STORY
PermaBuds was born in 2020 as an online sustainability and permaculture skill-share group. We have since expanded to a collective of environmental activists and artists gathering in Cincinnati, Ohio. We are a queer-led community.
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Permaculture is a design-based land management theory that calls to cultivate biodiversity and abundance through natural systems.
To us, it is a radical movement informed by indigenous knowledge and lived experience. Permaculture drives environmental and social resilience. It empowers interconnections, reconnections, and love.
VISION
We strive to create and celebrate inclusive community centered in nature that offers alternative ways of living that are accessible, liberating, spiritual, and sustainable.
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We are building resources, practices, and traditions that free us from the systems that exploit our culture, agency, and well-being for profit.
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Our vision is the creative and communal right to an abundant, diverse, and resilient world.
VALUES
Ecological diversity and education
Our native ecosystems cry for restoration and longevity.
Our people cry for reconnection to nature and each other.
Environmental justice and sustainability
There is no hiding from the climate crisis. The entire world is our backyard.
We all deserve full access to the benefits and joys of nature.
We need cyclical systems that support us today and tomorrow.
Community creativity and connection
We thrive on meaningful connection that is creative, inclusive, diverse, healing, and accessible.
We believe in community that uproots systems of oppression and barriers to belonging.
Sarah
Permaculture is working towards a community where people and nature work together to create/use abundant, renewable systems
Martin
Permaculture is integrating agriculture and food with sustainable ways of living, and modeling agriculture after refined systems that can be observed in nature
Catherine
Reclaiming free and eternal access to and communion with the living world.
Olivia
Permaculture to me means reclaiming our connection to our food and our earth from capitalism and industrialized agriculture. When we reclaim our food and basic needs we can heal our bodies, our earth and our communities. Rather than a parasitic relationship it aims for a coexistence with the earth and our community.
Basil
Permaculture is a design approach that observes and honors natural occurrences within systems. Such as a farmer’s use of the mechanical motion of their pigs searching for truffles in a field to turn and fertilize their soil. (Took that example from Joel Salatin). It is a practice that acknowledges the interconnectedness of many (maybe all) systems.