Events 2026

Calendar

2026 Midwest

Permaculture Convergence

Save the Dates! June 26, 27, & 28, 2026
Bloomingdale, Michigan

Get tickets here- Link

Events 2026

For now, these are just events on our calendar, things that we may attend in person, or connect through online.
They're a small sample, and representative of places you may come across us.

* In Person * Online * Hybrid

M Maryland Area O Ohio Area A Anywhere

April

Limicon 2025: a Co-created convention for liminal times * A

March 6- April 3, 2026

Link

Grow Amazing Asparagus- Columbus Garden School * O

April 1, 2026 (other CGS classes all month long!)

Link

(Revisiting) Ravensong Herbal Harvester Course * A

April- October 2026

Link

(Special Airport DHS Deployment) Upcoming ICE Watch & Community Defense trainings * A

April 1, 2026 (events all April long)

Link

HoCo Cherry Blossom Festival (online) * A

April 2, 2026

Link

Celebrating Native Plant Month * O

April 2, 2026

Link

4th Amendement Workplaces- Train the Trainers * A

April 2, 2026

Link

Free Food, Fire, and Friends- CEI * M

April 2, 2026 (Every Thursday)

Link

New to CEI tours * M

April 2, 2026

Link

When the Biomass Hits the Wind Turbine * A

April 3, 2026 (Airs Fridays and Saturdays all month)

Link

Fridays- Community Potlucks * O

April 3

Link

Daffodil Day * M

April 4, 2026

Link

Nervine, Anxiolytic, Sedative and Relaxing Herbs class * A

April 4, 2026

Link (replay link here)

BHGC Plant Swap and Seed Exchange * M

April 4, 2026

Link

Extraction: the Frontiers of Green Capitalism * M

April 4, 2026

Link

Japanese Stone Lantern Lighting * M

April 5, 2026

Link

Creative Action Training: How to build & amplify actions that have impact * A

April 6, 2026

Link

Upper Arlington Cherry Blossom Celebration * O

April 6, 2026

Link

Solar Noon Tuesdays * A

April 7, 2026 (Ongoing every Tuesday)

Link

Food Literacy for All * A

April 7, 2026

Link

Citizen Science, Natural History Clubs, and Where Beolecta Grows * A

April 7, 2026

Link

Online Mapping Tools for Mushroom Hunting * A

April 8, 2026

Link

Shared Harvest: Building Food Forests for Cities, Schools, and Neighbors * A

April 8, 2026 (Registration ends Monday 4/6 )

Link

Beyond ICE Watch: Building a Community Defense Network * A

April 8, 2026 (events all April long)

Link

A.C.R.E.'s Bag to Basics * A

April 8, 2026

Link

Vernal Poolooza * O

April 9-11, 2026

Link

Foundations of Community * A

April 9, 2026

Link

Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities * A

April 9, 2026

Link

Office Hours * A

April 9, 2026

Link

Chris Outdoors Mushroom course- Live session with Jessica Snider * A

April 9, 2026

Link

Cincinnati Permaculture Institute Growing Value Nursery volunteer slots all month * O

April 9 (all month long)

Link

May Day National Call * A

April 9, 2026

Link

ICE Watch and Community Defense * A

April 10, 2026 (events all April long)

Link

Holding Ground * A

April 10, 2026 (5 month long program)

Link

Spring Wild Edibles- Green Farmacy Garden * M

April 11, 2026

Link

Upper Arlington Sustainability Fair * O

April 11, 2026

Link

Howard County GreenFest * M

April 11, 2026

Link

Transition Howard County & CEI repair cafe * M

April 11, 2026

Link & Link

A panel of Truthtellers * O

April 11, 2026

Link

Showing of Planetary: Reconnect to something bigger * O

April 11, 2026

Link

C-bus Free Press Second Saturday Salon * O

April 11, 2026

Link

National Fuck ICE day * A

April 11, 2026

Link

How to do folk medicine, pt 2 * A

April 11, 2026

Link

Seed Swap Festival * M

April 11, 2026

Link

C-bus Water and Power Open House * O

April 11, 2026

Link

Midwest Cactus and Succulent Society * O

April 11-12, 2026

Link

Rewash Arts and Crafts Swap * O

April 11-12, 2026

Link

Spring Plant Fair * O

April 11-12, 2026

Link

Community Action * A

April 12, 2026

Link

Spring farm tour- Kelly's Working Well Farm * O

April 12, 2026

Link

Catalyzing Social Change in the GLESS * A

April 13, 2026

Link

Book Club- the Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth * A

April 13, 2026

Link

Citizens' Climate Lobby- C-bus chapter meeting * A

April 13, 2026

Link

Rewilding America * A

April 13, 2026

Link

Virtual I-Naturalist Training, via Mycological Association of Washington D.C. * A

