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\"Urbana<\/a><\/p>\n

September – December 2000<\/u><\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Permaculture interest group formed in Urbana, IL. Variously named the “Urbana Permaculture Cooperative” and “Permanish Urbanculture”. The group met at the School for Designing a Society and at Anacroatan. On December 15, 2000, the Urbana Permaculture Project was incorporated as a Not-for-Profit Corporation in the State of Illinois.<\/span><\/p>\n

That same month a small book entitled “We are Bugs on Earth” was published out of a discussion about Permaculture at the School for Designing a Society. The book was intended to be an introduction to Permaculture for pre-literate children.<\/span><\/p>\n

February 8, 2001<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

The Urbana Permaculture Project hosted its first Plant Ordering Party at Anacroatan. Plants were mail-ordered for the first three Permaculture sites in Urbana: Anacroatan, the Oregon Street Community Garden, and the School for Designing a Society.<\/span><\/p>\n

April 17, 18, 19, 2001<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

“Permaculture hijacks the School for Designing a Society”<\/span><\/p>\n

April 17 – 10am: Permaculture and Fundamentals with Rob Scott and Susan Parenti at Anacroatan
\nApril 17 –<\/span> 2-5pm: Junk for Joy Field Trip
\nApril 18 – 10am: Introduction to Permaculture with Ben Emerick at Anacroatan
\nApril 18 –<\/span> 5:30-7:30pm: Design Charrette at the Oregon Street Community Garden<\/a>
\nApril 19 – 10am: net works: metaphors in relationships biological and social with Susan Parenti and Andy Trull
\nApril 19 –<\/span> 8:30pm: A Design Criterion with Brandy Watts at Anacroatan<\/p>\n

July 2001<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“Free Food Production Prairie” published – a booklet describing 10 edible or medicinal plants which are native to Illinois.<\/span><\/p>\n

This version can be read straight through: PDF<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This version can be compiled into a brochure again: freefood<\/a>. Thus the pagination is: [back cover | front cover], [p.26 | p.1], [p.2 | p.25], [p.24 | p.3], [p.4 | p.23], etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

October 5, 2001<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Rob Scott presented “An Introduction to Designing Ecosystems” at the St. Louis Neighborhoods Summit, sponsored by the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center in St. Louis, MO.<\/span><\/p>\n

November 30, 2001<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Urbana Permaculture Project submits a proposal crafted by Rob Scott to the City of Urbana entitled “Riverbank Stabilization via Prairie Restoration” — the proposal is accepted and a section of the Boneyard Creek is planted with indigenous prairie plants the following spring.<\/span><\/p>\n

February 16, 2002<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

The Urbana Permaculture Project hosts its second Perennial Plant Ordering Party at Anacroatan. This year multiple sites were being considered including: Marina’s house on Oregon Street, Laura’s house on Race Street, Danielles’s house on Garfield, a Boneyard Creek project, the Kalyx Center near Monticello, and Davin’s house\/Bolozone in St. Louis, MO.<\/span><\/p>\n

April 1, 2002<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Free Food Prairie Fundaraiser at the School for Designing a Society<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

What on earth is a “free food prairie”? No one knows, but it requires money now to produce an edible prairie in the future…<\/p>\n