We will be meeting to plan for the upcoming year-long permaculture design class. The agenda will include strategizing for appropriate tuition billing and other financial concerns. The link will be sent one week prior to the meeting.
Interested in joining the education committee? Email the chair, Mary Rhodes.
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
July:
14-16th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
21-23rd: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
August:
4-6th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
18-20th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 6-8pm
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
July:
14-16th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
21-23rd: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
August:
4-6th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
18-20th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 6-8pm
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
July:
14-16th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
21-23rd: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
August:
4-6th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
18-20th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 6-8pm
Cofi Higgins, a student in our current yearlong Permaculture Design Class who is actively engaged in the Woodlawn community, alerted us to this upcoming event "gathering a team of passionate community members to help plan and execute a powerful pop-up experience." We're happy to see things like this popping up, and encourage you to pop in!
To learn more and RSVP, contact Cofi at (513) 888-1379 or by email.
CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
August:
4-6th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
18-20th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 6-8pm
September:
8-10th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 6-8pm
Governance: Oversees the maintenance of our organizational structure such as bylaws, contracts, charters, and strategic goals.
Finance: Focused on the financial responsibilities of the organization, recordkeeping, reporting, and budgeting.
Fundraising: Focused on sustaining the organization through donors, members, and grants.
Education: Focused on the development of our permaculture design courses, curriculum design, and teacher training.
Nursery: Focused on operations at Growing Value Nursery and projects at the properties on Enright Ave, as well as implementations and workshops.
Our current main agenda item is planning and fundraising for our new properties in East Price Hill. To be involved in decision-making about these properties, please consider becoming a full board member.
CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
August:
4-6th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
18-20th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 6-8pm
September:
8-10th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 6-8pm
CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
August:
4-6th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
18-20th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 6-8pm
September:
8-10th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 6-8pm
CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
August:
4-6th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
18-20th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 6-8pm
September:
8-10th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 6-8pm
CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
August:
4-6th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
18-20th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 6-8pm
September:
8-10th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 6-8pm
CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
August:
4-6th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
18-20th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 6-8pm
September:
8-10th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 6-8pm
The CPI common space is being used for a private event at this time.
Please join us at 3642 W. Eighth St (corner of Enright Ave.) as you can on Sunday, June 19 from 10am-1pm.
CPI board members Braden Trauth and Jess Rinehart will be there to coordinate the tasks.
We will be getting the CPI common space shipshape, which includes general cleanup and waste removal both inside and outside the building. With this step completed, we will be more prepared to move on to beautification tasks like painting and decorating.
Bring a friend! Thank you for your consideration and support. Please reach out if you have any questions, suggestions or concerns any time.
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
July:
14-16th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
21-23rd: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
August:
4-6th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
18-20th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 6-8pm
The CPI common space is being rented for a private event on this date.
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
July:
14-16th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
21-23rd: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
August:
4-6th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
18-20th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 6-8pm
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
July:
14-16th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
21-23rd: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
August:
4-6th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 630-830pm
18-20th: Volunteer times 8-12pm & 6-8pm
June 26th, 27th & 28th at Heart Valley Springs
Bloomingdale, Michigan
Great Rivers & Lakes Permaculture Institute is excited to announce our 2026 Midwest Permaculture Convergence. Gather with resilient practitioners to share skills, stories, and successes in our 10th year building community by the Great Lakes.
A weekend of innovative workshops, hands-on demonstrations, juicy conversations, good food, and dynamic networking at beautiful HeartValley Springs campground. Join other permaculture novices and experts beginning Friday 4pm. Settle in, stay one or two nights, take in a buffet of diverse talent and rich experience, and head out Sunday refreshed and reinspired. We'll work, eat, and learn together, leave a friendly footprint on the 90-acre landscape, and celebrate speakers from across and beyond the Great Rivers and Lakes bioregion.
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
MAY/JUNE SCHEDULE:
Wednesdays 5-8 at the Icehouse Lot (corner of Enright and Price)
Thursdays 5-8 at Growing Value Nursery
Fridays 9a-12p at the Icehouse Lot
Saturdays 9a-12p at the Clubhouse (CPI headquarters) and/or Nursery
Are you concerned about existential threats to the Natural World? Do you believe there are better ways to live in harmony with all Life than what the current socio-political narrative offers? Join a community that seeks to transform the paradigm with bold solutions.
