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SUMMARY:Edible and Medicinal Wild Plant Tour
DESCRIPTION:With thanks to Tortuga Flow Farm\, we’re co-offering a fun\, joyful\, hands-on edible & medicinal wild plant tour.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome on a Fall plant stroll with us and share your questions and your own welcome plant knowledge as we meet and taste the plant friends of our area!  \n\n\n\nTogether we’ll make a simple plant medicine you can take home with the knowledge of how to safely work with it for your and others’ health.   \n\n\n\nThis will be a breezy and beautiful way to spend an early Autumn morning as we walk together into the cooling of the day and the slow shedding of the leaves. \n\n\n\nAll levels of experience welcome. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn this walk:\n\n\n\n\nLearn plant identification\n\n\n\nExperience hands-on\, in-person learning\n\n\n\nDiscover which local plants are edible and/or medicinal and how to safely work with them\n\n\n\nEnjoy the kind fall weather and meet other plant people!\n\n\n\n\nRegister:\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThis walk is offered through Tortuga Flow Farm. Registration is on their website here. Limited spots are available. We would love to see you there.
URL:https://silverbranchpermaculture.org/event/edible-and-medicinal-wild-plant-tour/
LOCATION:Morrisville Community Park\, 1520 Morrisville Pkwy\, Morrisville\, North Carolina\, 27560\, United States
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SUMMARY:Permaculture Skills: Soil\, Compost\, Cover Crop\, Biochar\, and More
DESCRIPTION:This afternoon workshop is part of our 2026 Permaculture Earth Skills Series. It follows our morning workshop in the same location on Local Herbal Medicine Making. \n\n\n\nGrow Healthy Plants and Healthy Humans!  Learn the Fundamentals of Permaculture Gardening Methods to Build Rich\, Deep Soil.\n\n\n\nThrough a variety of permaculture no-till techniques\, this formerly nutrient depleted\, very low pH pine forest soil became rich\, dark\, and able to support a great diversity of life.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWe can turn the most depleted\, compacted\, eroded dirt into soil\, rich with life. \n\n\n\nRegenerating soil may be one of the most important tasks of our time.  There is almost nowhere in the Piedmont that hasn’t been damaged by hundreds of years of over-cultivation\, over-tilling\, and over-development.  Nutrients run off the land into streams where they become pollutants.  Most of us know this story. \n\n\n\nYet there’s a different story we could be telling with our hands and our care. It’s one that leaves a tangible\, physical hope for the future: we are the people that rebuilt the soil. \n\n\n\nPermaculture teaches a whole collection of techniques\, new and ancient\, to turn dirt into deep\, dark\, wonderful smelling soil you’ll want to put your seeds (and hands!) in.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCover crop is simple to learn and gives you a satisfying way to always be building soil.  \n\n\n\nMany Good Ways to Begin\n\n\n\nWhile you can find ten thousand videos online of how to make rich soil\, the sheer number of choices can be overwhelming. The opinions can be intense and contradictory. \n\n\n\nI’ve found that with all the information out there\, many people I work with just want to know how to get started\, and they want to see it in person and try it with their own hands. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is to teach you the practical skills that will make you comfortable and confident in creating soil right where you are. You’ll be able to bring these skills home to prepare garden beds for next year’s planting with soil that will be far better than what was there before. \n\n\n\nWith these practices\, it doesn’t matter if your soil test reads like a biological desert. I know\, because the soil I tended in Cedar Grove did. You can build soil anywhere\, using what’s around you and easily available. \n\n\n\n… and yes\, we will include hands-on practice! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSome Practices We’ll Cover:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo-till\, or till-once gardening – how does it work\, really?\n\n\n\nLazy composting\n\n\n\nSheet mulching\n\n\n\nTurning weeds into abundant soil with “chop and drop”\n\n\n\nCompost tea\n\n\n\nCreating homemade biochar (if fire weather allows 🙂 )\n\n\n\nUsing cover crops wisely\n\n\n\nHugulkultur – burying wood as a carbon sponge\n\n\n\nWater-smart gardening\n\n\n\nGrowing edible mushrooms IN your garden beds!  Get food and fungal soil!\n\n\n\nOther creative sources of fertility available in your community\n\n\n\n…Plus\, a whole bunch of ways you can eat or use common garden “weeds”\n\n\n\n\nGood soil is more than the foundation of good gardening.  It’s the greatest ally you will have for healthy plants that can take care of themselves. \n\n\n\nLearn and practice these techniques\, and the generations after you will inherit a far deeper soil than what you started with. \n\n\n\nVenue and Workshop Details:\n\n\n\nOur Saturday afternoon workshop will be held at Jubilee Healing Farm – a beautifully tended small farm located on 10 acres in Hillsborough\, NC that supports volunteer and community-building activities and workshops for people seeking healing. \n\n\n\nWe’ll have the workshop outside unless the weather is truly extreme.  Please wear comfortable clothing for the day. If it’s going to rain a little\, bring rain gear. \n\n\n\nWe may do a little forest walking.  Good to wear compatible footwear.  If you’re concerned about ticks or other itchy expressions of the local ecology\, please bring non-toxic insect deterrent. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWhat to Bring:\n\n\n\n\nJournal and pen\n\n\n\nWater bottle\n\n\n\nWork clothes you don’t mind getting a little dirty\n\n\n\n\nAlso: \n\n\n\n\nOpenness to different ways of seeing and living\n\n\n\nKindness towards the plants\, animals\, soil\, water\, and other people here\n\n\n\nInclusivity and welcoming spirit towards the people in the workshop\n\n\n\nWillingness to put your phones away and tune into your senses\n\n\n\nCuriosity about life and what each other and the land has to say\n\n\n\n\nSign-Up\n\n\n\nThis year\, we’re offering sliding scale tickets at two different prices. Please only take a reduced price ticket if you are in significant financial need. Full-price tickets make it possible for us to continue this work. Thank you for your support. \n\n\n\nIn the morning before this workshop\, we’re also offering a class on Local Herbal Medicine Making. Come to either or both!  You can also see our other workshops here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCheck out the other workshops in our Fall 2026 Permaculture Skills series\n\n\n\nAbout the Facilitator:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew “Watersong” Tracy started practicing Permaculture in 2011 and received his design certificate from Wild Abundance in 2015. He has been consulting and teaching as a Permaculture Designer since 2018. \n\n\n\nAlong the way\, he learned from numerous Permaculture teachers\, tended land with minimal inputs\, worked with around 70 clients on their land\, lived off-grid for a decade\, and made (… and still makes!) a whole lot of humbling and valuable mistakes on his way back to life in harmony with the earth.  \n\n\n\nMatt is also an herbalist (…in training\, like all herbalists..!) and has been putting strong-tasting plants in bottles to make helpful things happen since 2007. He prepares dozens of local herbal medicines for his community every year.  \n\n\n\nWith all that experience\, Matt is ever a beginner and student of the land. Nature is infinite. What can we do but listen and try? \n\n\n\nMatt is honored to be a Permaculture guide to anyone interested in coming a little closer to the earth. Becoming a father in 2023 has made passing down these teachings that always consider future generations more important than ever. \n\n\n\nRead the rest of Matt’s bio here.
