* first live session together will be Tuesday December 8th *

Each Maven Makers Meeting features:

• Maximum of 6 Mavens to ensure each Maven gets time each month to ask questions
• We’ll start with a brief grounding and meditation
• 10 minutes each Maven to ask questions and get feedback from patty and the rest of The Maven Makers
• 30 minutes where one Maven is centered for sharing challenges and receiving suggestions (that means each maven is centered 2x per year)

Why you should consider joining?

• An affordable option for learning with Business Maven Patty Love (aka fern) 
  • 30 years of entrepreneurial business experience
  • Traditional business education followed by a career in manufacturing, finance and higher education before…
  • 10 years of Certified Permaculture Designer and 2 years of Certified Permaculture Teacher
  • Treasurer, Permaculture Association of the Northeast (PAN)
  • 15 years of working in the information marketing world
  • 5 years of participation in a similar group
  • Certified Professional Business Coach through PBCA
• Many similar groups range from $250-$10,000 per month and don’t include 1:1 coaching (a $150 value)
• The opportunity to build lasting relationships with similarly minded business owners
• The small group size means you’ll get time each and every meeting!

When:  We’ll start out by meeting on the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 12:30 to 3 pm Pacific / 3:30 to 5 pm Eastern beginning 12/8. 

Begin your Maven Makers journey by….

A 4-week elemental cookalong course filled with soul-nourishing recipes, skills, and delights taught by Chef Carin McKay & guest Starhawk.

Nourishing our Roots

Come join us for our deep-dive winter cooking series. We will explore soups, braises and long cooked foods that strengthen our health as well as some delicious savory galettes and sweet baking. In addition we will explore foraging winter food. We will alternate between following recipes and developing your vision and intuition in cooking. Classes are 2 hours long. The classes are omnivore friendly, hugely plant based, with options to alternate a recipe to suit.

Chef Carin McKay will be your guide through crafting a marvelous menu of magical offerings that draw upon the energies of the season. Learn to make heart-opening elixirs, to cook a feast for your ancestors, to celebrate the autumnal turn of the wheel with harvest foods and rituals as an act of self-care. Gather with a global community in a live, 4-week cookalong course- we’ll share laughter, stories, secret recipes and ritual through live sessions, downloadable content, and a private digital community.  Culinary Magic will be offered as a quarterly seasonal series in 2021.. register for one or join us all year!

Course Format

Culinary Magic Winter 2021 Cohort Classes are Jan 27th, Feb. 3, Feb. 10th, Feb 17.

Live Sessions: Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm Pacific

Participants will have a private Culinary Magic Community to participate in together all year long outside of the live sessions. We believe that in addition to working the land, it’s vital to learn how to activate our home environments to provide nourishment, health and grounding and hope this course will enrich your experience.

What Is “Culinary Magic”? It’s food for the soul and spirit, attuned to the sun and moon, cooked with intention, skill, sense of humor, and passion! In this three part cooking series, chef and Culinary Magic Cookbook author Carin McKay will introduce you to seasonal cooking, show you how to hone a vision and sharpen your skills, set an intention prior to preparing a meal, and teach you techniques to create food that’s both nourishing and tasty!

In this class you will learn how to:

• Meal prep for cooking.
• Get into a good rhythm as we cook together.
• Create unique dishes and meals from start to finish
• Incorporate grounding and intention into our cooking
• Activate earth elements through nutritional ingredients
• How to alchemize spices to enrich dishes & health
• Private instruction for culinary skills & tools
• Incorporate foraged food into your menus.

Culinary Magic Participants will receive:

• Professional instruction & kitchen activation with acclaimed Chef Carin McKay
• Three 90 minute Live Cook-a-long Sessions with Chef Carin McKay
• Special Guest Starhawk will joining!
• Weekly Prep Videos to create a Foundation in Culinary Knowledge
• Live Q&A with Carin (& Starhawk when she’s there)

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Celebrate seasonal nourishment & cheer with Chef Carin McKay and special guest Starhawk for our second offer in elemental cooking & Culinary Magic!

