The Resilience Hub

02/28/2024

Hello RH Network! As you may have noticed, this channel has become focused on using OUR community support to spread the word about meaningful permaculture opportunities, work parties, and other food sovereignty projects. If you have something you’d like us to holler about, feel free to DM here, on Facebook, or email Nick ([email protected])

The following community ask comes from Carie and her Kindergarten Class at The Friends School in Portland:

“The Friends School of Portland’s kindergarten class hatches chicks in the classroom each spring. After hatching, the chicks are given to someone who wants to raise them for eggs.

This year we are hoping to connect with an urban farmer or two through The Resilience Hub that might want to add backyard chickens to their food acquisition plans. The un-sexed hatchlings will be ready to go to their forever homes by April 11th.

Please reach out to carie@friendsschoolportland if you are interested in this possibility or if you have any questions!”

02/07/2024

2 great events coming up at mt joy orchard later this month

First, an afternoon of tree pruning...
https://www.meetup.com/resiliencehub/events/298631489/

Then - to celebrate our work AND to offer good tidings to the 2024 growing season - a WASSAIL!
https://www.meetup.com/resiliencehub/events/298631460/

Join other fun folx and community member at Mt. Joy Orchard on Saturday, February 24th for a good ole fashion WASSAIL! Wassailing is a celebratory tradition promoting good

11/27/2023

Come join the gaggle of growers at Mt. Joy Orchard for a SEASON WRAP-UP WORK PARTY to help tuck in the orchard for the winter. We're hoping for a good turn out (looking at you, peeps from the cider pressing!) so we can head into the cooler months with some good energy. As always, work parties are open to those who are looking to get involved in organizing/community work, those looking to learn more about care for the land, and those who just want something to do for a few hours!

Tasks to be completed/learned:
-installing tree guards
-removing silage tarp for future blueberry planting
-general cleanup
-dry flower collecting? bulb planting? any other ideas people may want to bring!

See you there :)

Come join the gaggle of growers at Mt. Joy Orchard for a SEASON WRAP-UP WORK PARTY to help tuck in the orchard for the winter. We're hoping for a good turn out (looking at

04/23/2023

We hope y'all have planted all of the goodies you picked up at last weekend's Seed & Scion Swap! But did you plant too much (again?!) this year? Us too. Or maybe you're still looking for some plants you've yet to find. Fear not! We'll be hosting our annual plant swap at Mt. Joy Orchard as a preamble to their Spring Planting Party on May 13.

The Swap will take place from 9-10am (roughly), and we encourage any and all to stick around for a fun work day at the orchard. We'll be planting trees and blueberries, then Aaron Parker of Edgewood Nursery will run a grafting class. After that we'll be sheet mulching and tidying up to set the stage for a productive year of growing in community.

See you there!!!

Come bask in the start of spring with us and the community at Mount Joy Orchard! As in years past, we are pairing our FREE Plant Swap with a Spring Planting Party at the or

04/18/2023

Tomorrow evening, long-time Hub member and founding board member of the Living Soil Network will be at Urban Farm Fermentory giving a talk titled "Soil Science/Soil Magic: The Science of Soil Ecology and the Spirituality of Direct Perception." His presentation will dive into soil ecology and the spirtuality of direct perception. He will discuss how aligning ourselves with the power of nature leads us into a more profound relationship with the land, with ourselves, and with our communities.

This is another FREE one, folks! See you there :)

**Soil Science/Soil Magic: The Science of Soil Ecology and the Spirituality of Direct Perception** Spero Latchis is a longtime Hub community member and the founding board

04/04/2023

The Resilience Hub has awoken from winter hibernation - and just in time to announce our annual Souther Maine Seed & Scion Swap!

Each year, MOFGA generously donates seeds & scion wood from their spring swap to the Hub, knowing that our network has an inimitable capacity to share knowledge and resources. As always, we encourage you to bring your own seeds, scions, growing resources (tools, planters, etc.), homemade goodies, and other projects to freely share/trade - someone's sure to want it!

This year's event will feature a few workshops for those with a range of interests in growing:

-Grafting Fruit Trees w/ Aaron Parker of Edgewood Nursery
-Sowing Native Pollinators w/ Wild Seed Project
-Kid’s Seedballing Workshop w/ Courtney of Wild Migration
and hopefully more!

