April PC Meet-Up

April 26 @ 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.

  • 11,000 gallons water catchment provides ALL of our water usage most of the year.
  • 380 foot huegle cultures, an orchard and berry patch.
  • A humanure bin will provide compost for the orchard on a two-year rotation basis
  • The chicken is used during the garden, season two create a weed buffer.
  • Three tracking solar arrays provide electricity.
  • Two chinampas are starting to grow blueberry bushes

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Brian Kerkvliet

360-319-2029

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2427 Goshen Rd

2427 Goshen Rd
BELLINGHAM, WA 98226-9728 United States
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International Permaculture Day Tour & Plant Swap

May 4 @ 2:00 pm 5:00 pm

We will celebrate International Permaculture Day May 4th 2024! A day to showcase permaculture around the world. 

This year Inspiration Farm will have a tour and Plant Swap for International Permaculture Day 

An opportunity to experience permaculture and meet its 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.

Now in its 14th year, International Permaculture Day has grown rapidly from its roots as an Australian initiative to a global day of permaculture celebrated in over 35 countries.

If you are planning on attending the tour please consider carpooling with others. Folks with plants to sell or swap can arrive at 1:30 Guided tour will be from 2-3. Self guided tour and plant sale/swap will be from 3-5. Look forward to seeing you all!

You can shop for plants ahead of time and we will have them ready for you to pick up. There will also be a place to trade or gift plants and seeds to other attendants.  To sell or trade you can show up a little early say 1-1:30 and set up. You can bring a table or display on the ground or the back of your car or truck.

Imagine Permaculture

We offer these tours to further develop the connection between the farm and the community. Tours are a great way to learn and visit the farm and pick up some permaculture food at the same time. See first hand what it takes to turn a landscape into a productive, vibrant, resilient, regenerative system. We will show you what makes Permaculture and Biodynamic farming systems thrive in food abundance at the same time as we regenerate the land, create habitat, clean and store water and build soil! Tours generally cover land, water, nutrient, biomass and animal management systems. Nursery Plant sales and more. This may be altered according to people on the tours interest and questions.

large scale systems
describing water connections to earthworks course students

Resilient Whole System Design Strategies

Inspiration Farm is an 11 acre homestead styled farm founded in 1994. Integrating Biodynamic and Permaculture practices in relation to annual & perennial food systems, animal husbandry, appropriate technology, land/water nutrient management. 

2427 Goshen Rd

2427 Goshen Rd
BELLINGHAM, WA 98226-9728 United States
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Malmquist April PC Meet up

We could show: 11K gallons water catchment, hugelkultur , chinampas, chicken moat, etc.

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PDC Zoom Information Session

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February 28 @ 7:00 pm 8:00 pm

Join us for an Information Packed Zoom Circle.

A space to share an overview of what a PDC is and how we have organized one here in whatcom county.

We will answer your questions about what a Permaculture Design Certificate course is all about.

  • Why is the Whatcom Hands on PDC unique
  • What you can hope to get out of it
  • How it can influence your life and career for the better
  • How it can help build a better relationship with yourself, your food, community and the environment.

We look forward to sharing with you during this session.

Please RSVP below and we will send you a Zoom link.

Registrations are closed for this event

Free

Brian Kerkvliet

360-319-2029

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2427 Goshen Rd

2427 Goshen Rd
BELLINGHAM, WA 98226-9728 United States
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360) 319-4266

Permaculture Meet-Up at Inspiration Farm

February 23 @ 4:00 pm 6:00 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.

Come bring your idea to share! How can we Showcase permaculture?

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! 

This months meet up will be hosted at Inspiration Farm

Join us at 617 E Laurel Rd. 4-6 PM, tour, talk, share seeds and plants

Some ideas of topics for this months gathering.

  • Water,
  • Seed Saving
  • Pruning trees
  • Community organizations.
  • What is the plant of the month?

Registrations are closed for this event


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February 23
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4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
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2427 Goshen Rd

2427 Goshen Rd
BELLINGHAM, WA 98226-9728 United States
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360) 319-4266

 International Permaculture Day tour and plant swap

March 28 @ 1:08 am

We will celebrate International Permaculture Day

May 4th 2024! A day to showcase permaculture around the world. 

Throughout the year we have a variety of permaculture Events, Tours and Workshops at Inspiration farm.

This year we will have a tour and Plant Swap for International Permaculture Day on Saturday May 4th, 2-5pm. 

An opportunity to experience permaculture and meet its 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.

Now in its 14th year, International Permaculture Day has grown rapidly from its roots as an Australian initiative to a global day of permaculture celebrated in over 35 countries.