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WINTER COURSE FORMAT & DATES

Jan. 27, Feb 3, Feb 10th, Feb 17.. 90 Minute Cook-a-long Class

Time: Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm Pacific Time

* Closed Captioning will be provided for our live sessions

Jan 27th Opening Live Session will feature

• Community Building ~ Welcome to “Carin’s Crew”
• Culinary Foundation teachings + a short live cook-a-long skill demonstration
  
• Breakout Groups & Connecting with a Cooking Buddy
  

Plus Students will also receive:

• Weekly Ingredients & Prep To DO List
• small Culinary Magic assignments for at home learning

Live Session Length: 2 Hours

• 90 Min Cook-a-long
• 20-30 Minute – Cooking Decompression & Community Chat

ANNUAL DATES for CULINARY MAGIC

Winter Course runs Jan 27, Feb. 3, Feb. 10, and Feb 17

Spring: April 7-14-21-28

Summer: June 16,13, 30 – July 7th

Fall: Sept 29, Oct – 6 – 13 – 20

2021 WINTER REGISTRATION

4 Live Sessions with Chef Carin McKay

Starhawk will Special Guest at two of these classes

Private Community / Cookalong Support

Course Cost: $135

Reserve your seat

Diversity Scholarships Available – Click here to fill out a short form

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WATCH the Introduction Webinar with Chef Carin McKay & Starhawk

Carin McKay has been creating Culinary Magic and building community for over 25 years. She has cooked hundreds of thousands of meals in incredible locations throughout California including the Earth Activist Training. Growing up in Northern California, Carin was immersed in local and seasonal cooking and meshes this with her world travels that have influenced her style. Carin brings the philosophy that the health and well-being of the cook is as important to the outcome of the meal it self. She teaches cooking as a powerful act of connecting us to our ancestors, our communities, ourselves, and nature.

In today’s changing world, our planet is calling for businesses to follow earth-based ethics, principles, and ecological design processes– also known as permaculture!

Regenerative Business Design will guide you through a step by step process to build a business that can sustain you financially while staying true to your core values. What do you need to know, consider, and plan for in order to launch a business that will have a high likelihood of success and a plan for handling failures and hurdles?

Join Patty Love, Certificated Permaculture Designer, Educator & Business Management Consultant, for this eight-week online course that will help answer these questions. In this course, Patty weaves together her decade of permaculture study and practice with her formal education in Business and 20 years of successful self-employment.

Fully participating in this course, including completing homework between classes and utilizing the tools developed, will empower you to be significantly prepared to put your business plan into action. Students will receive an EAT issued Certificate of Completion which can be applied towards our Regenerative Land Management Diploma.

What Is Regenerative Business Design?

The basis of a regenerative business design is a plan that successfully balances a triple bottom line: people, profit and the planet. This powerful training will guide you through the steps to formulate a successful plan that will prepare your business to withstand change, duress, and a transforming global economy.

This Class is For:

• Anyone who is ready to start a business based on the triple bottom line: people, profit & the planet!
• Earth Activists with skills in land management, leadership, or other fields who want to carve their own employment path as an entrepreneur
• Employees who are ready to step away from their current work and pursue their passions through self employment
• Artists, creators, herbalists, and crafters who want to turn their hobby or second income into a business
• Self-employed business owners who need to regenerate their plan and get clearer with intention

What You’ll Get From Regenerative Business Design

• 8 Weeks of 2-hour Live Sessions with break out groups to process information, discuss ideas, brainstorm, and get started on class exercises
• 7 Q & A sessions
• Access to exclusive content designed specifically for this Training
• Recommendations for additional resources
• Exercises and Worksheets to enhance your understanding of the content
• Connection and Community via a private Earth Activists Online Training
• Tools to develop a regenerative business design community to co-create dreams!
• The information you need to write a business plan.
• Support to make better, more well-informed business & life decisions with all of your new knowledge. (to be activated by you 😉

Key Business Concepts Covered:

• Regenerative Business Design Process
• Mission, Vision, Values, and Goal Setting
• SWOT Analysis
• The pluses and minuses of various legal structures
• Possible Organizational Structures
• Setting up Operations Systems
• Marketing and Communications Planning
• Grants and other funding sources
• Financial Statements – What they are and how to create them
• Writing a Business Plan
• Developing a Business Review Cycle
• Creating a Plan of Work and Next Steps
• CERTIFICATE: Certificate of Completion in Regenerative Business Design
• BONUS CREDENTIALS: The R.B.D. Certificate can be applied to our larger Regenerative Land Management Diploma

Course Details

LIVE CLASS Dates: Every Monday Feb 22nd – April 12th

Live Class Time: 5:00-7:00 pm Pacific

Course Community: Access to a private virtual classroom within our new Earth Activists Online network. This space will host course lessons, homework, teacher support and a gathering space for students.

8 Week Course Tuition: $239

Reserve your spot today!

Diversity Scholarships Available – Click here to fill out a short application form

Contact our support team with Question Comments or Concerns.

