Our Permaculture Approach2017 will be our sixth year to offer a summer permaculture internship. This year we are collaborating with 21 Acres, a center for sustainable living, to expand and enrich our permaculture intern program. This has been a wonderful collaboration between our garden team and young people looking for a way to get their hands dirty implementing permaculture principles in the real world. If you are interesting in applying for this year's internship send an e-mail to our garden team. To learn more about what an internship is like check out the garden blog where our interns have posted their reflections.
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Newly laid out keyhole garden paths.
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Each year we attend the Northwest Permaculture Convergence. At the conclusion of the convergence in 2010 we gathered in small groups by location. There we found wonderful colleagues committed to permaculture who lived nearby. Out of that meeting was formed the Sno-Isle Permaculture Network (SIPN). This has been one of the most delightful and nurturing connections. In 2015 we began to meet the first Tuesday of each month at 21 Acres. To find out about our the many permaculture related programs offered there, you can join the SIPN Meet-up group.
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Keyhole garden Spring 2012.
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The garden began as a small organic garden plot more than 25 years ago and has evolved into an important focus of our work towards sustainable community. In 2010 the Biogaians took a field trip to the Bullock Family Permaculture Homestead on Orcas Island and started to orient our garden development along Permaculture lines. We established the PIGs (Permaculture Intention Group), began shifting our orchard plantings into food forests and studying and applying permaculture principles as much as possible.
In 2011 we invited Jenny Pell, a Permaculture Design teacher from Seattle to facilitate a design workshop for the community. At the conclusion of the workshop we decided to focus on improving our Permaculture approach to the garden, develop the orchard edges into food forests, turn one quarter of the garden into a keyhole design and to ponder the water flow on the property.
In 2011 we invited Jenny Pell, a Permaculture Design teacher from Seattle to facilitate a design workshop for the community. At the conclusion of the workshop we decided to focus on improving our Permaculture approach to the garden, develop the orchard edges into food forests, turn one quarter of the garden into a keyhole design and to ponder the water flow on the property.
