The VBC is 9-day event filled with hands-education in permaculture design and construction, ecological building, and public art that will extend and celebrate the Great Reskilling of our communities embodied in these projects.  All projects are built through collaboration and the commitment of a neighborhood to strengthen itself.

EAST MONTPELIER – Permaculture fans from Quebec to New Jersey, and as far as Texas and India, flocked to All Together Now for the 5th annual Northeastern Permaculture Convergence (more…)

I was just browsing the TransitionNing in search of information on ecological/bioregional things.  I clicked “TN” Resources in the main menu and it redirected to the Transition US Ning.  There, I found a list of Transition websites, one of which I had just left, and a couple long unorganized lists of articles about Transition Towns.  Shucks.

Is there anywhere to be found an organized and comprehensive collection of information to help people learn how to live more ecologically and harmoniously together?  If you know of such a book or website, please let us know!

I don’t believe there is such a place on the internet, and that’s what we plan to create with our bioregional education forum.  We started our bioregional education with a focus on a renewable energy, specifically coppicing.  We plan on adding information on masonry heaters soon and this will complement the coppicing quite well.  In a few minutes, I’ll be starting a food growing section with some info on how to turn your lawn into thriving, productive gardens.

Do you know of any good local resources?  Bioregional information?  Ecological techniques or technologies?  Let us know - post a comment!

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These photographs are from our coppicing test site.  Nearly all the valuable timber was cut from this property around 15 years ago and many trees, mostly maple, grew back after being cut.  We are developing a plan for establishing coppice plots and cutting cycles.  The biggest trees in these photos had been cut down (and regrown) previous to the clearcutting 15 years ago.  The diameter of the biggest trees here, measuring the between the multiple trunks, is about 6 feet.

5th Annual Northeastern Permaculture Convergence - ‘Permaculture in Practice’
Join permaculture enthusiasts, practitioners and educators from throughout the northeast for the 5th annual regional northeastern permaculture convergence in East Montpelier! This exciting, collaborative, activity packed event features an impressive assemblage of presentations, lectures, hand-on workshops and celebration that include intensive forays into edible plant propagation, natural building, root cellaring, bio-char, rocket stoves, coppice forestry, lacto-fermentation, education, keyline design, the zen of permaculture, humanure, traditional woodworking and much more. Local food, music, beer; on-site camping; and some of the most inspired company you’ll find in the region set the stage for an amazing fourth of July weekend. Additional tours of community-based permaculture-inspired homesteads and businesses will precede the convergence on July 1-2. Additional details coming soon.

To volunteer to help organize, please contact Janice Walrafen: jwalrafen(at)verizon.net. To submit a workshop proposal please contact Nicko Rubin: narubin(at)gmail.com. For information about farm tours preceding the conference, contact Keith Morris: earthsurfing(at)gmail.com.
Stay tuned for more details and registration information.