilience actions can take preparedness to a higher level.
* Permaculture actions can take resilience to a higher level.
* Positive human potential is our greatest renewable resource.More info at suburbanpermaculture.org/zoomstours.html with links to
- Zoom presentations. Recorded and put on youtube.
- Short essay explaining the convergence of preparedness, resilience and permaculture.
- 25 years of Suburban permaculture
- Could be additional site tours
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Zoom link for all presentations - https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81223758710?pwd=bG01SWVGMFY1TkZhZWk3aTVnK2VIUT09Here is the Schedule – Zoom Presentations and Companion Site Tours
All free.May 13, Tuesday, 7:30 PM Denver Time; Zoom Presentation and Discussion
The Convergence of Preparedness, Resilience and Permaculture
This presentation will explain how Resilience actions can take preparedness to a higher level and Permaculture actions can take resilience to a higher level.May 17, Saturday, Site Tour, Suburban Permaculture and Impressive Front Yard Gardens
Site Tour. Meet - 1 PM Rosetta Park, River Road Neighborhood, Benjamin and Evergreen. Visit a 1/4 acre suburban property with 25 years of purposeful transformation to produce more basic needs on site and to reduce eco footprints. Grass to garden front and back, edible landscaping all over, driveway to food production, garage to living space, 6500 gal rain water system, patio to passive solar, passive solar ADU, habitat, aesthetic features. 1000s of people have visited over the years. The tour will visit two other properties and several very different front yard gardens.May 27, Tuesday, 7:30 PM Denver Time; Zoom Presentation and Discussion
Preparedness - What Are We Preparing For And Why?
What are we preparing for? Why do we have all these social, economic and environmental problems that are causing disruptions that call for preparedness? There is a common denominator and when we address that common denominator, we can address virtually all those problems at the same time. This is not a magic solution but a point of departure for social, economic, political and environmental paradigm shift.May 31, Saturday, Site Tour, Duma Community
Site Tour – Meet - 10 AM, Duma Community, 2244 Alder
Duma Community is an intentional residential group of 9 people sharing a large historical home. The intention is to build group cohesion and reduce eco footprints. Community members share house maintenance and chores. Evening meals are together. The place has a shared wood shop, rain water catchment, solar electric, chickens, jacuzzi and common spaces. Duma has a beautiful and functional food forest and edible landscape. The former packed gravel driveway is now a garden. The front along the sidewalk features entertaining place making projects. Duma is an excellent example of paradigm shift - enhancing social relations, producing more basic needs at home and reducing impact on the environment.June 17, Tuesday, 7:30 PM Denver Time; Zoom Presentation and Discussion
Allies and Assets and Aspects for Preparedness, Resilience and Paradigm Shift
Almost any local public interest organization exists to help make the community a better place to live. That means they have common interests and can be on the same team,,, a potential network for resilience. Assets are tools we have to work with such as communication and people with useful skills for paradigm shift. Aspects of paradigm mean what are characteristics of a paradigm shift way of life such as reducing eco footprints, how we manage our own time and money, building civic culture and more. Allies, assets and aspects all add up to positive action.June 21, Saturday, Site Tour Friendly Neighborhood , Various locations
Site Tour - Meet - 11 AM, Common Ground Garden, 21st and Van Buren
This site tour will visit several locations starting at Common Ground Garden. CGG is a cooperative neighborhood project, turning an unused city street right of way into a very popular neighborhood point of interest. The garden is cooperative. The tour will visit at least two residential properties with many resilience/permaculture features for food production, solar and rain water catchment. The tour will visit the Friendly Tool Box Project. The ToolBox Project is a volunteer-driven, tool-lending library open to residents of Lane County. The Project and CGG are excellent examples of neighborhood initiative to boost the well being of people and the environment. Finally the tour will finish at Friendly Market. We want to imagine the apartments across the street as a proxy for developing a parking lot. Join us on the tour to hear why this is important. Bikes are strongly recommended.July 8, Tuesday, 7:30 PM Denver Time; Zoom Presentation and Discussion
Real Life Examples of Resilience, Permaculture and Paradigm Shift
This presentation will be a show and tell of real life examples creating a more resilient present and future. Empowering young people in Syracuse, maker space in Oakland, eco villages - Portland, LA, Columbus; Local 20/20 in Port Townsend, permaculture boot camp; pushing back on cars in New York City, Paris, Houten, Barcelona, Alghero and more.July 12, Saturday, Site Tour East Blair Housing Co-op,
Site Tour – Meet – 1 PM. East Blair, 940 W 4th, Whiteaker N'hood
East Blair is a cooperatively owned and managed housing cooperative and is home to about 50 members. EB values and encourages community, creativity, diversity, civility, cooperation, and accountability among its members and its neighbors. EB dates to 1982 and features an impressive variety of on site features that build community culture, organizational skills and synchronizing smart use of its eight properties. EB is perhaps the best example in Eugene to show what block planning can look like. The tour will explain.July 29, Zoom, 7:30 PM Denver Time; Zoom Presentation and Discussion
Taking Resilience and Paradigm Shift Ideas To A Wider Audience
Be the change, strategic planning goals, an enormous movement waiting to discover itself. Organizations, networks, members. Imagine AARP and the Sierra Club advocating suburban permaculture and block planning.August 12, 7:30 PM Denver Time; Zoom Discussion
Reflect, review, compare notes, the site tours and previous zoom presentations with thoughts of disaster preparedness, resilience, permaculture, paradigm shift. - Four Seasons Gardening: SUMMER workshop @ LSILiving Systems Institute, Golden, CO
The Four Seasons Gardening workshops serve to educate people about how they can participate year-round in habitat-building, soil-building, carbon-storing & food-producing gardening right in their own yards.
The SUMMER workshop covers these skills and knowledges for the summer season:
- a simple drip irrigation system for all households
- planting in a mulch bed (hot crops)
- plant identification
- summer maintenance using chop/drop
- how/when to "weed" (or as we like to call it, "mulch")
Workshops are led by Zanna Ceesay, head gardener at Living Systems Institute (LSI) in Golden, CO. Contact Zanna for any questions!
Please join us and bring a friend! Suggested donation of $10 for those who can give, but no one is turned away. All donations are gratefully welcomed to help us continue offering accessible education that supports people and planet. Make a donation at livingsystemsinst.org/support-lsi or bring cash to the event.
