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.

Our 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