History
Land Song began life as the Permaculture Collaborative in 2003. The Collaborative was a group of ~ 300 members mostly in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The community was organized to build permaculture skills, develop permaculture teachers, and catalyze a permaculture movement in the Upper Midwest. The Collaborative hosted:
Work N Learn Weekends
Farm Hacks
Film Festivals
Workshops
Annual Gatherings
In 2009 the Permaculture Collaborative became a 501C3 nonprofit, the Permaculture Research Institute Cold Climate or PRI Cold Climate. The nonprofit was organized to grow permaculture in the Twin Cities area, develop a generation of skilled urban farmers trained in permaculture, and catalyze an urban farming movement. PRI Cold Climate operated the following programs:
Backyard Harvest
Urban Farmer Certification Program (9 months)
Apprenticeship Program
Advanced Permaculture Series in Whole Systems Design
Design Competitions
Perennial Product CSA
In 2022 PRI Cold Climate became Land Song. Land Song is organized to grow a regenerative culture rooted in kincentric ecology and repatterning our relationships to land, people and communities. Land Song does this through:
Retreats and Learning Journeys
Perennial Corps Skills Camps and Land Projects
Celebrations
Kincentric ecology is a worldview where humans and the natural world are part of an extended ecological family tied together in reciprocal relationships.
Board:
Our Board members are Paula Westmoreland, Julie Ristau, Koby Hagen, Jacquie Redlin, and Monica McDaniel.
Land Song collaborates with others to fulfill its mission and currently partners with Ecological Design and Commons Land.