Comment here and say what you want from Permaculture San Diego, and what you'll help make happen. If you'd like an "Introduction to Permaculture" workshop in your neighborhood, tell us where you are!
Definitely share a bit about your background too--maybe say where you heard about permaculture.
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I'd like help organizing my neighborhood, first just to get together and meet each other. I'll help by: (1) putting up a community bulletin board and having a garden open house where I live, (2) arranging to show permaculture-related films at the local library, (3) starting a blog to correspond to the bulletin board, where my neighbors can post, (4) walking around, door-to-door to announce these things once I get them set up.
I first learned about permaculture in 1999 at a green expo in Washington, DC. I considered going down to intern at Barking Frogs Permaculture at that time, but let that go. I also visited Sirius Ecovillage and Earthlands community about that time, but an interest in PC was not part of that.
In Austin, TX, I went to an anti-GE foods rally, which for some reason I associate with PC.
For the most part, that was it until 2003, when I bicycled across the US, visiting Earthaven Ecovillage for two months--partly because it was 'the first PC-designed ecovillage in the US', attending my first bioregional permaculture gathering, and later visiting The Farm in TN (not with a PC focus there).
When I arrived in SD in October, I wanted to make a PC gathering happen here, but let it slide.
In 2006, I visited Path To Freedom in Pasadena, and went back to Earthaven for a week and also to the Southeast PC Gathering for that year.
Only at this point, the end of 2006, primarily due to Mike Thayer's interest in having the San Diego Ishmael group focus more on Permaculture, did I take the time to check Permaculture: A Designers' Manual out of the library, and I was blown away. I finally felt I had an understanding of the magnitude of PC, and also why the International Permaculture Conference uses the cover of the book as their logo.
In 2007, I went to Quail Springs, near Santa Barbara, for a month while there was a permaculture course going on.
That's it. No need to write this much!
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