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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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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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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/
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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/
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T060419
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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:Local Herbal Medicine - Hillsborough\, NC
DESCRIPTION:Beginner-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. While 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 day-long herbal medicine workshop is meant to empower you to begin making and working with herbal medicines. We’ll taste plants\, visit plants\, plant plants\, learn plants\, and make simple medicines 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 fully 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\nTopics:\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\nGrowing some of the most helpful local herbal medicines in your garden\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 our local abundant “invasive” plants\n\n\n\nCutting through influencer and wellness fads and dispelling bad advice\n\n\n\nPhytochemistry 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\nVenue and Workshop Details:\n\n\n\nOur Saturday\, May 23rd 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 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’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\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\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\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 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 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\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/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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UID:3192-1781343000-1781371800@silverbranchpermaculture.org
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\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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