If you are planning on attending the tour please consider carpooling with others. Folks with plants to sell or swap can arrive at 1:30 Guided tour will be from 2-3. Self guided tour and plant sale/swap will be from 3-5. Look forward to seeing you all!

You can shop for plants ahead of time and I will have them ready for you to pick up. We are donating 10% of all sales towards the Salish Seed Garden Project. 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 1-1:30 and set up. You can bring a table or display on the ground or the back of your car or truck.

Imagine Permaculture

I will share with you an overview of what Permaculture is and some of the strategies used to implement it on your land. Ethics, concepts, strategies and themes of design will form a basis of understanding of how to partner with nature to create a resilient abundant regenerative system.

We offering these tours to further develop the connection between the farm and the community. Tours are a great way to learn and visit the farm and pick up some permaculture food at the same time. See first hand what it takes to turn a landscape into a productive, vibrant, resilient, regenerative system. We will show you what makes Permaculture and Biodynamic farming systems thrive in food abundance at the same time as we regenerate the land, create habitat, clean and store water and build soil! Tours generally cover land, water, nutrient, biomass and animal management systems. Nursery Plant sales and more. This may be altered according to people on the tours interest and questions.

large scale systems
describing water connections to earthworks course students

Resilient Whole System Design Strategies

Inspiration Farm is an 11 acre homestead styled farm founded in 1994. Integrating Biodynamic and Permaculture practices in relation to annual & perennial food systems, animal husbandry, appropriate technology, land/water nutrient management. 

As a co-steward of Inspiration Farm for the past 25 years, Brian has a wide breadth of practical knowledge on how to partner with natural systems to bring forth stability and abundance. Having completed three full Permaculture design certificate courses, he now does consultation work for others who want to fast track the establishment of resilient system on their land. Brian teaches workshops at Inspiration Farm pertaining to the many aspects for designing and living within a resilient system that provides for most of the food, fiber, fuel and medicine needed to live a happy healthy life while restoring the ecosystem. His enthusiasm to share this with a wider audience shows in all that he does.

Brian Kerkvliet

360-319-2029

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2427 Goshen Rd

2427 Goshen Rd
BELLINGHAM, WA 98226-9728 United States
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360) 319-4266

International Permaculture Day Tour

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PC Meet-up, March 2023

March 31, 2023 @ 4:00 pm 7:00 pm

A Free gathering time for People interested in Permaculture from Whatcom County to come together and discuss ideas.

Here are some ideas for topics to discuss at this months gathering.

  • Water,
  • Seed Saving
  • Pruning trees
  • Community organizations.
  • What is the plant of the month?

This months meet up will be hosted by… Julie and Julian

We invite the Whatcom Permaculture group to visit our home in the Birchwood neighborhood. We just moved onto this ⅓ acre property in July and are in the early stages of design and planning. In this gathering, we would like to share our ideas and vision for how we want to transform the property, but we are especially eager to get an outside perspective from others with more experience or those at a similar stage as we are. Ultimately, we would like to convert what is mostly lawn into a food forest of mostly perennials (but also some annuals mixed in). 


Currently, our main focus has been clearing out (and repurposing) the objects and plants that we don’t want and making as many observations as we can (about light, drainage, soil, wildlife, indicator species, etc). What has your process been for transforming a property from scratch? What has your process been for getting to know your property? What have you been keeping track of and how? How have you dealt with removing established invasive, like ivy and blackberry?

In line with “getting to know your property,” we both have expertise in animal biology (especially birds and insects), and could also hold a skill share in biodiversity monitoring if people are interested. Over the long term, we are interested in monitoring how biodiversity (i.e. the number of different species and their abundance) changes over the years as we build out the property.

Event details:

Where: We’re located at 3116 Pinewood Ave. We have limited parking at our house, but there’s abundant parking in the lot at Birchwood Elementary School, just down the street. We’ll prepare something for folks to snack on and will have a share table set-up (for resources, seeds, snacks, drinks, etc.)

When: Friday, March 31st, 2023 4-7 PM

Hope to see you there!

Julie and Julian 408-316-3148

Don’t forget something for the sharing table: seeds, plants, books.

Join other folks interested in permaculture 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 permaculture systems such as food forests, lending libraries, speakers forums and cooperative nurseries. Come bring your idea to share!

Brian Kerkvliet

+1 (360) 319-2029

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February 2023 Permaculture Meet-Up

February 24, 2023 @ 4:00 pm 6:00 pm

A Free gathering time for People interested in Permaculture from Whatcom County to come together and discuss ideas.

Here are some ideas for topics to discuss at this months gathering.

  • Water,
  • Seed Saving
  • Pruning trees
  • Community organizations.
  • What is the plant of the month?

