Overgrow, Everywhere (Permaculture Session 1)

Eternal Abundance and Rooted on the Drive Cafe and Permaculture activist Erin Innes present three dynamic and interactive talks on Permaculture strategies for a radical reintegration of urban human communities with the ecology that supports us.

All events are by donation, suggested donation $10 - $20. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

SESSION 1 -- Finding our ecological links in the city

You don't have to leave the city to go back to the land. Under the pavement, over our heads, and all around us is a natural world full of abundance just waiting for us to engage with it. Permaculture design is a radical approach to re-integrating ourselves into our ecology so that we can build just and sustainable communities where we are, with what we have. This interactive presentation will share some of the ways that Permaculture design can help us bring the vibrance and power of the living world into our urban communities for the benefit of ourselves, each other, and the planet.

Erin Innes is a Permaculture activist and educator based in Vancouver BC (Coast Salish Territory). Her radical approach -- radical as in roots -- to sustainable community design involves looking to ecological principles to promote environmental justice through community building, place making, and participatory earth healing practices. She has worked with organizations as diverse as the Richmond Fruit Tree Sharing Project, Permaculture Vancouver, Food Not Bombs, Village Vancouver, and Langara College. She lives and gardens in Vancouver's Hastings-Sunrise neighourhood.