Broken Ground holds film nights during the winter and potlucks during the growing season. This is a great way to meet like-minded people, eat great food and learn more about growing in a cold climate. Please join us!
October Permaculture Potluck
Saturday, October 20, 2pm
Tom Elpel's home (please RSVP for directions)
Pony, MT
Cost: Free just bring a potluck dish to share
Please RSVP to info@brokengroundpermaculture.com
Come visit Tom Elpel's homestead! With a background in wilderness survival, Tom Elpel applied a survival philosophy to living in the modern world, securing his needs for shelter, fire, water, and food at an early age. Tom built his passive solar stone and log home without a mortgage, later adding solar panels to zero out the electric bill. For thirty years he has been nurturing his permaculture homestead - planting trees, raising chickens, and sometimes other livestock, developing systems that allow freedom to travel without being tied down to the homestead or a job. With neither a mortgage nor a utility bill and few other expenses, Tom has enjoyed a lifetime of freedom to pursue his interests.
Tom has written seven books, including:
-Foraging the Mountain West: Gourmet Edible Plants, Mushrooms, and Meat
-Green Prosperity: Quit Your Job, Live your Dreams
-Living Homes: Stone Masonry, Log, and Strawbale Construction
-Participating in Nature: Wilderness Survival and Primitive Living Skills
-Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification
Tom is the founder and director of Green University LLC, providing a semester and year-long immersion program for students to develop hands-on skills ranging from wilderness survival to sustainable living. His youth program, Outdoor Wilderness Living School LLC (OWLS), works principally with public schools to get kids out of the classroom and back in the real world. Tom is also president of the Jefferson River
Canoe Trail, working to secure public campsites and encourage conservation along this local segment of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail.
We’ll do a tour of the Elpel homestead, followed by a potluck lunch. Afterwards, anyone who would like to see more can join a caravan from Pony to Cardwell to tour River Camp, the field camp for Green University, which includes a 34’-diameter modernized earthlodge, Tom’s latest experiment in low-cost architecture, which is used as a classroom facility for Green University and OWLS programs.
Please RSVP to info@brokengroundpermaculture.com if you want to join us for the potluck!
Saturday, October 20, 2pm
Tom Elpel's home (please RSVP for directions)
Pony, MT
Cost: Free just bring a potluck dish to share
Please RSVP to info@brokengroundpermaculture.com
Come visit Tom Elpel's homestead! With a background in wilderness survival, Tom Elpel applied a survival philosophy to living in the modern world, securing his needs for shelter, fire, water, and food at an early age. Tom built his passive solar stone and log home without a mortgage, later adding solar panels to zero out the electric bill. For thirty years he has been nurturing his permaculture homestead - planting trees, raising chickens, and sometimes other livestock, developing systems that allow freedom to travel without being tied down to the homestead or a job. With neither a mortgage nor a utility bill and few other expenses, Tom has enjoyed a lifetime of freedom to pursue his interests.
Tom has written seven books, including:
-Foraging the Mountain West: Gourmet Edible Plants, Mushrooms, and Meat
-Green Prosperity: Quit Your Job, Live your Dreams
-Living Homes: Stone Masonry, Log, and Strawbale Construction
-Participating in Nature: Wilderness Survival and Primitive Living Skills
-Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification
Tom is the founder and director of Green University LLC, providing a semester and year-long immersion program for students to develop hands-on skills ranging from wilderness survival to sustainable living. His youth program, Outdoor Wilderness Living School LLC (OWLS), works principally with public schools to get kids out of the classroom and back in the real world. Tom is also president of the Jefferson River
Canoe Trail, working to secure public campsites and encourage conservation along this local segment of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail.
We’ll do a tour of the Elpel homestead, followed by a potluck lunch. Afterwards, anyone who would like to see more can join a caravan from Pony to Cardwell to tour River Camp, the field camp for Green University, which includes a 34’-diameter modernized earthlodge, Tom’s latest experiment in low-cost architecture, which is used as a classroom facility for Green University and OWLS programs.
Please RSVP to info@brokengroundpermaculture.com if you want to join us for the potluck!
