Fall Time Permaculture

Fall Time Permaculture

Join us on November 9th, from 10:00am-2:00pm at the Yamane-Bose Food Forest in Milwaukie, Oregon for a Fall Time Permaculture event! In this workshop, we’ll explore permaculture techniques as we transition from fall to winter, embracing abundance (and excess), building our beds and preparing the land and ourselves for the fast approaching time of rest.

Please arrive at 10:00am. Your ticket purchase includes instruction, educational materials, and refreshments.

Through community building, experienced instruction, guided observation, as well as hands on practice building beds and preparing them for the winter, participants will walk away inspired and eager to tend to their own beds at home. The event will be held at 11902 SE Beckman Ave, so mark your calendars and get ready for a day of inspiration and education. Don't miss out on this opportunity to get inspired about building robust soil and maintaining a more sustainable landscape!

This workshop will be taught by ecological educator, Drake James. Learn more about Drake here.

Please Bring:

• Weather appropriate clothing and boots
• Gloves (will have some available for those who need it)
• Water bottle

We’ll cover:

• Permaculture basics
• Turning outputs back into inputs (i.e. what do we do with all of the rotting fruit and excessive leaf litter?)
• Composting options (onsite versus offsite), integrated landscapes (including with use of animals).
• Cautions: Rot and pests, allopathic plant species and nearby impacts, overwintering seeds, what’s a “W**d” and how we manage them.
• Understanding and nurturing the soil food web; how to prepare it ahead of time for the Spring (with both decaying and living mulch).
• Why we practice no till
• Feeding your beds correctly: natives versus annuals
• Meet real soil web key players!
• How to work smarter and not harder; How does tending to the soil now improve outcomes for future grow seasons?
• Hands on experience prepping new beds for the winter

An OSALT Volunteer Waiver will be required to participate (provided before and at time of event).

Email Drake at [email protected] for questions!

Host or Publisher Urban Village Designs LLC