LINK TO WATCH “Business & The Earth Path”, an Introduction Webinar featuring Starhawk and Patty Love

Create a meaningful livelihood restoring land and revitalizing community.

Our new long-term program is designed as a path for you to develop and activate the skills, experience and confidence needed to run a farm, ranch, retreat center or urban farm in ways that heal damaged ecosystems and sequester carbon.  

Why? 

Regenerative Farmers are the new earth healers! To prevent global catastrophe due to climate change, we need to both stop emitting carbon, and pull it out of the atmosphere. The best way to do that is by regenerating living systems, using trees and plants to change that carbon into wood and food and humus and soil.  This is exactly what permaculture farms are designed to do!

Join twenty year permaculture teacher Starhawk & long time co-educator Charles Williams for this comprehensive & transformational new two year Regenerative Land Management Diploma Program! Advance your permaculture skills as you learn how to manage life giving systems. We are proud to offer this RLM Diploma in partnership with the Permaculture Institute of North America. 

The opportunity…

Half the farmland in North America is due to change hands in the next two decades as farmers age out.

It is vital that we get that land into the hands of those who know how to manage it in ways that contribute to global healing!!

We’ve designed this program to advance your permaculture practice and provide you with the deep and comprehensive training needed to apply these regenerative skills in your life! Whether caring for the land, building urban gardens, or decolonizing the farmlands of America, the RLM Diploma will fully prepare you to take on any Regenerative Land Management project successfully!

Who is this for?

• This program is for you if:
  • You already have achieved a Permaculture Design Certificate.*
  • You have a great desire to live a meaningful life regenerating land and community.
  • You want to build a successful farm, ranch, urban farm or retreat space.
  • You like working outdoors and putting your philosophies and ideas into action.
  • You are a young person starting out and want a fulfilling life path.
  • You are retiring or changing careers in mid-life and want a new direction.
  • You are shifting careers and long for more immersion in nature.
  • You want to work in urban communities providing good-quality food, nature connection and revitalization.
  • You have land and want to manage it regeneratively.
  • You want to extend and deepen your knowledge and skills at carbon farming.
  • You want to make a positive impact on climate change.

How the Program Works:

The RLM program is designed to take two years, and to include a mixture of instruction, experience, hands-on learning and community building.  Due to Covid-19, our 2021/2022 instruction will be online.  We are hopeful that by Year Two, we will be able to host an in-person course or possibly a regenerative land management work weekend.

Each student will complete a series of courses offered by Earth Activist Training, online or in person.  You will also gain practical experience through internships and/or paid work.  You’ll have an Advisor to guide you and to help you document your new learning and prior experience.  In the first six-month intensive, you’ll complete a comprehensive farm plan/land design, and by the end of the two years, you’ll have done two more regenerative land designs in order to fulfill the requirements for your PINA Diploma.  You’ll have access to Earth Activist Training’s ever-growing roster of potential sites for internships, paid work experience and land access, as well as to an online network of current and former students, and support from our teachers and staff.

Prerequisite: A Permaculture Design Certificate. 

*If you don’t have one and want to join our RLM Advanced Permaculture Diploma Program, you can begin by taking a Permaculture Design Certificate training with EAT in 2021. Check our schedule page for dates.

YEAR 1 | RLM Diploma

Our Core Intensive dives deep into all the key aspects of regenerative land management, with opportunities for you to apply your knowledge in an actual design.

 Each month we will cover a new topic, with class presentations, supplementary readings, videos and exercises.  On week one, we’ll delve into the theory and science of a particular topic.  On week two,  we’ll apply what we’ve learned to an actual case study, and guide you in your own planning and design.  Week three will be for questions, discussion, feedback and group critique. By the end of the course, you will have created a comprehensive farm plan or land design for your portfolio.  Our courses always include grounding in spirit and personal resilience, and a focus on organizing and activism.

4 WEEK MODEL for 6 Months  3 Live Sessions and then the final week OFF 

• Week 1: Lecture giving monthly theory & science
• Week 2: Apply theory to a case study 
• Week 3: Discussion, feedback & group critique
• Week 4: Time to integrate, read, view materials, and work on your own designs and practical projects. 

LIVE SESSIONS : 6 MONTH RLM Core Intensive

February – August 2021 | Wednesdays 6:00-8:00 pm PST / 9:00-11:00 pm EST

*Recordings will be available for those who cannot join live sessions.

