Green Roots Convergence- 4 days- Chagrin Falls

Green Roots Conference
Chagrin Falls, Ohio
4 days: Oct 16-19, 2025

Join fellow gardeners and land stewards for four days of hands-on learning, connection, and community building across Northeast Ohio. The focus is on gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living that you can bring back to your own yard or community in central Ohio.

What to expect:
• Garden and land workshops on soil health, seed saving, food preservation, foraging, and fiber arts
• Two-day immersions (Oct 16-17) choose one of these 2-day intensive classes: permaculture, natural building, or Listening to the Land at Kelly’s Working Well Farm
• Full Saturday list of optional sessions for every level of gardener
• Farm-to-table dinner, live music, and optional camping on the farm
• Sunday “Designing Our Future Together”: group conversations on collaboration, regional food systems, and cultural resilience
• Family-friendly program with outdoor activities for youth (ages 5+)

Logistics:
• Dates: October 16-19, 2025
• Main hub: Family Life Center, Chagrin Falls, OH
• Satellite site: Kelly’s Working Well Farm
• Registration required at the Green Roots Convergence website

https://grcon.life/what-to-expecthow-to-register

Saturday Skill Share sessions include:
Maximizing nutrition from garden and food forest * Mushroom Entrepreneurship * Creating Community with Intention and Inclusion * Raising Quail * Bioregioning and Watershed Wisdom * Cooperatives and Land Access * Backyard Brews your Garden will LOVE!* Neighborhood of Earth Beings * Solar Applications for Home and Farm * Intro to Leather Working * Tracking and Ohio wild game behavior * Learn to Receive and to Give (with Consent!) * Writing with the Earth * Mushroom Hunting 101 * Reimagining Tomorrow: From Scarcity to Shared Abundance * Rebalancing, Healing, and Coming to Center * Clothing Repair Café * Becoming a Nature Detective * Building with Mud * Climate and Health * Spilling the tea! Talking plants with people. * Confronting the Elephant in the Room * Bumble Bee Baskets * Cycles and spirals: in the world and in your life * Lake Erie is Talking, but We Aren't Listening * Fall Fermentation * Imagining a fully regenerative food system in NEO * Permaculture in the GLESS * Mycotecture 101: Using Fungi to Shape the Built Environment

Learn more here:
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