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Teaching permaculture & building community through classes, workshops, & events. https://bio.site/SouthShorePermaculture

10/30/2026

Permaculture Principle 6: Produce no waste. Value and make use of everything available so that nothing is truly discarded or wasted.

This principle has us thinking about pumpkins and leaves. The pumpkin you carved could be breakfast, lunch, and dinner for squirrels, birds or chickens. Leaves left in your October garden make incredible mulch for your spring garden. Plus, they provide a safe haven where beneficial insects can tuck in for the winter.

It also has us thinking about sunlight. The clocks fall back this Sunday, and evenings will get dark earlier. Let’s make the most of the daylight we have, and make our homes warm, welcoming places to be after sunset.

And it has us thinking about community. As we head into the colder months and holidays approaching, sometimes isolation can feel like the easier choice. You have a community available to you with South Shore Permaculture. We invite you to value and make use of it with our Potluck & Movie Nights, Sustainability Book Club, Tuesdays with Todd, Ecology of You’s Grounding Circles, and with our Permaculture Design Course starting in January.

From Pumpkins to Daylight to Community. Leave nothing discarded or wasted.

10/29/2026

(Thursdays) with Todd: Introduction to Permaculture
Thursday, November 12th - 6:30 PM

This month only! Tuesdays with Todd is now Thursdays with Todd! Due to a scheduling conflict, are moving November’s class to Thursday.

If you like Thursdays at 6:30pm, and you like Todd’s Introduction to Permaculture, you’ll love our full Permaculture Design Course - now enrolling for 2027!

🌱 In November’s free class, Todd introduces you to the core ethics and principles that guide permaculture design, and how you can apply them to YOUR space. It’s years of working knowledge packed into a free 45 minute session for you + 15 min of Q&A. Don’t miss it!

Sign up and learn more about our PDC at the link in bio

10/17/2026

Our next Sustainability Book Club meets one month from today - Tuesday, November 17th at 7pm at Weymouth’s Fogg Library. That’s still plenty of time to read this month’s selection, ‘A Sand County Almanac’, by Aldo Leopold.

It’s a beautiful book, beginning with the author’s personal observations and natural history notes, followed by a “land ethic,” proposing a responsible, ethical relationship between people and the natural land they inhabit.

Like what we read, the people in book club change every meeting, so all are welcome.

Participation is free, but space is limited, so please RSVP on our website or at our link in bio.

10/12/2026

October’s Pondering Permie may be a sales pitch to join our Permaculture Design Course class of 2027.

It may also be an invitation to learn and practice about sustainable gardening practices in a time when there isn’t much gardening to be done.

🌱The growing season is winding down. The learning season is beginning 🌱

It may also be an invitation to join a curious, vibrant community and discover that permaculture is about a whole great big bunch more than gardening.

Let’s see just how far these ideas can take us.

🌱 Because maybe the garden isn’t only what we plant. 🌱

🪴2027 Permaculture Design Course now enrolling

💭Read the latest Pondering Permie

Links to both at our link in bio.

09/29/2026

Perhaps these past few days have made some of us wonder what it would look like to have a garden that not just tolerates but thrives in wet conditions 💧

October’s Tuesdays with Todd explores what you can do to create living, vibrant landscapes that not only look amazing but also help to manage stormwater, reduce runoff, and protect waterways.

➡️ Sign up today at our website or link in bio.

🗓️Tuesday, October 13th at 6:30 PM
FREE via Google meet

09/24/2026

Permaculture Principle #12: Creatively use and respond to change.

Some principles of permaculture seem to apply more at different times of the year. Now that it’s officially Autumn, we’re thinking more about how we creatively use and respond to change. This is a time of changes big & small. The temperature change may be small but it’s palpable. Getting your family into a new routine - maybe even a new school - feels much greater.

Your land will see great shifts in the coming months too. How can you - in life and in your garden - follow the natural current of energy, conditions, situations, circumstances…instead of fighting it?

The Ecology of You (TM) releases ‘reflection guides’ for each season. They usually contain prompts and ideas for how to move through the coming season with purpose and creativity. This season’s guide is no different. Find a link The Ecology of You

09/17/2026

Join us for a family friendly evening of good food, great company, and not one but TWO movies! First up is the beautiful animated short film ‘The Man Who Planted Trees’ followed by ‘The Lorax’.

Saturday, October 3rd - 4pm
First Parish Church of Norwell

Tickets are $5 (kids under 12 are free!) Purchase yours at SouthShorePermaculture.com and at our link in bio.

Bring a dish. Gather with your community.

09/16/2026

Now enrolling our PDC class of 2027!

In our 5th annual Permaculture Design Course, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from experienced teachers the tools and techniques to create abundant, regenerative landscapes and transform your local community. 🌿

Experience what previous students say changed the way they think and act with nature and their community.

Hybrid learning - online & in person. Beginning January 2027. Enrolling now.

➡️ More info & register at our website or link in bio

Comment or DM with any questions you have - we’re here to help!

09/13/2026

In this month’s Pondering Permie, we explore community: the connection (both hidden and seen) between all of us, and how we tend it.

“Community doesn’t require agreement. It asks something harder of us.

To show up. To listen. To become curious.

To hear something we haven’t heard before. To disagree without deciding that the person across from us no longer belongs.

To occasionally encounter an idea that makes us say:
I never thought of it that way before.

Maybe that is People Care in practice.”

Read more at our link in bio and join our community at an upcoming event - especially the in-person events with our community sustainability series of potluck & movies nights and book club. We welcome you.

09/09/2026

Did you hear we have a book club? Every other month, our community sustainability series shifts from meals and movies to discussing a book we’ve read.

This month’s read is Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, largely credited as book that launched the environmental movement. Her research, her findings, her words…are profound. We will have a lot to talk about! Book Club is free but seats are limited. Please RSVP!

📚 Tuesday, September 15th - 7pm
Weymouth, MA

➡️ More info & sign up at SouthShorePermaculture.com

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Norwell, MA
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+17815694930

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https://bio.site/SouthShorePermaculture

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