• March 3- 3/10- 3/17  | 3/24 OFF
• March 31- 4/7- 4/18  |  4/21 OFF
• April 28- 5/5- 5/12  |  5/19 OFF
• May 26- 6/2- 6/9  |  6/16 OFF
• June 23- 6/30- 7/7  |  7/14 OFF
• July 21-7/28- 8/4 | 8/11 Bonus Closing Session

Online Monthly Format:

6 months, meeting in 3 live two-hour sessions per month, with additional readings, viewing of supplemental material, design and planning time

In addition to our 18 Live Sessions with Starhawk & Charles Williams, students will receive

• Private RLM Community within Earth Activists Online 
• Intimate support groups led by a Teaching Assistant
• Ongoing Student & Teacher Feedback 
• Advanced Permaculture Skills & Design Application
• Applied Practicum & Theory 

YEAR 1 | RLM Diploma

Enrolled students will experience the following in their first year:

February – June 2021:  6 Month Core Intensive Online*

• February 24th – Welcome to Class Gathering & Orientation
• 6 Month -3 Class on, 1 off- format begins February 2021

July-December 2021:  Students will attend this additional included course

• Social Permaculture Online Course Fall 2021

Throughout the year, Students will experience: 

• Monthly Support from your RLM Coordinator
• Launch of Internships and Mentorships
• Design Portfolio Creation, Review & Revision
• PINA Field Advisor Sessions 

YEAR 2 | RLM Diploma

**Final Dates, Details & Cost TBD as subject to change due to Pandemic

Enrolled students will experience the following in their second year:

January- June 2022: 6 Month Restoration Intensive Online*

• Welcome to Class Gathering & Orientation TBD
• 6 Month -3 Class on, 1 off- format begins February 2022

July- November 2022:  Students will attend these included courses:

• Regenerative Business Design Course Online (fall dates TBD)
  
• Disaster Relief with Chris Gilmour (dates TBD)
• Advanced Mapping with Charles Williams (dates TBD)

Throughout the year,  Students will experience: 

• Monthly Support from your RLM Coordinator
• Continued Internships and Mentorships

• Final Portfolio Submission + Review 

• PINA Field Advisor Sessions 4x / year
  

Projected Curriculum for Year 2 Intensive 

• Financial planning
• Business practices and tools
• Review of internships and reports
• Land management plans
• Holistic management goal setting
• Grants and funding
• Integrative systems—silva-pasture, no-till, farming techniques
• Engaging annual systems and perennial systems
• Case studies

Read more about the Regenerative Land Management Diploma on our website.

REGISTER HERE FOR THE RLM DIPLOMA

Create a meaningful livelihood restoring land and revitalizing community.

Our new long-term program is designed as a path for you to develop and activate the skills, experience and confidence needed to run a farm, ranch, retreat center or urban farm in ways that heal damaged ecosystems and sequester carbon.  

Why? 

Regenerative Farmers are the new earth healers! To prevent global catastrophe due to climate change, we need to both stop emitting carbon, and pull it out of the atmosphere. The best way to do that is by regenerating living systems, using trees and plants to change that carbon into wood and food and humus and soil.  This is exactly what permaculture farms are designed to do!

Join twenty year permaculture teacher Starhawk & long time co-educator Charles Williams for this comprehensive & transformational new two year Regenerative Land Management Diploma Program! Advance your permaculture skills as you learn how to manage life giving systems. We are proud to offer this RLM Diploma in partnership with the Permaculture Institute of North America. 

The opportunity…

Half the farmland in North America is due to change hands in the next two decades as farmers age out.

It is vital that we get that land into the hands of those who know how to manage it in ways that contribute to global healing!!

We’ve designed this program to advance your permaculture practice and provide you with the deep and comprehensive training needed to apply these regenerative skills in your life! Whether caring for the land, building urban gardens, or decolonizing the farmlands of America, the RLM Diploma will fully prepare you to take on any Regenerative Land Management project successfully!

Who is this for?

• This program is for you if:
  • You already have achieved a Permaculture Design Certificate.*
  • You have a great desire to live a meaningful life regenerating land and community.
  • You want to build a successful farm, ranch, urban farm or retreat space.
  • You like working outdoors and putting your philosophies and ideas into action.
  • You are a young person starting out and want a fulfilling life path.
  • You are retiring or changing careers in mid-life and want a new direction.
  • You are shifting careers and long for more immersion in nature.
  • You want to work in urban communities providing good-quality food, nature connection and revitalization.
  • You have land and want to manage it regeneratively.
  • You want to extend and deepen your knowledge and skills at carbon farming.
  • You want to make a positive impact on climate change.

