Share the gift of permaculture with your friends and family this holiday season by giving them a gift certificate to The Resiliency Institute.
The McDonald Farm Edible Forest Garden project is beginning to take shape thanks to all of the Permablitz volunteers and sponsors!
Permablitz Volunteers
Jane, Charlotte, Kyle, Jean, Paul, Dennis, Sarah, Justin, Jan, Joe, Casey, Phil, Karen, Dan, Dave, Beth, Emilee, Chris, Margaret, Carrie, Donna, Aidan, Colin, Mary, Bill, Mike, Jeff, Chuck and Dan.
Sponsors
T & M Tree Service
Colorblends
Evergreens of Elwood
City of Naperville
A few weeks ago we hosted Linda Conroy at The Resiliency Institute to teach Herbs for Health & Nourishment and Herbal Remedy Making. Linda shared her wealth of knowledge as a bioregional herbalist and empowered us to incorporate more herbs into our diets.
We learned about the nutrient density in a variety of plants, most of which we consider weeds. These plants contain vitamins, minerals, trace minerals, proteins, phytoestrogens and phytosterols, starches, simple and complex sugars, bioflavonoids, carotenes, and essential fatty acids. We discussed the traits of weeds – resilient, adaptable, and flexible – and realized these are the same traits we need for health. Read More
The Resiliency Institute is hosting a Permaculture Design Course (PDC) with Peter Bane this coming spring. The course is tailored to suburban working adults and will be hosted over three weekends (4-3-3) in March and April. Only 25 seats are available, so register today!
A PDC opens your eyes to designing resilient systems for lifestyle, land and community. The course will cover the core permaculture ethics, principles, and practices. We will introduce you to good design through classroom experiences, field trips, and hands-on activities.
Permaculture is an ecological design system for sustainability in all aspects of our lives. Permaculture teaches us how to build natural homes, grow our own food, restore diminished landscapes and ecosystems, catch rainwater, build communities, take care of waste and much more.
The philosophy within permaculture is one of working with rather than against nature, and of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than premature and thoughtless action. Permaculture design techniques encourage land use which integrates principles of ecology and applies lessons from nature. It teaches us to create settings and construct ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and the resilience of natural ecosystems. In the spirit of sustainability, it also teaches us to allow natural and designed ecosystems to demonstrate their own evolutions.
A $200 deposit reserves your seat, so register today!
| March 13-16 | Thursday & Friday Saturday & Sunday |
8:30 am – 6 pm 9:00 am – 6 pm |
| April 11-13 & April 25-27 |
Fridays Saturdays & Sundays |
8:30 am – 6 pm 9:00 am – 6 pm |
Peter Bane is the primary instructor for the course. Peter has published Permaculture Activist magazine for over 20 years and has taught permaculture design widely in the temperate and tropical Americas. He is a native of the Illinois prairie whose interest in good food and simple living led him at mid-life to become a writer and teacher of permaculture design. They also drew him into the arcane world of intentional community as fate presented the opportunity to help create and build Earthaven Ecovillage in the southern Appalachian Mountains. There he discovered his inner architect in the course of building a small off-grid solar cabin and later took on the more prosaic job of rehabilitating a pair of suburban ranch houses in the Midwestern college town of Bloomington, Indiana. That was the first step toward creating a small suburban farmstead where he now lives with his partner and apprentices. A prolific writer in journals and collections on forestry, building and all things sustainable, he consults with universities and municipal governments as well as for private landowners.Badgersett has posted an URGENT request for volunteers to hand-pick hazelnuts after the harvester machinery has passed today in the Stockton, IL field. For hand picking you either keep 50% of what you pick or earn $10/hour credit toward the purchase of plants or consulting. This is a great opportunity.
Contact Brandon for details at 507 226 7207.
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