Join us for three days of learning and community. Topics include: Foraging and wild foods, permaculture, natural health practices, sustainable living, and open space.

Open to all with all levels of interest or skills around permaculture. Taking a day or three off mid summer is so rewarding, especially at this sweet 30+ year tradition of gathering and sharing stories, knowledge and good company from around the Southeast! This is open to all, and there are sponsorships for BIPOC.

There is camping as well as dorm rooms available, and wonderful food prepared all three days by an AWESOME farm to table chef/ farmer named Ed Weinberger!

SEPG grew out of our long-time location in Burnsville and found a new home at the historic Patterson School Foundation, the first agriculture School in North Carolina! It is no longer a school but it is a great facility and beautiful campus that hosts events and encourages more sustainable and resilient agriculture practices.

The beautiful part about this gathering is that we all come with wisdom and knowledge to share together, and we are all invited to learn and share together. You don’t have to though. You can participate at any level. We often have plant walks, bug walks, mushroom walks, and many circles under the trees or indoors throughout campus covering all subjects we bring to the table in “open space.”