The 2013 Colorado Permaculture Convergence is looking to be a fabulous weekend. From the Colorado Permaculture Guild, www.coloradopermaculture.com:
Here’s the schedule for the 2013 Colorado Permaculture Convergence at the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute (CRMPI) in Basalt and Sustainable Settings. Register here!
Saturday September 28:
• 10:00 am – Welcome and Introduction Circle!!
• 11:00 am – Whole Systems Tour of Sustainable Settings with Brook LeVan
• Start with all participants together while Brook talks about “Dreams to Reality”
• Then break into two tour groups
• 1:00 pm – Pot Luck Lunch – Time to shop at the Guild’s Market
• 2:30 pm – KEYNOTE: Adam Brock: The Future of the Permaculture Movement in Colorado – both challenges (climate change, reaching the “mainstream”) and opportunities (increasing interest, longer growing seasons, etc.)
• 3:00 pm – Breakout Roundtable Talks Begin – Playing off the Talk Above
• Challenges – e.g. Climate Change and Permaculture Reaching Mainstream
• Opportunities – e.g. Increasing Interest and Longer Growing Seasons
• 4:00 pm – Join Back Together, Adam leads the group in …
• sharing their findings and drafting a collective vision and next steps
• 5:00 pm – Roundtable Talks
• Group 1 – Permaculture and BioDynamics – where/how they fit together, with Lloyd Nelson and Ginger Janssen leading the talk
• Group 2 – Animals in a Permaculture System – small- and large-scale, with Brook LeVan and Jerome Osentowski
• 6:00 pm – Dinner – $15 per person, provided by Sustainable Settings
• 6:30 pm – Music begins and bonfire
Sunday September 29:
• 9:00 am – Meet at Sustainable Settings for carpool to CRMPI
• 10:00 am – Breakout Tours
• Group 1 – CRMPI with Jerome Osentowski
• Group 2 – Basalt Gardens with Ginger and Rob Janssen
• 12:00 pm – Lunch – $10 per person, made by CRMPI
• 1:30 pm – Tour groups switch
• 3:30 pm – Evening activities options
• Waterfall hike
• Basalt Mountain hike
• Float down the Lazy River at Sustainable Settings