This session will discuss some of the best food forest and garden plant species to use for nutrient dense nutrition using minimal inputs. The focus will be on plants with easily stored yields, high nutritive value, and versatile uses.
Permaculture Merit Badges
Earth Grief Circle
This session will be a guided visualization to explore, in a deep and personal way, your own earth grief, nestled within the Circle Practice format. Earth grief is a broad term that is associated with the many sorrows we are experiencing due to climate change along with a huge and consistent dose of anticipatory grief for the many losses likely to come. We believe that the unprecedented challenges we face personally and collectively make grief tending essential survival skills.
Breath Work: A Secret Weapon for a Better Life
Expand your Vegetation Management Toolbox with Livestock
Domestic livestock have natural behaviors and food preferences that can assist us in management of unwanted vegetation, while providing an income source that layers well with agroforestry and permaculture systems. Come learn about what a variety of common targeted grazing/browsing species can provide, their limitations, and their needs.
Seed-saving for the First Time
Flax to Linen: Unlocking Fiber from Straw
Earthen Plasters: Hands-on Demo and Practice
Join this session to learn about earthen plasters, the materials and tools needed, and includes a hands-on demonstration of making as well as applying plasters! Come and get your hands dirty for this informative session.
Amanda Rindal
Amanda Rindal is an Acupuncturist, Herbal Medicine practitioner, a permaculturist, and a natural-building enthusiast. She has experience with cob building, earth-bag building, greenhouse design/building, gardening and, of course, making and applying earthen plasters!
Becoming a Soap Maker
2024 Wisconsin Permaculture Convergence Schedule
Midwest Permaculture Convergence June 28-30
Sessions at the 2024 WPC
Wisconsin Permaculture Convergence Registration is Live
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2024 Wisconsin Permaculture Convergence
After a hiatus for 2023, the WPC planning team is starting the process of organizing for a 2024 convergence. The dates have not been set yet but we are looking for convergence host sites. If you or someone/organization/business are interested in hosting click on the button below.
We are always looking for additional folks to help us plan the convergence. If you are interested in being part of the planning team shoot us an email at wipermconvergence@gmail.com.
Stay tuned for more updates as we get things rolling! Happy winter solstice!
2022 Wisconsin Permaculture Convergence Rocked!
The 2022 Wisconsin Permaculture Convergence Starts Tomorrow
Survival Guide: Prepare for the Convergence!
Food for Thought and Eating
One of the wonderful things about the Wisconsin Permaculture Convergence is the opportunity to share meals with each other. The planning team works hard each convergence to provide food that nourishes the minds for everyone involved. In the past we have had food catered or prepared onsite by planning team members, my mother Kate Carlson, or local catering operations. This year we taking a hybrid approach with lunch and dinner on Saturday prepared by planning team members and volunteers while lunch on Sunday will be provided by Jolly Frog out of Madison Wisconsin. Below is the planned menu for both days.
Saturday
Lunch
Build your Own Sandwich: A variety of meat, cheese and veggies served with a side salad.
Dinner
Pizza: We’ll be cranking out a variety of 12” pizzas every two minutes.
Wine Tasting: mIEKAL aND who owns and operates Beyond Vineyard and Nursery.
He will also be selling a variety of his cold hardy fruit trees and shrubs during the convergence.
Sunday
Lunch
Burrito bowls, burritos and tacos: Jolly Frog will be slinging these in veggie or omnivore options.
Shoot us an email if you have extra produce and or meat that you can bring with you to share for the meals.
Sales of Tickets with Food
We will be closing down sales for tickets with food included Wednesday September 14th in order to give our food planning team and caterer enough time to prepare. Please snag your ticket ASAP if you would like a ticket that includes meals for the weekend.
