Thank You Participants, Presenters, Volunteers and Chefs!
The 2026 Spokane Permaculture Symposium was held at the Beautiful
Harmony Woods Retreat Center in Spokane, Washington.
Please consider utilizing Harmony Woods for your next function. There is not an event venue like it anywhere in the area.
We had over 50 registered participants, 15+ presenters, 15 small-group breakout sessions, a Keynote Address, live music, delicious locally-sourced potluck meals which all together made for a high energy, impactful and fulfilling weekend. We WILL do this again.
In the mean time, let's keep the energy flowing by continuing to network and collaborate on an on-going basis.
We recorded many of the presentations and we will slowly be adding some of that content to this website, so check back often.
Symposium Presenters
Symposium Agenda
Presentations by Topic
Symposium Outcomes
Thank You Sponsors!!
This two-day educational and community-building event brought together the Spokane permaculture community along with gardeners, farmers, educators, land stewards, and community members who are interested in learning how permaculture principles can be applied to gardening, farming, ecological restoration, and community work. Our focus area included the City of Spokane, Spokane County, the Spokane River watershed and the Spokane bioregion, with an emphasis on practical, place-based solutions.
A major focus of our 2026 gathering was exploring the possibilities of establishing mutual aid networks in regional communities.
The symposium featured workshops, presentations, and conversations centered on topics such as:
• Regeneration and regenerative design
• Local food production and food security
• Soil health and living soils
• Community gardens and neighborhood resilience
• Reducing wildfire hazard through land stewardship
• Bioregional planning
• Watershed health and restoration
• Natural building
• Wildfire resilience through permaculture landscapes
• And more
A rousing Keynote Address was given by Aaron Weiss who for over 20 years made his living as the vocalist in the punk/indie band "mewithoutYou." About six years ago Aaron started teaching anthropology at the College of Idaho in Caldwell, ID. His early anthropological research focused on Islamic education and Sufi mysticism and his interests have gradually shifted to incorporating permaculture-inspired gardening into his teaching and scholarship. Aaron currently lives in Nampa, ID with his wife, two children, cats, rabbits, chickens and worms.
Aaron Weiss graciously agreed to perform some of his music during our Saturday evening festivities. Ron Reed and Keleren Millham of Seven Generations Innovation graced us with a beautiful acoustic performance of some of their deeply meaningful and relevant songs on Sunday evening (more of their music is available free on the 7GI website).
The event was generously co-sponsored by Inland Northwest Permaculture Guild (INPG), SpokanePermaculture.org, All Things Regenerative, Children of Earth Coalition, Growing Neighbors, Global Earth Repair Foundation, BZ Permaculture Farm Collective, Sustainable Obtainable Solutions, Soil Smart-Soil Wise and Harmony Woods Retreat Center and Seven Generations Innovation.
Thank You Sponsors!!
Here's info about the 2025 symposium