April 14, 2026

Link

Rituals for Resilience * A

April 14, 2026

Link

All things Sorghum * A

April 14, 2026

Link

Volunteer Hangout (Habitation) * A

April 14, 2026

Link

Herb Study Group: Stratford Ecological Center * O

April 14, 2026 (2nd Tuesdays)

Link

World's Largest Gardening Summit * A

April 14- 16, 2026

Link

We need diverse books day * A

April 14, 2026

Link

Webinar * A

April 15, 2026

Link

A.C.R.E.'s Bag to Basics * A

April 15, 2026

Link

ICE out everywhere: Stop the mass deportation machine in your community * A

April 15, 2026

Link

Wild Ones- Annual Member meeting * A

April 15, 2026

Link

SWAG monthly meeting * O

April 15, 2026

Link

American Horticultural Society Live Series * A

April 16- June 2, 2026

Link

The Earth Provides * A

April 16, 2026

Link

Lost in Translation" Ohio, Christian Nationalism &t he Language of Power * A

April 16. 2026

Link

Community Conversation * A

April 16, 2026

Link

Permaculture Soil Building Practices * A

April 16, 2026

Link

Gardening in UA 101 * O

April 16, 2026

Link

Business of Herbalism Workshop Series part 4 * A

April 16, 2026

Link

Mushroom Medicine Making Series- Turkey Tail * A

April 17, 2026

Link

Herbalist Day / Thank an Herbalist Day

April 17, 2026

Link

Amphibian Safari Night Hike * O

April 17, 2026

Link

Resilience Network Monthly Salon * A

April 17, 2026

Link

Community Forklift- Garden Supply Pop-Up Shop * M

April 17, 2026

Marbleseed- Climate Circle Series * A

April 17, 2026

Link

Spring Thrift-O-Rama- Groovy Plants Ranch * O

April 18-19, 2026

Link

North Central Ohio Pollinator Pathway * O

April 18, 2026

Link

Homestead Swap * O

April 18, 2026

Link

Sustainable Westerville Repair Cafe * O

April 18, 2026

Link

Foraging in Ashtabula County * O

April 18, 2026

Link

Earth Day Celebration * M

April 18, 2026

Link

Dandelion Wine Workshop * O

April 18, 2026

Link

Eastern Shore Sea Glass & Coastal Arts Festival * M

April 18, 2026

Link

Ohio Wild Food Fest Spring Gathering * O

April 18, 2026

Link

Botanic Impressions- Green Farmacy Garden * M

April 18, 2026

Link

Earth Day at Lillian Farms * M

April 18, 2026

Link

Grow Abundant Berries - CPI * O

April 18, 2026

Link

Wild and Free Saturday: Seasonal Signs Guided Hike * O

April 18, 2026

Link

Culinary Mushrooms in the Home Garden * O

April 18, 2026

Link

Spring Medicinal Herb Walk with Bernadett * O

April 18, 2026

Link

Earth Day Celebration at King Arts Complex * O

April 18, 2026

Link

Preparing for an Energy Crisis * A

April 18, 2026

Link

Herb Gardening Mini Course * A

open until April 18, 2026

Link

Record Store Day * A

April 18, 2026

Link

Litter Pickup Glen Echo Park * O

April 19, 2026

Link

Cincy Sapphic Park Day * O

April 19, 2026

Link

Seeds of Caring Earth Day Celebration * O

April 19, 2026

Link

Earth Day Book and Plant Swap * O

April 19, 2026

Link

Train the Trainer: Immigrants' Rights * A

April 20, 2026

Link

r3.0 Bioregional open dialog 10: Indigenous and Bioregional funding flows across turtle island * A

April 20, 2026

Link

Free Design Adventures online workshop * A

April 20, 2026

Link

Social Change in the GLESS learning journey * A

April 21, 2026

Link

Spring Gardening Series with Tisa Watts * O

April 21, 2026

Link

WOGC- April Chapter Meeting: Native Rain Gardens * A

April 21, 2026

Link

Garden Growing and Soil Remediation * A

April 21, 2026

Link

Beauty and the Bees- Plant and Seed Swap & Sustainability Fair- Catonsville Co-op Market * M

