7 Circles Heritage Center

is a community centered on Native American teachings creating a spiritual gathering place for all people. 7 Circles Heritage Center is ~ 25 miles from Summer Camp Music Festival and the recipient of a gift from the Summer Camp Music Festival community, a

Permaculture Action Day

. The cumulative learning of the 3-Day course is designed as an innovative approach to use your new knowledge and skills in a practical leadership application, helping to lead volunteers in the earthworks creation of swales, terraces, soil building and planting. May 24th, after the course, is an opportunity to experience a whole systems design project. The Permaculture Action Day, co-facilitated with the

Permaculture Action Network

, is a one-day blitz event that will bring hundreds of people together to implement systems that regenerate ecology and create community spaces. Open to the public, the Action Day is encouraging festival attendees to give back to the neighboring community – ‘many hands make light work’! You will have the option to spend the night at 7 Circles, or, if you purchased a festival ticket, you will be able to return to site Wednesday evening. Out of respect for the Heritage Center, this event is explicitly not a party. We will have a zero tolerance policy for anyone engaging in party activities.

The Day of Action is free and open to the public. We encourage you to reach out to your friends already going to summer camp and encourage them to plan ahead and participate! The Day of Action is not required, but it’s a great opportunity for you to take some of your new-found knowledge you learned in the 3-day course and pass it on! It’s a chance for you to apply your broadened understanding and TEACH others what you know! Remember the tenets of permaculture are care for the earth, care for people, and provide abundance – this day of action is an opportunity for you to live that abundance and spread your knowledge! Find more information on the Day of Action

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The $333 fee covers all of the expenses of the 3-Day Intensive and includes meals during the workshop, camping, electronic curriculum/ worksheets, optional yoga and meditation classes in the early morning, integrated native wisdoms and ceremony. To participate in the 3-Day workshop, you do not have to be a patron of the festival. However, 3-Day Intensive participants will have the option to volunteer at the festival; email

Soulshine@summercampfestival.com

for more information.

This course is designed as an intensive. The days will be full of activities and will be highly focused to one specific area. You will not be permitted to roam the festival grounds. THIS IS NOT A PARTY – it is a highly focused learning opportunity. The participants of this course will be part of the foundation of long term efforts to integrate permaculture learning at the festival grounds.

Camping gear, daily necessities, hygiene necessities, a positive attitude, gardening and permaculture concepts and questions to share with the groups, a reusable water bottle and reusable dishware/ utensils for meal time, any classroom materials that assist in your learning (pens, pencils, notebooks, binders with learning materials, voice recorders, cameras etc.).

You may also want to bring snacks for yourself or to share. Organic fair-trade chocolate is always good to share on long days! If you are called to share your favorite teas, seeds, or if you are musically inclined, please do so!

PLEASE DO NOT PLAN ON PARTYING AT THIS WORKSHOP – please save your adult celebrations and extra-curricular activities for the festival weekend.

This pre-festival 3-Day Intensive will cover the basic principles of permaculture through discussions, brief lectures and hands-on active learning. Content covered will include but not be limited to:Natural BuildingComposting techniquesSoil HealthRain HarvestingConscious irrigation methodsWicking & seedling careEdible Food forestsHugekulture MoundsSheet Mulching and soil building strategiesVertical GardeningRaised Beds & Container GardensPolycultures & Companion PlantingIntegrated Pest ManagementAquaponicsMycelium & Mushroom CultivationHerb SpiralsDesign Theory & Holistic EcologyWaterbodiesCob Ovens & Solar OvensEarthworks with Swales and TerracesAsset Mapping Social PermacultureHorticulture planting techniquesAnd many more…As part of the course, participants will help to contribute to bringing to life SOULPATCH that will support educational programing throughout the festival weekend. The class is an integrated approach mixed with a classroom style component (discussions, brief lectures, handout review, brainstorms), active learning style (hands-on participation creating, planting and building), and group sharing (optional sunrise silence with tea, meditation, yoga, native ceremony and reflection circles).SOULPATCH is the permanent garden space at Three Sisters Park, the home of Summer Camp Music Festival. SOULPATCH is an educational living platform to facilitate ongoing workshops and learnings around permaculture and natural building techniques.Our intention is to prepare you to take action! After the course you will have learned an entire series of techniques to help you transform any space. There will be course content in electronic format, or if you choose the option prior to the course we can provide a folder of handouts. The handouts will be referenced during the course and bundled as an electronic download after the event.

Where will we camp?

We will camp at 7 Circles Heritage Center, which is also where will have breakfast and dinner. After breakfast we will travel to 3-Sisters Park, the site of Summer Camp Music Festival and maintain daily class curriculum at SOULPATCH. We will also have evening class curriculum at 7 Circles Heritage Center.

Will there be power available?

There will be limited power available – plan as best you can to go without power needs for a few days. Digital Detoxing can be a powerful practice!

What will the group dynamics be like?

You will essentially be living in community for 3 days. There will be small breaks for free time. Should you need some isolation and downtime, use these breaks wisely. Often times this break time will be consumed in conversation and exploring concepts and projects discussed during the course. This will be an intimate setting, you will likely make fast friends with your fellow classmates, potentially finding new friends for life!

What does the participation look like during the festival?

There is no course requirements during the festival, but your participation in the workshops and as active educators in the demonstration space are highly encouraged. You will be proud of what you and your classmates have developed and and you will want to show it off and teach all your friends everything you know!

Who are the teachers for this?

We have a dynamic team of facilitators and instructors who are passionate about food sovereignty, universal access to healthy local food and systems design communities in more balance with ecology. The individuals have real world experience developing dynamic projects, studying food systems around the world, and educating advanced concepts in practical terms.