Join this conversation to protect the legal Rights of Nature through artistic expression, faith initiatives, ancient wisdom, health and community action to restore the Commons. We convene to build our Social Prosperity and Abundance; to share, learn, and advance this transformation.
The convergence features Peter Block with the Common Good Collective, Tish O’Dell with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, and Nancy Stranahan with Arc of Appalachia. Breakout workshop discussions include the Ohio Community Rights/Rights of Nature network, Faith Communities Go Green, Co-op Cincy, Weston A. Price Foundation, Sustainability Central, Community Gardeners, Holistic Health practitioners, and Community Organizers.
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
MAY/JUNE SCHEDULE:
Wednesdays 5-8 at the Icehouse Lot (corner of Enright and Price)
Thursdays 5-8 at Growing Value Nursery
Fridays 9a-12p at the Icehouse Lot
Saturdays 9a-12p at the Clubhouse (CPI headquarters) and/or Nursery
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
MAY/JUNE SCHEDULE:
Wednesdays 5-8 at the Icehouse Lot (corner of Enright and Price)
Thursdays 5-8 at Growing Value Nursery
Fridays 9a-12p at the Icehouse Lot
Saturdays 9a-12p at the Clubhouse (CPI headquarters) and/or Nursery
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
MAY/JUNE SCHEDULE:
Wednesdays 5-8 at the Icehouse Lot (corner of Enright and Price)
Thursdays 5-8 at Growing Value Nursery
Fridays 9a-12p at the Icehouse Lot
Saturdays 9a-12p at the Clubhouse (CPI headquarters) and/or Nursery
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
MAY/JUNE SCHEDULE:
Wednesdays 5-8 at the Icehouse Lot (corner of Enright and Price)
Thursdays 5-8 at Growing Value Nursery
Fridays 9a-12p at the Icehouse Lot
Saturdays 9a-12p at the Clubhouse (CPI headquarters) and/or Nursery
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
MAY/JUNE SCHEDULE:
Wednesdays 5-8 at the Icehouse Lot (corner of Enright and Price)
Thursdays 5-8 at Growing Value Nursery
Fridays 9a-12p at the Icehouse Lot
Saturdays 9a-12p at the Clubhouse (CPI headquarters) and/or Nursery
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
MAY/JUNE SCHEDULE:
Wednesdays 5-8 at the Icehouse Lot (corner of Enright and Price)
Thursdays 5-8 at Growing Value Nursery
Fridays 9a-12p at the Icehouse Lot
Saturdays 9a-12p at the Clubhouse (CPI headquarters) and/or Nursery
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
MAY/JUNE SCHEDULE:
Wednesdays 5-8 at the Icehouse Lot (corner of Enright and Price)
Thursdays 5-8 at Growing Value Nursery
Fridays 9a-12p at the Icehouse Lot
Saturdays 9a-12p at the Clubhouse (CPI headquarters) and/or Nursery
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
MAY/JUNE SCHEDULE:
Wednesdays 5-8 at the Icehouse Lot (corner of Enright and Price)
Thursdays 5-8 at Growing Value Nursery
Fridays 9a-12p at the Icehouse Lot
Saturdays 9a-12p at the Clubhouse (CPI headquarters) and/or Nursery
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
MAY/JUNE SCHEDULE:
Wednesdays 5-8 at the Icehouse Lot (corner of Enright and Price)
Thursdays 5-8 at Growing Value Nursery
Fridays 9a-12p at the Icehouse Lot
Saturdays 9a-12p at the Clubhouse (CPI headquarters) and/or Nursery
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
MAY/JUNE SCHEDULE:
Wednesdays 5-8 at the Icehouse Lot (corner of Enright and Price)
Thursdays 5-8 at Growing Value Nursery
Fridays 9a-12p at the Icehouse Lot
Saturdays 9a-12p at the Clubhouse (CPI headquarters) and/or Nursery
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
MAY/JUNE SCHEDULE:
Wednesdays 5-8 at the Icehouse Lot (corner of Enright and Price)
Thursdays 5-8 at Growing Value Nursery
Fridays 9a-12p at the Icehouse Lot
Saturdays 9a-12p at the Clubhouse (CPI headquarters) and/or Nursery
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
MAY/JUNE SCHEDULE:
Wednesdays 5-8 at the Icehouse Lot (corner of Enright and Price)
Thursdays 5-8 at Growing Value Nursery
Fridays 9a-12p at the Icehouse Lot
Saturdays 9a-12p at the Clubhouse (CPI headquarters) and/or Nursery
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
MAY/JUNE SCHEDULE:
Wednesdays 5-8 at the Icehouse Lot (corner of Enright and Price)
