Saturday Permaculture Workshop Series in Hillsborough, NC Beginner-friendly Permaculture classes with a lot of depth! Join us for the whole series or drop in for any workshop. (note, the video trailer below says May 31 for next class, but it’s actually June 21. Thanks!) Next Workshop – June 21 Learn Read more…
I wrote this on 2017 as a call to the activists in my life and to myself. There is so much to feel sorrow and anger about in industrial civilization, and yet if we depend on it completely, we have very little power to change it. All the well-meaning posts Read more…
What happens to our gardens when the gardener can’t tend them? It was Spring of 2020. My life was undergoing a total transformation, a shedding of thick old skin affirmed one day by a visit from a 5 foot long black snake that crawled his way into a small gap Read more…
There are no mistakes in a forest. There is no problem that does not hold the seed of its own solution. There is no waste in a forest. There is no fertilizer, no irrigation, no weeding. Every being’s gifts are another being’s needs. We don’t have to do it all. Trees want to Read more…
Silver Branch Permaculture “Silver Branch” is a an archaic symbol recorded in Irish myth but most likely originates far in the Paleolithic. It points to the memory of an entirely other way of seeing. In myth, the Silver Branch reopens the door of perception and allows for reunion with life. Read more…
What if we have everything we need? How does a garden begin? Past the first dream of ripe and gnarly heirloom tomatoes, and after finding the perfect space in whatever land we are lucky enough to be able to alter, how do we start our garden beds? One of the Read more…
My journey to Permaculture began in a community garden in 2011 in Carrboro, North Carolina. Like most people I knew, I didn’t know how to grow vegetables. I couldn’t identify one tree from another. I remember being asked to mulch a path and having to admit I didn’t know what Read more…
If you’ve noticed that we’ve been quiet for a while, we have a very good excuse. As of 2023, Matt is the father of a new baby. It’s taken a little time to adapt to the miraculous chaos of parenting while also starting a new homestead! Having a child has Read more…
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life… When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then Read more…
Imagine you wanted to help a relationship with someone and so you visited a therapist together. You both tell the therapist your problems and pay them a lot of money. Everyone goes home, and in a week you meet up again. Smiling, the therapist hands you each a script with Read more…
