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October 28, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
An invitation to gather, celebrate, connect with each other and share vision for the future.
If you have joined us in Permaculture Meet-ups or Walking Whatcom Water events or are new, please join us for a social informational round table gathering!
Help us celebrate becoming a Landscape Group with Regenerate Cascadia and start visioning together!
Date Tuesday October 28th 7 – 8:30pm
RSVP below to be sent the Zoom link
We look forward to seeing you!
September 26, 2025 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
A Free gathering time for People interested in Permaculture and Integrated Land Management to come together and discuss ideas.
After the tour we invite you to stay for a discussion about Regenerate Whatcom’s recent acceptance as a “Landscape Group” within the Regenerate Cascadia framework. Read more here.
This month, come visit the Columbia neighborhood in Bellingham to see the home of our host, permaculture practitioner Aaron Silverberg, who is a man of many talents and interests. Aaron cares deeply about community resilience, with an emphasis on mutual support and reciprocity. Aaron led the effort to build the Columbia Share Shack. He and his wife Jeanette have a beautiful urban permaculture garden, complete with a small pond.Â
1700 W. North St., Bellingham, WA
Bring something for the sharing table: seeds, plants, books, snacks.
July 25, 2025 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Interests at your site
gardens, herbs, events, community
A Free gathering time for People interested in Permaculture and Integrated Land Management to come together and discuss ideas.
This month, come visit the Birchwood neighborhood to see the social permaculture community of our host, Nicole Wires, who says,Â
“We are building a limited equity housing cooperative on 1.2 acres of land in Birchwood with shared cooking, cleaning, childcare, gardening, and more! We’re doing creative income sharing practices and ensuring our housing is permanently affordable. We are also building a community space for events, workshops, and to house infrastructure for disaster preparedness and community resilience.”
After the tour we invite you to stay for a potluck, and discussion about Regenerate Whatcom’s efforts to engage in “social permaculture.”
510-279-8416
nwires@gmail.com
June 27, 2025 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Hello, my name is Jeanette, and I have a suburban food forest style garden in the Ridgemont neighborhood in Bellingham. I run a small scale nursery and craft my own herbal salves, teas, and tinctures. I also offer regular themed garden tours, such as perennial vegetables, pollinator plants, or my top 15 favorite plants in my garden.
I have a special interest in unusual perennial vegetables, and am always experimenting in that regard. I love to grow berries, mulch crops, plants for pollinators, medicinal herbs, nuts, native plants, and as much fruit as I can. I started my garden in early 2016 and it’s only gotten bigger and more fun since!
I’d love for you to come visit and tour my garden, I love answering questions and having conversations about awesome plants! I will have herbal tea and snacks available, and plants and herbal goods for purchase if anyone is interested.
I also have an extensive library about permaculture, ethnobotany, and other related topics, and I am more than happy to talk about book recommendations as well.
I am in an easily accessible neighborhood on the south side of Bellingham. Street parking is available on the street in front and near my house.
Address: 3606 Taylor Ave., near I-5 exit 252.
3 – 6 pm
Please, no dogs. I recommend bringing sun protection, as it often gets quite warm in the back yard. Looking forward to meeting you.
After the tour we invite you to stay for a discussion about David MacLeod’s recent article in Whatcom Watch on “Why Regenerate, Whatcom?” and Joe Shuster’s consideration of planetary boundaries applied to Whatcom County.
13602015650
jsivanataru@gmail.com
October 25, 2024 @ 1:00 am – 4:00 pm
Bring your plants seeds, garden abundance or preserves to swap and mingle with other Permaculture enthusiasts.
An opportunity to experience permaculture and meet other practitioners. Visitors can see first hand an established permaculture system and ask questions. See how the permaculture design system has relevance to the challenges we face and to creating communities and environments that are resilient.
If you are planning on attending the tour please consider carpooling with others. Folks with plants to sell or swap can arrive at 12:30
Guided tour will be from 1-2. Self guided tour and plant sale/swap will be from 2-4. Look forward to seeing you all!
We will also have a place to trade or gift plants and seeds to other attendants. To sell or trade you can show up a little early say 12:30 and set up. You can bring a table or display on the ground or the back of your car or truck.
July 26, 2024 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
A Free gathering time for People interested in Permaculture from Whatcom county to come together and discuss ideas. Tour Inspiration Farm in the Winter
Agenda– Tour, talk, swap plants and seeds. Simulate and educate through demonstrations of water harvesting landscapes, soil building, animal integration, growing techniques, tours, and workshops.
Learn more about Whatcom PC Meet-Ups Here. Host one at your place.
After the tour we invite you to stay for an informal discussion. How can we move Permaculture forward here in Whatcom county. How can we as a community form guilds of different skill sets, aid in promoting permaculture related events and work within our community to install systems such as food forests, lending libraries, speakers forum and cooperative nurseries.
An opportunity to experience permaculture and meet its practitioners. Visitors can see these myriad initiatives, ask questions and see for themselves a permaculture design system. Learn how theses systems have relevance to the challenges we face. By Creating communities that are resilient in the face of undesirable and unforeseeable impacts.
Hope to see you there!
Some ideas of topics for this months gathering.
May 18, 2024 @ 10:00 am – May 19, 2024 @ 4:00 pm
A fun filled Practical Permaculture Immersion Weekend. We will illustrate practical ways to design an integrated thriving living system that that partners with nature. Designed to be self regulating, diverse, abundant and resilient. Whether you are on an urban lot or a farm homestead, energy, water, soil building, animal systems, food production and preservation systems, with diverse income streams. Join us if these are important to you.
An extended site tour of the established systems at Inspiration Farm will augment this experiential weekend. A detailed presentation over viewing Permaculture ethics, principals and strategies will be covered on the first day. On the second day an in depth dive into systems relationships and design mapping process and strategies will be covered.
Class format includes lectures, discussions, extensive tours of an established site and hands-on activities.
Presentations and discussion in the AM, site tour, hands on projects with plant guilds, soil creation, Nursery establishment and other integrated systems in the PM.
Discounts for couples, $250- Pot luck lunch for both days. Camping is available. Limited to 15 Participants.
Feel free to call if you have any questions. 360-319-2029
Are you interested in learning more about permaculture and the ways you can get involved with the Whatcom Permaculture community? Dive into the world of permaculture design and see what the Whatcom Permaculture Design course offers.
We look forward to exploring the potential of living regeneratively together with you!
Engaging with Whatcom Permaculture is a rewarding experience that contributes to both personal growth and community development. Here’s how you can get involved:
To get started, check out the Whatcom Permaculture and Inspiration Farm’s websites for resources, upcoming events, and contact information. Reach out with your interests, and we can guide you to the best way to contribute to the local permaculture movement.
April 26, 2024 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Name Virginia Malmquist
Street Address : 2427 Goshen Rd
Site description
We could show: 11K gallons water catchment, hugelkultur , chinampas, chicken moat, etc.
Registrations are closed for this event
March 29, 2024 @ 9:00 am – 2:30 pm
