About us
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
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Spring Book Study #4: "Is a River Alive?"
·OnlineOnlineFor this fourth and last meeting, please come having read: Part 3 (pages 199-301) in Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane.
Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law. Macfarlane takes us on three unforgettable journeys with extraordinary people, stories, and places: the cloud-forests of Ecuador, the wounded creeks and lagoons of India, and the spectacular, imperiled wild rivers of Canada. Braiding these journeys is the life story of the fragile chalk stream a mile from Macfarlane's house. With dazzling prose and stories, Is a River Alive? opens hearts, challenges perspectives, and reminds us that our fate always flows with that of rivers.
For our first meeting, please read the Prologue and Introduction. We'll also spend time meeting each other and going over the plan for the series.
SCHEDULE/PLAN: We will meet on Zoom for a facilitated discussion Mondays, March 16, March 30, April 13 & April 27 (4 weeks), 7-8:30pm.
COST: Register here to join us for the first meeting for $15 per person. After that, donations for meetings will be welcomed but not required. You can avoid paypal by sending a check to Seacoast Permaculture, 219 France Rd, Barrington NH 03825 - we both save money this way, too!
In our Permaculture Topics Discussions & Book Studies, we aim to expand our knowledge of topics related to permaculture in an ongoing series where members can connect to build community. This series has a particular focus on "social/societal permaculture."
The series is facilitated by Seacoast Permaculture & NOFA-NH members who are involved in organic growing, education and social justice movements. The facilitators help the conversation move along, and make sure everyone gets a chance to share.
About our cosponsor: NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. We help people build local, just, and sustainable food systems. Learn more at https://www.nofanh.org
Reading Plan:
March 16: Prologue and Introduction (pages 1-32)
March 30: Part 1 (pages 39-114)
April 13: Part 2 (pages 121-192)
April 27: Part 3 (pages 199-301)NOTE from SP Organizers: Want to stay in the loop beyond our Meetups? Sign up for the monthly Seacoast NH Permaculture email newsletter to get notified about additional local and online events, hands-on projects, and resources. Sign up here. Unsubscribe at any time.
6 attendees- $10.00
Coppice, Pollard and Hedge: Agroforestry Techniques
·OnlineOnlineCoppice, Pollard and Hedge techniques are ancient traditions of regenerative agriculture, forestry and cottage industry.
Humanity has millennia of experience cultivating and sustainably harvesting woody plants for energy, fencing, poles, fodder, building materials, cottage industry, transportation, fishing, and other basic needs. The tremendous potential and productivity of these traditions have all but been forgotten, but are making a resurgence. This workshop is an introduction to some practices you might integrate into your homesteading to build self-reliance and rustic beauty in our post-cheap-fossil-fuel world.This winter presenter Steve Diamond attended a workshop on these practices hosted by Steve Gabriel (author of "Silvopasture") and Mark Krawczyk (author of "Coppice Agroforestry"). This presentation and a later in-person workshop is built on what he learned in that workshop, from those books and from years of his own experimentation with these techniques.
COST: Sliding scale of $10-25 with a $10 nonrefundable deposit due here. Or avoid paypal and the extra charges - send a check to Seacoast Permaculture, 219 France Rd, Barrington NH 03825. If you cannot afford the payment, reach out to Amy to make other arrangements.
LED BY: Steve Diamond is a gardener, landscaper, permaculturist, and poultry and goat-keeper at Living Land Permaculture Homestead in Barrington NH. He has been active as a participant and workshop leader in the Seacoast Permaculture Group's many events since its founding. He studied Anthropology at UNH.
JOINING ONLINE: Our online programs are offered via Zoom. When you rsvp "yes" the Zoom link will be visible to you on this page. Whenever you are logged in to your meetup account and come to this page you will be able to see it, click on it, or cut and paste it. We send you a message with the link through meetup, but your email or meetup settings may stop it from reaching you, so *remember to come to this page for access!*
NEWSFLASH: We launched a Seacoast NH Permaculture monthly newsletter that will NOT go through meetup. Diversifying our communication methods will make the group more resilient. The newsletter covers upcoming events, information and photos. Sign up for the newsletter here!
10 attendees 
ONLINE Permaculture Topics: Eco-Cultural Revitalization on the Klamath River
·OnlineOnlineA River Reborn... Journalist Ben Goldfarb traces the monumental effort to restitch relationships between land, salmon, and humans on the Klamath River running through Oregon and California, after four of its most obstructive dams are dismantled in 2024 under a restoration plan reopening hundreds of miles of salmon spawning habitat. Would fish that famously return to their birth streams find a stretch of river that had been closed for more than a century? Ben witnesses how the renewal of these ancient relationships is nourishing the ecosystem anew.
To clarify - for these discussions, we watch/listen to/read material ahead of time and then discuss it. The authors or speakers are not joining us - we are talking about their work ourselves.
Before we meet read or listen (36 mins) to this article: https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-river-reborn/
In our Permaculture Topics Discussions & Book Studies, we aim to expand our knowledge of topics related to permaculture and to have an ongoing series where members can connect to build our community. This series has a particular focus on "social/societal permaculture." Since Spring 2020, we've been especially engaging with topics such as: people care, story, right relationships, new economics, community resilience, honoring indigenous knowledge, strength in diversity, and forests & gardens as teachers.
COST: Suggested donation of $5-15 at https://www.seacoastnhpermaculture.org/ or send checks to Seacoast Permaculture, 219 France Rd, Barrington NH 03825.
*We are not requiring you pay before signing up but there are limited spaces so please take your RSVP seriously.*JOINING ONLINE: Our online programs are offered via Zoom. When you rsvp "yes" the Zoom link will become visible to you on this event page. Whenever you are logged in to your meetup account and come to this page you will be able to see it, click on it, or cut and paste it to get to the meeting. We will send you a message with the link through meetup, but your settings for your email or in meetup may mean it does not reach you, so *please remember to come to this page for access!*
The series is facilitated by Seacoast Permaculture members involved in organic growing and homesteading, education and social justice movements. These are not formal classes but conversations shaped by the participants.
NOTE from SP Organizers: Want to stay in the loop beyond our Meetups? Sign up for the monthly Seacoast NH Permaculture email newsletter to get notified about additional local and online events, hands-on projects, and resources. Sign up here. Unsubscribe at any time.
3 attendees
Past events
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