Workshops

Re-story-ing
the marginal.

Dead wood. Building debris. The vine that ate the fence line. Every landscape has features we've been taught to see as waste, nuisance, or threat — the discarded edges of our communities.

Permaculture, and the Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) it draws from, teaches that edges are where life happens. The goal of every workshop is to make life happen, and we do this by engaging with the "marginal" from a place of hands-on curiosity, imagination, and listening for the stories beneath the ones we've been told.

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Upcoming Sessions

Short, hands-on,
low barrier to entry

No prerequisites, no ecology degree, no green thumb required. Just bring your hands and a willingness to look at something overlooked a little closer.

Half-Day · Hands-On
Mushroom Log Inoculation

Take fallen or felled hardwood — the stuff that usually gets burned or hauled off — and inoculate it with oyster spawn. Leave with your own log, already on its way to producing food for years.

Beginner Friendly Take Home a Log
Half-Day · Hands-On
Re-storying Kudzu

Harvest, process, and work with one of the most demonized plants in the Southeast. We'll cover the history of the vine, kudzu root starch, and the kitchen and medicinal uses of the leaves, roots, and flowers, as well as removal methods.

Foraging Craft + Kitchen
Full-Day · Build Session
Salvage & Scrap Fabrication (Upcoming)

Pull from a real pile of construction offcuts, demo lumber, and salvaged hardware to build something useful — a tool shed component, a trellis, a piece of site furniture for the commons. The material dictates the design.

Tools Provided Build for the Commons
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What should we teach next?

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Why We Teach This Way

Not waste.
Unfinished relationship.

A culture that calls something "marginal" has already decided it doesn't matter. We disagree. The margin is where the most honest work is waiting.

This work is called re-story-fication — the practice of giving new, true stories to the things our culture has written off. Dead wood is habitat for foods and medicines. Kudzu is a fast carbon cycle and a fiber crop nobody's harvesting yet. Construction debris is sculpture looking for a second use.

This isn't really about gleaning materials. It's about practicing a different relationship. Picking up and observing something that we've been taught to walk past, slowing down, and asking what is this, and what does it want to become?

Every class is a small repair. Not of the land alone, but of the gap between us and it. The gap that lets us believe we're separate from the systems that feed us. Enough of these small repairs and that gap starts to close. That's how we get back to a world we can actually thrive in instead of one we manage from a careful distance.

Tell Us What You're Curious About

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Our class calendar grows from what the land we cultivate is telling us it needs, but also from what our community is actually curious about. If there's a marginal material, a forgotten skill, or a "waste" stream you keep wondering about, let us know!

Help us identify things our culture has dismissed, and we'll help a better story emerge.

  • Invasive or "weed" plant species you'd like to work with
  • Building or demolition materials you're curious how to reuse
  • Traditional skills you wish someone still taught
  • Something specific to your own land or neighborhood
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No idea is too small or too strange. If enough people are curious about the same thing, we'll build a session around it.
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