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[Michael Pilarski <friendsofthetrees@yahoo.com>]

Hello Jason, et al,

Great to hear you are attending the 1st North American Permaculture 
Convergence.  Here are some more thoughts on NAPC.

 
What will happen at the NAPC?
 
The
NAPC will be many things to many people.  Each of us will have a different 
experience depending on who we talk to
and our personal NAPC goals. What would you like to happen? How can the
organizers help make it happen? How can you help make it happen?  In a sense 
we can each design our own NAPC.  What round tables do you want to participate
in?  What are the topics or crops you are
keenest on?  What kinds of information
are you seeking?  What kind of networking
do you want to do?  Who do you want to
meet?  What do you want to offer the
movement? What do you have to offer the Earth?  NAPC provides the venue, the 
opportunity, for all of us to have a
meaningful experience.  
 
Would
you like to give a talk? Do a demonstration? Lead a hands-on? Nominate a round
table discussion? Have a meeting? Draft a group proposal? You tell us. We
foresee an incredibly rich and varied offering. A full and wide-ranging
schedule.  People will vote with their
feet.  The hottest topics will have
bigger turnouts. We can look for opportunities to combine presentations and
topics.  This is not going to be a top
down schedule.  This is going to be a
bottom up schedule.  
 
As
people nominate topics, presentations, hands-on, demos, etc, we will post them
on the web.  These will coalesce into a
schedule before and during the event. You’ll know most of the events scheduled
going into the event, but new things will be added even during the
convergence.  There will be periodic
plenary sessions during the gathering to keep everyone informed.
 
A bit of history
Michael Pilarski
 
In
1986, the 2nd International
Permaculture Convergence and Conference  (IPC II) was held respectively at 
Breitenbush Hot Springs in
Oregon’s Cascades and at the Evergreen State College in Olympia,
Washington.  Several hundred people
attended the Convergence and 700 people attended the IPC Conference.  The 
twin events attracted participants from
across North America as well as internationally. Many of North America’s pc
pioneers attended including myself.  Bill
Mollison, Masanobu Fukuoka and Wes Jackson were keynote speakers and many of
you may have seen the photo of the three of them doing the pantomine “See no
evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”. It was a noteworthy event in North 
American
pc history.  IPC II was organized by the
new organization, Permaculture Institute of North America (PINA)
 
This
first PINA dissolved in 1988, and in an attempt to create a new North American
permaculture organization a North American Permaculture Designer’s Gathering 
was held from
November 3-5, 1989 at Camp Stoney outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Scott
Pittman was the local host/organizer.  About 25 pc organizers attended and 
formed a new organization called
North American Permaculture (NAP). It would be interesting to find the 
attendance
roll of who attended. I was there along with Scott Pittman, Larry Santoyo,
David Jacke, Cynthia Edwards, Sue Colpas-Ross, Jo Clayson, and….? Alas, NAP
took a nap and never took off as an organization. 
 
The Permaculture Voices Conference was
held in in San Diego, California in March, 2014 and brought together a great
cast of permaculture notables.  The event
attracted about 650 participants. Most of the time was spent listening to
presentations by the main speakers. NAPC will differ by being focused on
networking, round table discussions and building the movement. 
 
It
will be exciting to see what NAPC I means to the movement.  Come and find
out.  You can be part of this history. 
 

On Thursday, May 1, 2014 10:16 AM, Jason Gerhardt <jasongerhardt@gmail.com> 
wrote:
 
Hey Michael,
Excellent additional ideas! I think when one took the PDC is a great
benchmark for permaculture involvement. In conjunction with all the other
info it should make a nice charting of individuals journeys from PDC to
design and teaching, which is another important process to document well,
if only just for our own sakes as far as informing students of what the
journey to professionalism looks like.

In the end multiple elements to serve this function will be great, so I
really applaud your efforts of going back and looking through course
listings to start this process. With that and a crowdsourcing platform for
gathering this info, and maybe other formats yet to be thought of, it
should generate a fairly comprehensive listing.

Looking forward to NAPC,
Jason

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I have been raising Silver Fox rabbits for the past couple years. I like
them for their good temperament, and beautiful features.  My primary reason
for raising them is that Silver Fox rabbits are considered a threatened
breed, according to the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy.  Like seeds,
it is equally important to work with threatened and rare breeds of
livestock.  As permaculture designers, it is important to find those breeds
that have multiple functions and are best suited for our localized
conditions and needs.
I started raising my rabbits after I moved from 150 acres to an urban lot
in Portland, OR. My transition from the country life to the city was
catalyzed by the desire to develop a model of urban permaculture and food
production on a standard urban lot.  My partner, Zane, has started
sprouting grains indoors for fodder for our rabbits and our chickens.  We
feed the rabbits lots of greens from our garden.  We are happy to have the
manure from our rabbits, which can be used directly on the garden.  Between
our two mamas and a litter each of babies in the springtime, we have lots
of manure for the summer garden.  When the babies reach 11 weeks old, we
reduce our numbers.  I prefer to share the babies with other friends who
want to help strengthen the Silver Fox line.
This spring we had one litter of 4 rabbits and another litter of 6.  We
have found homes for 5 rabbits, and 5 will go in the freezer.  Each rabbit
provides meat to use in about 3 meals.  We don't eat much meat and our
urban livestock tend to provide most of what we need.
When choosing a meat rabbit breed, it is important to consider the size of
their litters.

If you are looking to learn more about Endangered and Threatened American
Livestock Breeds, visit the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy at
http://www.livestockconservancy.org/.
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www.permaculturerising.com
www.lilstarts.com

"...the greatest change we need to make is from consumption to
production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens.
If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone.

Hence, the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens,
who depend on the very system they attack,
and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter."
                   ~  Bill Mollison