What we’re about
Permaculture aims to regenerate healthy, productive landscapes and communities by consciously applying ecological principles to the design of human habitats. It is a theory, a mindset, and a lens for looking at the world in order to create a sustainable and just planet for all. Permaculture’s three ethics - Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share - and its twelve principles are used to design systems that create and foster healthy relationships. Through this discipline, each of us can take greater responsibility for ourselves and our world by developing life skills for sustainable living to become active participants and producers.
“Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance.” -Toby Hemenway (permaculturist & author)
What we do: We build community, share ideas and learn how to move forward mindfully and in tune with the ethics of Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share. Through the Seacoast NH Permaculture Meetup and other partner organizations we bring people together by offering workshops, speakers, movies, discussions, swaps, potluck meals and other events.
"We don't know what details of a truly sustainable future are going to be like, but we need options, we need people experimenting in all kinds of ways and permaculturists are one of the critical gangs that are doing that." -Dr. David Suzuki (geneticist, broadcaster, environmentalist)
Our mission: Seacoast NH Permaculture Group empowers individuals and communities to work together to create resiliency through the use of Permaculture in the NH seacoast area and beyond. We inspire and teach each other by sharing skills, knowledge, and regenerative practices, nurturing our connections and celebrating our work.
“You cannot save the land apart from the people or the people apart from the land.” -Wendell Berry (farmer, environmentalist, author)
Land Acknowledgment: Indigenous cultures, past and present, have been an inspiration to our learning and the development of permaculture. To honor them and to deepen our connection to and understanding of the land we are living on, we share that the Seacoast of NH is the traditional ancestral homeland of the Abenaki, Pennacook and Wabanaki Peoples. We are grateful to them for stewarding this area so beautifully for thousands of years and continuing that work now. They invite us to join their efforts – see indigenousnh.com to learn more.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Exploring Human Connections with "Join or Die" - Session 1Link visible for attendees$5.00
We focus a lot on how permaculture addresses connections among nature and people. But permaculture also cares about our relationships with each other.
Did you know that active participation in clubs and associations are keys to a strong democracy and healthy society? That conclusion is at the core of political scientist Dr. Robert Putnam’s research. But participation in groups—once a hallmark of American life—has been in steady decline since the 1960s. What does it mean for the U.S., our communities, and our own wellbeing when people stay home rather than participate more actively?
This is a fascinating topic for those of us interested in permaculture because of permaculture’s emphasis on community-building, local associations, and decentralized near-to-home problem solving. Join us for a two-part online Meetup to explore Robert Putnam’s big ideas.
Join us as we consider how being joiners can help ourselves, our democracy, and our communities. Think book-club discussions, but with a movie!
January 15 (7-8 p.m.)--Session 1: In advance of this first Meetup, please watch Join or Die (stream on Netflix or rent on Gathr). Or read Bowling Alone or gain the big ideas through interviews and podcasts. Click here for a Google Doc with a list of additional options for listening/reading about the big ideas in Putnam’s research. Session 2 will be on March 12 (7-8 p.m.) - check out calendar!
COST: The fee for each session is $5. Additional donations to Seacoast Permaculture are always welcome and much appreciated.
Hosts for this online event are Seacoast Permaculture board members Rebecca Cowser and Jennifer Montgomery.
- Hearth Broom Making Workshop (Broom with Wood Handle)Tuckaway Farm, Lee, NH$20.00
Long has the earth nourished and fed us around a dinner table but also importantly has gifted materials for craft. Pruning wood from an apple tree to make a coat hanger, a sapling for a cane, or broom corn for broom making. In our current consumer culture most utilitarian goods are crafted far from the fields, woods, and our local community. Coming together to make something and to share skills empowers and rightfully brings us back to our responsibility to our shared places. Our hands connect us to the greater world one craft at a time. What a pleasure to sweep the floors of your beloved home using your own creation.
We will make a Hearth Broom (wood handled long broom)
COST: sliding scale of $75-90, with a nonrefundable $20 deposit ahead of time here with paypal or by check: Seacoast Permaculture, 219 France Rd, Barrington NH 03825. Please bring cash or check for the remainder that day.
All materials are included: broom corn, carved wood handle, waxed thread wound around piece of wood, scissors, pliers, stitching vice, and needle for stitching
Limited to 6 participants.
Structure of the class:
- Meet and Greet (Introductions, flow of the day)
- Introduce the materials (broom corn, thread, tools)
- Bryan demonstrates binding the broom corn to handle
- Participants bind broom corn to handle
- Bryan demonstrates stitching the broom
- Participants stitch broom
- Showcase our makings and closing
The Venue: Emerson House at Tuckaway Farm is a new indoor/outdoor community space on a working farm available for mission-related activities. Their goal is to both share and support this space as a resource for healthy agriculture and community. There is indoor and outdoor space which could adapted depending on the weather and class needs.
Presenters:
Bryan is a community member of the Piscataqua Watershed who revels in the tidal rhythms. Bryan feels summoned to the curious connections with place and community. Pruning old apple trees, maple sugaring, scything hay, or sitting with a neighbor to greet the fireflies. Bryan believes hand work and utilitarian crafts are a gateway to our belonging and intimacies with place and story.
Yulia is a member of Seacoast Permaculture board and an avid environmentalist and maker of things from natural found or repurposed materials.
