Workshops
Landscape for Food Security
Joshua Smith
Includes organic soil preparation, planting right & wrong, using flowers for pest control and maximum yield, weed use and control, free water, plant selection, and practical design considerations.
Cooperatives, Consensus, and Currency in Tomorrow’s Economy
Luna Lacy
An experiential journey into the dynamics of living cooperatively, using consensus, and understanding a new means of exchange.
Permaculture is Whole Systems Design: Simple Solution for Great Effects
Jude Hobbs
Plant physiology
Brian Basor
Learn about the way plants grow, reproduce, and maintain their biological balance through practical examples at the intersection of agriculture and botanical physiology.
Neo-Tribal Parenting
Rob Miller
Urban Water Storage
Rick Valley
Concentrating on soil storages, which are often low-tech and put the water into the #1 reserve of fresh water on the planet – groundwater.
How Weeds Can Make your Life, your Garden, and the World a Better Place
Heiko Koester
Creative Cahoots
Heather Flores
Learn to use troika, a task-oriented working process, to organize friendship-based affinity groups and implement effective community projects on any scale. Bring pen and paper.
Positive Stories About Eco Culture Change
Jan Spencer
Show and tell – Share your positive story, hear from others. What projects and initiatives have you been part of that have brought benefits to planet and community?
Edible Forest Garden Design
Devon Bonady
By observing and mimicking healthy natural forest ecosystems we can design and create multi-story multi-functional perennial gardens. Learn specific design elements that will help create a self-sustaining edible food forest as small as a backyard or as big as a 40 acre forest.
Get Seedy
John Sundquist & Taylor Zeigler
Your garden makes lots of seed. Learn how to process it in this hands-on skill-share.
Swine flu and Natural Therapeutics – a Roundtable Discussion
Nick Routledge & Friends
Time’s Up: Beyond Baby Steps on the Cusp of Collapse
Mark Robinowitz, GlobalPermaculture.org
How a half century of warnings about energy and the environment were largely ignored, and some political, monetary, and psychological shifts that could mitigate the crisis.
Eugene, Climate and Energy: Planning for resilience
Matt McRae
The City of Eugene, in partnership with a variety of organizations, is working to create a Community Climate and Energy Action Plan that will help our community become more resilient in the face of coming climate and energy challenges. Join and informal conversation to learn about the City’s year-long planning efforts and share your thoughts and ideas about meeting the challenges ahead.
The Truth about the Economic Meltdown
Clay Grantham, doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Oregon
The so-called recession is much more than a speed bump, and the destruction of the Earth has reached a turning point, because the system can’t function internally any longer. The ultimate underlying causes are found in the basic contradictions of a growth-dependent economy, and limits to natural resources, especially energy resources.
Eugene’s New Community-Based Economy – Emerald Valley Time Exchange
Megan Hinkel & Indigo Ronlov with Aleta Miller
How Eugene’s new Time Bank works and what it has to offer the community in the face of local, national, and global financial crises and resource scarcity. Based on the radical and revolutionary idea of “people taking care of people”, the EVTE is an organization that turns strangers into friends and neighbors, celebrates each individual’s skills and talents, and promotes a culture of giving, caring, and community well-being.
Nature’s Gardening Lessons
Charlotte Anthony
Working with soil microbes can help you 1) have deep friable soil without digging, 2) reduce quackgrass, bindweed, thistle, and brambles, 3) have large, healthy plants, 4) need less water, and 5) use very few added inputs, even with clay soils.
More Lessons from Nature – SUSPENDED (possibly Sunday afternoon)
Charlotte Anthony
In these times of changing climate we can directly communicate with the plants to know what they need and how to best work with them. This workshop is experiential.
A Conversation on Seed Stewardship
Seed Ambassadors
What would a local system of seed stewardship look like? Join the conversation!
Greening the Fairgrounds
Dan Armstrong, Eric Meyer, Joshua Smith
The Lane County Fairgrounds Repair Project is a citizen-based effort to realize the full potential of the Lane County Fairgrounds. The repaired fairgrounds will foster local enterprise, incubate green jobs, and promote Lane County food production while achieving zero waste, zero net carbon, and zero net energy, and in this way be a working demonstration and educational model for the culture of the future.