How the Program Works:

The RLM program is designed to take two years, and to include a mixture of instruction, experience, hands-on learning and community building.  Due to Covid-19, our 2021/2022 instruction will be online.  We are hopeful that by Year Two, we will be able to host an in-person course or possibly a regenerative land management work weekend.

Each student will complete a series of courses offered by Earth Activist Training, online or in person.  You will also gain practical experience through internships and/or paid work.  You’ll have an Advisor to guide you and to help you document your new learning and prior experience.  In the first six-month intensive, you’ll complete a comprehensive farm plan/land design, and by the end of the two years, you’ll have done two more regenerative land designs in order to fulfill the requirements for your PINA Diploma.  You’ll have access to Earth Activist Training’s ever-growing roster of potential sites for internships, paid work experience and land access, as well as to an online network of current and former students, and support from our teachers and staff.

Prerequisite: A Permaculture Design Certificate. 

*If you don’t have one and want to join our RLM Advanced Permaculture Diploma Program, you can begin by taking a Permaculture Design Certificate training with EAT in 2021. Check our schedule page for dates.

YEAR 1 | RLM Diploma

Our Core Intensive dives deep into all the key aspects of regenerative land management, with opportunities for you to apply your knowledge in an actual design.

 Each month we will cover a new topic, with class presentations, supplementary readings, videos and exercises.  On week one, we’ll delve into the theory and science of a particular topic.  On week two,  we’ll apply what we’ve learned to an actual case study, and guide you in your own planning and design.  Week three will be for questions, discussion, feedback and group critique. By the end of the course, you will have created a comprehensive farm plan or land design for your portfolio.  Our courses always include grounding in spirit and personal resilience, and a focus on organizing and activism.

4 WEEK MODEL for 6 Months  3 Live Sessions and then the final week OFF 

• Week 1: Lecture giving monthly theory & science
• Week 2: Apply theory to a case study 
• Week 3: Discussion, feedback & group critique
• Week 4: Time to integrate, read, view materials, and work on your own designs and practical projects. 

LIVE SESSIONS : 6 MONTH RLM Core Intensive

February – August 2021 | Wednesdays 6:00-8:00 pm PST / 9:00-11:00 pm EST

*Recordings will be available for those who cannot join live sessions.

• March 3- 3/10- 3/17  | 3/24 OFF
• March 31- 4/7- 4/18  |  4/21 OFF
• April 28- 5/5- 5/12  |  5/19 OFF
• May 26- 6/2- 6/9  |  6/16 OFF
• June 23- 6/30- 7/7  |  7/14 OFF
• July 21-7/28- 8/4 | 8/11 Bonus Closing Session

Online Monthly Format:

6 months, meeting in 3 live two-hour sessions per month, with additional readings, viewing of supplemental material, design and planning time

In addition to our 18 Live Sessions with Starhawk & Charles Williams, students will receive

• Private RLM Community within Earth Activists Online 
• Intimate support groups led by a Teaching Assistant
• Ongoing Student & Teacher Feedback 
• Advanced Permaculture Skills & Design Application
• Applied Practicum & Theory 

YEAR 1 | RLM Diploma

Enrolled students will experience the following in their first year:

February – June 2021:  6 Month Core Intensive Online*

• February 24th – Welcome to Class Gathering & Orientation
• 6 Month -3 Class on, 1 off- format begins February 2021

July-December 2021:  Students will attend this additional included course

• Social Permaculture Online Course Fall 2021

Throughout the year, Students will experience: 

• Monthly Support from your RLM Coordinator
• Launch of Internships and Mentorships
• Design Portfolio Creation, Review & Revision
• PINA Field Advisor Sessions 

YEAR 2 | RLM Diploma

**Final Dates, Details & Cost TBD as subject to change due to Pandemic

Enrolled students will experience the following in their second year:

January- June 2022: 6 Month Restoration Intensive Online*

• Welcome to Class Gathering & Orientation TBD
• 6 Month -3 Class on, 1 off- format begins February 2022

July- November 2022:  Students will attend these included courses:

• Regenerative Business Design Course Online (fall dates TBD)
  
• Disaster Relief with Chris Gilmour (dates TBD)
• Advanced Mapping with Charles Williams (dates TBD)

Throughout the year,  Students will experience: 

• Monthly Support from your RLM Coordinator
• Continued Internships and Mentorships

• Final Portfolio Submission + Review 

• PINA Field Advisor Sessions 4x / year
  

Projected Curriculum for Year 2 Intensive 

• Financial planning
• Business practices and tools
• Review of internships and reports
• Land management plans
• Holistic management goal setting
• Grants and funding
• Integrative systems—silva-pasture, no-till, farming techniques
• Engaging annual systems and perennial systems
• Case studies

Read more about the Regenerative Land Management Diploma on our website.