April 21, 2026

Link

Essential Oils and Aromatic Herbs * A

April 21, 2026

Link

Rituals for Resilience * A

April 21, 2026

Link

Earth Day

April 22, 206

Link

Four decades of herbal stories from two Earth elders * A

April 22, 2026

Link

Permaculture Meet up * O

April 22, 2026

Flyer Link & Main Link

The plant knowledge we almost lost. And where it's still alive * A

April 22, 2026

Link

EPN Building Local Coalitions for Climate Action in Ohio * O

April 22, 2026

Link

A.C.R.E.'s Bag to Basics * A

April 22, 2026

Link

Planting Out: Moving From Pot to Ground (Seed to Dye to Seed) * A

April 22, 2026

Link

Crop Wild Relatives * A

April 22, 2026

Link

Turtle Island Bioregional Congress- Info Session * A

April 22, 2026

Link

Blue Rock Farmland Commons: A Story of Land Transition Webinar * A

April 22, 2026

Link also see events across April here.

Powell's Earth Day * O

April 22, 2026

Link

Office Hours * A

April 23, 2026

Link

May Day Training Call * A

April 23, 2026

Link

Garden Design Workshop * A

April 23, 2026

Link

Sleep and Nervous System Support * A

April 23, 2026

Link

Arbor Day

April 24, 2026

Link

Holding Ground * A

April 24, 2026 (5 month long program)

Link

Earth Healers * A

April 24, 2026

Link

Day of Transition Practice * A

April 24, 2026

Link

Herbal Open Forum * A

April 24, 2026

Link

Summit for religious freedom * A

April 25-27, 2026

Link

C-bus Indie Book Crawl * O

April 25-26, 2026

Link

Deeply Rooted Landscapes w/ Allwood Audubon * O

April 25, 2026

Link

HSA Potomac Unit Herb Plant Sale * M

April 25, 2026

Link

AR resilience Circle * A

April 25, 2026

Link

First 2026 Permaculture Potluck - ESPI * M

April 25, 2026

Link

Foraging for Medicinal Plants * O

April 25, 2026

Link

C-bus Cherry Blossom Festival * O

April 25, 2026

Link

Art Every Day C-bus Free Community Art Show * O

April 25, 2026

Link

Native only plant swap * M

April 25 , 2026

Link

Porch Talk: Spring into Ephemerals * O

April 25, 2026

Link

Dandelion Wine Workshop * O

April 25, 2026

Link

LBA: The Power of Lesbian Creativity * O

April 25, 2026

Link

Mini Maker's Market * M

April 25, 2026

Link

National Day of Action: Stop ICE warehouse detention * A

April 25, 2026

Link

Everybody In, Nobody Out Healthcare Conference * O

April 25, 2026

Link

Spring Ephemeral Wildflowers * O

April 25, 2026

Link

Strategic Thinking and Goal Setting * A

April 26, 2026

Link

Earth Day Columbus (Ohio) * O

events all month, main event- April 26, 2026

Link

Drive Electric Columbus- Earth Day * O

April 26, 2026

Link

Webinar * A

April 26, 2026

Link

Volunteer Hangout (Habitation) * A

April 26, 2026

Link

Landscapes, Landmarks, and Legacies Walking Tour * O

April 26, 2026

Link

Congressional Cemetery: Spring Fair
("DC's Greatest Undertaking") * M

April 26, 2026

Link

The Extraordinary Caterpillar screening * A

April 27, 2026

Link

What is Wild and Why it Matters * A

April 28, 2026

Link

Rituals for Resilience * A

April 28, 2026

Link

Coppice, Pollard, and Hedge * A

April 29, 2026

Link

Rootwork: a living toolkit in the face of state repression * A

April 29, 2026 (2/25 & 3/25)

Link

A.C.R.E.'s Bag to Basics * A

April 29, 2026

Link

Regenerative Healing and Native Medicinal Plants * O

April 30, 2026

Link

Cedar Lane Plant Palooza * M

April 30 - May 2, 2026

Link

Herbal Gardening Course * A

April 2026

Link

Transition Launch Training * A

April 2026

Link

Herbalism PTSD & Traumatic Stress Course * A

April, 2026

Link

Herbalista Herbal Foundations * A

April , 2026

Link

Trillium Center- Community Herbal Intensive (Self Study) * A

March- November 2026

Link

Commonwealth Holistic Herbalism- Stress Management * A

April 2026

Link

Past events
Attended, either virtually or in person.

