penny Krebiehl

Good morning and WELCOME Kaci Rae--Thank you for putting your work into book form and sharing it with other educators. I'm transitioning from a hands on art and permaculture educator for children and youth into a consulting kind of design position with local parents who wish to integrate permaculture education into their school curriculum. One of the first tasks we have is to present the overall vision of including permaculture education into not only the landscape (garden-farming) that makes up the school campus, but also the daily doings and integration into the staff, board and parental units experience. DO you have any suggestions on how to speak (beyond explaining the word permaculture) to the powers that be in a fairly traditional, newly birthed charter-school system?  I will wait to see if I'm lucky enough to 'win" a copy of your book, but will likely order several for the design collaborators as well.   Thank you for your good work.

Gratitude for all the amazing connections and welcome to Darren for sharing your everythingness-almost-here-and-now. gracias.

Greetings from the mild/wild/snowy/rainy/foggy/misty North West Michigan region!

We've got a great roots-like group of folks beginning to meet and plan/organize our very first Michigan Permaculture Convergence in 2013, including all permi-friends throughout the Great Lakes Basin and in the Midwest Region to consider joining us!

Here's the intitial invitation with the seed planted for this convergence:

“The idea of this convergence is to offer a new community-building/community-training vision, We will select a site and invite the permaculture designers in the area to create a space for the event to showcase permaculture elements.

When the convergence is over the infrastructure will be left behind for the community to use. This also creates a low impact event on the land being used for the site. It will also serve as an example for the community of a large event with a very small footprint.

Next year, the convergence will move to a new Michigan community and repeat the process.”

Join us to directly participate in the planning process and discussions via our website at: www.permaculture.littleartshram.org

Looking forward through all weather patterns,

`penny Krebiehl

Hey all Michigan and Great Lakes Permi-friends...We're working with folks all over the Great Lakes Bio-Region to organize a Michigan Permaculture Convergence in 2013 get more information and read-up on our process so far here: www.permaculture.littleartshram.org penny.ok.art@gmail.com, Or, contact me through this forum!