Permaculture Action/Education Day April 29th!
Permaculture action and education day! Morning practical application as we work on developing a public forest garden. In the afternoon, we’ll have a workshop on getting started with Permaculture.
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Large Garden Space Available in Kalamazoo!
The next phase in the CORE Winchell public food forest is coming this season and we need your help! But because this is Permaculture, we also want to help you. We’re making large-sized plots available for urban gardeners who want land access. You grow whatever you want for the season, but also help us...
Urban Permaculture Video Screening
Hello Permies and Transitioneers! Geoff Lawton’s Urban Permaculture video is an inspirational look at the potential for regenerative living in cities. Van-Kal Permaculture and Kalamazoo Transition are teaming up to host a showing at Disciples of Christ Church 2208 Winchell Ave, in Kalamazoo, at 7:00 PM on January 20th. The film highlights clever design...
Food Forest Garden Tour Series
Visit two different forest gardens on two very different sites in Southwest MI—throughout an entire growing season! Forest Gardens or “Food Forests” are a way of growing food by imitating nature: plants on many layers, cooperating rather than competing. It doesn’t mean growing food in a dark forest—more like a semi-open woodland featuring many...
Earthbag Permablitz at Krystal’s
We are planning on this Saturday, May 9th to get started on the earthbag garden beds and would love help/company from anyone that is interested! I’m taking cues from the recent permablitz at PJ’s place in terms of how to structure this and look forward to seeing how it goes and to meeting some...
Permaculture: Growing a Garden of Hope
Knowledgeable long-time Van-Kal Permaculture contributor Michael Hoag will be giving a slideshow presentation entitled “Permaculture: Growing a Garden of Hope” on Saturday, March 28th at 3pm in Portage, at the Westminster Presbyterian Church, for the opening of their month-long art exhibition of pieces focusing on environmentalism, re-wilding, gardening and permaculture.
City Repair, Grassroots Place-Making and Urban Permaculture, with Mark Lakeman
Mark works to educate and inspire communities and individuals to creatively transform the places where they live through: broad participation, local ownership, and transference of authority to local populations, creative expression in planned and unplanned processes, and social capital as the primary economic engine of change.
Native Pollinator Workshop at Riverview Launch
Dale, Tomme and Sam teamed up to organize this wonderful event at the Riverview Launch in Kalamazoo, just in time for spring. Ann Fraser from Kalamazoo College gave a very good presentation on the importance, habits, and life cycles of native bees (and other pollinators), and afterward we all got to assemble cool little...
Fruit Tree Ordering Meeting
Tomme and Dale have offered to host a get together for fruit tree ordering in Kalamazoo on Wednesday February 19th, 7 PM at their home, Trybal Revival Gardens. Their house is located on the corner of E. Michigan Ave and Foresman Ave. http://goo.gl/maps/CEYvh I will bring the information from Sunday’s meeting and hopefully we...
Initial Transition Kalamazoo Meeting
The next meeting of the group interested in forming a Transition Initiative for the Kalamazoo area will be Friday, March 7, at 7 p.m., at the WMU Office for Sustainability, which has kindly offered its facilities for this meeting. The Office is at the SE corner of W. Michigan and Howard St. (in what...