March

The Old Stories Still Speak series *

March 2, 2026

Link

Solar Noon Tuesdays *

March 3, 2026 (Ongoing every Tuesday)

Link

Mushroom Ecology, Growing and Foraging *

March 3, 2026

Link

Long COVID Defense Series III *

March 4, 2026

Link

Upcoming ICE Watch & Community Defense trainings *

March 4, 2026 (events all march long)

Link

MAWDC monthly meeting *

March 5, 2026

Link

Fighting and Winning Against Trump's Concentration Camps *

March 5, 2026

Link (Replay link)

Business of Herbalism Workshop Series part 3 *

March 5, 2026

Link

When the Biomass Hits the Wind Turbine *

March 6, 2026 (Airs Fridays and Saturdays)

Link

Dreaming Anti-Ableist Land Work *

March 8, 2026

Link (a blog post written at the conclusion of the 4 part series)

Herbal Seed Starting Series *

March 9, 11, & 13, 2026

Link

PINA- Intro to Permaculture Series *

March 9, 2026

Link (replay link here)

In the company of horses with Emilie Cajsdotter *

March 10, 2026

Link (replay link)

Robin Wall Kimmerer- Visiting Artists Program *

March 10, 2026

Link

Planning your best garden yet *

March 10, 2026

Link

Politics of Pride Events: Global and Local Challenges *

March 10, 2026 (Mountain Time)

Link

Leopold Week *

March 10, 2026

Link

Seed to Dye to Seed *

March 11, 2026

Link

ICE off campus *

March 11, 2026

Link

Conscientious Objector Information Session *

March 12, 2026

Link

Intro to Intentional Communities around the globe Live Q&A *

March 12, 2026

Link

Holding Ground *

March 13, 2026 (5 month long program)

Link

International Long Covid Awareness Day *

March 15, 2026

Link

Heartwood Mushrooms- 1rst Online Grow Along *

March 16, 2026

Beyond Ice Watch Building For Community Defense *

March 18, 2026

Link

Rethinking Horticulture with Real Ecology *

March 18, 2026

Link (replay link here)

Rekindling Indigenous Kinship and Foodways *

March 18, 2026

Link (replay link here)

SWAG monthly meeting *

March 18, 2026

Link

Q & A with Thomas Easley *

March 18, 2026

Link

Pollinator Pathway's Spring Webinar *

March 19, 2026

Link (replay link here)

Bitters and the Body *

March 19, 2026

Link

Getting ready for Foraging Season *

March 19, 2026

Link (replay link here)

Spring Equinox- Ostara

March 20, 2026
Young Hare by Albrecht Dürer

Next Turtlehead Permaculture Newsletter!

Link

Mushroom Medicine Making Series- Reishi *

March 20, 2026

Link

Resilience Network Forum/ Permaculture Disaster Response *

March 20, 2026

Link

Plant Circle- Plant Baby Plant *

March 20, 2026

Link (replay link here)

Permaculture Week

March 21- 29, 2026

Link

Food Co-op Initiative LIVE *

March 23, 2026

Link (replay links here)

PINA- Permaculture Digital Design Summit *

March 23-27, 2026

Link

Edible Mycorrhizal Fungi of the NE: Species Identification, Ecology, and Foraging Strategies *

March 23, 2026

Link

Herbalism from a Green Witch Perspective *

March 24, 2026

Link (replay link here)

Climate Change, Governance, & the Trump Administration *

March 24, 2026

Link (replay link here)

Getting Ready for Foraging Season *

March 25, 2026

Link

Bioregional Open Dialog 9 *

March 25, 2026

Link (replay link here)

Rootwork: a living toolkit in the face of state repression *

March 25, 2026 (2/25 & 4/29)

Link

ICE Watch, at the airport (States at the Core/Protect RP) *

March 25, 2026

Link

Herbalism PTSD & Traumatic Stress Course *

Begun in March, 2026

Link

Beyond ICE Watch: Building for Community Defense *

March 26, 2026

Link

Grow Along: Session 2 *

March 26, 2026

Link

Listening to Plants: Creativity, Resonance, & Renewal *

March 26, 2026

Link

Holding Ground *

March 27, 2026 (5 month long program)

Link

No Kings III *

March 28, 2026

Link

Access Mob Pittsburgh- Voting is an act of resistance *

March 30, 2026

Link (replay link here)

