Padden Permaculture

07/29/2024

07/04/2024

This program greatly impacted me in my youth and I highly recommend it to anyone seeking travel with deep purpose and learning opportunities

Joining Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms, USA (WWOOF-USA) isn't just about opening your doors to eager learners — it's about welcoming people from various walks of life and sharing your expertise and passion about organic farming, growing food, and living sustainably.

04/28/2024

2024 marks 10 years of designing and installing permaculture inspired landscapes in Northern Colorado. Little by little, small pockets of ecological biodiversity, local food and medicine, and habitat are growing, evolving, and even becoming interconnected by the birds and bees that find refuge in these landscapes. When you landscape your yard in this way, you participate in the restoration and resilience of our local community at a pattern level.

04/25/2024

Amazing collection of free classes hosted by the City of Fort Collins. Check them out:

Upcoming Xeriscape opportunities from Fort Collins Utilities.

02/28/2024

🌿Don't miss out, last chance for scholarship applications for the 2024 Permaculture Design Course before the March 1st deadline!
The price is also changing from $1600 to $1700 after March 1st.

Don't delay and register for this incredible learning journey today!

Email: [email protected] to get more information or visit:
https://boulderpdc.com/

02/05/2024

I'm super excited to announce the Front Range Permaculture Teacher Training this Spring. Education is paramount to shifting the culture and I encourage all my past PDC students to consider this course. It's going to be epic.

12/07/2023

Hooray, the 2024 Boulder Permaculture Design Course is OPEN for registration! We offer an early bird discount through Jan 15th, sign up for this incredible opportunity at: https://boulderpdc.com/

10/12/2023

Wow, the latter part of the summer sure kept us busy with projects, travels, and, of course, lots of gardening! We meant to get back to you sooner, but had to rest our bones a little, too. Our guess is that you can probably relate.

09/20/2023

Opti is the optimal optical option 🙂 visit paddenpermaculture.com/opti to learn more

08/05/2023

The Permaculture Design Contest is back!!

Are you a Permaculture designer looking to get your project noticed?

Think you have what it takes to compete with some of the best Permaculture Designers around?

This year we have a $5000 GRAND PRIZE and a $1000 Award for Best New Designer, including special prizes for honorable mentions, all brought to you by the folks .

Head on over to https://buff.ly/45bpkYV

Get your self registered and start designing!!

05/11/2023

We are excited to announce our NoCo Permaculture Design Course, Through the Region!

This is a 2-part course taking place July 24-29 and August 14-19. Our course location will vary throughout the Front Range, with diverse sites to showcase the many applications of permaculture on different scales.

Permaculture is rooted in Indigenous practices, and it is important to acknowledge and credit these communities for their knowledge and expertise. Indigenous communities across the world have practiced sustainable and regenerative land management for thousands of years, and permaculture draws heavily on this traditional ecological knowledge. By giving credit to these communities and acknowledging their contributions to the development of permaculture, we can work toward creating a more equitable and inclusive permaculture movement.

In this deep dive into regenerative design, grounded in permaculture ethics and principles, you will learn an abundance of Earth care techniques. From managing water, building healthy soil, designing and planting food forests, integrating livestock, to natural building and social permaculture, this course covers many important topics. We will also cover topics like ecological design methodologies, growing food in small spaces, alternative economics, community building and appropriate technologies, and much more.

During this course, you will have the opportunity to complete a group design project and can expect to spend time outside of class working on it. Our aim is to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of permaculture and its applications across different settings, from urban to rural areas, and a range of climes.

The cost for this course will be $1600 until June 1st, which will increase to $1750 with a deadline of July 15th.

This course is being hosted by the Northern Colorado Permaculture Guild with the support of Boulder Permaculture.

Please message us to register

02/23/2023

Get Tickets for Colorado Permaculture Gathering. Ticket sales close February 27th 2023.

11/27/2022

I love seeing things with a new perspective

World map according to fish

11/04/2022

08/11/2022

Check out (in link below) how this water-harvesting, food-producing landscape has 10 times the flood control capacity of a conventional stormwater system, while also providing free irrigation from free, on-site water sources.

https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/tour_location/milagro-co-housing-community-its-passive-water-harvesting/

05/29/2022

In the early 90s, Mark and Jen Shepard bought a degraded corn farm in Viola, Wisconsin, and began to slowly convert it from row-crops back to a native oak savanna that would become one of the most productive perennial farms in the country. After 8 years of homesteading in Alaska (arriving just as th...

05/03/2022

What a lovely system to leave in one's wake of being a human on this planet. Tree's interacting with buildings and humans in a way that lets them all live on longer than our individual lifespans. As humans we are only either creating forests or deserts. Thank you to all who recognize this truth and are actively pursuing, the creation of vegetative habitat all around us.

From Limestone Permaculture
Happy International Permaculture Week!
12 years on Limestone Farm.
And utilising Permaculture Ethics, Principles & the Permaculture Design Process, has not let us down!
On the contrary, this human, animal and plant holistic systems thinking has enabled confidence and resilience we never thought possible!
We celebrate working towards a brighter future 🌳