What we’re about
Permaculture aims to regenerate healthy, productive landscapes and communities by consciously applying ecological principles to the design of human habitats. It is a theory, a mindset, and a lens for looking at the world in order to create a sustainable and just planet for all. Permaculture’s three ethics - Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share - and its twelve principles are used to design systems that create and foster healthy relationships. Through this discipline, each of us can take greater responsibility for ourselves and our world by developing life skills for sustainable living to become active participants and producers.
“Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance.” -Toby Hemenway (permaculturist & author)
What we do: We build community, share ideas and learn how to move forward mindfully and in tune with the ethics of Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share. Through the Seacoast NH Permaculture Meetup and other partner organizations we bring people together by offering workshops, speakers, movies, discussions, swaps, potluck meals and other events.
"We don't know what details of a truly sustainable future are going to be like, but we need options, we need people experimenting in all kinds of ways and permaculturists are one of the critical gangs that are doing that." -Dr. David Suzuki (geneticist, broadcaster, environmentalist)
Our mission: Seacoast NH Permaculture Group empowers individuals and communities to work together to create resiliency through the use of Permaculture in the NH seacoast area and beyond. We inspire and teach each other by sharing skills, knowledge, and regenerative practices, nurturing our connections and celebrating our work.
“You cannot save the land apart from the people or the people apart from the land.” -Wendell Berry (farmer, environmentalist, author)
Land Acknowledgment: Indigenous cultures, past and present, have been an inspiration to our learning and the development of permaculture. To honor them and to deepen our connection to and understanding of the land we are living on, we share that the Seacoast of NH is the traditional ancestral homeland of the Abenaki, Pennacook and Wabanaki Peoples. We are grateful to them for stewarding this area so beautifully for thousands of years and continuing that work now. They invite us to join their efforts – see indigenousnh.com to learn more.
Upcoming events
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•OnlineMonday Book Study 2026 Begins: "How to Fall in Love with the Future"
OnlineThe winter book study begins! Join NOFA-NH and Seacoast Permaculture for a 5-part Zoom book discussion of: How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller’s Guide to Changing the World by Rob Hopkins. For our first meeting, please read the Introduction, pages 1-11. We'll be meeting each other and going over the plan for the series as well as talking about the Intro.
Rob Hopkins, cofounder of the international Transition Network movement, invites us to travel to future worlds we would actually want to live in. There are an infinite number of possible futures that lie ahead of us—like threads stretching out into the distance. He asks us to consider: what would the world look like if we all got to work imagining—and then building—a world we were deeply in love with? From the life and writings of musician Sun Ra and the history of Black utopian movements to the latest neuroscience on what goes on in our minds—and hearts—when we “time travel,” Hopkins brings essential new thinking to anyone overwhelmed with dread and anxiety for the future.
SCHEDULE/PLAN: We will meet on Zoom for a facilitated discussion Mondays, January 5 & 19, Feb 2 & 16, & March 2 (5 weeks), 7-8:30pm.
COST: Register here to join us for the first meeting for $15 per person. After that, donations for meetings will be welcomed but not required. If you do not want to use paypal, we always take checks to Seacoast Permaculture, 219 France Rd, Barrington NH 03825 - we both save money this way, too!
In our Permaculture Topics Discussions & Book Studies, we aim to expand our knowledge of topics related to permaculture in an ongoing series where members can connect to build community. This series has a particular focus on "social/societal permaculture."
The series is facilitated by Seacoast Permaculture & NOFA-NH members who are involved in organic growing, education and social justice movements. The facilitators help the conversation move along, and make sure everyone gets a chance to share.
About our cosponsor: NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. We help people build local, just, and sustainable food systems. Learn more at https://www.nofanh.org
NOTE from SP Organizers: Want to stay in the loop beyond our Meetups? Sign up for the monthly Seacoast NH Permaculture email newsletter to get notified about additional local and online events, hands-on projects, and resources. Sign up here. Unsubscribe at any time.6 attendees - $5.00
•OnlineThe Work That Reconnects Introduction Online
OnlineIn these challenging times we invite you to an online introduction to The Work That Reconnects. We bring you a set of practices developed by Joanna Macy to support and re-energize people working to create change in the world. There are four stages, beginning in gratitude, moving through honoring our pain, seeing with new eyes, and going forth. The practices help make space for grief, anger and uncertainty while also cultivating possibility and joy.