URL:https://silverbranchpermaculture.org/event/permaculture-skills-soil-compost-cover-crop-biochar-and-more/
LOCATION:Jubilee Healing Farm\, 1009 Hi Mar Ln\, Hillsborough\, NC\, 27278\, United States
CATEGORIES:Permaculture Workshop
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SUMMARY:Permaculture Skills: Local Herbal Medicine
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is part of our Fall 2026 Permaculture Skills workshop series. This morning workshop is followed in the afternoon by another workshop on Permaculture Practices for Soil Health and Gardening.  Come to one or both! \n\n\n\nBeginner-friendly and deep. Learn local herbal medicine making and the art of working with plants for health. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHerbal medicine is our original medicine.  \n\n\n\nWhile many traditional herbal systems are immensely sophisticated and can be studied for a lifetime\, plant medicine is also accessible to everyone as a folk tradition that empowers each person to support the health of their own bodies\, families\, and communities. \n\n\n\nLike learning to grow food and build shelter\, learning our local and accessible herbal medicines can give us a deeper sense of personal security and connection to the land. When we can turn to the plants growing right outside our door to give physical and psychological ease\, it grows our resilience and our relationship to earth.   \n\n\n\nThis 3-hour herbal medicine workshop is meant to empower you to begin making and working with herbal medicines.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSome of our local family apothecary.  We make dozens of herbal medicines mostly from local plants each year.  For physical and emotional health\, they’ve been invaluable support.\n\n\n\nWe’ll taste plants\, visit plants\, plant plants\, learn plants\, and make a simple medicine to bring home. We’ll also give you the foundation to continue learning more of our local and useful medicinal plants on your own\, helping you to feel safe exploring this beautiful and rewarding art with your own senses. \n\n\n\nIf you’ve dabbled in herbalism but haven’t yet learned about herbal energetics or our local plants\, or if you feel overwhelmed by online information and intimidated by complex recipes and conflicting information\, this workshop is for you!   Total beginners are also welcome. \n\n\n\nWith the direct experience of how simple it can be to prepare these remedies and the knowledge of some of the best plants to begin with including many common local plants in the Piedmont\, you’ll be taking the first steps on a long and ancient path towards health in harmony with the land.  \n\n\n\nSome Topics:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe simplest ways to make effective herbal medicines at home\n\n\n\nHands-on medicine making – come home with some to share!\n\n\n\nLearning some of our local (and abundant) herbal medicines\n\n\n\nUnderstanding medicinal properties from tastes and other sensory cues\n\n\n\nDemystifying “herbal energetics” – the heart of all holistic herbal systems\n\n\n\nLearning about our constitutions\, part of why plants can effect us so differently\n\n\n\nUnderstanding why herbs may not have worked for you in the past\n\n\n\nWorking with herbs for psychological (and spiritual) well being\n\n\n\nHerbal “first aid” and the simple everyday plants that can make life easier\n\n\n\nMedicinal properties of some of our local abundant “invasive” plants\n\n\n\nCutting through influencer and wellness fads and dispelling bad advice\n\n\n\nPlant families\, toxicity\, and how to feel safe experimenting with plants\n\n\n\nNon-rational ways of learning plants including dreaming and heart perception\n\n\n\nThe tradition of plants as teachers\, and ways of learning from plants\n\n\n\n…plus some wild\, do-not-try-this-at-home herbal stories!\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFrom this workshop you’ll also take home at least one ready made tincture to work with and learn from.\n\n\n\nVenue and Workshop Details:\n\n\n\nOur Saturday morningworkshop will be held at Jubilee Healing Farm – a beautifully tended small farm located on 10 acres in Hillsborough\, NC that supports volunteer and community-building activities and workshops for people seeking healing. \n\n\n\nWe’ll have the workshop part inside and part outside unless the weather disagrees!  Please wear comfortable clothing for the day. If it’s going to rain a little\, bring rain gear.  \n\n\n\nWe may do a little forest walking.  Good to wear compatible footwear.  If you’re concerned about ticks or other itchy expressions of the local ecology\, please bring non-toxic insect deterrent. \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, you’ll be invited (…never required!) to try small amounts of herbal medicines to learn their tastes and properties. Though we will choose plants and amounts meant to be safe for most bodies\, please know your own sensitivities and err on the side of caution around any potential herb-drug interactions. We will not be offering any medical advice or prescribing anything. This is an educational experience. \n\n\n\nWhat to Bring:\n\n\n\n\nJournal and pen\n\n\n\nYour own lunch and any snacks you need (kitchen available to heat up food)\n\n\n\nWater bottle\n\n\n\nA small-to-medium (not huge) mason jar with a lid.\n\n\n\n\nAlso: \n\n\n\n\nOpenness to different ways of seeing and living\n\n\n\nKindness towards the plants\, animals\, soil\, water\, and other people here\n\n\n\nInclusivity and welcoming spirit towards the people in the workshop\n\n\n\nWillingness to put your phones away and tune into your senses\n\n\n\nCuriosity about life and what each other and the land has to say\n\n\n\n\nSign-Up\n\n\n\nThis year\, we’re offering sliding scale tickets at two different prices.  Please only take a reduced price ticket if you are in significant financial need.  Full-price tickets make it possible for us to continue this work.  Thank you for your support. \n\n\n\nIn the afternoon after this workshop\, we’ll be offering another Permaculture workshop on the topic of Soil Health and Permaculture Gardening Practices. If you’re interested\, come to this workshop and stay for the afternoon one was well!  