You’ve read a book and perhaps taken a course, but you’re still wondering… what does permaculture look like in real life? Nestled in southeast Calgary is one of the city’s original thriving permaculture projects – our home! And we offer an exclusive chance to visit with us and learn all about it…

Do you dream about cutting your energy use by investing in solar power? Composting your kitchen scraps or growing a diversity of healthy foods on your front lawn (or a year-round garden in your passive solar greenhouse)? Maybe you’ve even got ambitions of recycling your wash water, or serving fresh baked treats to neighbours and friends from your very own cob oven… So did we!

As engineers and long-time permaculture designers and teachers, we’ve travelled the world to learn about sustainable and regenerative human habitat and have implemented many of these concepts on our property. We’ve been transforming our inner-city home into a permaculture demonstration site since 2009, and love showing Calgarians what we’ve done!

Come see our urban transformation project, including:

• a thriving young food forest complete with fruit trees, bushes and tons of edible/medicinal perennials.
• passive solar greenhouse with rocket mass heater
• water harvesting systems
• energy-efficient house retrofits
• composting-making and composting systems
• handmade cob oven
• solar-powered water heater
• and mega-productive veggie gardens (with wicking beds and swales)!

Join us for a tour of our property, and chat with us about permaculture, home retrofits, growing food and more!

About Open Yards:

We’ll take a limit of 25 people and we’ll spend up to two hours with you discussing all of the things going on on our property and answering whatever questions you might have.

Date: Tuesday, June 26th

Time: 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Cost: $39

Bonus! Participants receive a $39+gst coupon to our Online Permaculture Primer e-course.

Location: Our home is in Forest Lawn, SE Calgary. Directions will be emailed to you after registration and before the event date.

p.s. please feel free to bring your children for no additional cost 🙂