Center for Bioregional Living - Spring 2026 Newsletter

Don't miss this once in a lifetime educational experience on an epic site in a gorgeous climate and location this February 7-14th.

Spaces are limited, any questions? 917-584-4588

interested in group rates, call or text me.

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Northeast Agroforestry Accelerator Online Training

We appreciate your interest and participation herein we focus on a key aspect of the agroforestry value chain; -- Tree crops nurseries

To grow the movement for community-based, ecologically-restorative agroforestry and agroecology...we must grow more fruit and nut trees in more nurseries adapted to each bioregion!   

On behalf of Permaculture Land Trust, we would like to express our deep gratitude to Buzz Ferver for generously sharing: insights as a gifted tree crops nurseryman; hard-earned knowledge of what works best to get more great food producing trees out into the world; his restorative vision and plans for Perfect Circle Farm nursery, and; his love of Chestnuts. 

You will find the link to the recording from the zoom meeting below.  Please let me know if it does not work for you. 

This has been an incredible year with you as our first cohort in the Agroforestry Accelerator program -- and we will be sharing our new guide book with you - Growing Community Food Forests in Eastern North America as soon as it is available. Find out more > Permaculture Land Trust

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Growing Community Food Forests in Eastern North America: Permaculture Land Trust

What are Community Food Forests?

Producing more of our food with tree-based agriculture will nourish and heal more people and more land in a shorter amount of time and with longer-term benefits than we have been able to achieve with conventional agriculture over the past 150+ years.

Community Food Forests combine and reinvent ancient practices of Agroforestry and Agroecology to produce food in ways that regenerate human and ecological health. It is estimated that at one time Earth supported as many as 6 trillion trees, and that number has been reduced by roughly half since “modern” human civilization emerged over 10,000 years ago and converted land for agriculture and urbanization. At an estimated net loss averaging 10 billion trees per year due to ongoing deforestation, we are on

track to further reduce that number by half, leaving just 1.5 trillion trees, or one quarter of the natural living forests that evolved as the lungs of this living Earth.

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ANDREW FAUST PERMACULTURE PODCAST

Herein I read a wide range of my favorite excerpts from The Burning Earth: 500 Year s of Environmental History written by a Yale professor Sunil Amrith, a 2024 publication. Very readable !...an erudite and articulate book. Spanning from early agrarian societies and the transition from Nomadic lifestyles to sedentary more rice and grain based agriculture. The book dives in depth into China, India and Russian histories with a powerful writing style that carries us all the way into contemporary times. Sunil Amrith observes sweeping and insightful patterns of history, tying together vast swaths of time and ecological relationships, distilling them to poignant and important connections. Please listen as we go from early civilizations to colonialism, sugar, WW I - tanks vs. horses, WW II - chemicals and industrialization, wrapping with the green revolution, India and modern global food issues and ideas.

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