Our Mission – To promote permaculture in the redwood bioregion.
Meet our Steering Committee–
Ivy North
Ivy enjoys interacting with the permaculture community through the HPG. In her day job, she works for the North Coast Growers’ Association to increase local food access to low-income community members, works to move Humboldt farmers’ markets towards Zero Waste, and provides programs that educate local youth about our food system. Ivy completed a course in 2015 with Midwest Permaculture to become a Certified Permaculture Designer and is a Small Farm Master Gardener. She is a member of the Humboldt Food Policy Council and serves on the board of the North Coast Co-op.
Levon Durr
Levon Durr has been involved in permaculture since 1996 and has completed the permaculture design and teacher training courses. He has been a guest teacher at numerous design courses, sharing his skills in wild food harvesting and processing, gardening, and seed-saving. Levon is currently directing his passions to the field of mycology. He completed Paul Stamets’ Professional Mushroom Cultivation and Mycorestoration workshops at Fungi Perfecti, which inspired him to start his business, Fungaia Farm. At Fungaia Farm, the focus is on healing the earth through mycoremediation and education, and edible mushroom production.
Humboldt Permaculture Guild 
The Rio Dell Community Garden is in competition to win a donated fruit tree orchard, but we need your help! Vote for Humboldt County and the Rio Dell Community Garden online at http://www.communitiestakeroot.com beginning April 15th.
Residents of the U.S. can vote once a day per email address, so vote often! The competition is still, with 125 applicants and only 20 orchards being donated. Help to create healthiest communities here on the north coast, and vote for the Rio Dell Community Garden!
the competition is actually stiff…not still 🙂
And all the food items harvested will go to support our local food pantry, which serves approx. 120 households.
I am looking for a live-on permaculture design course and natural building course in Humboldt or surround in early to mid 2012. Anyone know of any?
Hi. When are the monthly potlucks?
Hi Barbara,
Our monthly meetings are the first tuesday of every month.
We meet at CCAT, Campus Center for Appropriate Technology,
at 530PM, the first Tuesday of every month.
If you have any more questions, don’t hesitate to ask 🙂
HPG
Does anyone know how to make an earthen floor for our yurt bathroom? Would you consider helping us do it if we hired you to consult with?
Hi Tracy,
Sorry for the slow response. We don’t check our web page very often. To answer your question. Yes there are quite a few natural builders in our group.
Our Humboldt permaculture Facebook page might be a good way to connect with local folks that do natural building. Also we post our monthly meeting and potlucks on our face book page and send out a monthly e-mail. These can also be a great way to connect with people. Good luck with your project.
Looking for volunteers to help w a 5 acre Permaculture. Currently Designing the different Zones and getting ready to implement the house garden, fencing and small animals.
Hello, I am looking to get involved with the permaculture guild. I am wondering if you know of any work trade housing situations that are available in Arcata, I am currently at a natural Building apprenticeship at Sundog Building School in Point Arena, which ends August 9 . I can help build garden, and help with projects.
Hi Kathleen,
A great way to get involved with the Guild is check out our monthly meeting the first Tuesday of every month 5:30pm at CCAT on the HSU campus. Also feel free to post on our facebook page. We have 580 people on our page so that can be a good way to connect with local folks.
Look forward to meeting you.
~Levon
Would you please put me on your Email of events list? janbeachrlty@aol.com
Hi Janice,
Yes I sent to request to Colin how manages the e-mail.
~Levon
What is the date for the 2015 ‘Seed Exchange’ at the Arcata Community Center?
March 28th 11 am to 4pm. It’s always the last Saturday in March. Hope to see you there.
Can anyone donate starts?
Yes. Bring starts to share. We will have a live plant area outside.
Hey folks! We want to let youall know that Heartwood Institute is going Permaculuture! We have some new PDC programs and courses we want to share…. How do we get in touch with you to join and post Permaculture updates?
I’m looking for an expert in fruit tree pruning that can be hired to renovate some really old and really huge apple trees on a property I just bought. Can anybody provide some suggestions? Thank you.
Hi. I will forward your information to some of our fruit tree specialist. Another way to connect with fruit tree folks would be at this years Scion Exchange, Feb 11 at the Bayside Grange, 11am to 2pm. There will be workshops and lots of folks with resources. Hope to see you there.
~Levon
Hi, I am based out of Crescent City and am working on our local food forest projects, mainly the College of the Redwoods site. I would like to help at the 2019 seed exchange or in any other ways that I can in thanks for all I have received from prior seed exchanges. I could teach a hugelkulture and/or wildcrafted compost tea workshop if you are interested, or help in other ways. Thanks for all your work!
Hi Ben, We have just begun the planning for our SPE workshop schedule and would love to talk with you about teaching. If you were able it would great to have you at one of our meetings if not I can put you in touch with the workshop organizer. Thanks, ~Levon