Our Implementation crew worked with Amy Stross to plant perennials, ephemerals and trees in April.
What’s New? May 2024
View our MAY NEWSLETTER
NEW NURSERY CONTACT INFO: To reach our nursery staff with questions about inventory or volunteering, please use cpinursery@gmail.com, or call our nursery manager Howard at (513) 259-3504!
3-WEEKEND ANTIOCH PDC ENROLLING NOW: Summer dates have been posted and early bird registration is now open for this unique intensive PDC at Antioch College this July! Learn More
MAY BIOCHAR WORKSHOP: Learn to make biochar and go home with your own mini biochar burner! This popular class filled up fast last month so we’re bringing it back on Tuesday May 21, 6:30-8 PM at Growing Value. Limited to 10 seats - Register Now!
IMPLEMENTATION DAYS
Saturday & Sunday May 18 & 19 with April Pandora of Eden Urban Gardens
Won’t You Be Our Neighbor?
Now is a great time to become a CPI member (or as we call them, Neighbors!) or renew your membership, because members get special discounts at our nursery! >> Learn About Membership
HOW TO SHOP THE NURSERY THIS MAY
Walk-In Shopping Hours: Saturdays, May 4 & 11, from 10 AM to 4 PM and Tuesdays, May 7 & 21 from 4 PM to Dusk
Member Shopping Day: Saturday, May 18 by Appointment
Wait until you see the 2024 plant selection at the Growing Value Edible Nursery! We carry a wide variety of edible perennial trees, shrubs, bushes, and berries, along with complimentary plantings for your food forests and guilds, such as flowers to attract pollinators and perennial ground covers. This rare selection has been curated over the years to include the varieties and species that perform well in our local bio-region and includes many edibles that are hard to find at traditional nurseries and garden centers.
NEW!! Build-a Guild Packages
Wanting to kick start your food forest plantings this spring? We’ve pre-selected three 7-layer guilds featuring plants that we carry at Growing Value.
HICAN GUILD, featuring honeyberries, strawberries and kiwi
BUTTERNUT GUILD, featuring goumi berries, Jerusalem artichokes and hops
HEARTNUT GUILD, featuring pawpaw, serviceberry and passionflower
ABOUT CPI
OUR MISSION
To educate individuals and organizations on Permaculture in order to catalyze a resilient culture in the Cincinnati Bioregion. Leveraging symbiotic opportunities for practical regenerative results.
OUR VISION
Our diverse community builds its own resilient future; one plant, one person, one community at a time.
What We've Achieved
Permaculture Design Certifications:
Graduated 200 + Certified Designers in Cincinnati and our Region
Every year since 2008 we have held our Annual PDC's
Currently 20 courses hosted
10+ Teachers
Hosted at over 20 sites demonstrating Permaculture around the Cincinnati Area with everything from off grid living, food forests & Permaculture Gardens and farms, Keyline Design, Regenerative Livestock Management, School Gardens, Public Forage Gardens
Our students have gone on to become National Best Selling Authors on the subject, started Million Dollar companies in Sustainable Technologies, Run Non-Profits and organizations dedicated to social and ecological justice, started school and community gardens, started their own design consultancies or just go to live sustainably on or off the grid turning their ecological footprint from a negative to a positive!
Countless Weekend Workshops on subjects ranging from Food Forests to Rocket Mass Heaters
International Development Training for Development Workers in Morocco
Organized a 9 day training in Earthship/Tiny house construction
Supported and Headed up the development of numerous Community Forage Gardens, Community Orchards, Community and School Gardens
Created and Developed the City's first Permaculture based nursery, Growing Value, supplying the City with sources of Hardy Perennial Edibles.