COST: We request a sliding scale donation of $5-50 per person. To reserve your space, we are taking a $5 deposit. You can pay that here with paypal or by check: Seacoast Permaculture, 219 France Rd, Barrington, NH 03825. The check option means you will not be charged an extra fee by meetup! Please bring cash or check if you can contribute further that day.
Cosponsored by 350NH, NH Peace Action Education Fund & Seacoast Permaculture.
CO-LED BY:
Kendra Ford currently working for 350NH engaging lots of people across the state in creative work against climate change. Before that she was a Unitarian Universalist minister for more than 20 years and had the chance to be trained in The Work That Reconnects while Joanna Macy was still offering workshops. She will be forever grateful for having Joanna's kind voice in her head saying, "we don't know how this is going to turn out!"
Amy Antonucci has been involved in activism, agriculture, and the arts in Seacoast NH for over 30 years. After receiving her B.A. in Women’s Studies at UNH Durham, she has worked on issues of ecological health, sustainable agriculture, human rights and peace. She is chair of the board of NH Peace Action Education Fund. Amy is co-owner of Living Land Permaculture Homestead in Barrington, NH. She helps organize the Seacoast Permaculture Group and the True Tales Live storytelling program in Portsmouth NH, and teaches Sacred Circle Dance and Frame Drumming.
NOTE from SP Organizers: Want to stay in the loop beyond our Meetups? Sign up for the monthly Seacoast NH Permaculture email newsletter to get notified about additional local and online events, hands-on projects, and resources. Sign up here. Unsubscribe at any time.3 attendees - $10.00
•OnlineBioregioning Workshop
OnlineBioregioning is the ethos and action involved with living in a place and working with its natural systems. By asserting our personal agency and responsibility we can become stewards of the air, water and soil and become the good ancestors we need to be. Not a new concept at all, it is the way humans have lived, adapted and thrived for thousands of years. As a new concept for our modern, industrial society, however, it will take a shift of our own minds to recover what was the ‘natural’ way to live so many years ago.
At this workshop, attendees will identify their own bioregion, and can start to build a presentation to use and expand for their own target audience for change. This could be any grade student, local representatives, regional managers, or the general public.
By uncovering the qualities and boundaries of your own bioregion, your understanding of your local geography and biophysical surroundings will help you identify high impact points of various Nature-based Solutions (NbS) you will be able to assess where to best apply your time and efforts.
COST: Sliding scale of $10-25 with a $10 nonrefundable deposit due here. Or avoid paypal and the extra charges - send a check to Seacoast Permaculture, 219 France Rd, Barrington NH 03825!
LED BY: Mark Haubner, resident of the Peconic Bioregion of NY, has served as president of the North Fork Environmental Council, co-chair of the Town of Riverhead Environmental Advisory Committee and a member of Suffolk County Council on Environmental Quality. He currently volunteers for 10 nonprofit organizations, all of which focus on protecting the environment. He is a passionate advocate working to educate people about how all of the Earth’s natural systems are intertwined and so are the solutions to the ecological problems we face. Mark has participated in many online programs with Seacoast Permaculture and we are thrilled to have him join us as a presenter now as well.
JOINING ONLINE: Our online programs are offered via Zoom. When you rsvp "yes" the Zoom link will be visible to you on this page. Whenever you are logged in to your meetup account and come to this page you will be able to see it, click on it, or cut and paste it. We send you a message with the link through meetup, but your email or meetup settings may stop it from reaching you, so *remember to come to this page for access!*
NEWSFLASH: We launched a Seacoast NH Permaculture monthly newsletter that will NOT go through meetup. Diversifying our communication methods will make the group more resilient. The newsletter covers upcoming events, information and photos. Sign up for the newsletter here!2 attendees
Past events
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