Want to learn how to amend your soil with nutritional additives you can make at home? You’ve heard of compost, now try biochar, a natural amendment that slowly releases nutrients into the soil. Join Cincinnati Permaculture Institute’s nursery manager Howie Zuefle at Growing Value Nursery for a demonstration, discussion, and hands-on workshop. Take home your own mini bio-burner to start applying this in your garden right away!

Limited to 20 people. Open to members ($25) and non-members ($30). Registration required.

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Help our nursery manager Howie out in the garden & nursery at 824 Enright Ave. Hours vary seasonally.

Help our nursery manager Howie out in the garden & nursery at 824 Enright Ave. Hours vary seasonally.

Part of our 2025 schedule of Implementation Learning Days on the 3rd Sunday of each month

At Growing Value Nursery
824 Enright Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45205
3/16/25, 1:00-4:00pm.
We’ll be preparing soil for potting plants at the nursery, creating signage and supports, and possibly doing some grafting. Please dress for the weather with sturdy footwear and work gloves.

St. Patrick’s Day is a celebration of Spring. The Greening of the Earth, the Magic of Life reborn. Join Ande “the Elf” and his special brand of magic to explore and enjoy this time of endless possibility. He will be joined by other permaculture teachers and practitioners and a group of Perma-curious folk for a day of learning, doing, discussing in a most playful, hands on, interactive way.

Here’s what’s in store:

• Saturday, March 15, 9 am - 6 pm

• Fast and fun introduction to PC principles and practices

• Propagating native edibles to take home (Aronia berries)

• Wild foraging and cooking with mushrooms and plants

• Introductions to herbalism, goat care, soil building, natural building, social applications

• Registration request $50 non-members/$42 members. Payment accepted in advance or at the event.

All at Ande’s mature permaculture homestead in Milan, Indiana. Address will be provided to registrants prior to the event.

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Help our nursery manager Howie out in the garden & nursery at 824 Enright Ave. Hours vary seasonally.

Help our nursery manager Howie out in the garden & nursery at 824 Enright Ave. Hours vary seasonally.

Part of our 2025 schedule of Implementation Learning Days on the 3rd Sunday of each month

At Dater Montessori School
2840 Boudinot Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45238
3/2/25, 12:00-3:00pm.
We’ll be pruning fruit trees and vines as part of the Westwood Grows orchard maintenance project. Please dress for the weather with sturdy footwear and work gloves.

Open to students enrolled in the 2024-2025 Yearlong PDC

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Open to board members and invited guests.

Part of our 2025 schedule of Implementation Learning Days on the 3rd Sunday of each month

EVENT RESCHEDULED DUE TO WEATHER

New Date:

At Dater Montessori School
2840 Boudinot Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45238
3/2/25, 12:00-3:00pm.
We’ll be pruning fruit trees and vines as part of the Westwood Grows orchard maintenance project. Please dress for the weather with sturdy footwear and work gloves.

Open to students enrolled in the 2024-2025 Yearlong PDC

FORMERLY: Implementation: Terracing & Forest Restoration at Treasure Lake, Part of our 2025 schedule of Implementation Learning Days on the 3rd Sunday of each month

Weather is preventing us from doing terracing at Treasure Lake this month, but instead, our host Doug Crouch will give an online talk about what to do in your food forest and around your homestead over these cold winter months.

Open to board members and invited guests.

For this Implementation Day, together with April Pandora of Eden Urban Gardens, we will be building a trellis for next year's tomatoes using upcycled posts and welded wire, learning the tools and tricks, and covering different bed design benefits and challenges.

Eden Urban Gardens is a Certified Organic Farm located in Pleasant Ridge and Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio and run by CPI graduate April Pandora. We will be at 33 Clinton Springs Ave 45217. Street parking available and restrooms around the corner. Dress for the weather - please wear tennis shoes or boots!

Implementation Days are envisioned as an “advanced” level of our permaculture education, and PDC graduates and certificate holders are eligible. If you have not taken a PDC, you may still participate in implementation days; however, these are not intended as introductory classes or substitutes for a permaculture design course

Help our nursery manager Howie out in the garden & nursery at 824 Enright Ave. from 6 PM to dusk on Tuesdays.

Help our nursery manager Howie out in the garden & nursery at 824 Enright Ave. from 6 PM to dusk on Tuesdays.

For this Implementation Day, April Pandora of Eden Urban Gardens will be teaching us how to prepare and plant garlic beds, and prune and care for perennials like chives, Chinese leeks and Egyptian Onions for upcoming winter months!

Eden Urban Gardens is a Certified Organic Farm located in Pleasant Ridge and Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio and run by CPI graduate April Pandora. We will be at 33 Clinton Springs Ave 45217. Street parking available and restrooms around the corner. Dress for the weather - please wear tennis shoes or boots!

Implementation Days are envisioned as an “advanced” level of our permaculture education, and PDC graduates and certificate holders are eligible. If you have not taken a PDC, you may still participate in implementation days; however, these are not intended as introductory classes or substitutes for a permaculture design course

Help our nursery manager Howie out in the garden & nursery at 824 Enright Ave. from 6 PM to dusk on Tuesdays.