REGISTER HERE FOR THE RLM DIPLOMA

Create a meaningful livelihood restoring land and revitalizing community.

Our new long-term program is designed as a path for you to develop and activate the skills, experience and confidence needed to run a farm, ranch, retreat center or urban farm in ways that heal damaged ecosystems and sequester carbon.  

Why? 

Regenerative Farmers are the new earth healers! To prevent global catastrophe due to climate change, we need to both stop emitting carbon, and pull it out of the atmosphere. The best way to do that is by regenerating living systems, using trees and plants to change that carbon into wood and food and humus and soil.  This is exactly what permaculture farms are designed to do!

Join twenty year permaculture teacher Starhawk & long time co-educator Charles Williams for this comprehensive & transformational new two year Regenerative Land Management Diploma Program! Advance your permaculture skills as you learn how to manage life giving systems. We are proud to offer this RLM Diploma in partnership with the Permaculture Institute of North America. 

The opportunity…

Half the farmland in North America is due to change hands in the next two decades as farmers age out.

It is vital that we get that land into the hands of those who know how to manage it in ways that contribute to global healing!!

We’ve designed this program to advance your permaculture practice and provide you with the deep and comprehensive training needed to apply these regenerative skills in your life! Whether caring for the land, building urban gardens, or decolonizing the farmlands of America, the RLM Diploma will fully prepare you to take on any Regenerative Land Management project successfully!

Who is this for?

• This program is for you if:
  • You already have achieved a Permaculture Design Certificate.*
  • You have a great desire to live a meaningful life regenerating land and community.
  • You want to build a successful farm, ranch, urban farm or retreat space.
  • You like working outdoors and putting your philosophies and ideas into action.
  • You are a young person starting out and want a fulfilling life path.
  • You are retiring or changing careers in mid-life and want a new direction.
  • You are shifting careers and long for more immersion in nature.
  • You want to work in urban communities providing good-quality food, nature connection and revitalization.
  • You have land and want to manage it regeneratively.
  • You want to extend and deepen your knowledge and skills at carbon farming.
  • You want to make a positive impact on climate change.

How the Program Works:

The RLM program is designed to take two years, and to include a mixture of instruction, experience, hands-on learning and community building.  Due to Covid-19, our 2021/2022 instruction will be online.  We are hopeful that by Year Two, we will be able to host an in-person course or possibly a regenerative land management work weekend.

Each student will complete a series of courses offered by Earth Activist Training, online or in person.  You will also gain practical experience through internships and/or paid work.  You’ll have an Advisor to guide you and to help you document your new learning and prior experience.  In the first six-month intensive, you’ll complete a comprehensive farm plan/land design, and by the end of the two years, you’ll have done two more regenerative land designs in order to fulfill the requirements for your PINA Diploma.  You’ll have access to Earth Activist Training’s ever-growing roster of potential sites for internships, paid work experience and land access, as well as to an online network of current and former students, and support from our teachers and staff.

Prerequisite: A Permaculture Design Certificate. 

*If you don’t have one and want to join our RLM Advanced Permaculture Diploma Program, you can begin by taking a Permaculture Design Certificate training with EAT in 2021. Check our schedule page for dates.

YEAR 1 | RLM Diploma

Our Core Intensive dives deep into all the key aspects of regenerative land management, with opportunities for you to apply your knowledge in an actual design.

 Each month we will cover a new topic, with class presentations, supplementary readings, videos and exercises.  On week one, we’ll delve into the theory and science of a particular topic.  On week two,  we’ll apply what we’ve learned to an actual case study, and guide you in your own planning and design.  Week three will be for questions, discussion, feedback and group critique. By the end of the course, you will have created a comprehensive farm plan or land design for your portfolio.  Our courses always include grounding in spirit and personal resilience, and a focus on organizing and activism.

4 WEEK MODEL for 6 Months  3 Live Sessions and then the final week OFF 

• Week 1: Lecture giving monthly theory & science
• Week 2: Apply theory to a case study 
• Week 3: Discussion, feedback & group critique
• Week 4: Time to integrate, read, view materials, and work on your own designs and practical projects. 

LIVE SESSIONS : 6 MONTH RLM Core Intensive

February – August 2021 | Wednesdays 6:00-8:00 pm PST / 9:00-11:00 pm EST

*Recordings will be available for those who cannot join live sessions.

