Name: PERMACULTURE BOOK CLUB: "The Solutions are Already Here" Part Three, in Gary!
Start: 2025-11-22T19:00:00.000Z
Location: JoyBomb! Social Center

**June 8th:**
**read pages 173 to page 256**

For The Love of Soil is a land manager's roadmap to healthy soil and revitalized food systems in these challenging times. Repairing the water cycle with healthy soil can do many times more to reduce global warming than atmospheric carbon reduction.

This peer-led reading group will meet three times in person from 11am-1pm to discuss one section of the book:

**April 6th** read introduction to page 106
**May 4th** read pages 107 to page 172
**June 8th** read pages 173 to page 256

The hosts, Dan and Chris Waters, completed their Permaculture Design Course in 2017. Dan has been studying soil microbiology at the Soil Foodweb school for the last 2 years.

Parking is a little tight so we encourage ride sharing. There is room for a couple of cars in front of the house and then some cars can be parked on the street on the West side of the house.

The timing makes this sort of a Sunday Brunch, so we encourage you to bring a dish to share.

*Please consider making a donation to this Meetup Group! This group is maintained by a voluntary team who wish to spread the good vibes of permaculture and healthy relationships with the land and people, and your support for helps make this happen. Donations can be made in person to Hillary Miles on the day of the event, or via the donations link on the NWI Permaculture Meetup main page. Thank you!*

NWI Permaculture Meetup

Hillary Miles

Dan Waters

Monica Conway

Sneha

PERMACULTURE BOOK CLUB: "For The Love of Soil" Part Three, in Valparaiso!

Valparaiso 

**This peer-led reading group will meet at Becca's house in Merrillville on Fridays in person from 5:30 - 7:30 PM central starting July 11th.** We will decide as a group how many sessions we need to meet. Participants can come reading the first 2 chapters of the book this first week. The Standing Stones and Learning to See chapters.

Our Q3 Book Club text is Robin Wall Kimmerer's ***Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses***. A collection of personal essays that explores the lives of mosses, blending scientific knowledge with indigenous perspectives to reveal the intricate relationships between mosses and their environment, using the seemingly simple moss as a metaphor for deeper ecological understanding and ways of living in harmony with nature; the book draws on the author's experiences as a scientist, mother, teacher, and Native American heritage to weave together biology and cultural stories about mosses. Participants can find the book on Libby and Audible.

Your host, Becca, earned her PDC from Rhonda Baird in 2023. She lives on a one-acre growing homestead and works as the urban agriculture educator for Purdue Extension Lake County. Her homestead has ducks, chickens, guinea pigs, dog and cats. Features onsite include a shallow pond for water catchment, a fruit and nut tree guild, several pollinator plantings, 4 raised vegetable beds, and a natural playscape made of fallen wood and earth mounds. There is also a playground for the kids-families are welcome to bring their kids to this book club.

**We can only accommodate 6 additional cars in our driveway-there is no street parking.** Carpooling is encouraged. If a car doesn't fit, Walmart is down Colorado St. and we can pick you up there. Becca will provide light refreshments. Others are encouraged to bring a snack to share.

*Please consider making a donation to this Meetup Group! This group is maintained by a voluntary team who wish to spread the good vibes of permaculture and healthy relationships with the land and people, and your support for this site helps make this happen. Donations can be made in person to Hillary Miles on the day of the event, or via the donations link on the NWI Permaculture Meetup main page. Thank you!*

Rebecca Koetz

LaShana

Alex Shubin

Candace Jarzombek

Rachel

Elise Duffy

mjoneill081960

PERMACULTURE BOOK CLUB: "Gathering Moss" in Merrillville!

Saturday, October 25th:
**Ch. 1 - A Wide-Angle View**
**Ch. 2 - Foxes Building Henhouses**

This peer-led reading group will meet at Joy Bomb Social Center in Lake Station! The reading schedule will be as follows:

**Saturday, October 25:**
Ch. 1 & 2
**Saturday, November 8:**
Ch. 3
**Saturday, November 22:**
Ch. 4 & 5

Our Q4 Book Club text is Peter Gelderloos' ***The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below***. We live in a world aflame. As the natural world burns around us, so too are our social worlds engulfed in the conflagration of Fossil Capitalism. We know this in our bones, and yet... And yet the flames still rise! No--and yet the Solutions are Already Here! To recognize them, we must look past the false promises of Green Capitalism and learn from our diverse yet interdependent struggles for human liberation. We must supplement our physical technologies with social technologies born out of indigenous and anarchic resistance. Above all, we must act up, act out, and act now! Solidarity forever! All power to all the people!

