FEBRUARY 2026

Wrapping Up Winter with a Full Slate of Workshops & Events!

As we thaw out from a bitter January & February and edge toward the equinox, are you starting to feel the restlessness of Spring in your bones? Wattle weaving, raising animals in the city, grafting trees and woody plants, springtime tree identification, and foraging for your food — all things you can learn with Cincy Permaculture & friends in March!

Fences for Connection: Wattle Weaving Workshop with Ande the Elf - $40

Sat. 3/7, 11AM-3PM at Growing Value Nursery, 824 Enright Ave.

This workshop will guide hands on fence weaving using only local plant materials.  These valuable local living plant friends will keep growing and supplying materials for millennia with considerate land tending techniques, such as coppicing and pollarding.

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Livestock in the City: Urban Animal Integration with Dylan Kennedy - $30

Sat. 3/14, 12PM-4PM at Growing Value Nursery, 824 Enright Ave.

Animals like chickens, ducks, rabbits, goats, and sheep can  contribute greatly to our urban homesteads by creating compost, reducing pests, providing food, and being friends. In this skillshare + talk, Dylan Kennedy, a lead organizer of the Heritage Food Festival in northern KY, generously shares his insights and experience on how to integrate food producing animals into our daily lives. We will visit one or more example sites in the neighborhood and consider local regulations on animal keeping.

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Grafting Trees & Woody Plants with Jon Ruebusch & Howie Zuefle - $80

Sat. 3/21, 1PM-4PM, at Growing Value Nursery, 824 Enright Ave.
Includes trees to take home!

Grafting is the ancient art of binding a twig from one tree  with a desirable characteristic (fruit, flower, biomass, etc.) onto another tree.  This skill is especially useful in the Cincinnati area for transforming Bradford pears or fruitless mulberries into producers of plump delicious fruit. Jon Ruebusch and Howard Zuefle will guide you through tree grafting basics by providing background, practice, tools, and grafting two apple trees and two pear trees for you to take home.

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Wooden Shoe Hollow Tree ID Walk with Max McCormick - $20

Sat. 3/28, 1PM-3PM, in Wooden Shoe Hollow (Spring Grove area)

Learn about local tree species and how to identify them, even before they’ve leafed out for the summer, as well as ethical foraging practices and uses for woody plants. Seasoned tree enthusiast Max McCormick leads seasonal tree walks and has graciously agreed to host a special walk just for CPI.

Wooden Shoe Hollow is a hidden gem in the Cincinnati bioregion with a rich history of stewardship. Take advantage of this special opportunity to get to know the local flora in an intimate, inspirational setting!

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Special Guest Speaker Robin Greenfield: Foraging 100% of My Food for a Year

Sat. 3/28, 6PM-9PM, in the Requiary at Urban Artifact (Northside)
FREE!

Join us for an eye opening exploration of food sovereignty through the food and medicine that is growing abundantly all around us. For one year Robin Greenfield is foraging every bite of his food and medicine. He is traveling to our community to share his foraging journey and celebrate the individuals and organizations in our community working for a more resilient, local food system. He will also share about the newly launched 1 Million Community Fruit Trees Initiative and invite us to get involved in this grassroots collaborative effort in food sovereignty.

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Announcing the NEW Summer Weekend PDC at Nightingale Montessori!

CPI has a new home for our Summer Intensive Permaculture Design Course: Nightingale Montessori in Springfield, Ohio! This course takes place over 3 weekends in July (7/10 through 7/26), making it our most “quick-launch” course yet.

• Hybrid format of online and on-campus learning introduces you to permaculture basics so you can get started right away

• Great for K-12 (and beyond) teachers looking to incorporate more natural science and sustainability into their classrooms

• Get $100 off tuition when you register with a deposit before April 17 (Arbor Day!)

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How does this class compare to our Yearlong and Winter Weekend courses? Glad you asked. Compare and contrast them here.

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👉 The Permaculture Business Builder Course takes you behind the scenes with close to two dozen successful permaculture professionals who are building thriving businesses right now.

This is an educational package designed to help YOU learn how to build a thriving business that’s 100% aligned with the ethics and principles of permaculture—while still being wildly successful.

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