Affinity Circles
Workshops at the Permaculture Gathering are organized into Affinity Circles. Affinity Circle topics are proposed during the Open Space Planning on Friday morning. The person who proposes these topics can be experts on subjects or novices seeking help. Also these circles can be organized to facilitate collaboration or accomplishing a hands-on project at the gathering.
Here are examples of previous Affinity Circles
- Applied Intuition: Dowsing
- Arthur Morgan School introduction video
- Ashevillage Building Convergence
- Bamboo gathering and sculpture
- Bee Stewardship
- Effective Micro-organisms
- Embracing the Sacred Masculine
- Emerald Acres Greenhouse
- Flow Yoga
- Flute Making
- Foot massage and washing
- Garden as sacred space
- Global Cohesive Economy
- Green Transit
- Home Orchards
- Humanure- What’s the Scoop on Poop?
- Integral Politics
- Introduction to Permaculture
- Land Trusts
- Landscape Design/Nursery Growers Collective
- Local and Organic Food Systems
- Making Compost Tea
- Mapping
- Mountain Gardens Tour
- Mushroom Walk
- Natural Plant Dyes
- Open Beehive examination
- Organic Agriculture in the Tropics
- Pattern Language
- Plant Walk with Frank Cook
- Plant Spirit Healing
- Playful, easy touch
- Rainwater Catchment Installation
- Raising Food in the Woods
- Raising Poultry
- Rethinking Houses
- Renewable Energy
- Sharing Permaculture Examples
- Shitake Culture
- Soil fertility and Effective Microorganisms
- Soil Mandala (using soil samples from throughout NC)
- Song Sharing
- Solar Power – Now or Never
- Stewarding Creatures (bees, chickens, goats, butterflies, etc.)
- Tai Chi and the Five Tibetans
- Transition Culture
- Trivial Skills
- Truth Forum
- Urban Gardening
- Urban farming with livestock
- Women’s Circle
