Nordic permaculture festival 2023

Come and join us at the Nordic Permaculture Festival! 

The Nordic Permaculture Festival is an annual gathering that has been touring the Nordic countries, since 2011. In 2023 it will be happening from August 3rd – 6th, 2023 at Bøensætre, Aremark kommune, Norway. An aim of the festival is to grow networks, spread information, knowledge and experiences about diverse and effective solutions for systemic change and regeneration of resources. Through this co-creative festival, we will contribute to a resilient and abundant future for people and the earth. In other words; we share permaculture!
It’s time to sign up and get excited!

The list of workshop-holders is coming together bit by bit, and we are very excited in the festival team about the range of workshops we have confirmed so far! A rich and inspiring program is taking shape, and our aim is as always to offer a diversity and good spread in topics both in practical hands on workshops, and more theoretical facilitation of inspiring permaculture dissemination. What we hope is to see the permaculture flower blossom with all its petals to meet a range of interests and experiences. So, there will be something here for everyone; from workshops about soil-life and what is under our feet, through connecting and listening into our nature, to what grows and inspires us in our communities!

We are still in the process of confirming more workshop-holders and also to detail the content of workshops, so we will keep posting updates here and on other platforms as we develop the program in more detail. We are very happy to announce some of our confirmed workshop holders and topics;

• Angela Halvorsen Bogo (Storytelling)
• DJ Alchemilla (Seastar Session)
• DJ Alchemilla (Day party with DJ Alchemilla)
• Rita Amundsen (Fermentation of plants, fruits and berries into various types of beverages)
• Helena von Bothmer (Zone 5; Another way to look at it)
• Helena von Bothmer (The living Soil and the compost pile)
• Helena von Bothmer & Helene Bøhler (Cultural Emergence)
• Benedicte Brun (Introduction to Forest Gardening)
• Kathy Burke (Deep Ecology – Part One: Coming into relationship with the more than human world)
• Kathy Burke (Deep ecology – Part Two: A Relationship with Trees)
• Helene Bøhler (Introduction to permaculture)
• Helene Bøhler (TMW;Tai Chi movement for Wellbeing)
• Cathrine Dolleris (Nordic Permaculture Academy presentation)
• Cathrine Dolleris (Needle binding)
• Cathrine Dolleris and Hildur Dagbjört (The Design Toolbox and iACT)
• Marte Espeland (Plants that kill – some selected plants and the effect of their toxins)
• Dan Fägerquist (Concert)
• Lars Holldhus (Natural farming)
• Håp duo (Concert)
• Ingrid Indergaard (Gathering Edible wild plants)
• Ayesha Jordan (Gather (g)Round: Performance and Permaculture)
• Hedda Kortnes (Guided tour of Bøensætre)
• Hedda and Egil Kortnes, Håkon Tolsby and Frederica Miller (Excursion to Aremark commune ecovillage)
• Egil Kortnes (Scything and hay-laying, old style)
• Andrew McMillion (Teaching students about Ecology and Seed Saving through Permaculture Design)
• Andrew McMillion (The importance of annuals: plant breeding for local adaptation.)
• Frederica Miller (New local Ecovillage Aremark commune)
• Julio E Perez (Clay as a building materiel – theory)
• Julio E Perez (Clay as a building materiel – hands on)
• Erkki Pöytäniemi (Caring for Bees in Permaculture)
• Thomas Sigurdsen (Perma-computing)
• Anne Marit Skovly (Economy and entrepreneurial life with permaculture principles)
• Eldrid Skudal (Library and book talk)
• Eldrid Skudal (Bokashi)
• Ina Støen (Spinning wool)
• Ranita Størseth (Plant meditation)
• Ranita Størseth (Wild medicinal and edible plants and plant meditation)
• Norun Laahne Thomassen (Permaculture Ethics & Natural Law)
• Campbell Waldron (Mushroom picking)
• Eirik Lillebøe Wiken (Hedge-laying)
• Eirik Lillebøe Wiken (Forest garden ecology and how to approach it)

For those of you that are new to permaculture this festival is a great way to get a taste of the range of areas that permacultures wholeness embraces. We will offer plenty of workshops with introduction to permaculture and workshops catering for a range of experiences.

And with more workshops to come there will be something here for both body, mind and spirit; like forest bathing, yoga and of course great music both from you the participants and from invited musicians!
We are delighted to announce that we have confirmation from the band HÅP.
Here is a link to their music for your inspiration: HÅP – Nærhet

And finally, it is worth adding that in addition to a rich abundance of workshops and music, Bøensætre in itself is a wonderful place to simply be, play and enjoy life!