The Southeastern Michigan Permaculture Guild is composed of local designers and members interested in learning more about permaculture in our area. Its purpose is to share knowledge about practices in our region; interconnect designers, advocates, volunteers, and clients; and showcase the projects completed by Guild members.

ALL MEMBERS PLEASE READ & REPLY ASAP: Ning will soon eliminate all "free network" options ~~ Please email Monica (a website mgr) to weigh in with your opinion on whether this network stay operational ie. Do you as a member here feel you would be willing to pay a small yearly membership fee < $5.00 fee for membership here to keep this virtual space available as is for all Permaculture focused members? Or would you simply leave this network rather than pay a fee? This fee would possibly decrease as Transition grows and more members join...
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WORKSHOPS WITH AUTHOR TOBY HEMENWAY

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Toby Hemenway will conduct two day-long workshops at Matthaei Botanical Gardens: “Designing and Installing a Food Forest” and “Permaculture Solutions for City and Suburb”. Toby is the author of Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, which for the past six years has been the world’s best-selling book on permaculture, a design approach based on ecology for creating sustainable landscapes, homes, communities, and workplaces.

Workshop descriptions
‘Designing and Installing a Food Forest’ will cover the basics of designing, planting, and maintaining a woodland garden of fruit and nut trees, perennial and annual vegetables, and flowers. ‘Permaculture Solutions for City and Suburb’ will show how to integrate the many resources in our cities in sustainable ways, including getting access to land for gardening, creating business guilds and networks, creating public space in neighborhoods, and building urban ecovillages.

Sponsored by: Southeastern Michigan Permaculture Guild and Food Gatherers

Read about Food Gatherers’ growing initiatives to connect local produce to low-income individuals and families: deep roots in our community (pdf).




ALL MEMBERS PLEASE READ & REPLY ASAP: Ning will soon eliminate all "free network" options ~~ Please email Monica (a website mgr) to weigh in with your opinion on whether this network stay operational ie. Do you as a member here feel you would be willing to pay a small yearly membership fee < $5.00 fee for membership here to keep this virtual space available as is for all Ypsilanti members? Or would you simply leave the network rather than pay a fee? This fee would possibly decrease as Transition grows and more members join...
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