High Sierra Permaculture (HSP) weaves indigenous wisdom and permaculture principles into experiential learning opportunities. Using a range of hands-on, Earth-centered programs that empower participants to create and maintain economically, ecologically, and culturally sustainable systems, we offer opportunities to:

• Learn and practice the principles of permaculture
• Honor, encourage and support the continuance of native culture and traditions
• Reintegrate young people with the elders
• Learn and practice regenerative agriculture education
• Establish proactive relocalization efforts
• Build and participate in an effective learning community

Permaculture is a design system using ecology as the basis for integrating systems of food production, housing, appropriate technology, community development and more. Permaculture is built upon a set of ethics and principles of caring for all living beings and the earth while interacting with the environment in mutually beneficial ways. These ethics and principals are rooted in careful observations of natural patterns and can be applied to all climates and a wide variety of cultures from indigenous to technological and can be applied to urban, suburban, and rural scales.