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop is part of our 2026 Fall Workshop Series. \n\n\n\nAbout the Facilitator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew “Watersong” Tracy started practicing Permaculture in 2011 and received his design certificate from Wild Abundance in 2015. He has been consulting and teaching as a Permaculture Designer since 2018. \n\n\n\nAlong the way\, he learned from numerous Permaculture teachers\, tended land with minimal inputs\, worked with around 70 clients on their land\, lived off-grid for a decade\, and made (… and still makes!) a whole lot of humbling and valuable mistakes on his way back to life in harmony with the earth.  \n\n\n\nMatt is also a devoted herbalist (…in training\, like all herbalists..!) and has been putting strong-tasting plants in bottles to make helpful things happen since 2007. He prepares dozens of local herbal medicines for his community every year and talks about medicinal herbs pretty much every single day. He’s learned from the wisdom of a great number of herbalists including Matthew Wood\, Sajah Popham\, Kat Maier\, Katja Swift\, Sean O’Donoghue\, and others\, and of course\, from the plants! \n\n\n\nWith all his experience\, Matt is ever a beginner and student of the land. Nature is infinite. What can we do but listen and try? \n\n\n\nRead the rest of Matt’s bio here.
URL:https://silverbranchpermaculture.org/event/local-herbal-medicine-workshop/
LOCATION:Jubilee Healing Farm\, 1009 Hi Mar Ln\, Hillsborough\, NC\, 27278\, United States
CATEGORIES:Herbal Medicine Workshops,Permaculture Workshop
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SUMMARY:Creating a Food Forest - Hillsborough\, NC
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill\, NC (first half of day) and Hillsborough\, NC (second half of day) \n\n\n\nFood Forests are low-maintenance\, edible oases of beauty and biodiversity. They build soil\, support wildlife\, and give healthy food year after year. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is focused on creating a Food Forest! \n\n\n\nFirst\, we’ll begin by touring Liane Salgado’s 15+-year old Food Forest / Forest Garden in Chapel Hill\, NC. This is the most abundant and mature example of a food forest I know of in the entire Piedmont. This workshop gives a rare opportunity to learn from an established\, local food forest. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne small part of Liane’s Chapel Hill Food Forest. It’s hard for photos to do a food forest justice. Just about every plant you see here provides food (as well as medicine\, habitat\, mulch\, soil building\, and so on…!). Fifteen years after Liane began\, the Food Forest is a place for life beyond compare.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the second half of the workshop\, we’ll dive into theory and practice at the site of a newly planted food forest designed and planted in our workshops last year for Jubilee Healing Farm in Hillsborough\, NC.  \n\n\n\nWhile we’re there\, we’ll discuss and plant some of the understory and guild plants that bring more life to the food forest while learning about their growing conditions and uses. We’ll also dive into how to begin with your own food forest! \n\n\n\nTopics:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of a Successful Piedmont Food Forest\n\n\n\nFood Forest / Forest Garden Theory and Design\n\n\n\nHow to Begin\, and Where – Starting Steps for Food Forests\n\n\n\nLaying Out a Food Forest Design From Pattern to Detail\n\n\n\nAvoiding Common Food Forest Mistakes\n\n\n\nSelecting the Right Plants for Our Climate and Sites\n\n\n\nStrategies for Small Space Food Forests\n\n\n\nHands-On Work With Understory / Guild Food Forest Plants\n\n\n\nSome Favorite Locally Adapted Edible Trees and Shrubs\n\n\n\n50+ Food Forest Plant List\n\n\n\nYour Food Forest / Forest Garden Questions\n\n\n\n\nVenue and Workshop Details:\n\n\n\nThe first half of this workshop will be held in a 2-acre mature Food Forest in Chapel Hill. The second half will be at Jubilee Healing Farm\, a beautifully tended small farm located on 10 acres in Hillsborough\, NC that supports volunteer and community-building activities and workshops for people seeking healing.  There will be a short drive between the spaces near lunch time. \n\n\n\nWe’ll have the workshop part inside and part outside unless the weather disagrees!  Please wear comfortable clothing for the day.  If it’s going to rain a little\, bring rain gear.  A little rain is very helpful for Permaculture design! \n\n\n\nWe’ll likely do a little forest walking.  Good to wear compatible footwear.  If you’re concerned about ticks or other itchy expressions of the local ecology\, please bring non-toxic insect deterrent. \n\n\n\nWhat to Bring:\n\n\n\n\nJournal and pen\n\n\n\nYour own lunch and any snacks you need (kitchen available to heat up food)\n\n\n\nWater bottle\n\n\n\n\nAlso: \n\n\n\n\nOpenness to new (and ancient) ways of seeing and living\n\n\n\nKindness towards the plants\, animals\, soil\, water\, and other people here\n\n\n\nInclusivity and welcoming spirit towards the people in the workshop\n\n\n\nWillingness to put your phones away and tune into your senses\n\n\n\nCuriosity about life and what each other and the land has to say\n\n\n\n\nSign Up\n\n\n\nThis year\, we’re offering tickets at a sliding scale and standard rates.  Please only choose the reduced rate tickets if you truly need to.  Thank you for the support that allows us to continue sharing this work! \n\n\n\nFor this workshop\, we are offering a limited number of tickets to the first half of the day at the Food Forest in Chapel Hill. If you can only make it to the first half (9:30am to 12:30pm)\, sign-up for the half day ticket below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Facilitator:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew “Watersong” Tracy started practicing Permaculture in 2011 and received his design certificate from Wild Abundance in 2015. He has been consulting and teaching as a Permaculture Designer since 2018. \n\n\n\nAlong the way\, he learned from numerous Permaculture teachers\, tended land with minimal inputs\, worked with around 70 clients on their land\, lived off-grid for a decade\, and made (… and still makes!) a whole lot of humbling and valuable mistakes on his way back to life in harmony with the earth.  \n\n\n\nMatt is also an herbalist (…in training\, like all herbalists..!) and has been putting strong-tasting plants in bottles to make helpful things happen since 2007.  He prepares dozens of local herbal medicines for his community every year.   \n\n\n\nWith all that experience\, Matt is ever a beginner and student of the land. Nature is infinite. What can we do but listen and try? \n\n\n\nMatt is honored to be a Permaculture guide to anyone interested in coming a little closer to the earth. Becoming a father in 2023 has made passing down these teachings that always consider future generations more important than ever. \n\n\n\nRead the rest of Matt’s bio here.
URL:https://silverbranchpermaculture.org/event/food-forest-workshop/
LOCATION:Jubilee Healing Farm\, 1009 Hi Mar Ln\, Hillsborough\, NC\, 27278\, United States
CATEGORIES:Permaculture Workshop
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SUMMARY:Permaculture Roots - Soil\, Gardens\, Food! -  Hillsborough\, NC
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to grow food and tend land in a Permaculture way!\n\n\n\nLearn a Permaculture approach to gardening\, building soil\, and resilient\, climate-adapted food.  \n\n\n\n\n\nHere’s a little video I created to share a bit of what Permaculture is to me.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThis 1-day Saturday workshop will leave you with a practical understanding of how to integrate Permaculture practices into your land and life.   \n\n\n\nWe’ll learn simple approaches to working with nature that set Permaculture apart from most conventional gardening and farming.   \n\n\n\nWhether you’re entirely new to Permaculture or have explored it for yourself\, these workshops will be sure to teach you something helpful to deepen your relationship with land and give you confidence to grow wild and nutritious food in the Piedmont while leaving the land more diverse and alive. \n\n\n\nTopics:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIntro to Permaculture Design\n\n\n\nHow and Where to Begin!\n\n\n\nWorking With the Soils and Changing Climate of the NC Piedmont\n\n\n\nWhere to Put a Garden\n\n\n\nBuilding Good Soil Without Buying Stuff\n\n\n\nGrowing Low-Input\, Low-Maintenance Food\n\n\n\nFood From Trees\n\n\n\nCover Crops\, Sheet Mulching\, and Other No-Till Techniques\n\n\n\nSimple Explanation of Permaculture Guilds and Polycultures\n\n\n\nLocally Adapted Perennial Vegetables\n\n\n\nGrowing with (Some) Shade and Why Full Sun Isn’t Always the Best\n\n\n\n20+ Underappreciated Plants for Your Permaculture Garden\n\n\n\nHands-On Permaculture Practice\n\n\n\n…Plus answering your Permaculture questions\n\n\n\n\nEach workshop in this series will include opportunities to connect with nature and our senses\, learn Permaculture design\, answer your questions\, and meet other amazing humans interested in Permaculture. \n\n\n\nVenue and Workshop Details:\n\n\n\nOur workshop is held at Jubilee Healing Farm – a beautifully tended small farm located on 10 acres in Hillsborough\, NC that supports volunteer and community-building activities and workshops for people seeking healing. \n\n\n\nWe’ll have the workshop part inside and part outside unless the weather disagrees!  Please wear comfortable clothing for the day. If it’s going to rain a little\, bring rain gear.  A little rain is very helpful for Permaculture design! \n\n\n\nWe’ll likely do a little forest walking.  Good to wear compatible footwear.  If you’re concerned about ticks or other itchy expressions of the local ecology\, please bring non-toxic insect deterrent. \n\n\n\nWhat to Bring:\n\n\n\n\nNotebook and pen\n\n\n\nYour own lunch and any snacks you need (kitchen available to heat up food)\n\n\n\nWater bottle\n\n\n\nSeeds or plants to swap if you have any you want to share.\n\n\n\n\nAlso: \n\n\n\n\nOpenness to different ways of seeing and living\n\n\n\nKindness towards the plants\, animals\, soil\, water\, and other people here\n\n\n\nInclusivity and welcoming spirit towards the people in the workshop\n\n\n\nWillingness to put your phones away and tune into your senses\n\n\n\nCuriosity about life and what each other and the land has to say\n\n\n\n\nSign-Up\n\n\n\nWe offer our tickets at a reduced rate for people experiencing significant financial need.  Thank you for supporting this work. \n\n\n\nHave a friend or loved one you want to bring to the workshop?  Bring them and let me know and you’ll both get 15% off the ticket price. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Facilitator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew “Watersong” Tracy started practicing Permaculture in 2011 and received his design certificate from Wild Abundance in 2015. He has been consulting and teaching as a Permaculture Designer since 2018. \n\n\n\nAlong the way\, he learned from numerous Permaculture teachers\, tended land with minimal inputs\, worked with around 70 clients on their land\, lived off-grid for a decade\, and made (… and still makes!) a whole lot of humbling and valuable mistakes on his way back to life in harmony with the earth.  \n\n\n\nMatt is also an herbalist (…in training\, like all herbalists..!) and has been putting strong-tasting plants in bottles to make helpful things happen since 2007.  He prepares dozens of local herbal medicines for his community every year.   \n\n\n\nWith all that experience\, Matt is ever a beginner and student of the land. Nature is infinite. What can we do but listen and try? \n\n\n\nMatt is honored to be a Permaculture guide to anyone interested in coming a little closer to the earth. Becoming a father in 2023 has made passing down these teachings that always consider future generations more important than ever. \n\n\n\nRead the rest of Matt’s bio here.