Thursdays 5-8 at Growing Value Nursery
Fridays 9a-12p at the Icehouse Lot
Saturdays 9a-12p at the Clubhouse (CPI headquarters) and/or Nursery
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
MAY/JUNE SCHEDULE:
Wednesdays 5-8 at the Icehouse Lot (corner of Enright and Price)
Thursdays 5-8 at Growing Value Nursery
Fridays 9a-12p at the Icehouse Lot
Saturdays 9a-12p at the Clubhouse (CPI headquarters) and/or Nursery
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
MAY/JUNE SCHEDULE:
Wednesdays 5-8 at the Icehouse Lot (corner of Enright and Price)
Thursdays 5-8 at Growing Value Nursery
Fridays 9a-12p at the Icehouse Lot
Saturdays 9a-12p at the Clubhouse (CPI headquarters) and/or Nursery
We invite neighbors and friends of CPI to gather a few Sunday evening a month at the newly established CPI headquarters building at 3642 W. Eighth St. These are informal, lightly organized social gatherings that demonstrate care and commitment to the space as we position ourselves to steward these properties and integrate further into the neighborhood. As we break bread and forge bonds with each other, CPI will also share updates on progress with the properties we acquired along Enright Ave. and seek input from the community.
We welcome you to bring something to share, whether that’s a prepared dish, harvest from your garden, artisan & cottage goods, music and stories, or whatever your wildcard talent is! Weather permitting, we may move outside and have a fire, or go tour & forage at the Icehouse garden.
If you would like to be more deeply involved in decision making and planning for these properties, please consider joining the CPI Board.
Use the button below or email info@cincinnatipermacultureinstitute.org with your response and what you plan to bring.
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
MAY/JUNE SCHEDULE:
Wednesdays 5-8 at the Icehouse Lot (corner of Enright and Price)
Thursdays 5-8 at Growing Value Nursery
Fridays 9a-12p at the Icehouse Lot
Saturdays 9a-12p at the Clubhouse (CPI headquarters) and/or Nursery
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
MAY/JUNE SCHEDULE:
Wednesdays 5-8 at the Icehouse Lot (corner of Enright and Price)
Thursdays 5-8 at Growing Value Nursery
Fridays 9a-12p at the Icehouse Lot
Saturdays 9a-12p at the Clubhouse (CPI headquarters) and/or Nursery
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
MAY/JUNE SCHEDULE:
Wednesdays 5-8 at the Icehouse Lot (corner of Enright and Price)
Thursdays 5-8 at Growing Value Nursery
Fridays 9a-12p at the Icehouse Lot
Saturdays 9a-12p at the Clubhouse (CPI headquarters) and/or Nursery
Starting April 2026, CPI is using SignUp Genius to manage our volunteer schedule. Signing up in advance helps us prepare for how many people to expect each week and plan for tasks and projects accordingly, so we really appreciate whatever time you can commit to!
MAY/JUNE SCHEDULE:
Wednesdays 5-8 at the Icehouse Lot (corner of Enright and Price)
Thursdays 5-8 at Growing Value Nursery
Fridays 9a-12p at the Icehouse Lot
Saturdays 9a-12p at the Clubhouse (CPI headquarters) and/or Nursery
This special workshop brings together two passionate wildcrafters, Ande “the Elf” Schewe and Marielle “the Farming Artist” McIntosh, for a natural skills double feature!
Creative Tulip Bark Basket Weaving with Ande, 3-5PM: Learn how to work with bark from the tulip poplar tree to create your own functional basket, and learn other practical uses of tulip bark as a craft material.
Plant Walk & Communi-Tea Time with Marielle, 5-6PM: Take your newly crafted basket on a plant walk to our nursery & Icehouse garden to harvest herbs and learn about foragable plants! We will create a wild-crafted tea together and learn about plants with communi-tea!
Following the workshop, feel free to stay for additional communi-tea time with a fire, music, and storytelling! You’re invited to bring something special to share, or just relax and enjoy the company!
$65 per person for both workshops, payable by credit card online, or cash/check in person. Questions? Email cpinursery@gmail.com. Outdoor events are subject to weather conditions and may be rescheduled if needed.