This event is kid-friendly, open & free to all in the community. We hope to see you there!

The Southern Maine Seed & Scion Exchange event is back! Each year, MOFGA generously donates seeds & scion wood from their spring swap to the Hub, knowing that our network

03/10/2023

Tree pruning workshop? Free? Really?!

YUP! It's time for the trees at Mount Joy Orchard to get their yearly haircut so they continue to grow healthily and produce ample fruit for passersby (to ALSO take for free!).

The orchard has over 100 fruit trees, so we need help from you all to get the work done. We will start off with a 1-hour pruning workshop led by Aaron Parker of Edgewood Nursery, then take to the hill to practice our newly acquired (or honed) skills!

Follow the Meetup link to register, or just drop on by :) See you there, neighbors!

Things are heating up (at least until this week's snow), and the sap is just about ready to start flowing! Join us and our friends at Mount Joy Orchard for the first work p

02/20/2023

If you're looking to get your hands (gloves) dirty and tune up your pruning skills as we head into the 2023 growing season, join us and our friends at Mount Joy Community Orchard for a group work party and FREE pruning workshop on March 11th!

Things are heating up (at least until this week's snow), and the sap is just about ready to start flowing! Join us and our friends at Mount Joy Orchard for the first work p

02/20/2023

One of network members brought a great event to our attention - for anyone feeling the stress of climate anxiety (all of us...), this one's for you!

Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, & Humor: A Conversation with Renowned climate activists Andrew Boyd and Tim DeChristopher

02/20/2023

Hello out there! Happy near spring (but look out for the incoming snow!)

Once again, our friends at the Maine Ecological Design School are hosting a series of Design Labs for folx to dive into the nitty gritty about a variety of permaculture and regenerative agriculture topics. This year's slate of events will feature:
-Strategies for Water Management (March 1)
-Urban Gardening and Small Spaces (March 8)
-Building the Soil Beneath Our Feet (March 15)
-Edible Forest Gardens (March 22)
-Designing for Climate Change (March 29)
We'd love to see you, whether it's your first time jumping into these topics or if you're looking for a refreshing and have some questions to ask the event hosts!

Navigate over to our Meetup page to sign up!!! https://www.meetup.com/resiliencehub/events/

Oh, and also keep an eye out for an announcement about the Permaculture Design Course offerings for the summer of 2023!

Upcoming events for The Resilience Hub in Portland, ME. A Meetup group with over 3807 Permies.

10/18/2022

We’re sorry we missed you last week, but we are back on Wednesday, Oct 19 from 4-6pm at Boyd St! 😊✨🍁

We will be accepting donations starting at 3:30pm and the stand opens to the public at 4! Come early for the best selection of fresh veg!

With fall in full swing, and winter right around the corner, we are trying to squeeze in a few more Resource Shares before the season wraps up— but oh, what a season it has been! We’ve learned a lot from being out in the community, talking to our neighbors, and collaborating with other organizations… that being said we have a lot of ideas floating around! If you have any suggestions, comments, questions or critiques, we want your input!! If you want to help shape the next stage of this project, we would love to hear from you. Email [email protected] or [email protected] with all your thoughts, ideas and suggestions. 😁

09/26/2022

If you’re still buzzing off the energy from the and want to keep that energy alive, we are happy to say that the Resource Sharing Stand is back again this week! 🥳 Gearing up for Resource Sharing Stand #5 this Wednesday, Sept 28 from 4-7pm ✨🍁🎃🌽

This is a good time to remind everyone that although the main resource we expect to share in abundance is fresh produce, but we accept lots of types of resources to redistribute to the community… Take a peek at the second slide for other resources we are taking!

This is also a great time to extend a heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone & everything that has made this project a dream come true! We have been so lucky to have started this project with funding from the New England Grassroots Environmental Fund and along the way we have had the pleasure of partnering with other organizations such as , among others! We couldn’t be more thankful for the connections we have made, the food that has been redistributed, and the ideas we have generated since embarking on this journey!

We hope to see some familiar & new faces on Wednesday, so please stop by and say hi!