To cultivate a global community for the advancement of ecological agriculture, where farmers, educators, and advocates can come together for information exchange, education and outreach.

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Carbon Farming combines cutting-edge agricultural practices with the tools of ecological design to build healthy soil and profitable farms. The Carbon Farming Course is hosted by the beautiful ThreeFold Educational Center in Chestnut Ridge, NY, home of the Pfeiffer Center for Biodynamic Agriculture.

Friends of the Trees Society is a small, grassroots non-profit which has been operating continually since 1978— twenty-seven years of service to the trees and to tree-lovers worldwide. Their work has touched over 100,000 people so far.

These are the NEW State regulations governing greaywater reuse for irrigation in Wa that came into effect in July, 2011.

The University of Massachusetts at Amherst provides low-cost soil testing, but unlike many testing services, they include testing for heavy metals (Pb, Cd, Ni, Cr) as part of their standard soil test. This is important, especially in cases where food crops are to be grown in urban settings or other settings where environmental or industrial pollution may have compromised the soil.

These maps are intended to give growers a better indication of the expected cumulative light levels in their respective regions.

"Sorta like our older brother from the coast" (MP).

A website to support the development of the Urban Permaculture Guide – a FREE eBook (circa 400 pages), a Permaculture Q&A website, a Permaculture Wiki and Natural Garden Photos-- a website that brings you colourful examples of permaculture in action.

Paul Wheaton is a "tall, thick-bearded man with a penchant for overalls [who] first came to public prominence in the early 1990s when he founded MACS, Missoula's first-ever computer bulletin board system - a kind of pre-Web discussion forum." He became an avid gardener on his homestead in Spokane, Wa., eventually evolving into a permaculturist.

"After reading as many books as he could find on the topic, Wheaton set out to build an online network for the permaculture community. That site, Permies.com, is now a busy hub of conversation on topics covering all manner of permaculture issues". His YouTube channel is the video complement of permies.com.

Quotes from The Missoulian

Permaculture BC connects bio-regionally experienced and knowledgeable instructors focusing on theory and hands-on activity for students to graduate with the highest amount of retention, application and inspiration needed to create a positive sustainable future.

Permies are goofballs that are nuts about permaculture. Permies.com is now the largest permaculture site on the internet.

Sign up with this Google Group to keep in the information loop about when this group meets and activities related to it in Spokane.

The Center for Pattern Literacy is a consortium of educators, researchers, and designers who use permacultural tools to develop sustainable solutions and strategies in a wide variety of fields. Their mission is to help the public, as well as design professionals, businesses, teachers, and policy-makers adopt and promote practices that are socially, economically, and environmentally responsible.

Numerous links to sustainable agriculture web-based resources of interest regionally, statewide and locally to Eastern Washington.
Compiled and presented by Chrys Ostrander

Transition Spokane is a networking site supporting the Transition Movement. This site, and many like it, are being developed through grassroots participation, and is continually evolving. It is a spontaneously arising effort to synergistically connect transition workers with each other and to identify and nurture the development of useful and necessary local Transition Initiatives and practices.