This months meet up will be hosted by:

Neighbors in the Birchwood neighborhood. Our backyards are narrow but deep, and include small areas of forest, mature fruit trees, vegetable gardens, and chickens. Both yards can have areas of standing water in the wet season that we’d like insight into how to best manage. We are excited to explore how to best utilize our space with providing natural habitat and growing food as our primary goals.
There will be a share table for snack, drinks, and gardening resources.

contact: Jenna Deane 808-342-5661 Website


Event details:

Friday Feb. 24th Time 4-6 pm

Meet in backyard of 3030 Alderwood Ave (come through to the backyard on the right of the garage)We will be touring both this backyard and Chad and Karen’s (3032 Alderwood)

Parking is limited and available in driveways of 3030 and 3032 Alderwood. 

Don’t forget something for the sharing table: seeds, plants, books.

Join other folks interested in permaculture 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 permaculture systems such as food forests, lending libraries, speakers forums and cooperative nurseries. Come bring your idea to share!

Free

Brian Kerkvliet

+1 (360) 319-2029

View Organizer Website

2427 Goshen Rd

2427 Goshen Rd
BELLINGHAM, WA 98226-9728 United States
+ Google Map
360) 319-4266

Upcoming events for 2023

EVENTS AT INSPIRATION FARM 2023

Hi Everyone! Just wanted to take a moment to let you all know some of what we have planned for this year. Other events may pop up to fill in some gaps but here are the events we have on the books at this point.

Ongoing- Permaculture Meet-ups will continue to happen the last Friday of each month. Stay tuned for locations and details at www.whatcompermaculture.com

Salish Seed Swap Saturday Feb. 18th, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm At the – Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship Downstairs, 12 noon to 3pm – Masks Requested

$10 suggested donation, at the door. No one turned away for lack of funds
Early entrance (11:30 am) for members of the Salish Seed Guild and people bringing seeds to share
Find out more.

Please Bring your own Envelops to package bulk seeds being offered.

Hope you can make it to the Salish Seed Swap happening in person for the first time in three years!

A Past Seed Swap Gathering

March 2023

Great Grafting / Plant Propagation

Sat. March 11 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

Create your own Fruit Nursery Stock. Fruit Tree Grafting and Propagation from Cuttings. Pruning season is upon us! Remember to save scion wood for the Grafting Gathering! You can learn how to collect scion wood here. Bring Apple, Pear, Plum…
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Get Tickets $30.00 

Create your own nursery plants

April 2023

Practical Permaculture Intensive

April 22 @ 10:00 am – April 23 @ 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…
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Get Tickets $200.00 

Meet others and learn about Practical Permaculture applications

Scythes the Cutting Edge!

April 29 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

Sell the weed eater and use a scythe! Maintain your body, not your machines. Learn the sharper points of this elegant tool. Thought to be old school, but better blades and an ergonomic set up makes them one of the most efficient tools out there. Find out more

Get Tickets $50.00 

Different blades and set ups for different tasks

May 2023

INTERNATIONAL PERMACULTURE DAY TOUR & PLANT SALE / SWAP

May 7 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Free event!

We will celebrate International Permaculture Day May 7th 2023! A day to showcase permaculture around the world.  An opportunity to experience permaculture and meet its practitioners. Visitors can see first hand an established permaculture system and ask questions. See how… Read more

Be part of the movement!

Food Forest & Permaculture Guild Plants

May 13 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Plant a garden, eat for a year, plant a Food Forest Guild, eat for decades! This hands on workshop shares design elements necessary for a perennial food forest. Learn about fruit and nut trees as well as supper food berries…
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Get Tickets $24.00 – $40.00 

Learn about a Plant Guild and how to install one.

August 2023

Earthworks for a Water Resilient Landscape 2023

August 19  – August 20 … Exact details are still being worked out.

This workshop will cover reading the landscape for water retention and management. Diving into, Mapping, ponds, swales, reed-beds, terraces, key line design, implementation cover cropping and guild planting. This will be a hands-on workshop/installation, with earth moving equipment and lasers! Read more!

Get Tickets $450.00 

Observe, Plan, map, install systems for a water resilient landscape.

August Permaculture Meet up

August 26, 2022 @ 4:00 pm 7:00 pm

  • Time 4-7 pm
  • Empyrean farm at 6338 Mt. Baker Hwy Deming WA
  • Potluck dinner 

“Empyrean Farm is a 37 acre farm that Eliza Steele & Jeremy moved to last March.  They have started with getting annual crop rows established and planting a visual, wind, and sound tree buffer at the boundaries.  Other than that, the property is primarily hay fields and pastures.  There is a 10 acre wetland with a creek at the east side of the property that the whole site gently slopes towards.  There is also a 5 acre wooded area at the North of the property as well.


