The Come to Life Permaculture Action Camp in Johnson and Burlington, VT combines a 4-day Permaculture Action Course, Rising Appalachia’s Friday & Saturday night concerts at Higher Ground, and a Permaculture Action Day w/ the band at Willow Crossing Farm.

Permaculture Action Course: Monday, May 14th – Friday, May 18th

with Ryan Rising of Permaculture Action Network and Keith Morris of Prospect Rock Permaculture, as well as some very special guest facilitators, at Willow Crossing Farm in Johnson, VT

Rising Appalachia, Peia, and Arouna Diarra at Higher Ground: Friday, May 18th and Saturday, May 19th in Burlington, VT.

Permaculture Action Day w/ Rising Appalachia: Sunday, May 20th at Willow Crossing Farm

The Permaculture Action Day itself on May 20th is free for all to attend, as always! This is our 80th Permaculture Action Day  : )

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Location

The Permaculture Action Course and Action Day will take place at the beautiful Willow Crossing Farm in Johnson, Vermont. Nested along a flowing river and amongst a canopy of hundreds of useful fruit & nut trees, Willow Crossing Farm is a working permaculture center for intensive food production and ecological education.

Course Overview

The Permaculture Action Course will cover both ecological design science and regenerative earth-based practices, as well as social permaculture and community building skills. Expanding upon the resolutely empowering tool of permaculture design, the Permaculture Action Course is designed to send you back out into the world with the facilitation and organizing skills, as well as the design and implementation skills, to take agency in your life and bring about a more just and regenerative world for all.

Course Topics include:

•  – Intro to Permaculture: Principles, Ethics, and Design
•  – The Permaculture Design Process including Site Analysis & Assessment

•  – Edible Forest Gardens & Food Forests
•  – Disaster Preparedness and Relief
  •  – Rapid Deployment Compost Toilets
  •  – Water Filtration
  •  – Food Collection and Cooking
•  – Direct Action and Community Mobilizations
•  – Regenerating Land After Disasters
•  – Social Permaculture & Alternative Economies
•  – Facilitation & Decision Making
•  – Organizing Action Days
•  – Participatory Ecology
•  – Tour of a Working Farm & Homestead

Facilitators:

Ryan Rising is a community organizer and permaculture educator based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, and co-founder of the Permaculture Action Network. After a decade of local organizing around direct action, food justice, ecological design, and community living, Ryan organized the Permaculture Action Tour with music producer The Polish Ambassador in the fall of 2014. Ryan has since co-organized over 80 Permaculture Action Days throughout 25 US states, bringing hundreds of people at a time to build greenhouses, rainwater catchment, gardens, and a diversity of regenerative systems at 80 different local, community projects including public food forests, urban farms, and ecovillages. Ryan co-founded the Gill Tract Community Farm, which produces tons of organic food annually that is distributed for free all around the Bay Area, and the Omni Commons, an urban commons and community center.

Keith Morris is the founder of Willow Crossing Farm and a Professor of Permaculture Design at the University of Vermont. As a grower, builder, and designer, he has created ecologically regenerative and economically viable food systems in New Zealand, Colorado, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Quebec, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nigeria, Ghana, Denmark, and the Netherlands, working regularly throughout New England and New York City. He has spent over 20 years developing permaculture farms, towns, schools, indigenous spaces, squats, activist projects, and solidarity actions with exploited populations. Keith helps growers and communities design appropriate infrastructure to make food systems more regenerative, resilient, and connected; and started the Permaculture Education programs at UVM, Sterling College, the Yestermorrow Design Build School, Saint Michael’s College, and Paul Smith’s College, and with the USAID Farmer to Farmer Program.

Permaculture Action Day Projects

Hands-on projects that you are invited to engage with on Sunday, May 20th  include:

•  – Building Raised Beds for Food and Herb Growing
•  – Tree Planting for River Bank Stabilization and Food Production
•  – Mushroom Inoculation
•  – Fruit Tree Pruning & Care

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Registration Fee (Register Here)

Registration for the Permaculture Action Camp is at a sliding scale of $350-900. Suggested tuition is $600; this covers three organic meals a day for four days; four full days of training in a beautiful yurt classroom (including an arrival day on Monday and a half day before departure on Friday), camping on site at Willow Crossing Farm, and deep inclusion in the Permaculture Action Day w/Rising Appalachia as co-facilitators on Sunday, May 20th.

Your registration fee also includes concert tickets to Friday and Saturday night’s Rising Appalachia shows in Burlington!

Please keep in mind: $600 covers the real cost of your participation in the course. Paying at the high end of the sliding scale at $900 subsidizes others’ participation in the course who can’t afford to attend otherwise. Paying at the low end of the scale is welcome (we want your participation!), but please be aware that paying toward the middle range ensures that facilitators and cooks are compensated, project materials are paid for, and everyone involved is taken care of!

For an additional fee, there is inside lodging available. Inquire at Keith@ProspectRock.org

Additional Airbnb Lodging is also available off-site at your own discretion.

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To inquire about the course, registration, or any other details please write to Contact@PermacultureAction.org