The Permaculture Skills Center (PSC) is a local, community and land-based resource for education and training. Our business model is rooted in natural systems thinking to develop the resources, skills and tools that design a replicable ecologically based economy.
The PSC is located on 5 acres in west Sonoma County, California. This fertile and neglected land has been under restoration and cultivation since we took it over in the winter of 2012. In the first two years we have installed over 2000 feet of storm water catchment systems, 2 acres of rotational pasture complete with silvapasture systems and on contour hedgerows, 250+ heirloom fruit, nut, and olive trees. Hundreds of medicinal, soil building, insect attracting and edible plants as understory to our fruit and nut trees. 1 acre of vegetables, strawberries and cut flowers and a mobile chicken coop that holds one hundreds pasture fed chickens and a flock of sheep, alpaca, and a llama for natural fiber generation.
Organizations Housed at the Site
Growing food and regenerating the land!
TapRoot Farm, located at the Permaculture Skills Center is focused on the cultivation of sustainably-grown produce, and community-centered education. We focus on applying regenerative farming techniques such as no-till agriculture, bio intensive planting plans, heirloom and open pollinated seed saving, rotational grazing integration, soil fertility management, cover cropping, water harvesting, and natural pest management strategies and more.
Our goal is to engage the community in growing, harvesting and selling the best tasting and nutritious food possible while at the same time regenerating the ecological services of our environment. We grow the full spectrum annual vegetables, berries (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries), cut flowers, and pastured chicken eggs. These local food products are available at our onsite farm stand, through our Community Supported/Grown Agriculture programs and at select local vendors.
Community Supported/Grown Agriculture programs (CSA,CGA)
We still have space in our CSA program so please inquire here about signing up for weekly boxes of in season produce!
TapRoot Farm offers both formal and informal opportunities for visitors to learn food production techniques that work in accord with nature to regenerate the land. For information on our current offerings and activities, please contact our farm manager Anson Biller.
Farm to Table events
In 2014 we will launch our farm to table program. Each month we will offer a dinner on the farm featuring professional chefs from the region preparing food form the farm Music games in a kid friendly atmosphere these celebratory events you wont want to miss! Stay tuned for the farm to table schedule right here on this website or sign up here to receive our newsletters’.
Permaculture Artisans
Headquartered on the same site as the Permaculture Skills center and TapRoot farm Permaculture Artisans is leading the landscape industry in ecological landscaping, sustainable homestead design and installation and broad acre regenerative land management. PA designed and installed the farms and gardens at the permaculture Skills Center from 2012-2013. In business since 2005 Permaculture Artisans has successfully designed and implemented dozens of projects in Northern California ranging from small-scale suburban systems to multi hundred acre land management projects. Learn more about Permaculture Artisans here.