URL:https://silverbranchpermaculture.org/event/permaculture-roots-soil-gardens-food/
LOCATION:Jubilee Healing Farm\, 1009 Hi Mar Ln\, Hillsborough\, NC\, 27278\, United States
CATEGORIES:Permaculture Workshop
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SUMMARY:Permaculture Roots 4 - Planting a Food Forest!
DESCRIPTION:Hillsborough\, NC \n\n\n\nFor information on the whole Permaculture Roots workshop series\, please see this page. \n\n\n\nWe are grateful to be putting on this workshop in collaboration with Living Arts Collective and in the lovingly tended space of Jubilee Healing Farm. \n\n\n\nEach workshop in this series will include opportunities to connect with nature and our senses\, learn Permaculture design\, answer your questions\, and meet other amazing humans interested in Permaculture. \n\n\n\nThis Workshop:\n\n\n\nFor our fourth workshop in 2025\, we’re planting the Food Forest we started designing in May! \n\n\n\nWe’ll review the Food Forest design\, talk more about the plants we’re going to plant while they’re there\, and get good hands-on experience creating a real Food Forest that will grow and thrive for generations. \n\n\n\nAlthough we’ll have a design\, we’ll still leave room for inspiration to change it! We’ll invite participants to keep their senses open as they work and listen for ways to make the Food Forest evolve past the design into something fully alive. Bring your creativity and sense of beauty (as well as your willingness to help dig a hole or two). \n\n\n\nYou don’t have to have attended any of our other workshops to participate in this one. \n\n\n\nThis workshop has a lower cost to attend because there will be a lot of hands-on time and participants will be helping the installation to happen. \n\n\n\nMain Topics:\n\n\n\n\nFood Forest Review / Questions\n\n\n\nHands-On Food Forest Learning!\n\n\n\nInstalling the Food Forest From Pattern to Detail\n\n\n\nUsing Some Favorite Hand Tools\n\n\n\nPlanting Trees (…the Easy Way That Works)\n\n\n\nInstalling Tree “Guilds”\n\n\n\nMaking a Plan to Work with the Food Forest\n\n\n\nAnswering Any Other Permaculture Questions\n\n\n\n\nVenue and Workshop Details:\n\n\n\nThis 5-part series is held at Jubilee Healing Farm – a beautifully tended small farm located on 10 acres in Hillsborough\, NC that supports volunteer and community-building activities and workshops for people seeking healing. \n\n\n\nWe’ll have the workshop part inside and part outside unless the weather disagrees!  Please wear comfortable clothing for the day. If it’s going to rain a little\, bring rain gear. A little rain is very helpful for Permaculture design! \n\n\n\n If you’re concerned about ticks or other itchy expressions of the local ecology\, please bring non-toxic insect deterrent. \n\n\n\nWhat to Bring:\n\n\n\n\nJournal and pen – while digital is OK\, we strongly suggest using paper!\n\n\n\nYour own lunch and any snacks you need (kitchen available to heat up food)\n\n\n\nWater bottle\n\n\n\n\nAlso: \n\n\n\n\nOpenness to different ways of seeing and living\n\n\n\nKindness towards the plants\, animals\, soil\, water\, and other people here\n\n\n\nInclusivity and welcoming spirit towards the people in the workshop\n\n\n\nWillingness to put your phones away and tune into your senses\n\n\n\nCuriosity about life and what each other and the land has to say\n\n\n\n\nSign-Up\n\n\n\nWe offer our tickets at a rate that allows us to continue doing this work. Thank you for supporting it. \n\n\n\n If you have any questions\, please reach out to workshops@silverbranchpermaculture.org. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Facilitator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew “Watersong” Tracy started practicing Permaculture in 2011 and received his design certificate from Wild Abundance in 2015. He has been consulting and teaching as a Permaculture Designer since 2018. \n\n\n\nAlong the way\, he learned from numerous Permaculture teachers\, tended land with minimal inputs\, worked with around 50 clients on their land\, lived off-grid for nearly a decade\, and made (… and still makes!) a whole lot of humbling and valuable mistakes on his way back to life in harmony with the earth.  \n\n\n\nWith all that experience\, Matt is ever a beginner and student of the land.  Nature is infinite.  What can we do but listen and try? \n\n\n\nMatt is honored to be a Permaculture guide to anyone interested in coming a little closer to the earth. Becoming a father in 2023 has made passing down these teachings that always consider future generations more important than ever. \n\n\n\nRead the rest of Matt’s bio here.