Cooperative Grocers Holding Community Through Crisis- Food Co-op Initiative *

March 30, 2026

Link

Designing Abundance with David Holmgren: Lessons for four decades of Permaculture * A

March 30, 2026

Link (replay link here)

Environmental Protection in America: Reviewing the Past and Looking Ahead to the Future of Nature * A

March 30, 2026

Link, Link, & Link

Culinary Committee: Panel discussion for Similkameen Foray and Feast- NAMA *

March 30, 2026

Link

What's Next After NK3? *

March 31, 2026

Link (replay link here)

Limicon 2025: a co-created convention for liminal times *

March 6- April 3, 2026

Link

Herbalista Herbal Foundations *

Ongoing, throughout March

Link

Trillium Center- Community Herbal Intensive (Self Study) *

March- November 2026

Link

Commonwealth Holistic Herbalism- Stress Management *

March 2026

Link

February

Imbolc

February 2, 2026

Link (with photocredit)

World Wetlands Day

February 2, 2026

Link

Felted Fungi Week *

February 2-9 2026

Link

How to Build a Slow Food Chapter from the Ground Up *

February 3, 2026

Link

Unite for Springfield (Ohio) *

February 3

Link

Degrowth to a steady state economy *

February 4, 2026

Link

ICE Watch & Community Defense *

February 4, 11, 13, & 15 2026

Link

Pollinator Pathway Winter Webinar *

February 5, 2026

Link (replay here)

The Business of Herbalism: Part 2 Let's Make It Legal *

February 5, 2026

Link

Organizing + Absorbtion Training *

February 6, 2026

Link

Learn to draw carnivorous bog plants *

February 11. 2026

Link (replay link)

Reimagine the Possibilities for Conservation: Belonging, Justice, & the Future of the Land Ethic *

February 12, 2026

Link (replay on link)

Governing with courage:State Leaders Standing up to ICE *

February 12, 2026

Link

Holding Ground *

Feb 13, 2026 (5 month long program)

Herbal Foundations *

February 14, 2026

Link

Virtual Herbalism Conference *

February 15-20, 2026

Link

Wild Ones- From Wasteland to Wonder *

February 18, 2026

Link (replay link)

Storm Stories *

February 18, 2026

Link (replay link)

OPAWL- Constitutional Observer Training *

February 18, 2026

Link

Happy Fab Feb New Year Block Party (PcX) *

February 19, 2026

Link

Mushroom Medicine Making Series- Cordyceps *

February 20, 2026

Link

Botanically Unhinged *

February 22, 2026

Link

The Mycelial Conversation *

February 24, 2026

Link

Rootwork: a living toolkit in the face of state repression *

February 25, 2026 (3/25 & 4/29)

Link

Seed to Dye to Seed *

February 25, 2026- September 2026

Link

Lunch and Learn Webinar with Dr. Tallamy *

February 26, 2026

Link

Holding Ground *

Feb 27, 2026 (5 month long program)

Link

Transition Launch Training *

February 2026

Link

Commonwealth Wholistic Herbalism- Emergency Prepararedness *

Completed February 2026

Link

Commonwealth Wholistic Herbalism- Herbal Community Care Toolkit *

Completed February 2026

January

Winter Writing Sanctuary *

December into January

30 Day Herbal Reset Workshop *

All January long

Ensuring Quality and FDA cGMP Compliance: A Workshop for Herbalists & Herbal Product Makers with Steven Yeager of Mountain Rose Herbs *

January 6,13,20, & 27 2026

Link

Nature Journaling: How to reclaim your attention and sense of place *

January 8, 2026

Link (with replay)

Herbal Community Care Toolkit- Commonwealth Holistic Herbalsim *

January 2026

Onboarding *

January 19. 2026

Link (previous example from last May.)

National ICE Watch & Community Defense *

January 19, 2026

Link (check for upcoming dates)

Wild Ones- A conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer & Esther Bonney *

January 21, 2026

Link (with replay)

Mutual Aid- We Keep Us Safe, Here is How *

January 26, 2026

Link (with replay)

Nonviolent Action Training/ Mutual Aid *

January 26, 2026

Link

Eyes on ICE: Document and Record- ACLU *

January 26, 2026

Link (with replay)

Columbus Garden School- Book Club *

January 29, 2026

Link

Virtual Community Care Training/Street Medics Training- Our Helpers *

January 29, 2026

Link

Transition Launch Training *

January 2026

Link

See our 2025 Events page for things previously attended

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