Permaculture

2020 Wisconsin Permaculture Convergence

2020 Wisconsin Permaculture Convergence

After a hiatus in 2019, the Wisconsin Permaculture Convergence is back in 2020. This year’s convergence will take place on Labor Day weekend, September 4th - 6th. It will be held on the same property as the 2018 WPC location on the Carlson Homestead in Rio, WI.

Mentoring Children Through Permaculture

Mentoring Children Through Permaculture

This weeks 2018 session leader feature is on Andrea Fourness. Andrea is an educator and co-owner of Deciduous Learning Network, an organization dedicated to connecting people to nature. She has been involved in environmental education for over 10 years.

Pre-Convergence Workshop Intensive with Dan Halsey (Sept. 13th & 14th)

 Pre-Convergence Workshop Intensive with Dan Halsey (Sept. 13th & 14th)

Food forests and forest gardening bring together the best ecological systems that allow us sustainable and high-yield harvests.  In temperate northern climates we have the best resources and environment for a wide selection of plants and trees. This two-day course will focus on the permaculture design process and drawing skills. We will be using cold climate strategies for solutions and pencil process to develop professional level presentations of designs.

Respite, Family Reunion and Chance to Learn

Respite, Family Reunion and Chance to Learn

For about as many years as I have been going to the summertime Wisconsin Permaculture Convergence, I have also attended in the wintertime Wisconsin Garden Expo.

In February 2018, I attended my fifth Expo. On Saturday, while talking with someone who stopped by the Madison Area Permaculture Guild booth about the books we had for sale and what the Guild does, I discovered many similarities between both annual events.

How Permaculture Changed My Life, and How It Could Change Yours

 How Permaculture Changed My Life, and How It Could Change Yours

When I was five years old, in 1976, my parents moved our family of five from our safe, stable and economically viable lives just outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to a 140 acre farm overlooking the rolling hills of Western Wisconsin's Driftless region where we threw safety, stability and economic viability out the barn door. What I got in return was a tremendous sense of self reliance, which is not self-sufficiency, a conversation we could have at the convergence coming up in September. My family also got to meet and learn from our new neighbors and others who recently moved to the area, because in those days, and in those parts, there was no Amazon and no one had every piece of equipment or every bit of knowledge required to cultivate the land and care for livestock. This is a long way to say that little did I know our move introduced me to my first permacuture community and principles and I didn't even know it.