URL:https://silverbranchpermaculture.org/event/permaculture-roots-5-planting-a-food-forest/
LOCATION:North Carolina
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250913T093000
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SUMMARY:Permaculture Roots 3 - Living Closer to Earth
DESCRIPTION:Hillsborough\, NC \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFor information on the whole Permaculture Roots workshop series\, please see this page. \n\n\n\nWe are grateful to be putting on this workshop in collaboration with Living Arts Collective and in the lovingly tended space of Jubilee Healing Farm. \n\n\n\nEach workshop in this series will include opportunities to connect with nature and our senses\, learn Permaculture design\, answer your questions\, and meet other amazing humans interested in Permaculture. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew: we’re excited to announce that we’ll also be including a special guest teacher for this workshop only: Jim Sahadi\, who brings a decade of experience in designing and building small\, smart\, ecological\, and affordable homes!   \n\n\n\nJim has navigated the entire process from visioning\, to designing\, to permitting and building.  We are grateful he’ll be sharing his invaluable experience in this workshop!  See Jim’s bio below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis Workshop:\n\n\n\nHome is the center of our lives. In Permaculture\, it’s the heart of the design. Our love and our care extends outwards from our home. \n\n\n\nModern homes offer comfort and convenience that we pay for in triple: with the severe financial costs of rent\, mortgage\, maintenance\, and utilities\, all of which seem to be increasing yearly; with the accumulation of so much stuff and so much space to clean; and most of all\, with our disconnection from nature: the rhythms of the day and the season\, the peace of night\, the breath of a cross-breeze\, the dawn of birdsong. \n\n\n\nMost modern homes are tremendously wasteful of energy. They aren’t built to last and the materials that make them up end up in landfills.   \n\n\n\nFrom the beginning\, Permaculture has taught ways to build earth and climate-wise homes and to harvest our own energy and water from what the land gives.  It’s more than possible: after all\, most people on earth still live this way – and somewhere in our bones\, we remember the beauty of it.  \n\n\n\nOur third workshop in this series teaches accessible and deep ways to live more simply.   \n\n\n\nWe help you sort through the complexity of options for affordable\, simple shelters\, what to know about going off-grid fully or in part\, and a lot of what Matt wishes he knew when he decided to move to land with no buildings and not much money in the woods almost 10 years ago! \n\n\n\nYou don’t have to have attended any of our other workshops to participate in this one. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMain topics: \n\n\n\n\nMain Things to Know When You Move to Live On Land\n\n\n\nThe Pleasures and Perils of Tiny Living and Going Off-Grid\n\n\n\nAffordable\, Ecological Shelter Options in 2025\n\n\n\nFun Off-Grid Things – Outdoor Kitchens\, Rocket Stoves\, and So On!\n\n\n\nLiving Well on Small-Scale Solar\n\n\n\nPermitting\, Loans\, and Other Uncomfortable Stuff\n\n\n\nCatching Water and Living in the “Rain Budget”\n\n\n\nDesigning for Wildfire and Heavy Rain\n\n\n\nAnswering Your Land Buying / Home / Off-Grid Questions\n\n\n\n\nVenue and Workshop Details:\n\n\n\nThis 5-part series is held at Jubilee Healing Farm – a beautifully tended small farm located on 10 acres in Hillsborough\, NC that supports volunteer and community-building activities and workshops for people seeking healing. \n\n\n\nWe’ll have the workshop part inside and part outside unless the weather disagrees!  Please wear comfortable clothing for the day. If it’s going to rain a little\, bring rain gear. A little rain is very helpful for Permaculture design! \n\n\n\nWe’ll likely do a little forest walking.  Good to wear compatible footwear.  If you’re concerned about ticks or other itchy expressions of the local ecology\, please bring non-toxic insect deterrent. \n\n\n\nWhat to Bring:\n\n\n\n\nJournal and pen – while digital is OK\, we strongly suggest using paper!\n\n\n\nYour own lunch and any snacks you need (kitchen available to heat up food)\n\n\n\nWater bottle\n\n\n\n\nAlso: \n\n\n\n\nOpenness to new (and ancient) ways of seeing and living\n\n\n\nKindness towards the plants\, animals\, soil\, water\, and other people here\n\n\n\nInclusivity and welcoming spirit towards the people in the workshop\n\n\n\nWillingness to put your phones away and tune into your senses\n\n\n\nCuriosity about life and what each other and the land has to say\n\n\n\n\nSign-Up\n\n\n\nWe offer our tickets at a rate that allows us to continue doing this work. Thank you for supporting it. \n\n\n\nIf you have any questions\, please reach out to workshops@silverbranchpermaculture.org. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Workshop Teachers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew “Watersong” Tracy started practicing Permaculture in 2011 and received his design certificate from Wild Abundance in 2015. He has been consulting and teaching as a Permaculture Designer since 2018. \n\n\n\nAlong the way\, he learned from numerous Permaculture teachers\, tended land with minimal inputs\, worked with 50+ clients on their lands\, lived off-grid for nearly a decade\, and made (… and still makes!) a whole lot of humbling and valuable mistakes on his way back to life in harmony with the earth.  \n\n\n\nWith all that experience\, Matt is ever a beginner and student of the land.  Nature is infinite.  What can we do but listen and try? \n\n\n\nMatt is honored to be a Permaculture guide to anyone interested in coming a little closer to the earth. Becoming a father in 2023 has made passing down these teachings that always consider future generations more important than ever. \n\n\n\nRead the rest of Matt’s bio here. \n\n\n\nGuest Teacher\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJim Sahadi worked for many years as Mechanical Engineer but in 2014 decided to heed the inner guidance and reconfigure his life so that his work was much more aligned with his passions and interests and with what he feels the world needs.  \n\n\n\nSince 2014 he’s been designing and building affordable\, high quality\, right-sized dwellings that usually incorporate alternative “systems” for potable water\, electricity\, grey and blackwater disposal\, heating and cooling\, etc.  \n\n\n\nJim also advocates for living a right-sized life\, building local community and resources\, and exploring what living a simple life really means. He’s currently 2 chapters into writing a book on life strategies for happiness\, fulfillment\, and satisfaction in this land of oversized appetites and natural resource depletion (actual title TBD).
