Welcome to the Knoxville Permaculture Guild
Started in 2008, KPG, became a registered nonprofit in August of 2015 exercising under the Appalachian Community Fund as a fiscal sponsor. KPG is operated by a director and KPG Consultants, who act as an Advisory Council to establish the focus, goals, and vision of the KPG.
Consultants hold a Permaculture Design Certificate from a 72 hour
permaculture course and usually have training, volunteer experience, or
life experience beyond the PDC coursework.
We are a service oriented group with the main service being focused in low or mixed income areas or for groups that serve clients of low and mixed income. KPG Consultants develop a permaculture design, lead a permablitz, and educate recipients on care of the permaculture landscape. Recipients receive a perennial edible landscape, a design map, and education on the maintenance of the landscape. The permablitz is also a time for
Friends
, supporters, and interested people to assist in planting the landscape and learn about permaculture from a KPG Consultant.
KPG permablitz events are led by a KPG guild member and follow a permaculture design plan.
Permaculture Landscape Goals
5 year
Fall 2015
(complete) to implement and facilitate one permablitz in a mixed income area
2016 and 2017
to implement a minimum of four permablitzes each year (two in spring and two in fall) in mixed income areas for a total of 8 permablitzes
2018 and 2019
to implement a minimum of 6 permablitzes each year (three in spring and three in fall) for a total of 12 permablitzes
10 year
to have a minimum of 50 permaculture landscapes in the region with stewards who know how the permaculture system functions and to care for the evolution of the design.
Other Goals
- to increase the interest of permaculture in the region
- to encourage more PDC holding consultants in the region
- to support affordable PDC training courses in the Knoxville region
- to start a scholarship fund to assist a minimum of one person a year to attend a 72 hour PDC course outside the Knoxville area
- to develop a PermaCorps to train stewards on the upkeep and maintenance for landscapes installed by the KPG
- to launch an Urban Ag Land Trust
Past Knoxville Permaculture Guild Events 2008 through 2015
Permaculture Guild Events 2015
- KPG potlucks (bi-monthly)
- Straw Bale Building Tour
- Swale Workshop
- Making Your Own Organic Fertilizers
- Beneficial Insect Workshop
- Radio interviews on Knoxville's Community Radio and Tennessee Farm Table
- Raising Mummies Fundraiser
- Hope Central Permablitz
Events from 2008 through 2014
- Lecture Series: Peter Bane Permaculture Lecture
- Once Upon a Time Farm Tour
- Film: Once upon a time in Knoxville
- Lecture Series: Dylan Ryals-Hamilton
- Movie: GMO: OMG
- Lecture Series: Cliff Davis (2014)
- Cob building workshop
- One Straw Revolution Discussion
- 1st Annual Knoxville Permaculture Guild Potluck (2012)
- Food Day Event (2011)
- Introduction to Permaculture
- How to make good soil through composting
- Canning clinic
- Hugelkulture and Compost Work Party
- 1st Permaculture Permablitz Edible Forest Workshop
- Raising Urban Hens
- Composting Workshop
- Formation Meeting (2008)
Other Discussions
- Winter Gardening with Cold Frames
- Contour Gardening Workshop
- Mad City Chickens Movie screening
- Parkridge Community Garden Grand Opening
- Movie FRESH
- Knoxville Urban Hen Coalition Meeting
- Cob Wall Workparty
- Fundamentals of Permaculture Class
- Mushroom Workshop
- Mountain Justice Spring Break Lecture
- Seed Swap
- Tuchahoe Sustainable Neighborhood Tour
- El Puente Garden Tour
- Greenhouse Tour