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.

Introducing a merit badge program for permaculture and homesteading. It provides structure for aspiring homesteaders to learn, allows them to prove their skills and connects them with older landowners looking for a steward for their property.

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.