URL:https://silverbranchpermaculture.org/event/permaculture-roots-4-living-closer-to-earth/
LOCATION:North Carolina
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250621T093000
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SUMMARY:Permaculture Roots 2 - Food Forest Design
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill\, NC (first half of day) and Hillsborough\, NC (second half of day) \n\n\n\nFor information on the whole Permaculture Roots workshop series\, please see this page. \n\n\n\nWe are grateful to be putting on this workshop in collaboration with Living Arts Collective and in the lovingly tended space of Jubilee Healing Farm. \n\n\n\nEach workshop in this series will include opportunities to connect with nature and our senses\, learn Permaculture design\, answer your questions\, and meet other amazing humans interested in Permaculture. \n\n\n\nThis Workshop:\n\n\n\nOur second workshop on June 21 is focused on designing a Food Forest!  \n\n\n\nFirst\, we’ll begin by touring Liane Salgado’s 15-year old Food Forest / Forest Garden in Chapel Hill\, NC.  This is the most abundant and mature example of a food forest I know of in the entire Piedmont!  This workshop gives a rare opportunity to learn from an established\, local food forest. \n\n\n\nOne small part of Liane’s Chapel Hill Food Forest.  It’s hard for photos to do a food forest justice.  Just about every plant you see here provides food (as well as medicine\, habitat\, mulch\, soil building\, and so on…!).  Fifteen years after Liane began\, the Food Forest is a place for life beyond compare.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThen\, in the second half of the workshop\, we’ll apply what we learned to co-design a Food Forest for Jubilee Healing Farm in Hillsborough\, NC which will be planted this Fall! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMain topics:\n\n\n\n\nTouring a Successful Food Forest\n\n\n\nAll About Food Forests / Forest Gardens\n\n\n\nApplying Permaculture Design Techniques\n\n\n\nWeaving Beauty and Places for Life\n\n\n\nLaying Out a Food Forest Design From Pattern to Detail\n\n\n\nSelecting the Right Plants\n\n\n\nSome Favorite Edible Trees and Shrubs!\n\n\n\n50+ Food Forest Plant List\n\n\n\nYour Food Forest / Forest Garden Questions\n\n\n\n\n… and in October\, we’ll have a workshop on the same site where we’ll install the Food Forest! \n\n\n\nVenue and Workshop Details:\n\n\n\nThe first half of this workshop will be held in a 2-acre mature Food Forest in Chapel Hill.  The second half will be at Jubilee Healing Farm\, a beautifully tended small farm located on 10 acres in Hillsborough\, NC that supports volunteer and community-building activities and workshops for people seeking healing. \n\n\n\nWe’ll have the workshop part inside and part outside unless the weather disagrees!  Please wear comfortable clothing for the day.  If it’s going to rain a little\, bring rain gear.  A little rain is very helpful for Permaculture design! \n\n\n\nWe’ll likely do a little forest walking.  Good to wear compatible footwear.  If you’re concerned about ticks or other itchy expressions of the local ecology\, please bring non-toxic insect deterrent. \n\n\n\nWhat to Bring:\n\n\n\n\nJournal and pen – while digital is OK\, we strongly suggest using paper!\n\n\n\nYour own lunch and any snacks you need (kitchen available to heat up food)\n\n\n\nWater bottle\n\n\n\nSeeds or plants to swap if you’ve got ’em!  Also fine just to receive.\n\n\n\n\nAlso: \n\n\n\n\nOpenness to new (and ancient) ways of seeing and living\n\n\n\nKindness towards the plants\, animals\, soil\, water\, and other people here\n\n\n\nInclusivity and welcoming spirit towards the people in the workshop\n\n\n\nWillingness to put your phones away and tune into your senses\n\n\n\nCuriosity about life and what each other and the land has to say\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSign-Up\n\n\n\nWe offer our tickets at a rate that allows us to continue doing this work.  Thank you for supporting it.   \n\n\n\nFor this workshop\, we are offering a limited number of tickets to the first half of the day at the Food Forest in Chapel Hill. If you can only make it to the first half (9:30am to 12:30pm)\, sign-up for the half day ticket below. \n\n\n\nIf you have any questions\, please reach out to workshops@silverbranchpermaculture.org. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Facilitator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew “Watersong” Tracy started practicing Permaculture in 2011 and received his design certificate from Wild Abundance in 2015. He has been consulting and teaching as a Permaculture Designer since 2018. \n\n\n\nAlong the way\, he learned from numerous Permaculture teachers\, tended land with minimal inputs\, worked with around 50 clients on their land\, lived off-grid for nearly a decade\, and made (… and still makes!) a whole lot of humbling and valuable mistakes on his way back to life in harmony with the earth.  \n\n\n\nWith all that experience\, Matt is ever a beginner and student of the land.  Nature is infinite.  What can we do but listen and try? \n\n\n\nMatt is honored to be a Permaculture guide to anyone interested in coming a little closer to the earth. Becoming a father in 2023 has made passing down these teachings that always consider future generations more important than ever. \n\n\n\nRead the rest of Matt’s bio here.
URL:https://silverbranchpermaculture.org/event/permaculture-roots-2-food-forest-design/
LOCATION:Jubilee Healing Farm\, 1009 Hi Mar Ln\, Hillsborough\, NC\, 27278\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Silver Branch Permaculture and Living Arts Collective":MAILTO:matt@silverbranchpermaculture.org
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SUMMARY:Permaculture Roots 1 - Soil\, Gardens\, Food!