• March 3- 3/10- 3/17  | 3/24 OFF
• March 31- 4/7- 4/18  |  4/21 OFF
• April 28- 5/5- 5/12  |  5/19 OFF
• May 26- 6/2- 6/9  |  6/16 OFF
• June 23- 6/30- 7/7  |  7/14 OFF
• July 21-7/28- 8/4 | 8/11 Bonus Closing Session

Online Monthly Format:

6 months, meeting in 3 live two-hour sessions per month, with additional readings, viewing of supplemental material, design and planning time

In addition to our 18 Live Sessions with Starhawk & Charles Williams, students will receive

• Private RLM Community within Earth Activists Online 
• Intimate support groups led by a Teaching Assistant
• Ongoing Student & Teacher Feedback 
• Advanced Permaculture Skills & Design Application
• Applied Practicum & Theory 

YEAR 1 | RLM Diploma

Enrolled students will experience the following in their first year:

February – June 2021:  6 Month Core Intensive Online*

• February 24th – Welcome to Class Gathering & Orientation
• 6 Month -3 Class on, 1 off- format begins February 2021

July-December 2021:  Students will attend this additional included course

• Social Permaculture Online Course Fall 2021

Throughout the year, Students will experience: 

• Monthly Support from your RLM Coordinator
• Launch of Internships and Mentorships
• Design Portfolio Creation, Review & Revision
• PINA Field Advisor Sessions 

YEAR 2 | RLM Diploma

**Final Dates, Details & Cost TBD as subject to change due to Pandemic

Enrolled students will experience the following in their second year:

January- June 2022: 6 Month Restoration Intensive Online*

• Welcome to Class Gathering & Orientation TBD
• 6 Month -3 Class on, 1 off- format begins February 2022

July- November 2022:  Students will attend these included courses:

• Regenerative Business Design Course Online (fall dates TBD)
  
• Disaster Relief with Chris Gilmour (dates TBD)
• Advanced Mapping with Charles Williams (dates TBD)

Throughout the year,  Students will experience: 

• Monthly Support from your RLM Coordinator
• Continued Internships and Mentorships

• Final Portfolio Submission + Review 

• PINA Field Advisor Sessions 4x / year
  

Projected Curriculum for Year 2 Intensive 

• Financial planning
• Business practices and tools
• Review of internships and reports
• Land management plans
• Holistic management goal setting
• Grants and funding
• Integrative systems—silva-pasture, no-till, farming techniques
• Engaging annual systems and perennial systems
• Case studies

Read more about the Regenerative Land Management Diploma on our website.

Earth Art by Autumn Skye

We are excited to build greater access to our teachings as we co-create this virtual learning journey~ Welcome Earth Activist friends, family, and new community!

Students who complete all of the Earth Activist Training’s online course requirements will receive a Permaculture Design Certificate, internationally recognized by the Permaculture Institute of North America (PINA). 

LIVE CLASS: Welcoming Live Session Tuesday July 13th, 2021 

15 Weeks of Class Modules July 20th – Oct 26th

CLASS TIME: Typically two hours 6:00-8:00 PM Pacific Time. 

A Special Invitation to the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Community:

ASL interpretation is available for our Live sessions and Live Q&A sessions to support Deaf students. All sessions and recorded materials will also feature closed captioning or transcripts.

What Makes EAT Different?

There are many great permaculture design certificate courses offered around the globe that teach a standard 72 hour curriculum covering the basics of regenerative system design. Earth Activist Training teaches this curriculum—but with a difference. We ground our work in spirit, to further your personal resilience, and teach with a perspective rooted in social justice struggles and with a focus on organizing and activism.

A Sampling of Topics Covered: plant guilds, food forests, edible landscaping, plants, animals, natural building, design, earth, water, climate, energy, spirit, social permaculture, organizing & activism.

•     Permaculture Principles, Ethics and Design Process
•     Climate Change Strategies for Mitigation and Adaptation
•     Water Systems, Water Harvesting, Roof Water Catchment
•     Soil Building
•     Compost, Compost teas, Cover crops, No-till systems
•     Urban Permaculture
•     Eco-villages and Intentional Communities
•     Alternative and Renewable Energy: Evaluating and Designing Systems
  
•     Organizing in Diverse Communities
•     Personal Regeneration and Self-Care
•     Group Dynamics & Communication Tools
•     Connecting to the Spirit in Nature
•     Read more on our website…

Our students include:

»  Community organizers and activists from many movements, including environmental justice, food justice, global justice, anti-oppression, human rights workers, and others

»  Green business entrepreneurs who want to have a broader understanding of the possibilities

»  Established professionals or new business owners wanting to broaden and deepen their knowledge of sustainable alternatives

