Upcoming Action Days

What is a Permaculture Action Day?

Permaculture Action Days are one-day events in which we mobilize people from a concert, show, or cultural event to a day of direct action creating regenerative systems and common spaces in our own cities and communities. Hundreds of people at a time have come out to Permaculture Action Days to build urban farms, community gardens, public food forests, natural buildings, rainwater catchment systems, greenhouses and more in 65 cities across the continent. These days of community action are always free and host workshops, music, and shared food in addition to the hands-on projects being facilitated.

Read about our past Permaculture Action Days by scrolling down the Our Story page and clicking “Read More” on the articles that catch your eye!

What is Permaculture?

Through a set of principles for social and agricultural design, permaculture utilizes the patterns and features of natural ecosystems to design human-made systems that care for people, care for the earth, and redistribute the surplus. From agro-ecological food systems like forest gardens, to sequestering carbon through soil building, to catching and storing rainwater for irrigation and drinking, permaculture works with nature to meet the needs of people while regenerating the natural world. Permaculture is a design science; a movement; and a toolbox for transitioning to a just and sustainable way of living.

Check out the principles and values that guide our Permaculture Action Days.

What Do Y’all Do?

We partner with touring artists, music festivals, and other cultural events; we coordinate with local community spaces and projects; and we design and install systems that produce food, catch water, build soil, grow useful plants, and provide community space.

First and foremost, we show up in solidarity with local communities, organizers, farmers, gardeners, artists, and change-makers. Second to that only, we make sure that these days are full of joy, music, learning, food, celebration, and action.

Audiences from concerts and cultural events come together to build, plant, and create projects like garden beds, edible forest gardens, rainwater catchment earthworks, seed libraries, outdoor classrooms, and gathering spaces in their communities.