DESCRIPTION:Hillsborough\, NC \n\n\n\nFor information on the whole Permaculture Roots workshop series\, please see this page \n\n\n\nLearn how to grow food in a Permaculture way! \n\n\n\nOur first workshop has a focus on Introducing Permaculture and Growing Food – with a Permaculture perspective on gardening and building soil\, a quick intro to local foraging\, and sharing some of the most underappreciated food plants for our region. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTopics:\n\n\n\n\nQuick Intro to Permaculture\n\n\n\nReading the Landscape\n\n\n\nBuilding Good Soil Without Buying Stuff\n\n\n\nGrowing Low-Input\, Low-Maintenance Food\n\n\n\nGetting Food From the Trees\n\n\n\nLocally Adapted Perennial Vegetables\n\n\n\nGardening With Climate Change\n\n\n\nMay Plant Walk + Foraging Talk\n\n\n\n20+ plants for the Permaculture Garden\n\n\n\n… Plus Answering Your Permaculture Questions\n\n\n\n\nEach workshop in this series will include opportunities to connect with nature and our senses\, learn Permaculture design\, answer your questions\, and meet other amazing humans interested in Permaculture. \n\n\n\nVenue and Workshop Details:\n\n\n\nThis 5-part series is held in collaboration with Living Arts Collective at Jubilee Healing Farm – a beautifully tended small farm located on 10 acres in Hillsborough\, NC that supports volunteer and community-building activities and workshops for people seeking healing. \n\n\n\nWe’ll have the workshop part inside and part outside unless the weather disagrees!  Please wear comfortable clothing for the day.  If it’s going to rain a little\, bring rain gear.  A little rain is very helpful for Permaculture design! \n\n\n\nWe’ll likely do a little forest walking.  Good to wear compatible footwear.  If you’re concerned about ticks or other itchy expressions of the local ecology\, please bring non-toxic insect deterrent. \n\n\n\nOur workshops will also have an optional evening portion around a fire to connect and share in each other’s stories\, songs\, and plant and animal knowledge (there is a kitchen available if you’re staying and want to heat up dinner).   \n\n\n\nWhat to Bring:\n\n\n\n\nJournal and pen – while digital is OK\, we strongly suggest using paper!\n\n\n\nYour own lunch and any snacks you need (kitchen available to heat up food)\n\n\n\nWater bottle\n\n\n\nSeeds to swap if you’ve got ’em!  Also fine just to receive.\n\n\n\nIf you want to stay for the evening portion:\n\nYour own dinner  (kitchen available to heat up food)\n\n\n\nOptional Musical instrument\, story\, or poem if you’d like to share something around the fire\n\n\n\nIf we have a guest artist\, small donation (~$20) suggested\, but not required\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlso: \n\n\n\n\nOpenness to different ways of seeing and living\n\n\n\nKindness towards the plants\, animals\, soil\, water\, and other people here\n\n\n\nInclusivity and welcoming spirit towards the people in the workshop\n\n\n\nWillingness to put your phones away and tune into your senses\n\n\n\nCuriosity about life and what each other and the land has to say\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSign-Up\n\n\n\nWe offer our tickets at a rate that allows us to continue doing this work.  Thank you for supporting it.   \n\n\n\nWe offer discounted rates if you sign up for 3 or more workshops.  If you have any questions\, please reach out to workshops@silverbranchpermaculture.org.   \n\n\n\nEarly Bird special pricing until May 10…! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Facilitator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew “Watersong” Tracy started practicing Permaculture in 2011 and received his design certificate from Wild Abundance in 2015. He has been consulting and teaching as a Permaculture Designer since 2018. \n\n\n\nAlong the way\, he learned from numerous Permaculture teachers\, tended land with minimal inputs\, worked with around 50 clients on their land\, lived off-grid for nearly a decade\, and made (… and still makes!) a whole lot of humbling and valuable mistakes on his way back to life in harmony with the earth.  \n\n\n\nWith all that experience\, Matt is ever a beginner and student of the land.  Nature is infinite.  What can we do but listen and try? \n\n\n\nMatt is honored to be a Permaculture guide to anyone interested in coming a little closer to the earth. Becoming a father in 2023 has made passing down these teachings that always consider future generations more important than ever. \n\n\n\nRead the rest of Matt’s bio here.
URL:https://silverbranchpermaculture.org/event/permaculture-roots-workshop-1/
LOCATION:Jubilee Healing Farm\, 1009 Hi Mar Ln\, Hillsborough\, NC\, 27278\, United States
CATEGORIES:Permaculture Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Silver Branch Permaculture and Living Arts Collective":MAILTO:matt@silverbranchpermaculture.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220319T093000
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SUMMARY:Permaculture 101 - Principles\, Patterns\, and Plants for the Southeast
DESCRIPTION:Far more than a system of gardening\, Permaculture teaches a way to harmoniously integrate people and ecology in a way that regenerates both.  This new and ancient art has never been more needed than it is today.\n\nThis day-long Permaculture course is an excellent place to begin\, as well as a good deep dive for anyone who has practiced some permaculture and wants to immerse themselves into the principles and patterns at the root of this movement.\n\nWe’ll explore the immensely helpful permaculture design principles and then bring it into more application by looking at some design patterns that emerge from applying these principles – especially those that work well in the sultry Southeast.  We’ll dive into some favorite permaculture plants for this bioregion and their many uses\, including our beautiful local trees.  We’ll also make sure and get some hands on experiences in the mix and help everyone stay connected after the workshop so you can get help for your land projects and the support of a community.\n\nClass will be held in a location to be announced within 40 minutes of Durham and Chapel Hill.\n\nA delicious off-grid vegan lunch will be provided.\n\nMatt and Liane will be teaching this workshop together\, so don’t miss it!\n\nParticipation in this beginner-level class will give a discount on future Permaculture Design Certificate courses we teach.
URL:https://silverbranchpermaculture.org/event/permaculture-101-patterns-and-principles-for-the-southeast/
LOCATION:Hurdle Mills\, NC\, Hurdle Mills\, NC\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Golden Egg Permaculture":MAILTO:matt@goldeneggpermaculture.com
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