»  Teachers, environmental educators, and youth workers

»  Architects, landscape designers, farmers, ranchers, and land stewards of all kinds

»  Anyone involved in public garden or nature projects, especially school gardens and community gardens

»  People in mid-life or Retirees looking for a new direction for existing or new work

»  People involved with intentional communities, co-housing and Eco-villages, or those who want to start or join one

»  Dreamers, visionaries, Artists, musicians, poets, writers and dancers, and anyone who collaborates creatively

What You’ll Get 

• 72 Hour Permaculture Design Certificate recognized by the Permaculture Institute of North America (PINA)
• 15 Live, interactive 2 hour sessions with Starhawk, Charles Williams & other talented guest teachers. *Students must attend 80% of Live Classes. 
  • Recordings will be available for those who must miss due to illness or for those who cannot attend due to timezone conflict. 

• Bi-weekly Live Question & Answer Sessions hosted by Starhawk or Charles Williams
  

• Digital materials, readings and exercises to guide your home practice. Downloadable for convenience.
• Ongoing support through the course from our teaching assistants, including Malik Coburn and Sunshine Rose Claymore.
• Membership in our private online training community where you can connect, share, and learn with others in the course.
• Community engagement with Starhawk and our EAT teaching team via the Earth Activists Online virtual classroom. 
• Individualized teacher feedback once you complete your permaculture design project

+ Weekly Assignments & Hands-on projects will vary but may include mapping, water harvesting structures, graywater or roof catchment, compost, compost teas, sheet mulch, plant propagation, planting trees and shrubs, seed-starting, introductions to natural building concepts (including cob, straw-clay or plastering) and a collaborative design project.

We understand these will be dependent on your ability to have access to the resources needed to perform them. Projects can be tailored to students of varied levels of physical ability, access and diverse ages. If you have any questions regarding your ability to meet any of the Permaculture Design Certificate requirements, please contact our support team at earthactivistsonline@gmail.com.

Digital Course Platform:

Our course is offered within our new free community platform called Earth Activists Online. In addition to this virtual classroom, students will be asked to engage on:

• Zoom for Live Meetings and Q&As (you can set up an account at Zoom.us)
• Google Drive – for storing homework and your Final Design Project

Course Structure & Schedule: 

Each week, Live classes will be held as a Zoom Meeting on Tuesdays from 6-8pm Pacific. Live Question & Answer Sessions with Starhawk & Charles will be hosted on the weekends. These live sessions will include interactive exercises that will help you apply your learning in a hands-on way.

*Closed Captioning will be available for all live sessions 

*ASL Interpretation upon request – please contact us to confirm, earthactivistsonline@gmail.com

Each week you will also be assigned 2-3 hrs of homework and/or hands-on projects to complete your 72 hour certification.

MEETING CLASS REQUIREMENTS:  Completing the full list of assigned projects/ homework and attending classes are required to complete your 72 hr certificate. Students must attend 80% of LIVE Classes. If this is in the middle of the night for your timezone,  we can arrange a video replay with a check-in to ensure attendance. *If meeting these requirements is going to be an issue, but you still wish to attend this training, please contact our support team to find a solution:  earthactivistsonline@gmail.com

Internationally Certified Program

Earth Activist Training offers our Permaculture Design Certificate in association with the Permaculture Institute of North America. Each student who officially completes the required coursework will receive a Permaculture Design Certificate which will be registered with PINA.

*** REGISTRATION – Coming Soon ***

COURSE TUITION

ONE TIME PAYMENT of $750-950 USD*

• Price Subject to slight adjustment

Sliding Scale  | Resilient Tuition > Standard Tuition > Abundant Tuition

DIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS: Earth Activist Training is committed to increasing the diversity of the global permaculture and regenerative land movements. Our goal is to provide access to our programs through scholarships for indigenous people and people of color working in environmental and food justice areas. For our online trainings, we are offering pay-what-you-can scholarships. *Applications available with registration*

 + Limited remote Work Trade Available : seeking trade in graphic design, media, marketing, fundraising, grant writing + more

Earth Activist Training is proud to create access for our students while create affordable educational opportunities. Stay tuned for more details on pricing and our 2021 Summer / Fall Payment Plan details.

Want to learn more? Check out the introduction webinar we hosted 7/7

Feel free to reach out to our team with any questions, comments, or concerns!

A Note on EAT’s Financial Values

ABOUT YOUR EDUCATORS

Visit Starhawk’s Website to Learn More.

Visit Charles Williams’ Website to Learn More