Your host, Thomas (they/he) is a big nerd at heart. They went to school for philosophy, are currently in training to be a mental health counselor, and one year into their heavy metal phase. He's looking forward to sharing interests and learning with y'all.

*Please consider making a donation to this Meetup Group! This group is maintained by a voluntary team who wish to spread the good vibes of permaculture and healthy relationships with the land and people, and your support for this site helps make this happen. Donations can be made in person to Hillary Miles on the day of the event, or via the donations link on the NWI Permaculture Meetup main page. Thank you!*

Thomas Dabay

PERMACULTURE BOOK CLUB: "The Solutions are Already Here" Part One, in Gary!

JoyBomb! Social Center

**Saturday, November 8:**
Ch. 3 - The Solutions Are Already Here

This peer-led reading group will meet at Joy Bomb Social Center in Lake Station! The reading schedule will be as follows:

**Saturday, October 25:**
Ch. 1 & 2
**Saturday, November 8:**
Ch. 3
**Saturday, November 22:**
Ch. 4 & 5

Our Q4 Book Club text is Peter Gelderloos' ***The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below***. We live in a world aflame. As the natural world burns around us, so too are our social worlds engulfed in the conflagration of Fossil Capitalism. We know this in our bones, and yet... And yet the flames still rise! No--and yet the Solutions are Already Here! To recognize them, we must look past the false promises of Green Capitalism and learn from our diverse yet interdependent struggles for human liberation. We must supplement our physical technologies with social technologies born out of indigenous and anarchic resistance. Above all, we must act up, act out, and act now! Solidarity forever! All power to all the people!

Your host, Thomas (they/he) is a big nerd at heart. They went to school for philosophy, are currently in training to be a mental health counselor, and one year into their heavy metal phase. He's looking forward to sharing interests and learning with y'all.

*Please consider making a donation to this Meetup Group! This group is maintained by a voluntary team who wish to spread the good vibes of permaculture and healthy relationships with the land and people, and your support for this site helps make this happen. Donations can be made in person to Hillary Miles on the day of the event, or via the donations link on the NWI Permaculture Meetup main page. Thank you!*

PERMACULTURE BOOK CLUB: "The Solutions are Already Here" Part Two, in Gary!

**Saturday, November 22:**
Ch. 4 - Versatile Strategies
Ch. 5 - A Truly Different Future

This peer-led reading group will meet at Joy Bomb Social Center in Lake Station! The reading schedule will be as follows:

**Saturday, October 25:**
Ch. 1 & 2
**Saturday, November 8:**
Ch. 3
**Saturday, November 22:**
Ch. 4 & 5

Our Q4 Book Club text is Peter Gelderloos' ***The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below***. We live in a world aflame. As the natural world burns around us, so too are our social worlds engulfed in the conflagration of Fossil Capitalism. We know this in our bones, and yet... And yet the flames still rise! No--and yet the Solutions are Already Here! To recognize them, we must look past the false promises of Green Capitalism and learn from our diverse yet interdependent struggles for human liberation. We must supplement our physical technologies with social technologies born out of indigenous and anarchic resistance. Above all, we must act up, act out, and act now! Solidarity forever! All power to all the people!

Your host, Thomas (they/he) is a big nerd at heart. They went to school for philosophy, are currently in training to be a mental health counselor, and one year into their heavy metal phase. He's looking forward to sharing interests and learning with y'all.

*Please consider making a donation to this Meetup Group! This group is maintained by a voluntary team who wish to spread the good vibes of permaculture and healthy relationships with the land and people, and your support for this site helps make this happen. Donations can be made in person to Hillary Miles on the day of the event, or via the donations link on the NWI Permaculture Meetup main page. Thank you!*

PERMACULTURE BOOK CLUB: "The Solutions are Already Here" Part Three, in Gary!

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