Category Archives: Permaculture Events

North American Permaculture Convergence, 8/29-8/31/2014, Clark’s Grove, MN

From Sandy Cruz of High Altitude Permaculture: Calling All Permies — Here is an historic opportunity to participate in a continental Permaculture Convergence!  Details and website link below. Rather than holding a Colorado convergence this year, the Colorado Permaculture Guild is deferring to the North American event, and is currently organizing Colorado carpools: http://www.coloradopermaculture.com/ Hope to… Read More »

Greywater Workshop on Residential Water Reuse, Sun., 7/13, Denver

From Colorado Greywater and Natural City Builders: LEARN how to reuse water from your bathroom sinks, showers, tubs, and washing machines in this fun, hands-on workshop. LEARN about common and popular greywater systems, soap and product considerations, building codes, design criteria, and how to build a laundry to landscape system. INSTALL a demo greywater system… Read More »

Boulder & Denver Village Building Design Courses in August, 2014

From Regenerative Lifestyles: VILLAGE BUILDING DESIGN COURSE In August, Natural City Builders, Regenerative Lifestyles and Radish Collective will be hosting the Village Design Course, a 4 day intensive for community building and making public spaces useful, all the way from Portland, Oregon! This unique opportunity will be taking place this August in both Denver and… Read More »

Water Forum, Sat., 6/7, 9am-5pm, Boulder

Water: Rights & Nature, Exploring Water Use and Ecosystem Conservation Unity Church, Folsom and Valmont Rd., Boulder Saturday, June 7, 9am – 5pm  Event Speakers: Jo Evans on Colorado Water Law Allison Holloran on Threats and Conservation of Ecosystems Gross Reservoir Dam panel: Water implications and FINAL day for Public Comments Steve Grace book signing… Read More »

Regional Seed School with Gary Nabhan, 6/1-6/6/2014

From seedsave.org: Seed School is a groundbreaking, six-day educational course in Prescott, AZ, that trains people from all walks of life to build local seed systems rooted in the ancient tradition of seed saving.  Practiced by farmers and gardeners for thousands of years, seed saving strengthens food security at the community level, empowering people to… Read More »

Boulder County Water Tour, 6/7, Registration Now Open

Boulder County Water Tour 2014 Date:  Saturday, June 7, 2014 Time:  8:45 pm to 3 pm Cost:  $20 (lunch included) Registration Required:  https://watertour2014.eventbrite.com (tour has sold out every year so please make reservations asap) Location:  Buses will pick up at Boulder County Fairgrounds (SOUTH lot off of Nelson Rd, near Longmont Humane Society) Water is… Read More »

Earthship Gathering & Film Screening at Trident in Boulder, 6/6, 7pm

From Denver Earthship and Regenerative Lifestyles: HAPPY SPRING! There has been so much coming alive and we are so excited to share at our annual screening series, the film NEW SOLUTIONS with you all on the beautiful back patio of TRIDENT BOOKSELLERS and CAFE!  We will share Earthship enthusiasm and support Boulder’s best coffee shop. … Read More »

Aquaponics Tour De Tanks, Boulder, May 16 & 18

From Avery Ellis of Integrated Aquaponics and Colorado Greywater: There will be a tour at my house to see my aquaponics systems in action, my geodesic dome, and other fun permaculture science toys and connections to be made. The tours at my house will be on May 16 @ 2pm & 4pm and May 18… Read More »

Chicken Keeping Class at The Savvy Hen, Boulder, Sat. 4/26

From The Savvy Hen: Chicken Keeping 101  Saturday April 26th, 4-5:30pm  This has been a popular class for us this spring!  We’ll share lots of great information for the beginning chicken keeper or anyone who is thinking about keeping chickens.  We’ll cover the basics of starting chicks, keeping adult hens, necessary equipment, nutrition, health concerns,… Read More »

Day 1 at Permaculture Voices, 3/13/14, Neil Bertrando, “Tree Systems in the High Desert”

Neil Bertrando, “Tree Systems in the High Desert” Neil started his talk with a geographical and climactic depiction of the Great Basin of Nevada, where he lives and does his permaculture design work.  The Great Basin climate is “BWks”, based on Köppen climate classification, meaning arid, cold, and summer dry.  Most of the natural irrigation… Read More »