About Us
The East Bay Permaculture Guild is a volunteer-led community group bringing together everyone interested in permaculture –from the “permie-curious” to recent graduates of permaculture design courses to longtime professional designers. We offer monthly meetings and other opportunities to build relationships, share resources, collaborate on projects and educate each other to catalyze a vibrant regenerative movement rooted in permaculture principles.
Find out more about upcoming events and opportunities below and on our Linktr.ee Page.
Join our Monthly Meetings
2nd Mondays, 6-8:30
Everyone is welcome to join! Our in-person meetings include a potluck, guest speakers (every other month) and opportunities to network and learn about upcoming opportunities. We alternate between guest speaker nights and open, community-led evenings.
Got an upcoming event you want to promote? Need help with a project? At each meeting, we always provide a space for announcements, needs and offers to the community.
Our next meeting: March 9th, 2026
Location: Oakland Peace Center (1111 Fairmont, Oakland; next to the First Christian Church of Oakland), in the Grace Room
Topic: Garden Design Charette, and collaboration with the Oakland Peace Center
Are you interested in Edible and Native/Pollinator Garden Design? We will be discussing an awesome collaboration the Guild has with the Oakland Peace Center (OPC), and working on a design charette for their edible garden spaces.
Please bring something to eat and/or drink, as well as your own plate and cutlery.
Click here for more information and to RSVP.
Get Involved with the Guild
Become a Partner
Join our emerging network of groups and organizations doing amazing work in both land-based and social permaculture and community resilience.
Host a Project or Initiative
Does your permaculture or community resilience project need support? Got a brilliant idea for one? We are pilot testing ways for the Guild to support your project or event.
Volunteer with the Guild.
There are lots of ways to get involved! Help us to set up for meetings, volunteer with a partnering organization or support a project.
What is Permaculture?
Permaculture is an interdisciplinary design system, for creating efficient and resilient systems, practiced for millennia by indigenous people all over the world. After years of observation of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people indigenous to Australia, the practices were canonized into a design manual and principles by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren.
It has been used in contexts as diverse as agriculture, forestry management, horticulture, architecture, landscape architecture, organisational design, community development, education and the home. Permaculture principles allow us to create a culture that can endure and thrive for generations to come.
“The philosophy of permaculture is one of working with rather than against nature, of looking at systems in all their functions, rather than asking only one yield of them, and of allowing systems to demonstrate their own evolutions “ – Bill Mollison, Permaculture – A Designers Manual 1988