“Eliza and Jeremy plan on developing the property to be a place where they and others can host workshops, retreats and community events using permaculture, natural building, agroecological, and regenerative practices. ” 

Jeremy and Eliza can provide print outs of the property if people would like to participate in a “design charette of the the property.”

Free

Brian Kerkvliet

360-319-2029

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Permaculture Course Update

As we move closer to the start of our Whatcom Hands On Permaculture Design Course, We wanted to share an update of how things are progressing. At this point the course is half full, with a half a dozen or so interested and thinking about it.

We would like to offer an incentive for people to sign up.

  • We are extending the early bird price of $1600 till May 1st, $200 off the regular price
  • Sign up a friend and get $100 off of your tuition.
  • Sign up as a couple and get a $200 discount

We are really looking forward to getting into the nuts and bolts of the class schedule. If we have not reached minimum enrollment by May 5th, we will strategically pivot to a slightly different format.  We would still continue to offer some of the course content, but as stand-alone workshops conducted throughout the Spring and Summer. 

Upcoming Events

Here are a few upcoming events if you are interested in meeting us or visiting a site prior to the course.  These are also great opportunities to meet other people in our area interested in Permaculture.  They are also a great chance to invite your friends who may be exploring some of these ideas ; )

Saturday, April 23rd-  9 – 2pm Whatcom Farm Expo Exhibition Free! Put on by the Whatcom Conservation District. Come visit us at this trade convention for our local Agricultural Community.  More information at their Website, Eventbrite, and Facebook event, pages.

Friday, April 29 –  4 – 6pm Permaculture Meet-up at Inspiration Farm: Free! Come meet and chat with our local Permaculture Community.  We can share ideas, plants, books or tools. 

Sunday, May 1st – 2 – 5pm  International Permaculture DayFree! We are hosting a Plant sale/swap as well as a site tour.  Bring plants to share or a little bit of cash for purchasing and join us.

Saturday, May 14 – 10 – 4pm Food Forest & Permaculture Guild Plants $40 Workshop at Inspiration Farm.

Permaculture course weekends you can attend separately!

We will be offering certain modules of the course as a stand-alone workshops for people who are interested in specific topics but may not be able to commit to an entire course.  The cost will be $200 per weekend.  Please share these opportunities with anybody you know who may be interested.  Thanks. 

Weekend #1  May 21st and 22nd $200

The first weekend will cover the Foundations of Permaculture overview and logistics of the whole course. This will be an introduction to the foundations of permaculture. If you decide you are interested in taking the whole course you may roll this fee into the total cost of the course.

The first two information packed days we will cover permaculture defined; observation skills; ethics and the basis of ecological design; permaculture principles. We will include a comprehensive site tour with observation skill exercises while looking at indicators of sustainability, and how to use them. We will address whole systems thinking and how to look at fast track succession as it applies to design strategies.


Weekend #2  June 4th and 5th $200

The second weekend we will look at Designing within a Pattern Literacy Context. We will also be joined by the renowned permaculture designer and practitioner Doug Bullock. As we look at topography, geology, climate and microclimates Designing from patterns to details using natural patterns as a design tool. Looking at the overview of the permaculture design process and methods of design using the Zone and Sector System.

Day two we will go into the Roles of Trees and Plants. How do these elements relate to developing a stable system. Polyculture plants and their many functions. Methods for propagation, care and the yields they offer back to the system.  Strategic design of plant communities for the orchard food forest system including; hedgerows, windbreaks, shelter belts and the home garden.


Weekend #3  June 18th and 19th $200

This third weekend will focus on  Soil and Water. On Saturday, we will explore the complex, living, breathing edge between the earth and the sky.  By exploring the dynamic Soil Food Web, we will learn about both the geological and ecological relationships which best facilitate plant growth.  Sunday will explore Water Systems and provide a practical and accessible approach to this most critical infrastructure.  We will look at Residential Irrigation systems that connect the garden to the home.  We will also explore Domestic Plumbing systems such as the kitchen sink, toilet and grey water irrigation.  We’ll learn how to troubleshoot simple problems that homeowners and renters may encounter in everyday life.


Weekend #4  July 9th and 10th $200

This Fourth weekend will focus on  Social Relations and Practical Tools. We will also be joined by the renowned permaculture designer Penny Livingston.  On Saturday we will explore awesome Community Projects happening within the scope of Permaculture Design.  We will also investigate social relationships between ourselves, each other and our larger consumer culture as well as how to design in the Human Landscape.  On Sunday, we will learn How to Use and Care for Tools.  Both hand tools and power tools are an essential part of any land-based work.  We will cover the basic tool kit, trade-specific kits, power tools, safety and maintenance.