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Introduction To Permaculture
Warm up with an inspiring morning of permaculture learning!
Learn about permaculture design’s roots in indigenous cultures and practical ways individuals, organizations, and communities are using permaculture…

Way of the Wilderness – Bamboo Crafts, Navigation and Grass Mats
This class is all about crafts mainly using the grasses. Make mats, clothing, Digeri doo’s, water bottles, spoons, rice cookers etc.

Way of the Wilderness – Tending the Wild / Caretaking
This is Joe Murray’s favorite class! Learn why eco-systems collapse when indigenous peoples are removed from their land, and how native people gathered from the land in such a way that animals, food and…

We Are One: Tu B’Shvat and MLK, Sustainability & Justice
We find ourselves immersed in another dark pandemic winter, a reality we could not have fathomed two years ago. And as the pandemic drags on, our social fabric continues to fray, while the climate crisis…

COP26: Hope & Despair
Friends,
I recently returned from COP26 – the United Nations Conference on Climate Change – and it was an unforgettable experience. The number of people, events, issues, spaces…it was truly one of…

Nigel Savage looks back on two decades at Hazon
By Helen Chernikoff | eJewish Philanthropy
Savage is ‘wildly in favor’ of the merger between Hazon and the Pearlstone Retreat Center
In 2000, Nigel Savage founded Hazon, an early Jewish environmental…

JEDI
Pearlstone’s JEDI Statement
“Do not disdain any person. Do not underrate the importance of anything for there is no person who does not have their hour, and there is nothing without its place in the sun…

Way of the Wilderness: Survival and Mentoring Series
Learn the survival skills that people of the land all over the world have practiced for thousands of years.
Each class focuses on a topic such as indigenous ecology, wilderness survival, animal behavior…

Intro to Permaculture Workshop at Pearlstone
Communities are using permaculture to live in greater harmony with the Earth.
Learn about permaculture design’s roots in indigenous cultures and practical ways it is used today.